Jon Mopar
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Hey folks. I thought I'd make my first post. I built this kit 20-25 years ago, and it was actually my 2nd attempt…my first was of the identical kit when it initially released a couple years prior I believe, but that one was a total glue bomb… in my defence I was still new to the hobby.
Anyway long story short, although I did a decent job for a young model builder, and was initially proud of it, after a couple of years I became embarrassed to show it, as the paint only looked good from about 6 feet away. Recently I've been on a big kick to get back into the hobby and finish up projects that I left on the shelf for years…so I took this one down, re-sprayed it and put it back together. I left the interior detailing and everything else as-is, because it tells a story and has history of a time many years ago when I was learning the hobby…and I didn't do a half bad job for being fairly new to it
It started off a deep wine burgundy (Cranberry ). I repainted it in deep Viper GTS Blue Pearl . The interior and other detailing was originally done in Testors. I blacked out the headlights because that was the cool thing to do in the 1990s lol
Anyway long story short, although I did a decent job for a young model builder, and was initially proud of it, after a couple of years I became embarrassed to show it, as the paint only looked good from about 6 feet away. Recently I've been on a big kick to get back into the hobby and finish up projects that I left on the shelf for years…so I took this one down, re-sprayed it and put it back together. I left the interior detailing and everything else as-is, because it tells a story and has history of a time many years ago when I was learning the hobby…and I didn't do a half bad job for being fairly new to it
It started off a deep wine burgundy (Cranberry ). I repainted it in deep Viper GTS Blue Pearl . The interior and other detailing was originally done in Testors. I blacked out the headlights because that was the cool thing to do in the 1990s lol
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