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Paint spree - KensRedZed - 28th-May-23

I've been somewhat quiet the last little while. But I did find time to paint a few HO bodies recently. I may have gone a bit overboard. What else do you do while at the mental cottage rental?

Cheers,
Ken

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RE: Paint spree - nkarres - 31st-May-23

Wow, that's a lot of bodys painted!!!!!!

Nico

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RE: Paint spree - Kevan - 31st-May-23

More like a paint tree than a spree 

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RE: Paint spree - KensRedZed - 1st-Jun-23

Thank you kindly, gentlemen.

What can I say other than I like to paint cars.

One of my friends called it a "Bouquet of bodies".

Now I need to assemble a bus-load of chassis.

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RE: Paint spree - Kevan - 2nd-Jun-23

It's the one job I dislike, I see others great paint jobs and wish I had the patience to do a great job for a change.

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RE: Paint spree - KensRedZed - 2nd-Jun-23

Then I have good news Kevan. I have no patience either. A 1/32 car can be painted in exactly 4-minutes. An egg-timer is set at 1-minute intervals. 3-tack coats and 1-wet coat is applied. It takes about 5 to 10-minutes to prep a body. I don't use primer on plastic cars. It may take an extra minute to paint a 1/25 scale body. Tamiya spray cans work great.

I can get away with painting 3-HO cars the same colour from the same can in under 5-minutes. I found a groove that works.

I still use a primer on soft resin bodies to seal them prior to painting. That's about the only time. Very rarely build resin cars these days.

Cheers,
Ken

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RE: Paint spree - JasonB - 2nd-Jun-23

Blimey, that's quick work Ken.

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RE: Paint spree - KensRedZed - 4th-Jan-24

I've been slowly chipping away at assembling chassis for all the bodies I painted last May. It only takes time and money.

My very first slot car set was a 1/32 Strombecker back in 1971. The white Chaparral 2D and yellow GT40 stood out as my favourite cars. These pics are from Google images. My Strombecker set is long gone.

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You can see the yellow GT40 body hiding in the tree in the first post.

I finally installed a black stripe and assembled a chassis. This little car now brings back a lot of happy childhood memories.

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Thank you very kindly for looking.
Ken

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