Monogram 1969 Z to SS Camaro-MOVED TO COMPLETED-07/20

[LyleW]

Thanks fellas.
Bruce: I let paint cure for a loooooong time. Probably a lot longer than needed but I'd rather be safe than sorry. I usually let the body sit after painting for a couple of weeks and work around it. That's why I try to do all my body prep work, whatever cutting I'm going to do and painting in the first stages of the build so I can have plenty of things to work on while the paint is curing. After the paint is cured enough for me I smooth all the imperfections out with the color and move on to gloss coat. Again another two weeks in the paint drying area while I work on other stuff. After the gloss has cured out enough for me it's off to wet sanding and then to polishing. Between prep, paint , cure out times and final finishing I've got around a month and a half to two months tied up in the body alone. This one here took a little longer because I had the badge "ghosting" issue after the first go round with the color coat so I had to strip it all back down and repair all the emblems that showed back up.

You COULD build an airplane while you are waiting.. You said you was gonna build an airplane.

[mustang1989]

Thanks fellas.
Bruce: I let paint cure for a loooooong time. Probably a lot longer than needed but I'd rather be safe than sorry. I usually let the body sit after painting for a couple of weeks and work around it. That's why I try to do all my body prep work, whatever cutting I'm going to do and painting in the first stages of the build so I can have plenty of things to work on while the paint is curing. After the paint is cured enough for me I smooth all the imperfections out with the color and move on to gloss coat. Again another two weeks in the paint drying area while I work on other stuff. After the gloss has cured out enough for me it's off to wet sanding and then to polishing. Between prep, paint , cure out times and final finishing I've got around a month and a half to two months tied up in the body alone. This one here took a little longer because I had the badge "ghosting" issue after the first go round with the color coat so I had to strip it all back down and repair all the emblems that showed back up.

You COULD build an airplane while you are waiting.. You said you was gonna build an airplane.

I am going to get around to it. lol

[speedgraflex]

Thanks for your reply, Mustang. I am definitely learning to be patient. Part of this patience stems from having like most of us to fit in work on models on a part time schedule, and part of this stems from enjoying the process with acrylics at the moment. I built my first kit totally retro with enamels, so the acrylics feel different, more modern, or at least less Sixties hard edges to Eighties air brush soft - oh man I can't wait to use an air brush and jump into the deep end of the pool. No more kiddie section. I also have been thinking about why we choose what we model. A year ago I would have answered that question: "I build spaceships." Now the answer is, "Airplanes." All that happened was receiving the Horten commission and "Bingo, Bango, Boingo," I am relaxing to the sounds and sights of restored Luftwaffe aircraft videos like that's my lullaby.

[Stikpusher]

An old friend of mine used to tease me that one day he was going to come over to find me in my work room, me slumped forward over my work desk with a half drunken bottle of schnapps next to me, an unfinished build on there, my stereo playing Wagner, and me mumbling Sieg Heil over and over...

His view of my habits

[speedgraflex]

Carlos, this is a beautiful picture of final bliss... a humorous and insightful look at what lies inside the mighty mind of the modeler of aircraft and armor.

[mustang1989]

Still on this one fellas. Just on a bunch of fiddly stuff right now like sanding those stupid locating pins/ pegs from the back side of the headlights and front turn signal lenses. You know the ones that give SCREAM "toy car" look by having dots in the middle of the lenses much UNLIKE real cars have. Yeah.....those. I also sawed the front grille in half and since I had two grilles with the "Z/28" badges molded into the grilles I ditched the sides with the emblems on them and joined both blank halves to give me a complete "blank" grille in which to neatly install a PE "SS" emblem into the middle of the grille. I'll try to post progress pics this weekend when I have an outcome.

Basically we'll be going from this:



To this:

[Stikpusher]

[speedgraflex]

[mustang1989]

Thanks fellas for peeking in. Hopefully I'll have some progress pictures soon.

[Stuart]

Oh I do like the Z-28, such an awesome looking car!