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I have some of the 1960's Lotus Indy cars waiting to be built and when the Lotus name returned to Indy racing I wanted that car to. With no plastic kits around, I had to find another way. I got myself one of the 1/25 scale Hot Wheels die-cast but this project was fighting me real bad.
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I managed to remove the sponsor markings but not the paint but when I put on a coat of primer it reacted with the paint, so I could peel off large chunks of paint. I sanded down what I couldn't remove and started over. The primer went on OK this time. I decided to paint the yellow parts on the car, so I tried a coat of yellow. No luck this time. It didn't come on smoothly. LOTS of pores in the finish so more sanding. I had planned for a simple repaint but now I got angry. Since I needed to sand down the paint I decided to remove an antenna and some lumps on the nose. |
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I started to draw decals for it and decided to make most of the yellow as decals instead. Now for the next set back. My eight-year computer said good bye.
The hard disks were fine, so nothing was lost but the computer would not start. I now has a new computer but it isn't compatible with the printer, so I cannot print the decals. So, I needed to hunt down an old computer. Now the wheels are starting to annoy me. I could not find a Hot Wheel model in Europe, so I got one from E-Bay i USA. I thought they all were the same but looking at pictures it seems like the red Target car has different wheels, so that is the one I should have bought instead. But this is what I manged to draw. Printed on a standard printer on cheap paper so it is a bit course. |
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When I started on the paint I decided to try to paint the yellow on the nose instead of using a decal. I sprayed the yellow and masked it. Then I painted the whole car black. I also tried to print the decals. |
| Now on to mask the black stripes. It will be the base coat for the green. I painted some plastic spoons. One green on a grey base and the second green on a black base so that I could compare the shades of green. Then the first layer of metallic green. |
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I have never seen or will see the real car in person, so I will not try to replicate the true colour. I rather want it to look as the pictures I've seen. Otherwise I will always look at it and get the feeling it is wrong. Perhaps not the right attitude for a model builder but I build for my satisfaction not anybody else. A note about the decals. Printing the yellow stripes will make the yellow colour on the air intake hard to match painting. On the other hand, masking and painting the stripes gives another problem. The green body colour surrounds the Bosch, Honda and Lotus markings on the nose and that is tricky to mask. I tried to print the surrounding in metallic green instead. It will probably not be the right shade of green but will save me work. Removing the masking tape is always interesting. How much went wrong this time? I need to do some touch ups on the yellow, but it went better than I had expected. |
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But now the wheels are starting to annoy me. I didn't think it would but now I wish that I found one of the Target-cars instead. I started to put the decals on. The right side is almost done. |
| I will let go of it and say that it is finished. I will not do anything about the wheels. I'm not prepared to buy a $30 kit just for the wheels. |
| Instead of trying to mask for the green background of the Bosch and Honda decals I tried to print it metallic green and I think it worked rather well. |
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