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Mar 27, 2008 | 08:26 PM

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FLfinfan

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From: Florida

Very nice work. I appreciate the work that goes into one of those. I have 2002 Frontier and 2004 Titan electric RC trucks I did to resemble my vehicles. No inside stuff but got the outside pretty good. The big chrome pieces on the Titan were tough. Silver paint was not mirror enough and the chrome tape/vynol was tough to make compound bends/curves with. I even took a pic of my dog in the back seat of the real truck, shrunk it down, put it on sticker paper, and then put it on the RC truck. Did the same with bumper stickers and plates. When I 1st posted pics of it online one guy even asked when I got my truck lifted. Had to tell him it was a model. The guys at the truck meet got a kick out of it.
But anyways, great work.

Mar 29, 2008 | 08:00 PM

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zsport1

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Originally Posted by orbital24

Awesome work man. I used to build models when I was younger and then moved to pewter figures for awhile and this thread gave me the itch to get back into doing models again.

I bought an R32 made by the same company a little while ago, I'm painting it Gunmetal. I was wondering what you used to buff the body with do you just do it by hand, and if so what kind of cloth do you recomend?

I use the Tamiya three stage buffing compound. Cloths, I use old t shirts to apply and polishing clothes to buff.