Here's another update folks but first of all "holy cow" what an active forum. The buzz is definately on!
I spent the last 2 days working on the body, filling sink marks and sanding down mold marks.
Today I hit the body with a coat of Tamiya XF-20 medium grey for a primer coat and to bring out any rough spots that I may have missed...and I did find a couple which I fixed no problem.
I started with the custom mixed blue that I made from a few drops of X-14 sky blue into a new pot of XF-2 flat white. The stripes are X-6 orange with some white added for a faded look and XF-1 flat black for the smaller pin strips.
I masked with Tamiya tape and Proband fineline 1.6mm pinstriping tape.
I'm quite happy with the result, next will be a coat of future for some small decals I want to use and then probably a dull coat for the finish as I want to avoid a diecast look to this machine.
These tires came with a blue ring decal or you can paint the blue ring using the provided groove in the tire, and then gently sanding the area when dry.
I used paint.
Looks realy good with the colour scheme.
Dashboard done:
Decals were included for the gauges and I finished the dials with 3 coats of future.
Here I flocked the interior.
Things are coming together, I have to wait for final assembly as the gloss coat on the main body is not fully cured. I'm going to polish it out. It's only been on 3 days and I think I will give it at least a week.