cruz

Thanks guys, truly and sincerely appreciated!!!

I will keep you in my prayers my friend, I have faith that everything will work out for you....

all good advice. My only disagreement is in the use of black. Either overpaint the black with the body color or mix the body color with black or dark gray and add after painting.

joe.

The idea behind scribing the lines deep is exactly that, you don't have to worry about how dark the wash is. For example, look at the trunk and door lines of the Victoria. Just as the real car, when you look at it in angles instead of straight into the lines, you still see the color of the paint and the panel lines dissapear and yet, you still see that the panel lines are there deep just like the real car. That's the reason why I don't like to mark the lines with technical pens or anything like that, they are still visible even when looking at the car in angles. On top of that, the dark wash I used was dark brown, it was not black.

I too had a great time at the show and it was the first time attending. I finally got to meet Ken Hamilton and also Marcos Cruz, two great guys with a lot of talent and knowledge to share. I didn't think it was a small show, there were enough models there to make me use another memory card on my camera, too bad I lost my camera at one of the rest areas when going back home.   Hopefully I am lucky and someone returns it.

Thanks Ed, it was a cool show, it was also a pleasure to meet and talk with you. I loved the Corvette theme, my good friend Barry Fadden took the win on that one and it was a well deserved one, I loved the color he used on that model. Hopefully for next year, we can have a bigger crowd, I think this recession has a lot to do with the attendance not to mention that it's also celebrated on Mothers day weekend. Sorry about your camera man....

Beauty !
After 8 years of building experience what would you do different?

Thanks again guys. James, I would certainly do a few things different and the first thing is the simulated wooden bed, looks horrible and nothing like wood. I would also foil the emblems before shooting any paint and expose them at the end instead of using silver paint. I would've worked a bit harder on the panel lines. Also, I would've painted the underside of the bed to also simulate wood. There are also other little details but looking back, I can truly say I have definitely bettered my skills a bit, that's what it's all about!!!