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Thanks for your informative response Torsten. €200 for the CAD work seems very reasonable, do you supply photos of the full scale car with dimensions for them to use to create the data? I am looking to get some wheel rims and tyres made for a project, not sure if I want to tackle learning CAD or pay...

Very nice parts. Are the steering wheel and brake discs printed on an SLA printer rather than FDM? The resolution looks very fine.
Do you have a friend that does the CAD work?

Wow it looks fantastic!!! How did you achieve the fibre glass effect?

Anthony_RUS wrote: Yep you are right, i used wash on the rims

Thanks, I look forward to the update. Did you also clear coat the tyres?

Hi Anthony, Any updates on the progress of this incredible build? I purchased the kit on the back of reading this thread. Did you finish the Heller Santa Maria you mentioned in the first post? The paint effects on the hull were incredible. Sorry one last question, did you clear coat the tyre walls a...

Thanks Sean

Many thanks Sean. I imagine you have to use a fine needle airbrush for the detail work so as not to over paint the recesses with the washes?

I then added washes using Tamiya's panel line colours, brown for the gold parts and dark grey and black for the silver areas, once this was dry I reset the base colour before picking out the raised areas with some drybrushed highlighting ... A wonderful build and some of the best weathering/shading...