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[martinfan5]

Up next in my quest to get all of the Ernie rides built that I have not done yet, or rebuild some of them, its the #4 Kodak Olds , I am using a Revellogram #75 Dinner Bell olds kit, lucky me, its molded in yellow . I will be uisng kit decals.

Not much is done, I striped the chrome tree, and glued the front and rear bumpers on

[Danno]

Is that a submarine?

[martinfan5]

No, that would be JIm's house

[martinfan5]

Went to get the the paint to use on the chassis, but the paint store I went to had to order it, so as soon as I get it, I can start.

[bbowser]

I love that era Olds. Looking forward to more...

[martinfan5]

Slowly working on this one, chassis is painted, and got the body painted, I used Tamiya Camel Yellow
I guess I dont have a pic of the chassis with out the body on it

Edited by martinfan5, 23 September 2012 - 09:07 PM.

[Danno]

Looking good!


Should we call you "Little Ernie?"

[martinfan5]

Looking good!


Should we call you "Little Ernie?"

Sure why not Chief

[bbowser]

Should we call you "Little Ernie?"

That's better than Junior, too many of those out there already

[martinfan5]

That's better than Junior, too many of those out there already

Good point, I really dont want to be called Jr. for many reason's

So I had a duh moment, I painted the chassis the wrong color, the kodak cars had black chassis not gray, so instead of painting over a perfectly good gray painted chassis, I switching chassis with a lumina kit out of the stash so I can paint this one black

[martinfan5]

Started decaling the body then I remembered I need to paint the inside black , so I am not sure how I am going to go about getting it painting, I guess I could brush paint it, or clear coat the body then mask it off and spray paint it'

[bbowser]

Looking good. If it was me I would use a 1/2" brush and brush paint the inside, you can barely see in there anyway and flat black goes on pretty easily. I've learned over the years to paint the interior of the body first thing before I do any outside prep. It's easily touched up after the bodywork and paint is done.

Edited by bbowser, 28 September 2012 - 01:59 PM.

[martinfan5]

Looking good. If it was me I would use a 1/2" brush and brush paint the inside, you can barely see in there anyway and flat black goes on pretty easily. I've learned over the years to paint the interior of the body first thing before I do any outside prep. It's easily touched up after the bodywork and paint is done.

Bruce, thats what I did, used a brush, now the funny thing, I did paint the inside of the body first, the wrong color just like I did with the chassis

[bbowser]

Bruce, thats what I did, used a brush, now the funny thing, I did paint the inside of the body first, the wrong color just like I did with the chassis

LOL ! Well, that'll happen on the big jobs

[Kmidd65]

This one is looking great!