Hasegawa 1/24 Team Tom's Minolta Toyota 88C Le Mans C1
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Hasegawa 1/24 Team Tom's Minolta Toyota 88C Le Mans C1
Finished this up today for an 80's decade group build from another site. Figured I would share here.
Lot's of little mistakes made, but learning as I go.
Painted completely with Tamiya Acrylics through Iwata Eclipse AB, Tamiya Semi-Gloss clear.
Built completely OOB, this is a curbside with no engine even included...
The decals were large and definitely and challenge for me.
Had a lot a fun building it and fairly pleased with how it turned out, pretty much looks like my skills level.
Thanks for looking!!
Lot's of little mistakes made, but learning as I go.
Painted completely with Tamiya Acrylics through Iwata Eclipse AB, Tamiya Semi-Gloss clear.
Built completely OOB, this is a curbside with no engine even included...
The decals were large and definitely and challenge for me.
Had a lot a fun building it and fairly pleased with how it turned out, pretty much looks like my skills level.
Thanks for looking!!
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Re: Hasegawa 1/24 Team Tom's Minolta Toyota 88C Le Mans C1
Excellent, I love the 80's Group C cars
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Re: Hasegawa 1/24 Team Tom's Minolta Toyota 88C Le Mans C1
Nice! Those decals do look like a challenge but you did a great job with them.
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Re: Hasegawa 1/24 Team Tom's Minolta Toyota 88C Le Mans C1
Your skill level is pretty good then!!! Very nice, My favorite era of sports car racing!!!
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Re: Hasegawa 1/24 Team Tom's Minolta Toyota 88C Le Mans C1
Impressive. Tricky scheme to get right, looks superb and nicely photographed as well.
Good work.
Good work.
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Re: Hasegawa 1/24 Team Tom's Minolta Toyota 88C Le Mans C1
Nice work ! LOVE THOSE CARS.
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Re: Hasegawa 1/24 Team Tom's Minolta Toyota 88C Le Mans C1
Nice build, and great job on those decals! I’m intimidated by kits like these because of the difficulty of working on large decal pieces (and the potential of tearing them with no backup set).
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Re: Hasegawa 1/24 Team Tom's Minolta Toyota 88C Le Mans C1
Wouldn't be that tricky to mask up and paint the blue. That would be my approach.
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Re: Hasegawa 1/24 Team Tom's Minolta Toyota 88C Le Mans C1
Thanks guys, for all the kind comments!! This one came out a bit better than I expected - and agree, it's also my favorite era of sports cars. Next to 80's & 90's F1 cars, these are by far my fav!
I got a tip from another modeler too use a ton of water to float them on, and then slowly start setting them. Patience is key, which I'm, obviously still having to learn.
I did tear a couple of them and repaired them with little bits of "extra" overhang from some of the decals.ziggysdesk wrote:Nice build, and great job on those decals! I’m intimidated by kits like these because of the difficulty of working on large decal pieces (and the potential of tearing them with no backup set).
I got a tip from another modeler too use a ton of water to float them on, and then slowly start setting them. Patience is key, which I'm, obviously still having to learn.
Totally and completely agree, daveyman, if I was to do this one again, or recommend it to someone I would suggest getting some tracing paper and just make some templates of the large body decals. Especially the ones on the top, I feel it would be much easier to mask and paint two colors than getting all those decals on. The ones on the side weren't too bad because they weren't "that" big, but the top ones were a challenge. Course, I'm getting better at doing the large decals now...daveyman wrote:Wouldn't be that tricky to mask up and paint the blue. That would be my approach.
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