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I have decided this year to attend the VONATS, and although I am able to run Scr8ps car from last year I decided to do one of my own--Harris style

I have just roughed it together, and went over to my "local " hobby shop and was looking for threaded bodies, B4 slipper parts and a few other pieces and came back with these older FT turnbuckles and some stock B4 carriers and castor blocks only

I prepped it to be sent off for anno' and a funny thing happened. I have stripped other chassis for random projects and they have never come out like this one, it's really growing on me being almost white and I may have to strip another for anno and keep this one as is There is a snowflake pattern that has emerged throughout most of the main chassis during the strip/etch process, I have not been able to get the motor plate or the nose to do the same thing though Weird Car will have threaded shocks, Atlas towers and may be a different color soon

nice work, only problem leaving unanodized for any period of time is that it could oxidize, i had that happen with a few chassis's i had in my shed i never anodized yet

i am prepping my TRX1 hopefully soon too

i think it needs some color, reg.

looks good Reg, I think I woudl color it as well. Make it something different like GOLD .
I am seriously thinking some color like RED would look awesome on all Alum parts.

this is looking like a very nice clean project Reg congrats, I like it.

Yeah, it will end up being Trinity/Kinwald blue I haven't seen that on a tub yet

Take 1 and polish it with semichrome polish, you'll have the only chrome chassis at the race.......

Car looks awesome like this, maybe a clear ano to keep it looking good.

Charlie don't surf wrote:Yeah, it will end up being Trinity/Kinwald blue I haven't seen that on a tub yet

That sounds good. hope to see it soon.

Ruffy wrote:Car looks awesome like this, maybe a clear ano to keep it looking good.

That's why I am torn, I don't really like the polished cars ( sorry Dad ) but I do really like this finish and I think it looks really clean and fresh-

I am going to strip another, and have it anno'ed

Being a spray painter i would give it a coat of 2 pack matt laquer.

Awesome CharlieDon'tSurf!
If I had a choice, I'd go with a clear ano'd chassis that looks like yours over anything else that I have ever seen. I really like what you have done here and it looks fantastic!

Gives me an idea to do a BoxArt like this, with the shocks looking the same instead of polished as I have done them previously. I really like it.

Another close up of the "finish" I am etching another as I type, and am going to send out for a sample color of the Kinwald blue
and I want to see if the color changes the look of the aluminum

that's cool....that's the grain of the metal as it was formed and tempered....nice and consistent.

I vote for clear anodizing, it shouldn't effect the finish too much, it might darken it I guess.

nice build Reg! What about white for the anodized color? I may have seen it before, but not that I recall. It would make the black parts pop out a bit more, which might look cool.

Charlie don't surf wrote:

Ruffy wrote:Car looks awesome like this, maybe a clear ano to keep it looking good.

That's why I am torn, I don't really like the polished cars ( sorry Dad ) but I do really like this finish and I think it looks really clean and fresh-

I am going to strip another, and have it anno'ed

they make a clear powdercoat now that would look good