mixed feelings about my latest paintjob

[Mr. ED]

I won this body and undertray on yahoo auctions, and seen the pretty low price I should have known something was wrong. I guess it would have helped if I could read Japanese

Anyway the undertray was badly deformed, both with force and heat apparently, and the outside of the body has something which looks like acid splattered on it.
At first I was gonna paint it matt grey on the outside and so I cut the body already before painting. But then I changed my mind and decided to put a little more work in. Not enough clearly with the overspray and some boo-boos as result.

I'm still pretty happy with the result but it could have been much nicer with a little more effort and a cleaner body to start with.
How do you like it?

[Asso_man!]

I like it Ed, could be worse... what is it for

[logikfive]

I like it too.

Looks like somebody used that RC for a deathmatch with something or other.

[highwayracer]

It looks like to ran over a turn marshall during a race

But seriously, the paint job looks pretty decent...I don't see any "mistakes" (drips). As for the acid marks, are those the spots that can be seen on the black sections of the body?

What you can do is to use a fine rubbing compound to get the stains out. I suggest tring it on a small part of the body to see the effects.

regards,
highwayracer

[Mr. ED]

thanks for the feedback fellas.
asso, it's a cougar 2000 body, but that's not what it will go on... you'll see soon enough.
I didn't follow the orignal lines of the sidewindows: made them a bit bigger for a different look, maybe driver later also.

LogikF, HWR,
I didn't realize it was 'bloody' but it should be encouraging the turnmarshalls to "hurry-up!"

HWR , the stains you see in the black is the overspary of the white. I selected the pics where the acid spots are least visible, but you can still spot it quite well in the windshield. With the stickers on and a couple turns on the track it will soon look just like any other body in my possesion

[rc-10 gold pan]

to tell u the truth i like it

[Mr. ED]

to tell u the truth i like it

thanks,
I put a lot of thought in it, and still had to adapt the plans to the outcome of each colour while painting.

I don't have an airbrush and it is pretty hard to come up with a design that's easy enough to do with spraycans but doesn't look dull simple.

[Mr. ED]

finalised and running, pics are at the end of the cars thread: http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2172&p=42401#p42401