How do you display your cars, clear body or painted?

[marlo]

Nice paint job's Jeff, as for half painted bodies, I've seen a couple rc10t's with the rear bed area left clear, looks great, I will try that out on my runner, when the current body goes.

[j-sou]

I was way into 60s-70s slot cars for a long time and found myself leaving a lot of the bodies clear in my display case. I just love the primitive mechanical nature of the chassis and though it was cool to have a crisp clean vintage body mounted, but still be able to see the chassis and how it all works. Since I've shifted most of my focus to r/c stuff now, I've found myself leaving some of the bodies clear again. It doesn't hurt. And you can always paint it later if you change your mind. Screw up the paint though, and you either have a ruined body, or start rolling the dice on stripping methods! I'm probably a 50/50 mix now with plans to keep painting them. Some of them just look cool with a clear body showing through to the chassis though! Makes for a cool display.

And a pic, because pics are always more interesting than words:

It's one of my favs. Dynamic Dyna-flex "Silver Hornet". Since then I've replaced the repop body with a NOS Dubro. Same body, but thicker and it has the proper aged yellowish tint.

[Orange]

I keep going around and around inside my head on the subject... Not that I'm scared to paint, I can paint fairly well when I want to break out the airbrush... Here is where I get confused, Do I paint it the way I would paint now, or how I would paint then? And do I want to do box art, or do I just want to get creative? And when I keep changing my mind on what I want to do, I just decide that I must not want to paint it. So I don't.

I don't have any place to display my completed cars either, so they are in boxes in a closet. Some day when i have a place to put them, I may paint them up all purty.

Just to show I can spit some laquer, here ya go. Nearly won concours at the worlds a couple years ago with this body (Was runner up). I painted four of these the night before I left to drive to the Worlds in Houston 2010:



(All freehand, except for the stars )

[RC10th]

I'd love to paint all my cars but my painting skills aren't as good as I'd like them to be. I'm fussy too so that doesn't help. I'm not bad at painting, just affraid to step outside the box which isn't a good thing to experiment on shells that are near impossible to get.

I either like my paint jobs or I don't, there's no real inbetween no matter how good it comes out. If I don't like a body it bugs me because I feel it needs to be redone, start over again, so a clear body is better than one I don't like. Most of my shells are clear, no like or dislike.

One day I'll get there with all painted bodies.