The Ferrari F40 has always been one of my favourite Super cars and I was so pleased at the prospect of making it myself and adding it to my 'garage'. I wanted to create a realistic version with some amazing body painting. So I have been watching a number of YouTube videos and bought some premium paints from Splash and Zero Paints, from sites such as Premium Hobbies and Hiroboy.
I also bought a brand new airbrush and compressor. So all in all, I invested a lot into getting an amazing finish to the body work. I learnt a lot when painting; The primer was tricky, it is a thick product and requires a hardener to be mixed in and I accidentally poured back into the primer jar some already mixed primer and it made it go all gloopy and I had to filter out the lumps. So That lesson is learnt never pour back in mixed primer. Needless to say, the primer coat didn't go down as good as I had hoped.
I then didn't clean out the airbrush as well as I had thought I had, so the primer hardened up inside the delicate airbrush and gummed it all up, so when I came to paint the colour coat, that didn't go down as well neither. I realised it was all down to the cleaning, so some more purchases of proper cleaning fluid and cleaning equipment and a jolly good soaking and cleaning of the air brush, the red paint went down rather well.
The finish isn't as good as I had hoped but I have learnt a lot, when it comes to using these new paints and primers that my next project will hopefully be better. That being said. I am still rather pleased with the result for my first attempt.
Here are some pictures of the colour coat done.
It looks quite matt for now as the gloss coat is to come. The paint colour I used was Rosso Corsa from Splash Paints.
I have finished the clear, gloss coat today and pictures will come next time, once it is dry and polished. Fingers crossed it comes out well.
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