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sound cool but the die cast factor will turn off most customers, they look beautiful tho.

whats the cost and do they have a distributor in australia yet?

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dave mate i am stoked with the rims! they are damned near the best looking ones ive seen to suit a classic bodied z. a big thanx again!

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traveling while completing projects sux!!!

AARRRRRGGHHHH!!! the paint work got ruined in the car despite all possible measures to protect it. the roof, the bonnet and one of the rear fenders paint became abraised by the material i was using to protect it inside an autoscale body case. who would have thought a sunglasses cleaning cloth could do that amout of damadge. F#CK!NG HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

guess i’ll have to sand it ALL back and start again. at least i’ve still got more of the transparent purple left.
and a 1968 shelby GT-500 to start on:evil:

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http://www.toyeast.com/v2/proddetail2.asp?pdtid=AIW10081 iwaver servo gears $2.50usd

http://www.toyeast.com/v2/proddetail2.asp?pdtid=A05001350 super xspeed motor $0.99usd

http://www.toyeast.com/v2/proddetail2.asp?pdtid=A05001360 iwaver 01 colour spring set $2.50 usd

http://www.toyeast.com/v2/proddetail2.asp?pdtid=A05001384 iwaver 20 degree wide tyres $2.50 usd

http://www.toyeast.com/v2/proddetail2.asp?pdtid=A05001364 20 degree normal tyre set $2.50usd

http://www.toyeast.com/v2/proddetail2.asp?pdtid=A05001380 20 degree semi-wide tyre set $2.50usd

cheers Aaron.

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the lighting is bad i must agree betty! poor lighting at night… i gotta have another go during the day.

them rims are wide alloys, whats wrong with them icebreaka?

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almost complete!:):):)

Edited by – z-beam on 22 November 2004 23:56:08

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they sure do look worth it!

i need some for christmas dammit…

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whats the light source inside the car bithed?

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great pic as allways betty.the tyres on it look great!

are they solid or hollow(semi pnumatic)?

how come the top pics look like totally different tyres:question:

Edited by – z-beam on 22 November 2004 01:02:38

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allright, heres the pics i promised… firstly without a flash/bright light source it looks glossy black:

and now with the flash it looks deep metalic blue:

i was a bit heavy handed with the purple transparency, but it didnt matter how much i layered onto the blue, the metallic flecs stayed more blue than purple. but the transparent purple did increase the deepness of the base colour which gave me the black look of the finish.

next step is to do the lights, install chrome plated parts and finally the windscreens.

Edited by – z-beam on 22 November 2004 00:48:01

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pics due up tonight of the basic colour. its been primed,deep metalic blueX2 coats, 2 coats of transparent purple and a coat of clear. and it looks SWEET.

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thanx panda! those paint jobs are real nice i especially like the chamagne one…

so the gold flake is a bit textured is it? and how expensive where they?

Edited by – z-beam on 21 November 2004 13:15:06

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Aaron they make a transparent silver as well as the pearl if your interested… but lavender pearl sounds nice although i would have suggested doing the reverse. i.e using the effect (e.g silver or pearl) and then go over it in the transparent version of the colour your after…

but i’ve never tried out any of there transparent effect paints so im keen to hear how it turns out tho.

as for dust, i never fear! if you saw the gto i did for talldude a couple of weeks back at meadowbank i did that outside with no problems.

some general rules as far as painting environments go is if it is windy youll waste spray and get dust particles in the job, if its wet or way to humid clear coats have come out misty on me rather than clear and i always paint with pre-warmed tamiya sprays. just sit the can in slightly warm water for a couple of minutes before shaking the can up.

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could they do with some weight reduction then to get ’em flyin?

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how much height are you getting with them? have they beaten your monster bits yet?

i like the modded body betty looks cool, cant see the ford to well tho…

cant wait to see a vid!

Edited by – z-beam on 20 November 2004 02:57:04

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cheers fellas!

so this boronia place is a bit rough? how rough are we talking?

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found the transparent purple at a rc shop in castle hill, ahh the pieces are coming together…

p.s.they had a monster truck called a mini giant for $200 with controller, no kyosho stuff tho:sad:

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welcome priest! those extra details are real nice are they custom or did you find them in other model kits? nice job man!

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i got some of the “chameleon” paint that does the colour shift, but it needs thinning out as my emma found it for $10 as a bottle of nail polish.

whatever you do dave dont put green over purple. i dont think i mentioned this but because green contains blue and yellow and purple contains red and blue you will end up with a blue tinged brown… sick poo colour!

cheers bithed, i got some of the metalic purple allready, tamiya still supply it over here easily. what i wanted was a DEEP metalic purple, and i got the deep blue wich is almost perfect.

custom h-plates are a must also dave! how mush will it cost me to get some fabricated…

the light kit got sorted out last night and looks awesome. also primed it and gave it a couple of coats of blue only to find some serious
little defects where i joined the two halves.
the blue colour i used is almost black
:Dwhich is is very nice… i give it untill monday before completion!

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aud vs. usd is at 77 cents! hopefully it’ll break the magic 80 cent mark in time for the order to go through…

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the 12th of december:smiley2:

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i thought your miata was going to be silver Aaron to match the 1:1 mx-5… and about the longer plate, its a c-f kyosho out to its maximum length. does anyone make longer ones?

i bought some deep metalic blue today, i just cant wait to get spraying on this one. tamiya dont make a deep metalic purple unfortunatly so at a later date a transparent red might be applied to get the desired purple colour.

that is of course after a few tests to insure the layering works out well…

orange… i couldnt do that to this one (but i got a 1966 mustang that would look great in orange today). i got to many green vehicles at the moment…

heres a few ideas i liked…

pity the kit came with the black stripes only:sad:
this is the original general motors colour swatches from 1970

Edited by – z-beam on 15 November 2004 21:00:34

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will the atomic tuned melt my stock z?

thanx for all that info man, it brought me up to speed on the motor options for the z…

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i’ll be down melbourne way for sunday the 12th…

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i need some suggestions on colour…deep metalic purple has been the tastiest so far, but im still open to other ideas…

can you spot the dice?:smiley2:

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