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Here's my 350z, she's still a work in progress but I thought what the hell, why not share it with the pimps.

I pretty much have to play the waiting game for a least 24 hours to allow the coats of clear finish to dry and harden. Then I'll be cool to continue on.

I removed the tape. btw, I didn't need to score the tape edges with a knife. The paint didn't chip as it has done before. It might have to do with the fact that I know more about what I'm doing now than before, oh wel......

So here's the shell pretty much done (drying on a pullback chassis)save a few finer details.






I'm keeping the light fittings clear (like on my gloria) so I may install some headlights/rearlights.

ph2t.

Man, that looks great. You did a perfect masking job and the panel lines are clean as hell... did you paint the lines black? Nice work in progress, can't wait to see it lit up.

thanks man The lines aren't painted at all. I actually had done a dark perl blue base coat. Well, it was gonna be that colour but the fricken spraycan ran out! So I used some tamyia paint for the first time ever and I gotta say it's bloody good! The tamyia paint is a pearl light blue and it seems that the colour of the darker blue undercoat highlighted the lines and contours of the shell.

Also, did you notice the back of the car? *subtle*

ph2t.

nice work man, nice masking job to. It looks like you can see some of that dark pearl blue on the top of the car in some photos, u might be getting a transperant affect.

Lookin' good. I really dig that color. It's kinda grayish, but it really sparkles.

the 350z is the best painting shell that tomy has put out. love em all.

why isnt there a back window?

ph2t puttied it out. Guess he didn't want a rear window.

you got it barto! I wanted to try my hand at putty and bogging up the back. It's a pratice mod, learning how the putty handles.

There's more pictures and info here:

http://www.ausmicro.com/topic.asp?TOPIC ... +Technical



ph2t.

Hey Dave, you will be happy to know that I took your suggestion and got a proper handbrush to do detailing with. Never done it before 'cause I never thought I'd have a steady enough hand for it! Sofar i'm quite happy with the results. All I'm waiting on now is to install the head lights and rear lights.





ph2t.

nice work man, love the number plate.

thats a phat ass looking car now ph2t. looks awesome, great work.

Thanks fellas . All I need to do now is some work installing the headlights and rear lights and then I'll pop a 1.6 inna tha chassis and it's time for some crusin!

ph2t.

finally fixed the pictures, all should be fine now. bloody webhosting punks!

ph2t.

lookin sweet ph2t! i agree with brendan, love the plate. how'd ya do it?