A couple of shots of the mostly finished interior taken with my fancy new Bretland-effect Photo Booth:
I first sprayed the inside of the lights with gloss black and then with Mr Super Metallic Plate Silver. Next I masked the lights and gave the body a few coats of MRP White primer, followed by several coats of Mr. Color RL09 (from the Mechanical Color set) I almost needed the entire jar. After smoothing out the paint with several grades of sandpaper I put the (two!!!) decals on and gave the whole thing several top coats of Mr Color GX-100. Once again I smoothed that out with several grits of sandpaper and finished with a three step polishing compound set by Novus.
This is when the first problems started popping up, the compound got stuck in the grooves and trying to remove it also removed a lot of paint, it was only later I learned the best way was to use a soft toothbrush and some water.
For the underside I decided not to go for a squeeky clean look. The black in the pictures is Ultimate Black primer and both the grey and the metallic parts (suspension and engine) are Ultimate gray primer, with the metallic parts being dry brushed with Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium. The weathering was done with a mix of Tamiya panel line washes and some grey oil paints.
On the tires and in the wheel wells I added some Revell Mud Green weathering powder. I also did some sanding on the tires to dull them down a bit.
I first sprayed the tail lights with Tamiya clear red but i found it to be too orange, so I went with Alclad clear red instead.
Things kind of went downhill from here to a point where I was considering chucking it in the bin (paint chipping off, clear parts fitting badly, traces of glue,...) so I stopped taking pictures. I finished it anyway and managed to get it to look half decent. Still a lot of mistakes, though. Reveal thread can be found here:
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