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NASCAR MODELS by MR NASCAR Carl Edwards' 2006 OFFICE DEPOT "Daytona Tests" FUSION

After eyeballing the newly-released Taurus kit from REVELL, I came to the conclusion that with a little bit of a nose-job, and the right decals, it would be just as convincing as a FUSION as it is as a TAURUS. All I did was file down the "humps" a bit on each side of the front grille opening, and file off the front airdam grillework.

Sam had sent me the unique files for the FUSION grillwork, lights, and nomenclature a few weeks earlier, and I wanted a simple subject I could throw together to show off his artwork. I saw a shot of Carl's Daytona test car, that looked quite spiff, and since we had the OFFICE DEPOT graphics it was simple to cobble up the test car graphics. This was my first attempt at a FUSION body; not bad, but after closer review of pics in NASCAR SCENE, I concluded the the greenhouse around the rear sidewindows was not all that accurate.

This was a very simple build, the body was primed with white primer, then painted white. The bottom of the air dam was two-toned black and fluorescent orange, and the rear spoiler was painted black. The cowl was painted in grey primer. Then the decals were applied.

Once all the decals were in place, and had 24 hours or so to dry, I applied successive light coats of clear (TAMIYA TS13), again from a warmed rattle-can, and after a day of two to dry, I shot everything with TESTOR'S DULLCOTE to make it look like a primer job.