I sorta have become a Ward Burton fan. I like the way he talks as he
sounds like a real
stock car driver. In fact the running joke on the message board is his
name is
pronounced "Wuhd Buhton". I have decided to make several of his Winston
Cup rides.
This is the first of the series. It is Ward's first Cup ride. Fortunately,
Slixx made the
decals for the Lumina. This particular Lumina was one of the Days of
Thinder models
that I picked up cheap on e-bay. The only problem was that it was molded
in orange!!
That meant it had to be primed to insure no bleed through of the color
according to the
messages on the board. But I experimented and just sprayed the chassis
striaght with
the gloss gull grey with no primer. I found that it took a little more
paint, but there was
no bleed through. Also the Days of Thunder Lumina is a 92 version which
required a
little fill in of the front spoiler and filling in of the rear license
plate opening to update it to
94 specs. This was not a big problem. I mixed up the dayglo orange to
match the decals
and the two tone paint job was relatively easy. The Slixx decals went on
okay with a little
cracking of the orange lettering which had to be touched up. Also the rear
quarter panel
"Hardee's" are too big compared to the reference photos i had of the car.
Otherwise a
nice addition to the collection.
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