DocRob

Thank you Peter, the quality of the kit made it easy to concentrate on the painting thing, and I'm pleased with my rookie output. Cheers Rob

I like the idea of putting tinted clears over a metallic base. Is it difficult to get a consistent tone over the full body, spraying the clear read. I can imagine that even the least bit of different thickness in the clear coat will lead to tonal differences. Cheers Rob

No real Ford Gt's to raid on my island, the Lacquer paint drought still is an issue, at least concerning Mica Blue . Cheers Rob

Great body painting, if only the Ford GT designers would've known that their blue is the same Subaru uses . Cheers Rob

Nice topic Gaz, I like these open topped tank hunters. It's maybe to late for that, but with my Ford GT build the manual asks for cutting the poly caps on sided, to slid the wheel onto the axle more easily. Might have been an option for your plastic caps. Cheers Rob

Very nice and I'm eager to see your progress, as I have the same kit with some extras in my stash and like to start it in not a not too far future . Cheers Rob

Funky scheme, Kai and you made it to perfection. Cheers Rob

I want to build one of the Blade Runner Spinner cars, but have to get hold on one I've seen the movie lately. It was not the same as in the eighties, when it came out, but entertaining nonetheless. I sometimes wish, I could see movies like that with my naive eyes of the eighties again. What an experience it was to see Blade Runner on premier weekend on 70mm film wide screened, without having read critiques in the internet before and been totally blasted. The same goes for Alien and Aliens with common sweating and fearing in a dark cinema. I was totally fascinated by the scene, where Decker magnified a photo wit his computer. That was the future 🚀. Cheers Rob

I don't know, I'm not an expert, but seeing pictures it seams the yellow tips have been added only to several restored Yak's. I couldn't spot them on random historic pictures. But sometimes, yellow appears very blackish on old B&W film, especially with the often used yellow or red filters. Cheers Rob

There is some truth to it, on the other hand, I never used three different polishing compounds with the appropriate cloth, along some finishing wax on let's say a T-34 . The Ford thing can't fly, but it's faster than some things, which does. Cheers Rob

Obrigado Hubert, the orange applications are a bit prominent indeed, I could've gone for black or snowy white, which resembles what the designers were sniffing . Thanks Mark, I learned a lot from you, during that build and could call my next car build 'The Fast and the Apprentice . Thank you Gaz, is there such a thing as creditable photographing? I will try to get better outside shots with a less intense sunlight nearer to sunset. Bring it on Karl, just a bit of polish and gloss coat, If I can do it you can for sure, brothers in color . Is it a Subaru? If so, it will look gorgeous with the golden wheels. Thanks Harv, it was an experiment, which turned out great. Dankeschön Kai, the Ford GT kind of kickassed my ambitions to build more cars in the future, even a motorbike is in vicinity. Cheers Rob

A few more, because the sun is out Cheers Rob

Some more glam shots

Thank you Wolf. I try my best to improve my modelling and my photographic skills as well and can't tell you which is harder . I have to say, that the side view of the GT doesn't appeal to me, as I find the silhouette a bit boring a bit more top angled, reveals it's brutish elegance. Cheers Rob

What is faster than the Ford GT amigos? Me building it . It took me only two very entertaining weeks along lots of construction working on the house. Now the new sea view terrace is almost ready and the Ford is ready to go. The build was a bit like a good movie, where you ask yourself, how it could possibly come to the end that fast. Construction was problem free and with your generous input the feared painting and polishing went well for my first serious car project. The only thing to have in mind is a proper process on building, painting and masking, to not corner yourself. As this is definitely LS but no armor nor plane, I skip rfi-ing it and leave the pics of finished Ford right here. I may add some daylight pics later. Cheers Rob

British high end, you have to love it, pure understatement outside (well, except the B&W Nautilus), but that special sound. As a CD player, I use a Rega Planet (the old one with the starship Enterprise CD-tray), which is sounding absolutely great and I still own a small Rega Brio amp as backup. The Transrotor sports a modified Rega arm as well. I spent a lot of money and effort into stereo fifteen years ago, but hey, I wasn't into modelling then and it had paid off. Even after some moves, the equipment is still playing flawless, with my Symphonic Line amp waiting for a trip to Germany for a revision of the transistors. These age with the years. Cheers Rob

Great paintjob and weathering. Your P-39 looks the part with the panel lining breaking up the monochrome sand color. Cheers Rob

Great looking brake set up. No holes in the discs, it has to be a classic . Cheers Rob

Good to have some great saxophone player on vinyl. You should try Archie Shepp's 'Trouble in Mind' a good interpretation, with perfect sound. I heard it first during a private presentation of stereo equipment in a Berlin hifi shop. They had some speakers from Acapella Audio Arts connected, which featured an ion tweeter. I never before had the sensation of living inside a saxophone . Nonetheless, the vinyl sounds great on my set too. The Transrotor Fat Bob is only one of my three turntables and it does it's duty since fifteen years, without trouble. The only thing, it frequently needs is a polish of the aluminum, given the humidity here. That is always like a workout in a gym, with it's hefty weight. My second player is a self restore Dual from the early eighties. It was once the best deck Dual had in their lineup, but has it's troubles, with the speed control being electronical. Mine has actually a blown chip and I try to get a new one. My third deck is a simple project deck, which is connected to a Marshall Woburn for having vinyl music on the terrace. It's astoundingly well sounding, maybe because of the formidable Goldring MM cartridge, but has slight humming with the internal RIAA amplifier. For some harsh sounding recordings, this set often sounds better than the more excact Transrotor set up. Cheers Rob

There is not a lot which makes me envy, but being able to browse a well stocked LHS is on my top-three-envy -list . Do you get the new Kai boxing from ZM or another of the parrot ones? Cheers Rob

You are a weak man Peter, but I guess most of us are. It seems to be a great kit and sometimes, the unmatched Tamiya engineering is an art in itself. Guess how I know, with the Ford GT in the making . More than once, I had the jaw dropping sensation of being fascinated by the way, Tamiya finds solutions. It's good to see, that the passion is back with you, there is nothing better, than building kits with a smile on the face. I mostly enjoy building and the challenges it takes, but would not hesitate to bin a kit, if it is only nerve tangling. That nearly never happens, luckily, because I choose my projects in a way, that I'm positively tempted by a build for different reasons. I think you got it exactly right, it's a hobby, it's meant to be fun, so get started with the first and very appreciated build of the Phantom here. Cheers Rob

Now there is some color in the game. As the others have mentioned, great job, layering the yellow on slightly transparent, but nonetheless bright. Interesting way of masking, I would have use a double layer of paper towels on the more distanced to masked parts, bordered by Kabuki, but maybe that's just me, with my difficulties to get supplies fast and reliable to my house. Cheers Rob

Nice progress Carl, the paintjob looks awesome. You need a special wide angle lens to take pictures of that beast. Cheers Rob

Impressive detail work, with the added instruments. As others mentioned, I like the approach of using decals for fine details, like in this case the canvas ammo belt. Never thought about that. Cheers Rob

Gracias amigos, I'm really impressed by the Tamiya lacquer paints in general and even more with the blue metallic for the body, Many metallic paints are to grainy to look real, when sprayed, but the grain of Mica Blue is exceptional fine, which made this paintjob possible. @Karl, I'm sure you can do it, i take, you build a lot more cars than me or is it only RC with transparent lexan bodies, painted from the inside? I may found my magic potion for car painting fast, with the help of you all and with the Tamiya lacquers and polishing compounds. Your input helped a lot to not leaving the right pass for the paintjob, less error more output . Cheers Rob