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[crazyrichard]

thnx guys

[crazyrichard]

painted the steering wheels blue metallic (2k paint) to resemble the metalflake ones you can buy
also did the grille shell that color , some engine parts will get that blue as well















 

Edited by crazyrichard, 27 December 2012 - 05:35 AM.

[Modelbuilder Mark]

painted in the shower huh!?  Must not be married! LOL

[crazyrichard]

painted in the shower huh!?  Must not be married! LOL

yep i'm married but .. that shower room is still old like when we bought the house and it wil be relocated so its not really ...
i do spray in cartbox boxes and make sure nothing gets on the tiles but when it would its not that big of a deal
and easy to clean of tiles..

off course when i build a fancy bathroom i wont be spraying in there lol


today the clear coat was dry and man it turned out great , really smooth as glass no dust in it and no orange peel in both the blue or the clear





the chassis



some shots with artificial light , the gloss shows better that way





dont mind the hole the body covers that



close up good to see the decal under the clear in this pic



a lousy pic but the radiator shell is done in metallic blue and some engine parts will get that same color , dressed up with a bunch of chrome



loose test fit of the grille

[Jantrix]

I'm a little unclear here. Are the wood panels all cut, shaped and ready to go on? Or is that still left to do?

[crazyrichard]

I'm a little unclear here. Are the wood panels all cut, shaped and ready to go on? Or is that still left to do?

no thats all still left to do , first i wanted everything painted and sure everything fits and is in place , i will complete everything like the engine and details , then keep the body loose and then make the wood on that , i will just need to messure and build up the wooden body piece by piece ..

its not like i have done it before , but now i'm glad i went about it this way , if i would have made the wood on the first it would be a lot of masking work .

also making whole pre made panels to put on isnt really doable , i made everything curved so i really have to glue on and fix it piece by piece so it really is fluch against the inner body (so to speak)


after dinner  started to paint all the chrome , steady hand required

 

on all pics it seems to have two tones , like discoloration , thats actually due to the lights hitting it from the ceiling , irl its just all the same blue

 



did several front parts chrome



loosly dryfitted the wheels , tyres are from the kit and the rims i used from a 32 roadster kit , i really think they match the style and theme well

tyres stil need work like sanding and stuff , rims also will get some details



painted all the small dash details , hmmm those where tiny , i used a wooden pin with a point (meat pin) to do those

 

loose dryfit with the body



 

i'm thinking of doing some white on the seats

i will do a lot of small details later and off course the woody body

[Modelbuilder Mark]

are you using Alclad for the chrome? 

[Skip]

I see you had Von Dutch lay some stripes on your firewall and Deuce Grill shell!  The one on the firewall is a piece he did in the '50's when he was sorta normal if you could call him that!  Von Dutch titled it "Harvey, Shaken By Crossbreeding". 

 

One interesting thing that he did with a lot of his stripes is that the layout would often be one contiuous stripe rather than a stripes added to one another to make up  the layout.  In the end Kenneth Howard AKA Von Dutch was one strange individual!

[crazyrichard]

are you using Alclad for the chrome? 

 
hey , no thats just a spray can silver , its well known in the modelbuilding scene in  holland and a lot of people use it , its cheap , flows awsome and never runs , always a 100% great result .
alcad is maybe nicer but this is just so handy
 
the brand is gamma , thats a big diy store with stores all over the country (well you would not call holland a country lol)
the blue on the body and the clear is also from gamma .. all the paints just spray amazingly good
and the best thing is my wife works there so i always get 20% off (discount)
 

I see you had Von Dutch lay some stripes on your firewall and Deuce Grill shell!  The one on the firewall is a piece he did in the '50's when he was sorta normal if you could call him that!  Von Dutch titled it "Harvey, Shaken By Crossbreeding". 
 
One interesting thing that he did with a lot of his stripes is that the layout would often be one contiuous stripe rather than a stripes added to one another to make up  the layout.  In the end Kenneth Howard AKA Von Dutch was one strange individual!

 
hey thanx for the information , i had those from a nother revel deuce kit , the bunny is not complete there should be more but i cut it to put it there
i will look it up thnx



today i installed the pedals (automatic) and steering colom , they will be painted chrome
maybe i will make a center console with electronic gear selector later (?)







bunny power



i used higher rocker covers with deuce casted in them..
the edges are red because i had to smooth them and they come from a red casted kit.
i will paint those edges with my chrome and leave the rest of the covers kit chrome





daylight shot of the metallic blue radiator case



i put some cloth electrical tape on the aircleaner .. looks just like ...
not sure if i will use it , not sure what i want with the engine , maybe some stacks would be cool

[DrKerry]

Like the color choice, looks good on a 32. Can't wait to see more!!!

[ll Brandon ll]

Beautiful work so far, cant wait to see it with the wood!

[crazyrichard]

thnx !
 
just test fitted it into a rolling chassis again now with the brkes on the axle , the rims will sit a tad deeper in the tyre on this pic they sit loosly in there ..
 
also painted the edges of the rocker covers chrome now and tidyed up some chrome work

[H.A.K]

Dude that's kool as hell. Love it.

[crazyrichard]

thnx

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Wow, great results with the silver paint then, from these pics look pretty darn chrome

[crazyrichard]

Wow, great results with the silver paint then, from these pics look pretty darn chrome

 
yes i love that stuff

today i started on some details , used 2 carbs from my partsbox



then made a sort of top / scoop out od an old rooflight from a bigrig



made a linkage and painted the whole lot chrome



and whow the sun was shining today .. so i took some pics right away







then added the rtadiator hoses





and painted the drilled out part of the scoop black

[AzTom]

Looking great ..... can't wait to see some lumber.

[crazyrichard]

Looking great ..... can't wait to see some lumber.

well ..........................
the edges are round wood so when its all dry i will sand the edges flat with the other wood but on the inside it then will run nice and round
all the wood work is rough some parts i let stick out a bit so i can sand curves in it
the rear darker bar of wood sits loose because i first have to make a round piece of wood along the wheel well.
thats the hardest part i almost could bend some wood but every time i almost got the bend it broke , also making it wet didnt help.
so now i will add some strips together and cut it out round on the flat side , hope that will do the trick







really beachy feel right ??

[crazyrichard]

never heard of such kits , sound cool
building this one i already start to think about a nother woody , maybe a later model wagon of some sort

[crazyrichard]

spend some good hours today , filing , sanding , fitting wood

on this pic its still real rough , i masked the blue front body off with tchick alu heating tape and filed the wood alonf the front body in the same shape



on this pic you can see that the wood body is curved both  horizontal and vertical


 

then started the first round of sanding , filing etc to get some more shape and make it less rough , needs loadsmore but now the shape is starting to show



from very thin wood witch i got by peeling the layers of the scale pallet i was able to make a panel on top behind the rear seats , thats already flattened now flush with the frame (not on this pic)



then i realised that same stuff could work around the wheel wells and it did , i was able to make the bend without breaking the wood , well at least in the end i broke like 3 peices before i got both wells covered



then build up the wood work some more



dryfit , now underneith the door there will be a piece of wood later on and on the rear wide section i will let the horozotal bar run through with that same thin wood

this was the easyest way to do this , filling in all those shapes was pretty challenging

 

 

more to come