This is the 1998 #6 Valvoline Taurus driven by Mark Martin! This is a
Revell 1999 #6 kit with kit decals (Plus a few from a slixx contingency
sheet).
Painting and decals:
The chassis is light gray. The body was airbrusherd with light gray
inside, then masked from the inside and primed with testors flat white
on the outside. I then airbrushed the outside with testors gloss
white. Next it was masked and the testors dark blue applied to the
rear of the body ...actually it may have been #6 blue from a can but I'm
not sure! I then applied the hood, roof number and rear deck cummins
decals. I then applied the body side/door number decals. These went
on well but I cut them at the bottom of the a pillar and b pillar and
also at the rear of the rear quarter windows to make it easier. I then
applied the rear quarter Valvoline contingencies, the rear side cummins, and associate
decals between the door numbers and the rear wheel wells. lastly I
applied the head light, grille, little blue ovals front and rear,
taurus, Roush Racing logo and Eagle One decals along with the little
#6's front and rear and the bosch decals. Over this I applied a coat
of testors high gloss clear spray. The body for this one as well as
the 1998 Eagle One and Syn Power cars were paint a long time ago at a
time before I started using the testors clear top coat model master from
an airbrush which lays down a much thinner coat that will not yellow as
bad as the heavy spray on white! Lastly I made a new airdam extension
from a strip of the same kind of vhs label scrap as I used on the 2001
UPS car elsewhere on this site, then I painted the center caps, hood and
trunk pins and fuel filler and painted and installed the clear parts.
I did a model of this car not long before I painted this body and would
have put up pics and a writeup for it then but my friend Johnny was
waiting on it and my video capture card had died and I had no way to
shoot it for the site before he came for it! Anyway It's finally
finished and up on the site! Hope you enjoy it! BTW, I almost
forgot... I did the same mods on this one that I did on the 2001 UPS car
as far as the "Too wide track itis" which I explained in detail and I
stole an exhaust from one of my 2000-2001 kits for it too!
Complete instructions for painting and assembly of chassis, clear
parts, and construction of slab sides can be found at the bottom of the main page!