Johnson XD-E's

[amiers]

while moving house i had the time to give my cars a clean, for the first time i had them under very bright lights. to my dismay i found a lot of crazing on the bonnet's of the johnson XD-E'S the worst was the 84 Palmer car. i read somewhere that these cars did have paint prob's. is this true?

is not what would cause it? the cars are kept in a glass cabinet sealed from dust and in a cool room.

[inter]

while moving house i had the time to give my cars a clean, for the first time i had them under very bright lights. to my dismay i found a lot of crazing on the bonnet's of the johnson XD-E'S the worst was the 84 Palmer car. i read somewhere that these cars did have paint prob's. is this true?

is not what would cause it? the cars are kept in a glass cabinet sealed from dust and in a cool room.


It could be rusting/oxidising inderneath the paint?

[vr-x3500]

I've heard about this problem and have seen it on the '84 Bathurst XE, haven't seen it on the XD but thats not to say it doesn't occur on them as well. I didn't know the problem existed until a retailer pointed it out to me on a car he had on consignment. On certain angles the car looked fine, but on others you could clearly see something was not right with the paint finish.

[HQGTS74]

I know exactly what you guys are talking about. My E38 Charger had this problem all over the bonnet and parts of the roof. Can someone tell me if this happens from the factory or is due to the way the cars have been displayed? Can light or moisture cause this damage?
Chris

[Peter Minahan]

I know exactly what you guys are talking about. My E38 Charger had this problem all over the bonnet and parts of the roof. Can someone tell me if this happens from the factory or is due to the way the cars have been displayed? Can light or moisture cause this damage?
Chris

Maybe it's ultra-realism in modelling by reflecting how the 1:1 scale cars aged (from the factory, not the race cars)

[Brock 05]

There's many a thread about this & it's contaminants in the modeling process that cause it. Models like the 84 Johnson & 91 Bathurst winner are badly affected by this.

[Skaife fan]

There's many a thread about this & it's contaminants in the modeling process that cause it. Models like the 84 Johnson & 91 Bathurst winner are badly affected by this.
Yeah i've got a bit of a paint problem with my 91 Bathurst winner, when you look at it from certain angles it looks rough.

[the_goldie]

Yeah i've got a bit of a paint problem with my 91 Bathurst winner, when you look at it from certain angles it looks rough.

Same, the quality of the paint on this car is pretty bad.

[sleepy]

Same, the quality of the paint on this car is pretty bad.
Mine appear to be ok at the moment but living in a cooler climate may be better for them as a machinist i know when we machine parts in tassie they can sit around for ages with just a squirt of crc and not rust, but in qld for example they will rust overnight with the same protection. in Papua New Guinea we had to paint cranks heads etc with a tar based product to keep the rust at bay.. could be moisture coming out of the diecast causing paint problems..