fantacmet Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Not sure how I'm going to do this one, but I do have it painted with the color it's going to be. Not sure if I'm going to do it as an actual racecar, find and add some extra lights and do that kind of racecar, or just use what's here and do like a souped up street version. I have the flares on it already and I'm going to use the racing wheels. I'm going to try and throw on some Irish license plates and paint the top in the colors of the Irish Flag instead of the British Flag, but then I'm Irish so............
Stretch75 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Love the Irish idea...can't wait to see this built. Are you gonna paint the flares?
Skypower Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Very cool love the color. Can't wait to see which way you go with it.
fantacmet Posted January 27, 2014 Author Posted January 27, 2014 I think I'm gonna leave the flares green. Sad part is I got this green for the interior of a 71 Charger. Still trying to figure out what color for interior. I don't have many flocking colors. Cream, green, and magenta flocking is all I have right now. I really don't want to do a green on green scheme, and magenta would look goofy. So would the cream really as I don't have any cream colors in paint to go with it. HAHA. At the very least the distributor is getting wired, and maybe more then that. Thinking for the orange and green on the roof to just use the transparent Tamiya colors.
Stretch75 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Not sure on the flocking colors you have...I just got back onto the hobby after 15 years and I like the way satin black paint has turned out for my interior on the Firebird I am working on...almost looks like leather...green exterior would look good with either black or a tan/brown in my opinion. I love the idea of the Irish flag on the roof...I have Irish blood myself. I would say the cream would be the best of your flocking though if you go with one. Just my opinion of course.
fantacmet Posted January 27, 2014 Author Posted January 27, 2014 Only thing is I don't like using too much of the same stuff on the same projects at the same time, and I've got a custom red/white/blue stars and stripes Silverado that is getting a white interior with cream carpet.
Stretch75 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 Maybe go with black seats...dash...etc and green carpet?
Stretch75 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 I like that and the idea of black fender flares.
slusher Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 White interior would really look good with green...
sports850 Posted January 27, 2014 Posted January 27, 2014 What is the base model (I'm viewing the forum on my phone and can't tell for certain) , I have left over bits from the Tamiya rally cooper s including rally lights etc if you can use them (freebies , pay it forward) ?
fantacmet Posted January 29, 2014 Author Posted January 29, 2014 This is the Tamiya Mini Cooper Racint. 1/24th. I've always thought the lights on the front made them look much better. What kind of leftover bits do you have? Freebies pay forward is something I do alot, since it got taught to me one night when my power steering went out and all I had was a pair of pliars and 50 cents.
mnwildpunk Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Hey after flocking it in any color you have couldn't you paint it the color you really want? I have done this on a couple builds but it was embossing powder I used. Love the irish idea have a lot in my blood. I see a bobby sands tribute car lol. I think this will be a cool one to watch
sports850 Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 This is the bumper with lights I have (plus the lenses of course) and the smooth rear bumper and the spotlight that is mounted on the boot in the rally mini , if you'd like them just PM me your address and I'll send them off .
fantacmet Posted January 29, 2014 Author Posted January 29, 2014 (edited) Those would be BEAUTIFUL, and PERFECT for the front end of this mini. I was about to PM you my address when I realized you're down under, not stateside. Edited January 29, 2014 by fantacmet
sports850 Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 I knew you were in the US when I made the offer so send the address
Zarana-X Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Looking good. I keep saying I need to get started on mine (have 2 racers, and 1 rally). Not enough free time.
aaronwert Posted January 29, 2014 Posted January 29, 2014 Use a honda vtec motor from a revell Integra kit. There's a company that makes conversion kits for the real car...(that's if you do the street machine) love the color.
fantacmet Posted January 30, 2014 Author Posted January 30, 2014 I'm going to do it up like a guy who might compete locally in Ireland with like small local circuits with his daily driver. Like maybe cross country type stuff, so he needs the lights. Like an Irish version of the Cannonball Run. I'm gonna go ahead and make this interesting, when it's done I'm going to post up a backstory of a fictitious owner. I can say after opening this kit this isn't the only one I'm going to do. I wanna end up doing one with a V8 and huge slicks in the back. Maybe one with a rotary. A few different ones. This one I've got the slotted mags from a Corvair that are almost the right size I'm going to see if I can make them work.
fantacmet Posted January 31, 2014 Author Posted January 31, 2014 Ok so I got some tan paint and tan flocking and grabbed some black flocking today. Now tan or black for interior, tough choice, Maybe I'll photoshop both and see how it looks or look at some photo's and see which looks better.
fantacmet Posted February 13, 2014 Author Posted February 13, 2014 (edited) Updates, here they be. The wheels will get more detail then this. Gotta love spray adhesive for flocking. Medical tape for the centers of the seats. Edited February 13, 2014 by fantacmet
Lovefordgalaxie Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 I don't want to be a pain, but the medical tape doesn't look so nice. It's kind of out of scale. Maybe some other kind of fabric?
fantacmet Posted February 13, 2014 Author Posted February 13, 2014 Don't have anything else. That and I like the way it looks. It's not meant to replicate a nice high end tweed or anything. Looks a bit like burlap.
fantacmet Posted October 7, 2014 Author Posted October 7, 2014 I've had to redo the paint since it got chipped, and family projects kind of took over for awhile, but I'm going to get back going on this again along with my Mad Max Interceptor. This week. After Tuesday.
BenfromKC Posted October 11, 2014 Posted October 11, 2014 I'm currently building the same kit, and I'm having tons of trouble choosing a body color. Pretty nice kit, though. I could see that seat fabric as a great VW tuner look. Those guys love to do strange stuff, and a burlap upholstery job wouldn't surprise me one bit on a 1:1 car.
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