The pedals were masked so that part of it could be sprayed in body color matching TS-7 racing white. The portion sprayed in TS-7 is partially visible when fully assembled, so some care should be taken to finish it nicely. The rest was hand painted with the #0 flat brush in X-11 chrome silver. The shift lever assembly towards the right side of the interior was finished in 3 colors. The shift knob was done in XF-16 flat aluminum to simulate the look of brushed titanium. The shift lever box was done in XF-56 metallic grey and the shift rod was finished in X-11 chrome silver.
The main body panel has a portion that requires masking and then semi-gloss black paint. Initially, I thought it would be easier to spray the panel in white first, then hand brush the smaller dash section in black. In hindsight, I should have done it the other way around as it is very difficult to touch up a section sprayed with lacquer vs. the brush-able acrylic black. Basically, I could not make a mistake applying the black or I would have had to respray the body panel (which unfortunately I had to do due to poor masking and paint bleed).
After some light wet-sanding and a respray, I was successful without to much time wasted.
The gauge cluster & steering wheel pictured above was the first use of decals in this kit. I will cover decal application in the next post.
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