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Your work with the decals is looking very impressive

well the good news is, i have a brand new set of the headlights, upainted. and i have both sides of the battery stops. what i'll do is ship you all the parts i have, and you can sort through them, and us what you can... Just PM me your address when you get a moment.

Thanks again LB

Homemade decals:

Started working on the body ...

Marking cutting lines:






... test fitting on a re-re chassis:






... & masking for the the black rollbars & wing mount area:




I would have preferred to spray it, but it was a choice between spending 20 GBP on new paint, or doing it for "free" with the brush paints I already had ... I guess I should have used the black as it was rather than thinning is down a bit ... I guess the pound shop masking tape wouldn't have helped either




I did have the correct pink, but I already have a pink Frog, so decided I'd do this one green after all ... paint is 6 parts PC-1 White, 4 parts PC-6 Yellow & 4 parts PC-9 Green, which I reckon should be suitably froggy




Bleed cleaned up, peeled edges retouched, and masked up for the green:




... and the 1st coat of green on:

More on the body:

2 coats of green, & masking removed ...




... and masked up for the white:




3 coats of white & masking removed:




Decals done, still need to sort out some lights

Scuffed bits:










... and after sanding - wheels will need painting, underguard will get polished later

WOW great work there JR! Impressive
Really if you ever find some time please do an article on how you make those decals!!
There just amazing and i hope to one day make my own so i don't have to wait all the time for some to come up on the bay

Cheers, Bram

BramMeijer wrote:

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Really if you ever find some time please do an article on how you make those decals!!...

I just submitted a piece on the subject to Lars, it's 4th in the queue of my articles & TBH I don't know what else Lars has plans to publish, but I would guess it will appear in the last half of September

A tiny bit of progress on this one ... I found my spare headlights & stripped them along with the driver at the same time as doing the Fox bits, I've also filled the joints & sanded ready for priming:




Aluminium bits don't look too bad from a distance ...





... but are a bit corroded in closeup





Lots of sanding (with used 240, 400 and 1200 grit paper) later & they're ready for machine polishing...






Front axles after wire brushing ... I really question the wisdom/quality of Dremel wire brushes - even on the miniumum speed setting the brush was almost completely bald by the time I'd finished these two bits, and I had to go over my hands, arms & clothing with a magnet to pick up all the missing bristles