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now wheres that fastest z in the world thread again:smiley2:

congrats on that! awesome effort!

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thats cool, how did you get the body to pop up like that?

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i got plenty of h-plates thanks ph2t, but its the broken plastic ones that are easily used. im not to sure how easy cf is to cut… your pilling my leg, of couse its the trueno!

red makes things look bigger betty, its a little trick that advertisers use… what sort of details do you suggest?

good to hear some positive responses!

i had a go with the supra at the local netball courts today and it goes very well indeed, only problem was the soft compound tyres on the front flew off. dont know if i would ever race it outdoors again with the lowering bits in it, it just cleans up the tiniest of chunks and i wouldnt be bothered sweeping the 12 or so courts to stop the problem…

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there aint nothing stealthier than matt black…

just dont go racing at twilight!

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i did a little lowering to the super supra tonight as well, using an old stock mr-01 h-plate and leaving out one of the spacers in the roll shock set. all i did was trim the two ends of the Hplate after sanding it down so it became a little thinner and then make the hole a little bigger so it fitted over the kingpins… then just put the two bits on the kingpins below where the new cambered knuckles fit…

now all i want to finish this turbo beast is some nice patterned radial tyres and a few more subtle stickers…
you like that? i do!

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what sort of mixing can you do at work?

is there options to add pearl,fleck or fine metalic bits of different colours…

gold fleks in a black base looks pretty sweet, ive also seen some far out jobs in magazines with things like pink fleck added to a metalic blue…

check out the pics of the sprinter i just uploaded… you can contrast colours with a little practice very easily especially using the cars natural details and the angle of spray to create nice highlights between the contrasting colours.

but for simplicity, black,white or my all time favorite for wrx’s dark metalic green…

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aha! some pics to look at!

so what do you all think of that?

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allright… i got the first bits of paint on the sprinter last night but the flouro red looked like some spiffy nail polish or lipstick so i had to go over it again…

i did it again, and got it looking real nice when the creativity got into gear and decided to destroy the even fade by splattering the flouro over the car to give it a “im on fire” effect… looked great untill i did some goofy big splatters and went for the even look again…

i am having fun with it though!

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they look pretty sweet, id love a pair of them but i know they wont be cheap…

did you see the video on that page yet? they look like they run very well indeed!

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thats awesome! $25 is a little to much but if were talking full size tin then thats very good indeed, i pay $9 for small tamiya tins of paint…

im not sure how im going to transfer this money to ya, useually i have to go into a branch of the bank your a member with and ive never seen a bendigo bank up here…

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i’ll take it! looks great and im sure it would fit on to the skyline i recently aquired…
pm me with your details and i’ll send you some cash…

lucky you working at autobarn, can they mix paint to go into a spraypack or have you got to use the pant you mix with a gun and air compressor?

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could you take a pic with the yokohama one near the mini-z so i can see the size better?

what colour you thinking for the subi?

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i love how you painted the intercooler, i have seen those die-cast models before and thought they would look great on a z… have you tried the bonnet to see if it could fit?:smiley2:

im assuming you havent painted the car yet when i say this, have you glued the intercooler on before painting it? better remove it (and the headlights and windscreen) if you do do a spray, masking it would be way to difficult!

nah those are the original rims that came with the readyset… i know have alloys that are the exact same pattern:D…

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i have put underscores (_) between the commands so they are shown…

type [_i_m_g_] put the location of the pic in the space between these promts [_/_i_m_g_]

the location of the pic is found by right clicking on the image in your gallery and then going into the properties option…

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while having a beer and a ciggy on the back porch i did a little trimming on the supra to remove any molding lines and whatever gunk was stuck to it (what was that stuff?).

i had never seen any zip zap bodies before in person for long enough to come to appreciate them (xcept for betties wizzle willy) the detailing on them is great, its a real shame their range of cars didnt make it to the australian stores…

i wish TD sent up the monster chassis for me to muck around with as well! i really would love it if someone started to import these awesome micros considering how many options there are available for them…

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i know i know, i been a bit lazy lately… the weather WAS good that day, but now its a little too windy to be spraying in the shed …

the sprinter did get some more putty work, and another coat of primer on the affected areas, only to reveal more freakin problems! Argh!

how perfect do you want it pete? good, great, or oh my god its better than new? (that last options a trick question by the way:smiley2:)

im thinking i might have to bite the bullet and accept a little imperfections this time…

and the supra and the skyline arrived in great condition talldude… did you want the rx-7 spoiler attached to the supra?

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heres a few ideas for colours…

this is what my subi looked like before it was given the blue/silver spray…

and an out of focus pic of what it looks like today…

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“Where’d you get the little intercooler?”

you call that little!?

i hope your going to chop it to fit! be carefull of cutting away to much of the body for mesh, i have a subaru body on my z thats been through hell and back and it is really tough. but if i had cut any more out of it it would have been in the bin by now…

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the bit beast might have to come out again…

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i got a red beetle readyset sitting around i got for $25 wouldnt have payed more than that for it… is yours yellow or red empire?

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i should get some pics up tonight i reckon, the weather is good for spraying up here today…

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update: the sprinter got its first coat of primer tonight, wich revealed a number of spots that need attention. once they have had a bit of fixing a second coat of primer will go on in preperation for the colours… at the moment ove been thinking of giving it an extreme fade from orange at the front through ferrari red and then finally black. to preserve the brightness of the orange ill have to pant the black first on half the car, followed by the red and finally the orange on the bare primer at the front.

its going to be a bit different for a sprinter,but hey its inventive at least!

im still waiting on my stockist to get some pearl white in for me to do the roof of the chevy…

next week there will be a few new arrivals from the dude who is tall… better get stuck into the projects on the table hey…

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dave, i have sanded alloy parts back before. but bitheds method sounds a little easier! and yes one of my z’s has blue alloy, the other silver…

exactly how long do you bleach the parts to strip them without damage bithed?

if this is easy, orange is fine… but i would still like a blue mount so i guess the only option is to pre-order…

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Aaron does Pn produce larger tooth pinions?

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i think the important thing to notice Aaron is that colour can influence a purchase or not. give this poll a week and see how many members would really buy an orange part over a silver or blue, being stuck with stock that few people want wouldnt be good at all…

i personally would never get an orange peice, it would look so out of place with all the exhisting and easier to find blue and silver pieces.

and later down the track if i ever got stuck with an orange part id want to strip the colour off it…

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