-- RC Collect -- Doug Carter Style

[mrlexan]

I actually like the Keebler livery myself. Any of that vinyl or all painted?

[Eau Rouge]

I actually like the Keebler livery myself. Any of that vinyl or all painted?

All paint on the inside. No vinyl in those days...

[Erich Reichert]

so I finally got a chance to look at the jrx2 bodies again. The biggest real problem to me was that the line definition is about half it is on the orig body. Meaning all the windows are they're but much less pronounced. the other things are that the lexan isn't the same kind, they type on the repro is more brittle feeling and mine had a bit of swirle to it (not perfectly window clear). The final note is that the logo and part #, etc is cut out. the only part the survived was the "made in the USA" part thats at teh bottom of it.

[M.R. Ogle]

Call Andy Jacobsen, I think he still works at Pegasus Hobbies in Montclair, CA. (909) 982- 6507. He used to pull the bodies for Team Losi,

I'm sure he will know what the heck is going on, if someone bought the molds or has (criminal activity) backpoured a body to create their own body tool.

[Asso_man!]

I don't see any problem with reproducing virtually impossible to find bodies that are long discontinued, many people have been doing this officially on the web for a long time now, and it makes of course more sense when it is advertised as such and a slight difference helps the connoisseur

[mrlexan]

Call Andy Jacobsen, I think he still works at Pegasus Hobbies in Montclair, CA. (909) 982- 6507. He used to pull the bodies for Team Losi,

I'm sure he will know what the heck is going on, if someone bought the molds or has (criminal activity) backpoured a body to create their own body tool.

We kinda have been down this road with the X2 bodies and Andy Jacobsen... I don't know where the threads are.

Let's not take away from Doug's fine thread here.

[Erich Reichert]

absolutely! I hear he was famous in college for chugging pink fascolor! (In a Larry King voice) "How important is the airbrush?"

[Eau Rouge]

Here's one for the archives...

[wyldbill]

harper sprints are awesome looking! what did they use to mount the nose wing? im assuming a standard buggy rear wing wire mount, but which one? or did they custom bend one?

[Eau Rouge]

harper sprints are awesome looking! what did they use to mount the nose wing? im assuming a standard buggy rear wing wire mount, but which one? or did they custom bend one?

Standard .080" piano wire bent up to over-drilled wing buttons and mounted in the base of the chassis with Trinity oval wing mounts. Simple is good. My other Harper uses a 90° bent piece of aluminum off of the top of the shock tower to mount the front wing.

[aconsola]

Ok, so how do I do it all?
Masking
I ONLY use 3M masking products. Period. End of story. Don't waste your time with anything else--you will absolutely regret using cheap masking and pinstriping tapes. I don't care if the 3M tapes cost 10x what other tapes cost--I won't use anything else.

I finally got around to getting some 3m fineline at the local auto paint store. I have been using the pactra masking tape. The pactra tape seems to be the same stuff re-packaged on a small spool, it feels and bends the same way.
The difference is that the lhs charges $4 for a 20foot roll of the pactra and the auto paint place charges $8 for 60 Yard rolls

[Tadracket]

.....the auto paint place charges $8 for 60 Yard rolls

Think a home improvement place or wally world would carry that? Think you can dig a pick off their site to show what it looks like? Then, could you get me a coffee with 3 cream and 6 sugar? Thanks pal

[aconsola]

I don't know where to get it other than auto body places. Take a look in the phone book, there has to be a paint/supply shop local to you.
here is the stuff you are looking for, I used the fine line green:
http://www.autobodysupply.net/store/defaultin.asp?CategoryID=29&usg=B6928EF8-AB21-43EE-887C-948116B826A8