Racing 43 1/43 Seat Cordoba WRC Ufficiale Safari 99 progress #3

File and sand 4 more parts tonight

They will have the same color as the main body shell, so prepared them separately and only glue after painting and polishing.

Racing 43 1/43 Seat Cordoba WRC Ufficiale Safari 99 progress #2

Sanding using 400 sand paper followed by 600

Racing 43 1/43 Seat Cordoba WRC Ufficiale Safari 99 progress #1

My first 1/43 project

Bought this kit over 15 years

All white metal parts are washed by Gaia T03 rasin wash solution

Tamiya 1/24 Porsche 934 Turbo RSR progress #9

Surface primer on those parts to paint semi gloss black later

MFH 1/12 917K

MFH 1/24 917LH

MFH 1/24 037

Limited edition I was told :)

MFH 1/43 917LH

MFH 1/43 962c

Yet another one in collection

Small yet the doors are openable !

Tamiya 1/24 Porsche 934 Turbo RSR progress #8

File and clean up the cockpit parts

And test assemble the cockpit

Also glued the roll-cage parts

Perfect paint mixing jar

Found the perfect one which matches the size of the airbrush paint holder.

They are from Tokyu Hands - milk pitcher.

Trumpeter 1/12 GT40

With KA super details parts

Aoshima 1/24 Civic EF3

With PE parts

Tamiya 1/24 Porsche 934 Turbo RSR progress #7

Two wet coat of Tamiya TS13 in 24 hours and wait for two days

Followed by two wet coat of Mr Color super gloss clear in 24 hours 

Waited for one day, applied 2 more wet coats of Mr Color super gloss clear within 24 hours.

Therefore, total 6 layers of gloss clear after decals.

Tamiya 1/24 Porsche 934 Turbo RSR progress #6

Decals completed

Tamiya 1/24 Porsche 934 Turbo RSR progress #5

Use the same finisher's pure orange for the bottom chassis

And file the mod lines and holes on the cockpit

More Gaia paints

Tamiya 1/24 Porsche 934 Turbo RSR progress #4

Tamiya grey surface primer on cockpit and white surface primer on bottom chassis

Tamiya clear gloss on bodyshell before applying decals

Tamiya 1/24 Porsche 934 Turbo RSR progress #3

One layer of Tamiya white surface primer

And then Finisher's pure orange

Tamiya 1/24 Porsche 934 Turbo RSR progress #2

Sand the surface and fix some defects

And then one more layer of surface primer

Tamiya 1/24 Porsche 934 Turbo RSR progress #1

Clean the body shell and the mod lines

First layer of surface primer