Revell snap kit. Testors enamel paint shot with lacquer thinner. My own ink jet decals. 54 hours to complete.
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¡Ay, caramba! :D
Quote from: David Bogard on October 24, 2018, 11:24:18 AM
Should have been "Phillipe Blanco"! A very nice crisp and clean build with a Spanish flavor!! Well done sir!
Actually Phil and his brother Bubba have been winning all the races at Houston's Meyer Speedway for the last ten years, ever since it was re built as a clone to Bristol Motor speedway. They both decided to try their hand at Arca this year. Bubba was going to drive the Tecate car. The trouble is the cars just got finished and the season is over. The sponsorships are only good for 2018 so I guess their out of luck.
Quote from: Brian Conn on October 24, 2018, 03:11:11 PM
¡Ay, caramba! :D
Brian , if I knew what that meant, I would thank you for it, but for all I know you might have just cussed me out. But thanks for the reply anyway.
Nope, he didn't cuss ya Mark. Since I don't speak Spanish, I would say it "Oh Verflixt!"
Quote from: Lefturns75 on October 24, 2018, 04:03:02 PM
Nope, he didn't cuss ya Mark. Since I don't speak Spanish, I would say it "Oh Verflixt!"
Thanks , George. But I don't know what Verflixt means either. So I'll just have to take your word for it.
Quote from: MarkJ on October 24, 2018, 03:45:03 PM
Quote from: Brian Conn on October 24, 2018, 03:11:11 PM
¡Ay, caramba! :D
Brian , if I knew what that meant, I would thank you for it, but for all I know you might have just cussed me out. But thanks for the reply anyway.
¡Ay, caramba! is an exclamation used in Spanish to denote surprise.....Had to look the true meaning up myself as I remember Bart Simpson using it thru out "The Simpsons"
Quite a nice build....the colors of everything really look really great together.
By the way Mark, during all the B.S. I forgot to mention that your build is very nice. You have the touch of making these new cars sit just right. I don't know about you but if Toyota can be involved, I would love to see an AMG-GT show up in Nastycar. I might even start watching it again. I enjoy a suds once in a while but I don't care for Cactus Juice and besides, rumor has it there is a Mule involved in the brew somewhere. Has something to do with code for the XX. You could do up the AMG in Oettinger Bier Livery¡¡¡¡ Yes!!!!
Somewhere you did a thread on how you modified these new cars to sit lower and get the tires inside the body. Was that here? If not, you should do another as I think it would be useful to some of us hackers that might try one. Again, very nice build.........but don't drink the water.
WOW!!! This really caught my eye!!
GREAT decal work!!!!!!!
Looks a lot better than anything that NASCAR teams have for sponsors and paint schemes!! (Have no ARCA team pics to reference)
Great job on this!!
Quote from: Brian Conn on October 24, 2018, 07:23:03 PM
Quote from: MarkJ on October 24, 2018, 03:45:03 PM
Quote from: Brian Conn on October 24, 2018, 03:11:11 PM
¡Ay, caramba! :D
Brian , if I knew what that meant, I would thank you for it, but for all I know you might have just cussed me out. But thanks for the reply anyway.
¡Ay, caramba! is an exclamation used in Spanish to denote surprise.....Had to look the true meaning up myself as I remember Bart Simpson using it thru out "The Simpsons"
Quite a nice build....the colors of everything really look really great together.
Thanks Brian for clearing that up. For some reason I have never watched the Simpsons so I had no clue what it meant.
Quote from: Lefturns75 on October 24, 2018, 10:25:20 PM
By the way Mark, during all the B.S. I forgot to mention that your build is very nice. You have the touch of making these new cars sit just right. I don't know about you but if Toyota can be involved, I would love to see an AMG-GT show up in Nastycar. I might even start watching it again. I enjoy a suds once in a while but I don't care for Cactus Juice and besides, rumor has it there is a Mule involved in the brew somewhere. Has something to do with code for the XX. You could do up the AMG in Oettinger Bier Livery¡¡¡¡ Yes!!!!
Somewhere you did a thread on how you modified these new cars to sit lower and get the tires inside the body. Was that here? If not, you should do another as I think it would be useful to some of us hackers that might try one. Again, very nice build.........but don't drink the water.
George, thanks for the props. Actually the beer that Heineken started the rumor about the horse piss was Corona. Rex White, my favorite driver from the sixty's wrote a book called "Gold Thunder". In it he tells about his favorite beer, Dos Equis. Well of course I had to try it and it was the smoothest most delicious beer I had ever tasted, and I have been drinking it ever since. The XX is the roman numeral for 20. I have know idea what it means. The beer started in 1897. That is why I chose the number 97 for the model.
As far as lowering these cars go I did a wip on this car and in it I explain in detail how its done . Its really quite simple because you retain the metal axles and don't have to glue the wheel assemblies to the hubs or the rear axles. The link to the wip is below.
http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/136084-wip-arca-2018-ford/
Quote from: David Bogard on October 24, 2018, 11:03:44 PM
I agree with Lefty on getting a snapper like this to sit right. I'd like to know myself. Hey, that paint is super smooth Mark! Do you have a gloss coat over it?
David, I shot the car with testors enamel from the small bottle that was darkened with a little black enamel. I shot it with lacquer thinner which helps keep the paint from running if you get too close, which you need to do to help stop orange peel. The lacquer thinner flashes faster. I did put one coat of the new name for future, which is pledge floor care. I put it on with a wide soft brush. But the main thing is that I did not have to polish it, which I hate to do. The link for the lowering of the snappers is below.
http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/136084-wip-arca-2018-ford/
Quote from: sentsat71 on October 25, 2018, 06:29:48 AM
WOW!!! This really caught my eye!!
GREAT decal work!!!!!!!
Looks a lot better than anything that NASCAR teams have for sponsors and paint schemes!! (Have no ARCA team pics to reference)
Great job on this!!
Thanks, Ed. It was a real fun build.
Here are the leftover decals.
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Great job Mark - especially the decal work!
Thanks, Bob.
One reason I like this paint scheme, just one color with the decals making it really stand out.!
Quote from: sentsat71 on October 29, 2018, 08:31:35 AM
One reason I like this paint scheme, just one color with the decals making it really stand out.!
Thanks, Ed. The main reason I picked one color for this fantasy build is because I'm not very good at two tone paint or hopefully never have to attack a 3 tone paint scheme. I'm tape challenged.
:) Tape challenged. That's a scream. ;D
Quote from: john2 on October 29, 2018, 07:28:26 PM
:) Tape challenged. That's a scream. ;D
Yes, I fear the tape. It doesn't like me.
One reason I won't "tackle" any Petty STP cars of the 70's......LOL
IF it is a simple 2 tone, might try it.......Like a Bobby Allison Coke car.....to name one paint scheme (Actually did the early 70's Monte Carlo AMT issued kit waaaaaaaay back when).....
Like the Beer and like Car! Great job!
Quote from: ARCA Guy on October 31, 2018, 07:56:33 AM
Like the Beer and like Car! Great job!
Thanks, ARCA guy. It was my first fantasy build.
That's what makes fantasy builds so neat. No way you can mess one up........! :)
Quote from: sentsat71 on October 31, 2018, 08:18:40 AM
That's what makes fantasy builds so neat. No way you can mess one up........! :)
You can still mess it up, but the rivet counters can't tell you that you got the color wrong, or the sponsors wrong, or the font of the numbers wrong, etc. etc. Be a good one to post at randy ayers. But that's never going to happen.
....I don't fallow the ARCA series as close as I used to....with that being said, if you had left the Phil N. Blank part out I would have thought that this was another car competing in the ARCA series! ;D
Makes me want to try a fantasy build along these lines, but with all of the snack food I devour, it would take something along the lines of a tractor/trailer build to get everyone on.
Every time I have visited this post, it grows on me a little more.
Quote from: Brian Conn on October 31, 2018, 03:57:00 PM
....I don't fallow the ARCA series as close as I used to....with that being said, if you had left the Phil N. Blank part out I would have thought that this was another car competing in the ARCA series! ;D
Makes me want to try a fantasy build along these lines, but with all of the snack food I devour, it would take something along the lines of a tractor/trailer build to get everyone on.
Every time I have visited this post, it grows on me a little more.
You should try one. They are really easy to build. They are suppose to be snap kits, but I still glue them. I have one left over chevy kit and I'm thinking maybe Shiner Bock, my wife's favorite beer. I used a fake name and found a number nobody uses because I was afraid of possibly making some one in ARCA mad.
Well, they say the mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Mark, you put your noggin' to work on this one.
Very creative. Can't wait to see what you come up next !
Quote from: Hondo on December 10, 2018, 09:55:46 PM
Well, they say the mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Mark, you put your noggin' to work on this one.
Very creative. Can't wait to see what you come up next !
Thanks, Jim