Bumping this thread for the people who are having trouble with their cheap brand rattle cans. Read the post before mine to see what he used, and go to the first post to see how great of a job he did.
Thanks but that's ancient history.
This rocket was finished using Duplicolor filler primer, Duplicolor black enamel, Duplicolor Perfect Match silver lacquer, and Duplicolor clear enamel. Both the final color coat and the clear coat were wetsanded and polished with medium polish and then finishing polish. Then it was waxed using Chemical Guys 5050 car wax.
For a step-by-step description of my finishing process, check out this thread.
Was that a vinyl decal for the lettering?
Great finish!
I am starting on paint soon myself, and this post is invaluable to me. I do have a question about wetsanding.
Do you wet sand -and- polish the color coat before decal and clear coat? Or just wet sand the color coat with 2000 grit and put on decals.
My plan is to use Duplicolor enamel, wet sand the color coat, put on vinyl decals, clear coat entire rocket, wet sand the clear coat and then polish.
Will that work, or will I have a hazy color coat if I don't polish it first?
Do you know the official font that Porsche uses or is that just eyeballed? I'm shopping for a 911 right now and really want to print some hobby crossover things
I've been driving sports cars my whole life but now that I'm an old geezer I decided that it was time for something more comfortable. So I traded the 911 in on this MB S560. Not counting trucks, this is the first car I have ever owned with an automatic transmission. Or four doors.WHAT !!!!!!!
NATHAN....
You sold that 911 ?????????????
Ohhh how could you.................
Teddy
Hold a coin up to the paint so we can see how you did.I've been driving sports cars my whole life but now that I'm an old geezer I decided that it was time for something more comfortable. So I traded the 911 in on this MB S560. Not counting trucks, this is the first car I have ever owned with an automatic transmission. Or four doors.View attachment 460849
Yeahhhhhhh,,I've been driving sports cars my whole life but now that I'm an old geezer I decided that it was time for something more comfortable. So I traded the 911 in on this MB S560. Not counting trucks, this is the first car I have ever owned with an automatic transmission. Or four doors.View attachment 460849
i missed hearing the story of what happened to the rocket. Simply lost?This rocket is long gone, but I recently completed building a Madcow 4" fiberglass DX3 XL and I am going to recreate this paint job. I contacted Mark at Stickershock and he still has the file for the custom decals that he made for me 8 years ago! So I just ordered the decals.
Large cardboard rockets have a short life expectancy. After my original Porsche DX3 was damaged and repaired multiple times I finally threw in the trash rather than repair it again. As I recall it got zippered pretty bad.i missed hearing the story of what happened to the rocket. Simply lost?
...You're makin me feel old Nathan...
Hey,
Wad du u tink of the AMG 43 ???
It's a coupe though..
Teddy
Lots of nice grass to land that beautiful rocket on!I switched to Flickr several years ago when Photobucket started started trying to extort money out of users by holding their images hostage. But I have never gotten around to uploading all of my old photos to Flickr. Here is that photo:
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