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And no it wasn't a flop, crawled right out of it some how! HA! Wood piles are challenging for me. Loving the 2.2's.
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Alright, here we go..... start to finish on the Gatekeeper body
Design drawn, body liquid masked, and everything cut:
Silver goes down first since you back it in black. You back most of your metallic colors in black so they "reflect" better. White tones them down a little if you don't want it to stand out as much.
Silver sprayed, now peeling off all the areas that are going to be black
Black sprayed and now onto the red "straps" and seats for the interior
I pulled the overspray film off before I was finished so I could make sure I didn't miss any little pieces of liquid mask. I cut all the buckles, steering wheel, straps, and I made some "straps" for the gloves 😁 . Lots of little pieces of mask to weed out:
Pulled the white area out of the roof for paint
Now onto the fluorescent green and yellow. This is actually a transparent standard green, but when backed with a fluorescent yellow it gives a really nice transition/fade:
You can see where I accidentally bumped the black painted area when peeling the liquid mask off and had to fix it. Just a little dab of black on a q-tip fixes it right up. Always good to double check by holding up to a light before spraying a light color after the darks are laid down so you can catch things like this. Otherwise you end up with a big white splotch in your black:
After the green and flo yellow are laid down, I pull out the other more technical areas that will be white. All of this gets backed in white
After the white is laid down. The roof/hood are done at this point so I pulled the film off:
Only thing left is to do the red drop shadows and the flo orange. Transparent red for the drop shadows backed with fluorescent orange
You can see it starting to take shape now...
Backed with white:
Film pulled off
You can see the red drop shadows here and how well the transparent red blends with the flo orange:
Everything all finished up, just need to get it cut out and on the buggy!
Design drawn, body liquid masked, and everything cut:
Silver goes down first since you back it in black. You back most of your metallic colors in black so they "reflect" better. White tones them down a little if you don't want it to stand out as much.
Silver sprayed, now peeling off all the areas that are going to be black
Black sprayed and now onto the red "straps" and seats for the interior
I pulled the overspray film off before I was finished so I could make sure I didn't miss any little pieces of liquid mask. I cut all the buckles, steering wheel, straps, and I made some "straps" for the gloves 😁 . Lots of little pieces of mask to weed out:
Pulled the white area out of the roof for paint
Now onto the fluorescent green and yellow. This is actually a transparent standard green, but when backed with a fluorescent yellow it gives a really nice transition/fade:
You can see where I accidentally bumped the black painted area when peeling the liquid mask off and had to fix it. Just a little dab of black on a q-tip fixes it right up. Always good to double check by holding up to a light before spraying a light color after the darks are laid down so you can catch things like this. Otherwise you end up with a big white splotch in your black:
After the green and flo yellow are laid down, I pull out the other more technical areas that will be white. All of this gets backed in white
After the white is laid down. The roof/hood are done at this point so I pulled the film off:
Only thing left is to do the red drop shadows and the flo orange. Transparent red for the drop shadows backed with fluorescent orange
You can see it starting to take shape now...
Backed with white:
Film pulled off
You can see the red drop shadows here and how well the transparent red blends with the flo orange:
Everything all finished up, just need to get it cut out and on the buggy!
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Wow!!!! That is amazing Adam!!!
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I’m still 🤯🤯 about figuring out the right layering
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Dang looks great Looks like a bunch of work. Thanks for the tutorial!
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Here's everything all cut out. Just need to drill the mounting holes and they'll be ready to smash into some rocks 
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Oh and I guess I need to put the heads on the driver and passenger, lol. s*** I need to find them now or steal the ones off the other interior.
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HA! Who needs heads? I'm still looking for a stock clear Night Crawler body w/o bed and drivers? Well scratch the bed, it's part of the main body' still like the Zebra stripe thing and naming it Smitty's Safari Wagon!
Got some of the assembly done.
Still a lot to do. 🤔 Wonder if I could persuade @Adam490 to paint a body for me ? Obviously down the road. 🤣
Still a lot to do. 🤔 Wonder if I could persuade @Adam490 to paint a body for me ? Obviously down the road. 🤣
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What kit is that? 1.9 wheels? Looks great!
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SCX10 D90 Carbon fiber and aluminum. no plastic
I went and looked at the tires. Didn't see any size on them. 4 1/4 " tall
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Either a 1.55 or 1.9 rim? Thinking 1.55. My Temper had 1.55 and switched them over to the 1. 9's off the Night Crawler, better.
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Everything was going too well... Lol. I guess this black paint didn't like the clear coat. Sucks but at least it's on an interior piece. Usually you get this if the temps aren't right or you don't shake the can enough, but that wasn't the case here. Sprayed all my panels and the interior of the kids body with no issue. As soon as the clear hit the black it spider webbed like crazy. Now I know to back all the black from this particular paint with another color before clearing it
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Kind of gives it that late 90's - early 2000's Dodge dash look 😂
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