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A Sideways not-a-Ferrari with LeMans 2020 decals from mtr32. Looking for tips to make the yellow light decals look more realistic.

       

[Carver]

Literally speaking…
   

[KensRedZed]

Literally speaking…

I spy with my slot car eye... an Arii Beetle. 

[Carver]

That is very well spotted, Ken! 
That was one of my very first kitbashes when I picked up this hobby again, so not an ongoing project. But I have kept the box! It is now the project-box for the Corvette.  
Btw,That Arii kit was a nice kit as I remember it.

Cheers
Carver

[dazee]

Although it takes much longer to print vertically you don't end up with a 'camel hump' on the roof like you do if you print them flat.

...I hope that ABS-like 3 is tougher than the ABS-like I used 2 years ago...prone to smash in a bad crash 

Recently before a club race I was seeing some of the bodies that members had painted ready to start racing and one other member was trying out on the track.  I had run this on the track previously and had a fair few crashes.  A few body cracks and lost side mirror was the extent of the damage though.  But one guy at the club had a big off and the car hit the concrete ground with some force and the rear completely shattered.  So ya the ABS is still quite brittle.

Having said that, I have been testing some other resins and making mixes with some more flexible resins with the ABS.  As they are having a demand for this and offered to pay for bodies as the "durable" resins are more expensive, I wanted to test them for the durability.  So I got a body printed with standard ABS resin, and another with a mix resin and dropped a weight on both from a fixed hieght.  The ABS shattered while the mix resin actually bounced the weight back into the air.  Suffering just a small break on the rear wing.

   

So much more durable, but more $ and is tricky to work with.  Longer print times too as after calibrating for mix resin the layer exposure times were much longer.
I will keep playing and learning :)

[Kevan]

I printed hundreds of bodyshells with a special triple blend of ABS, Siraya Tenacious and Siraya Blu...tough and flexible.  My blend took many weeks of testing, trial and error.
If I was printing them now I'd start with Siraya Blu Nylon.

[dazee]

Thank you, I will have to give the Blu Nylon a test.  I am using the Siraya Tech Tenacious Flex for the mix at the moment.  Just ordered another bottle of it as the results were good and the Amazon price just dropped from $60 a bottle to $40 which is a bit of a bargain here.