A few weeks ago I made a post about wanting to add an A.J. Foyt car to my slot car stable. I could have gone for a Le Mans car such as the one he won the race with when he was a co-driver with Dan Gurney. But if I want Foyt to race against the other best drivers of that era whose cars I already have the ideal class is my Grand National - NASCAR (GNN) class of American stock cars. Over the past few months I've added Revell-Monogram cars driven by Andretti, Gurney, Lorenzen, Fireball Roberts, and notable others to the GNN roster. Since I couldn't find an RTR Foyt stock car the solution was to buy an unpainted Revell-Monogram '67 Fairlane body and make a replica of the one driven by A.J.

The new releases of Revell-Monogram Fairlane and Galaxie bodies made by Professor Motor are nearly sold out everywhere, but I was able to purchase 2 of the '67 Fairlane bodies from Clover Leaf. I had a can of Valspar red spray paint in my closet so I went ahead and used that. The color came out great but it took about 4 day to dry, before that it was still tacky when touched. I know this isn't the ideal paint for modeling but it's what I had handy and I was eager to get going.

It's now dry and I'm ready to apply the SlotCar-Fever decals shown above. I typically only deal with RTR cars because I'm basically clueless about types of paint and what does or doesn't work with what. As a result I never clearcoat cars after decals even though I do have several types of spray on clear as well as an unused bottle of Future floor wax.
If I decide to try to give this car a nice finish after decals what will be a good option? Thanks for comments and feedback.
The new releases of Revell-Monogram Fairlane and Galaxie bodies made by Professor Motor are nearly sold out everywhere, but I was able to purchase 2 of the '67 Fairlane bodies from Clover Leaf. I had a can of Valspar red spray paint in my closet so I went ahead and used that. The color came out great but it took about 4 day to dry, before that it was still tacky when touched. I know this isn't the ideal paint for modeling but it's what I had handy and I was eager to get going.
It's now dry and I'm ready to apply the SlotCar-Fever decals shown above. I typically only deal with RTR cars because I'm basically clueless about types of paint and what does or doesn't work with what. As a result I never clearcoat cars after decals even though I do have several types of spray on clear as well as an unused bottle of Future floor wax.
If I decide to try to give this car a nice finish after decals what will be a good option? Thanks for comments and feedback.
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