Toyota FJ40 Project

Phase 1:

FJ's are often wild colors, so I painted this model in an iridescent purple/green.  This kind of paint is very thin and, as usual, I had no patience and put the coats on too thick.  This resulted in runs all over the hood.  I then backed with black and did the roof with pearl white.  Sadly, the result did not have the visual pop that I was looking for so I bought a second body and painted it in bright pink.  That was wild all right.  So wild that I hated it too.  I ended up reverting the the original body (for a while).

Phase 2:

Here is the wild pink body I did as an alternate.  I spend a lot of time on the panel lines to break up that painful wall of blazing pink.  It helped, but it was still too much.  This body is going to have to find a new home.

Phase 3:

I finally decided to give up on the FJ40 body altogether.  It is not that I don't like this type of truck, I just couldn't get the look I was going for and I didn't feel like rolling the dice on a 3rd body.  Since I have a bit of a Bronco theme going in my trail truck collection already (1979 and 2021), I thought I'd switch over to the classic 1973 Bronco body.  This is the body I originally wanted for my first CC-01 but couldn't find one available at the time.  Putting it on the CFW chassis with solid axles is even better.  This time I went with Corsa Grey which is pretty much a light blue.  I thought this color was a good match for this classic body and it finally came out the way I was hoping.  3rd time was a charm.