This was originally to be the standard paint scheme for the Burger King
car. I liked that
paint job, but a lot of things conspired to prevent that. First I noticed
after I had primed
and painted the base yellow that the actual car had slab sides and I had
not modified it. I
decided to go ahead and finish the car despite this fact. I masked and
painted the red
and started ot apply the decals. Much to my horror the decals were
apparently
damaged and were very hard to apply. I had to literally peel them off the
backing. I
stopped the process and looked to do another car. I searched for several
alternatives,
so I went ahead and stripped it and made all the modifications to make it
into a slabside
Monte. This was my first modification of this type. I cut off about 3/4"
off the bottom of
each side and glued in a suitable piece of sheet styrene. I used Squadron
Signal white
putty to blend in the transition from the curve to the straight section.
Several coats of
primer and spot filling were necessary to get it just right. At this time
I was still looking
for a set of nice decals. I was lucky to find a set of the Burger King
Flame style decals
from Slixx on e-bay for a song. This was neat paint job as it had flames
and fades, both
of which I like on cars. The paint job was going to be a challenge, but it
turned out fairly
easy. I first painted the side areas yellow. I then noted the area of the
flames and then
using my double action airbrush I faded in the flourescent red areas of
the flame area
free hand. I had to go back and forth with two airbrushes between the
yellow and red
until the fade looked right. I let this dry a couple of days. I then had
to figure out how to
mask the flame area to paint the black. I made a copy of the flame outline
decal and
glued it to some masking tape with white glue. I then, using a sharp
X-acto knife, cut just
inside the outline and I had two nice masks for each side in the exact
pattern. This
turned out great. I shot the black, being careful to apply many light cats
to eliminate any
bleed thru under the tape, removed the masked areas and lucky no bleed
thru at all.
The decals went on without any problems and I had only very small touch up
areas of
black to do. This is one of the nicest looking paint jobs I have seen on a
NASCAR.
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