Argh!!! I just realise the car models in m'sia so cheap compared to Aussie. Was desperate to buy a ferrari car model to complement my Lego Fiorano and ended up buying a Revell Fiorano for RM150 and Tamiya Enzo for RM180 (After conversion from AUD to RM). Maybe I should wait until I come home to M'sia and spend my salary back home...

Question: how much is a Tamiya ferrari? Is ferraris more expensive compared to other models?

And is there anything bigger than 1/24?

I'm in Brisbane. I've recently just gotten a Tamiya: Enzo Ferrari from Hobbyrama (one of the main hobby stores in Brissy). I paid AUD55 for it.

I am just wondering about the prices in Malaysia... becos I tot maybe I'll just save some money and return home to get it instead of buying it Aussie.

My Lego Fiorano is 1/10 scale, so hoping to find a model kit that could at least match that scale, but everything I saw was only 1/24.

I ran into a bit problem while spraying my car's exterior. The plastic is red in colour and I am supposed to paint all panels Italian Red. So I sprayed each panel separately. When I put them together, damn ugly... all different shades of red. I see all your cars all even coating, but anyone have the same problem and how to rectify it?

I lost count on how many layers each panel got... because sometime I spray, got pockmarks (sorry, newbie in spraying... abit susah), so I wet sandpaper it down and spray again... so now each panel got its own shade of red.

How do u guys make ur car surface so shiny? A gloss overcoat? Or is there some sort of metallic overcoat? Or just plain wax polish?

Thanks sifu-s.

@erh: My original plastic is bright red. And I tried this trick of spraying those lighter panels a few more times till they looked almost similar. Surprisingly, when I spray on the gloss overcoat, they looked even more similar in colour. (Haha, maybe just my brain wishing them to be the same, haha).

@eric: thanks for the info. Becos I was reading up and ppl were talking about the tamiya compound. Thank God that I don't have to waste some more money. I have the sandpapers at home. What is soft99? I was looking through my friend's car-washing tools (real car, not model), and I saw this car-polish, haha... not sure if that's usable, not going to try.

@eric: Oooo.... so it IS car wax... Wow... now this is interesting. Thanks... I'll try it out... any car wax also can, or soft99 is the best? It is just wax right?

@cham: Thanks for the offer, man... but I am in Australia right now... abit far from home eh...

I'll finish up coating and waxing by end of next week (exams coming up) and post it up here, asap.

Once again, thank you for all your help.

Argh... I put Tamiya masking tape on my plastic windows on my car when I spray the gloss on... Left the tape on for almost 1 month... Today I just remove it and there are so much stains on it... The windows now got patches of rough stuff on it. Why is that so?

And any way to remove those stains?