Shelby Cobra 427 S/C

Dry fit to see what's what 

I wanted to have a clean look so I'll close this holes and not go for any bumper 

closing the bumper holes on the back as whell, with some stretched sprue and sprue glue 

testing some striping tecniques 

oppening the hole for this air exits, I'll scratch build them later 

marking the cutting area 

saving a template for the scratch build 

building a box for the area for scratch build later 

drilling a hole 

This hole looks too thick, I have to thin it down from inside a bit. 

I´m thinking in using this figure close to the car, looks nice to me 😉 

1/24 figure from Master Box 

priming and painting 

using tamiya X-13 

base color painted 

The fine stripes are done with 0,3 tape, the finest that I could find, did I ever mentioned how much I hate masking?... 

But I do love to unmask, specially if what I did went right! 

I found the gide for the stripes with the pin stripe on the side, the kit one are all paralell, looks wrong to me. 

now, send down the jaged edges of the wite borders and prepare for clear coat 

I also took the oportunity to paint the continuation of the stripe in the lower front of the car, there where no decals for this area. 

the proportions of the stripes looks good to me, I folowed the directions found on internet. 

a bit of scenary composing.... 

That´s the result after the gloss coat, it had 2 very light layers and than one heavy coat, there are some orange peel, but it is kind of consistent troughout the model, but it is ok, I'll take care of them with light wet sending and polishing. 

I have used Mr. Color GX112, it is easier to handle than the tamiya gloss clear and dries a bit harder and faster, the stripes have been sended lightly to remove the jaged edge resulted by the masking tape and now all is burried under the clear coat 

I´m going to compare with the result after the sanding and polishing steps, I kinda like the orange peel but it is hard to get it the same in every place, I dont like the idea to build up thick layers of gloss to hide them, it makes the model look toylik