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Well with the nice weather we had over the weekend I did some more painting. I worked on four helmits and painted the interior of the Williams FW-18. The other three helmits are for future builds (Sauber C12, McLaren MP4/6, and a Williams FW-16. I still have to add some decals to the driver (crossing my fingers it works out) then I think I'm done...almost.

First step, glued and screwed the helmit together



Sanded down the edges



Mounted it for painting. I taped it down to a small bottle of paint. This helps too when I'm stickering, it's a little easier to hold on to. I used a clothing hanger to keep it away from my hands.





Added some primer and resanded. Then more primer.




I used the Tamiya polycarbonate paint (PC4) on this helmit so it matches the blue on the car.





Then repeated the process four times. I used gloss acrylic on the yellows and polycarbonate on the white.




I used the Jacques Villeneuve stickers supplied in the kit. The only problem is Tamiya wasn't so accurate with these (probably a licensing thing). His helmit has a pink line going around it. So this had to be painted free hand. I also added the Rothmans stickers, these where sort of thick and didn't lay down so well even with heat. That sort of bummed me out.







I painted the interior with flat acrylic paints and set the helmit in to snap off some pics.