fresh bodies and paint for my YZ-10s

[Mr. ED]

I painted 4 bodies this week: 1 for my lazer and 3 for my YZ-10s.

The first one in line was one of Mrlexan's repops for the 870C. Unfortunately it didn't go all that well: I played araound with the masking and cans to get transition effects, but, well, I shouldn't have I guess. This is the messy result:

A couple days later I wanted to try better, and did the lazer, woohoo, succes.
Pics are here

This gave me courage to do another YZ-10 body: I picked one of 2 Fastrax bodies and tried to improve the Martini theme that worked so well for my ghostrider. (Pics are here)
Not a 100% happy with the outcome here, but learned another No-No again.

Comparing the ghost-rider and the above I felt I could do a better Martini for my YZ-10 and the last 870C left would be a better body to suit the theme. So, with the last end of masking tape and last drip of white paint I made this:

Definitely a great improvement, with only a minor disappointment on the red coming out too dark.


2.5/4 not the best score, but I had fun and am glad I finally started painting some of that clear lexan I seemed to start collecting.

[besty22]

Nice work. What equipment did you use to paint them?
If you don't mind me asking, how much did you score them for.?

[Mr. ED]

Pactra spray cans and window masking tape.

They all came at very reasonable prices; mrlexan sells his at a fixed price and the fastrax came from ebay-uk. With a lot of 15 orso fastrax's turning available over 3 auctions the price didn't get jacked up wildly.

[Bormac]

Very nice to see some of your hard work going into some very cool Yokomo buggies. Nice one Eric-

[Mr. ED]

it's getting close to 50/50 on the kyosho/yokomo balance in my stable.
Unfortunately I can't show much yet as most are in a 90% finished state, and you know what they say: 90% of work gets done in 10% of the time, the other 90% is for finishing the last 10% of work

[Asso_man!]

nice paint jobs Erik, I like them! When do we meet again?