My racing inspired Imprezza

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i got around to finishing my first custom painted epoch tonight :eek: not without some hassle though... let me tell you now, pactra paint will not stick/adhear to an epoch :mad: tamiya paint works well once you sand the surface slightly.

anywho, it's been a ruff week at work so i need to drown myself in some hobby work. last night, about 11pm i decided to give painting my epoch a try. by 12pm i had the red trim done and called it a night. tonight i finished the black paint (twice). i ran out of flat black in tamiya so i tried outlaw black from pactra which went on like surup and came off like rubber cement :mad: i sanded it down a bit and repainted with metallic black tamiya which went on ok given the shoddy condition of the surface at that point.

i then cut and applied some left over tinyrc decals i had (no 1-43 decals are available yet). i let it sit on my pc to dry for an hour and now it's done!

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here is the red trim work
http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2541.sized.jpg

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2542.sized.jpg

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2543.sized.jpg

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here is the black paint (2nd time)

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2545.sized.jpg

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2546.sized.jpg

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2547.sized.jpg

you can see how bad the pactra paint stuck to the mask tape. it was that bad all over before i scrapped it off

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next is removing the last of the mask tape....

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2550.sized.jpg

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2552.sized.jpg

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2553.sized.jpg

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it took a fine hand to scrape off some of the overspray with an xacto knife but the trick worked well :D

the rest was putting the spoiler back on and applying the decals

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2555.sized.jpg

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2556.sized.jpg

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2557.sized.jpg

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some close ups of the decals

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2558.sized.jpg

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2559.sized.jpg

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teh following are just nice setup shots

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2560.sized.jpg

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2563.sized.jpg

http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album700/IMG_2564.sized.jpg

[Byebye]

That's pretty sweet looking? Has to be pretty small though compared to the 1/32 or 1/28. Can you take a group shop?

-Byebye

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page 2 (http://www2.mini-zracer.com/gallery/album700?page=2) of my epoch gallery has some body off pictures

the only comparison shot (http://www2.mini-zracer.com/albums/album636/IMG_1122.sized.jpg) i have does not include an epoch, but i do have a picture of the 1:32 rear end next to the epoch (http://www2.mini-zracer.com/gallery/album700/IMG_1621)

[HammerZ]

Look's cool, still not sure what kind of plastic these cars use.

[arfin]

Nice choice of colours, the decals really blend in!