24 Hour Service 2000 DTM Mercedes

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24 Hour Service 2000 DTM Mercedes

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I thought I would start on a Touring Car and decided to get into a Tamiya DTM C Class Mercedes. I have had the kit and decals for a long time so rather than doing the D2 car that the kit is I will do Pedro Lamy's 24 Hour Service version. So far all I have done is get most of the body faring on and a light mist of white primer put the cage together and then sanded all the sink marks, which there are plenty. I think this will stay OOB and I will decide if I even go with some CF decal in the engine area.
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I'm glad you've chosen this one Shayne, I've been feeling a bit touring car-ish myself. I've not seen this scheme before and it's always good to see a car in a scheme that does not come in the kit.
Keep up the good work.
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Built this version a while back. Very nice livery. Good start on it, shunter! Keep going! It seems to be a long build...
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very nice start. great kit to do a wip on.

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Well how is this for pulling one out from the archives...I was looking for something to paint after wrapping up the Reynard and this jumped out at me. I have to say i do not enjoy painting white with rattle cans, i always seem to stuff it up some how. So with the new Tamiya LP paints i thought lets go with the airbrush and see how it works....I do like them a lot, they are great to use and easy to spray with i mixed mine with around 10% acrylic thinner.

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Good paint job, have the LP colours too, but till today i was not able to test them. Your result is an inspiration, keep it comin! :)
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So the decal fun begins...
This is my first time with Studio 27 decals and so far so good. They nice and thin and for a sheet that is around 19 years old they are behaving beautifully. There are some large decals on this one so I’m taking deep breaths.

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Well for a first time user of Studio 27 decals i am impressed. They are conforming well and are quite strong and react well to solvent and heat.

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Looks cool. Have not seen this livery before. Great progress
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Very nice paintjob with the LP paint, might have to try it myself. And the decals look really good too
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