X-Power Styley! (W.I.P.)

[Divman]

OK my Crowd pleazer shell is here... I have thot about colours.schemes awaiting delivery

My own car is a MG ZS, so i decided some kinda tribute to that.. there team touring car colours are like this:

http://mgcf.free.fr/course/virtuel/toca_race_driver/large_toca_mg_zs.jpg

Anyway i thot i didnt want to copy it exactly but use the theme for some inspiration, ...so i came up with this..

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/xpower.jpg

I can get some of the X-Power decals made locally, so i might put 2 or 3 on with 2 or 3 Pro-line decals.

I havent started cutting the shell yet, will be doing that tomoro, i'll try get some hobby-knife action pics :)

Dave

[FESTER2004]

i like it,so far so good!

[Scomp87]

Divman, how do you like the ZS? I love MG's even though I'm way on the other side where i see only old A's and midgets.

[Divman]

Hey Scomp

The ZS is really good, my only regret is i got the 120 and not the 180 :( (due to wife and child "restrictions")...however, its a great car, its still pretty quick with the smaller engine, and as for cornering..well.. i get scared before the car does :D.

[Legend_Car]

hows the paint coming?

[Divman]

I suffered a setback, due to a meeting between a goal post and my front left wheel (at high speed) i had a repair to do, I worked on that yesterday, i'm gonne try and get the shell cut tonight, also im still waiting on my masking sheets, but they should be here anytime :)

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/arms.JPG

lower arms broken at diff case, upper mount ripped out from chassis, turnbuckle bust, oh and the wheel now has a fairly large hole in the center

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/wheelbust.JPG

Anyways i took that whole side off last night, and now im waiting on parts which lets me get back to my shell

Updates soon :) .. tonite hopefully

Dave

[Legend_Car]

ow that was quite the wreck

[FESTER2004]

yeah i agree!yikes that looks bad!sorry to hear ya crashed man!

[Divman]

lol, thats all part of the fun no? I had quite a good day, and its a fairly inexpensive repair..

back to the shell.. I got drunk last night and didnt really fancy being incharge of anything with surgically sharp blades :D

So maybe tonight :)

[Divman]

Soz took so long guys, i actually had some NON R/C stuff on (***!) :) Finally done the shell, scissors on straight/bigger cuts and hobby knife for the fiddly bits ..

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/cpshell.JPG

More soon :)

[GoofyTexan]

Paint scheme looks familier.....

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/6610/rockpzr9hf.jpg

[Divman]

LOL so u stole the decal set from R C X O T I C too :) or was it spazstix, cant remember, but i ripped off from somewhere :)

I still havent done any painting, I have so much other stuff on atm by the time i get any time, i want to do nothing, i had a go at masking off the stripes, this proved more difficult than i thot. ATM im kinda on the verge of changing the design altogether, but i'd still like to keep the same colour scheme.

Just a thought, but theres a saying i heard and it goes...Red and green, should never be seen! Good to see the decal on a body tho...how difficult was it to cut and stick on etc??

[Divman]

Hey Guys

Sorry this took so long, again NON R/C stuff :eek:

Well I got a sore head and learned more patience than i ever thot i had!! but i got the stripes masked finally.

Started by finding the centre and using a strip of tape as a guide for the inside mask:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/stripe1.JPG
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/stripe2.JPG

Once that was in place i cud measure to the outside border, again use some guide line for the mask inside, that gave the stripes that are gonne be white and I just had to fill in the gap (which will be the green)

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/stripe3.JPG
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/stripe4.JPG

This was after several previous attempts, including one complete one when i realised the white mask had to be done first when i had done it last :mad:

Still dunno about the sides, any ideas??

[Legend_Car]

ya i really dont like that decal on the side either, you could do the logo of the car or something along those lines

[WheelNut]

Yeah, do the MG logo on the side, it would suit it much better. Or go with a....erm how would you describe it.....mabye I'll be able to find some pics later....

[Divman]

I thot about the MG logo... looks like this..

http://i12.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/34/3c/14_1_b.JPG

i can also get a car window decal, the same which cud possibly be used as a mask (i'm not keen on stickers!). Anyone know if the window decal wud take paint? or if it wud react? that looks like this..

http://i18.ebayimg.com/03/i/00/96/d7/df_1.JPG

[Divman]

OK I'm gonne go for the window decal, and hope its good for a mask..hopefully it'll look something like this on the car

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/sidedecal.JPG

Its ordered, shud be here midweek, meanwhile i have an engine transplant to do :)

[Piggy89373]

just mask and cut out the design. There's no real complex curves so it should be really easy to cut out of masking. Add a custom touch to it, not some mass produced window crud. It doesn't look that tough to do and will come out 1000% better.

[Divman]

I have since printed the picture of the window decal and had a look at cutting it myself, I reckon i can actually cut it out myself, and as u say perhaps a little custom touch to take away the mass produced look. I thot of adding something onto the long line, like a wave or flame design, not too much, just to break the straight line

[Piggy89373]

Add in a heartbeat line to break up the straight line. ;)

[Divman]

Well its been a while, I'm in the proccess of getting a new job so i been really busy.

Anyway I got the MG design, but in the end i didnt really fancy it, when i started this i only really wanted the colour scheme and not a replica of the design.

So i decided on some kind of pattern for the side, and i was at my LHS for parts today and they had flipside decal sheets..that stick on the INSIDE! Hey presto! I know its cheating a bit, but i used them for masks :) i used the pattern on them so i could hobby knife out some areas of white, it doesnt show so well in the pic (i suck at photography) but u get the general plan, whats removed will be green, and whats left will be white.

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/maskside.JPG

The stripes came out really well, apart from 1 bleed u can see just where the bonnet comes over the front, again like last time ..my bad.. i tried to burnish down all my edges, but i clearly missed that bit out :( I shud be ablle to get it off tho.

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/maskstripe.JPG

I would love to paint the green tonight but its too dark and i have no light in my shed.

More tomoz

Dave

[microrcdude]

this thing is turning out to be AWESOME!

[Divman]

Well I got the green on today, I'm still a bit annoyed at 1 or 2 bleeds, but i think i can hobby-knife them off, and its nothing toooo serious.

Just the white to do ( green is flourescent so it will be backing for this as well :) )

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/greenside.JPG

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/greenstripe.JPG


I'm gonne have a small fireworks display tonight so I doubt if I'll finish it till tomoz

Cheers

Dave

[Divman]

Hooray.. i managed to get the white on, will put a couple of stickers tomoz and shes ready :D

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/whiteside.JPG

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/whitestripe.JPG

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/cp2mg.JPG

Dave

[Divman]

Well its getting late here, but i got it finished, I'm fairly happy now.. the x-power logo has an etched look but it doesnt look as good in the photos

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/screenlogo.JPG

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/cp2mg1.JPG

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/cp2mg2.JPG

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/cp2mg3.JPG

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~divman/misc/cp2mg4.JPG

Ive now got 3 shells waiting to be done for my brother :eek: so i guess its n to them :)

[Neon_Dave]

Nice work! I like it, looks neat too.

:)

[minimole]

Very nice! :D