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Thank you everyone, I appreciate your comments. My poor photographing skills actually help in hiding a lot, but overall I'm happy with it.

I actually tried painting a car a long time ago with disastrous consequences, I got really discouraged and started doing other things like modifying the bodies, lowering them and whatnot. When I decided to enter the Slot.it shootout I had no intentions of painting a car, so I bought the Goodwood McLarend and thought that was it, except that I couldn't help myself but to mess with it which made the car illegal. I needed a car and the white cars were cheaper so suddenly I had no choice but to paint a car. After shooting the primer I had the "orange peel" thing happening again so I filled a tub with Pine Sol, dipped the car, threw out the Model Masters primer and paint and bought Tamiya.

Once I figured out that it was worth spending a little more on the Tamiya paint it went a lot smoother. The paint looks a lot better than Model Masters, goes on smooth and dries really fast. I think I did about 3-4 really light coats of each color. I read that you're supposed to do one or two light coats and then a heavier coat but I was afraid of having the paint run. I followed a lot of the advice I read on here and other sites about what to do, like warming up the spray can in hot water, etc. all tips that I think really helped. To all of those who took time to post those tips, a HUGE Thank You!

The biggest lesson, and one that although I read time and time again I'm still not sure I learned, is do not rush! There are a few mistakes that would not have happened if I had taken a little more time to be careful, instead of trying to work on it in between jobs.

The Tamiya masking tape is amazing and I can't say enough good things about it. I masked over the silver over the course of two days and when I pulled the tape off after spraying the orange there were no bleed lines, except where I didn't tape correctly.

The best thing about all this is that I gained a little confidence in painting and I'm really looking forward to the next one.

jd of racing wrote:

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Man,that looks great. are you gonna start doing for others?
Thank you but I assure you it's not good enough to do for other's!

I may get hold o you to give me some tips on that layout?.
Keep reading...

That color combo really looks great 2gether i think.
Thank you, I really like orange and silver also. Ever since I was younger and raced the R/C cars I always used orange and silver, I'm sure in the beginning it was what my Dad had laying around but it stuck.

Again,let's know the secret of that tape laying technique cause it moves.
There really isn't much of a technique. Get Tamiya tape and start laying it down randomly and at odd angles, some strips longer than others, over the first color (in this case silver). Then shoot your second color (I used orange), let it dry, remove all the tape and do it all over again but place the tape in a different "pattern" than before making sure there is a lot of over lap. Then I shot it with Clear orange, this changes not only the silver but also the orange underneath. Remove the tape and you're all set.

I'm going to start another one hopefully next weekend and take pictures of the whole process. I think narrower tape will look better so I have to pick some up, maybe different widths will look even better but Tamiya tape isn't cheap.

The headlights look crappy for a few reasons. First I should have spray painted the silver on the interior instead of using a brush, the same goes for the "yellow" lenses but I don't have an airbrush... The most important part, and my biggest mistake, the glue I used obviously fogged up the lens.

Some things you can read until you are blue in the face but don't really learn until you make the same mistake!