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First day out with my new DSLR:

This 1/10th scale touring car body was fun to paint and turned out great. Afters a few hours of vector tracing, cutting some vinyl masks and doing a test panel, here's the end result:

I finally got around to building the CEN CT4R touring car kit that I was given. Looking through my collection of unpainted bodies I found a 200mm TC body to paint but for the life of me I could not think of a fun theme. The following day at work I went on break and decided to raid the vending machine... guess what caught my eye?

Looks kind of of soupy, I should have painted more Cheez-Its. I guess that's what I get for not painting a test panel.

I finished three canopies recently. This Tetris canopy turned out much better than I anticipated. Silver base, candy colors, black and white for tints/shades. Made extensive use of my vinyl cutter, total time including a test panel was around 6 - 7 hours. It was worth it.

For my Raptor 50 I needed a high-visibility canopy. Yellows and pinks really pop out. I airbrushed a similar design on a smaller canopy a year ago for my T-Rex 450. I added some blue stripes and an Airtronics logo. It's hard to loose orientation now:

The colors on this last canopy are all candies on top of a silver base. The red and orange were marbleized, this was my first attempt at doing that. I like how it turned out. While not obvious in the photo, the marbleized candy red looks like blood spatter / pooling on concrete!

The EF Cypher is only available with a plastic canopy. To fit a fiberglass canopy you have to modify the mounts a little. End result:

The stock canopy mounting posts were moved to the holes in front of the upper bearing block, and modified to allow the new canopy to properly mount to it while also allowing full servo arm movement. Harbor Freight drill press + Dremel = Poor Man's Lathe :) A polycarbonate strip was attached to the front landing gear strut so the canopy has a surface to grip.