Banpei's two door panda Trueno from Japan

[banpei]

Well, perhaps you could still share your masking tricks. I actually made a disaster using the thinner trick. I applied thinner and removed the underspray. However, the layer of lacquer underneath was probably contaminated by the thinner, and the final layers of lacquer had hazy spots where I used the thinner.

So I sanded off the hazy layers of lacquer, cleaned them thoroughly, masked up the silver part and painted the black part again. The result of 2 layers of primer, 3 layers of black paint, 2 layers of silver and 2 layers of black and then another 3 layers of lacquer:

I made some mistakes and some of them are visible. The most prominent mistake I made is at the top, and it's a section where I sanded off a bit too much. But it will do.

I applied the stickers and made another mistake:

In the rear one, the black triangle inside of the A is at the wrong position. I'll try to address that later or cut another sticker. But apart from that, I'm quite pleased with the result.

So I remodelled the covers after the zenki design:

Merged that with the lettering of the kouki design:


And this is the result:


Tomorrow I'll drop by the garage and see if I can do a testfit with only one single lamp. I'll try to reuse the first bracket that I made for the Cibie fog lights (the one that was made erroneously with the mounting at the bottom) and see how much I need to change from that design.

I also did something to insulate the battery bracket and created a new rod using a threaded rod from the local hardware store. I'll share photos of the results tomorrow.