Another couple of weeks has passed...
I'm at the stage of: a. giving up. b. sanding it all down and repainting (most likely in Gulf colours). c. leaving it as is.
I've finally got an all over relatively smooth finish, and a few coats of clearcoat on all of the body parts.
I still plan on rubbing some compound to flatten out the finish and reduce the gloss.
Unfortunately the decals just kept cracking and falling apart.
Even after applying some clear to the decals before installation, and after.
I had to repaint a lot of of the striping by hand.
(I finally got a handle on the masking and produced decent looking stripes!)
But then I had to repair the front number roundel...it completely fell apart during handling.
Not as easy to paint as the striping though, so I used pieces of the extra set of decals to fill in some of the areas, and paint for the rest.
It looks rough.
I thought some clearcoat might help even out the tones, but no luck.
And then...theres the doors.
I mentioned it before, for some unknown reason the doors came out a slightly different blue.
Same primer, same paint, same airbrush, same clearcoat, etc.
But they are very obviously different.
I would try repainting them one more time, but I have run out of the custom mix colour.
My only option is repainting the entire car, and if I have to do that, its going into Gulf colours (since I don't have decals for the Ken Miles car).
I also discovered that the black outlining on the striping and roundels...should be blue!
So much for accuracy.
Opinions?
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