crazyrichard

so first weathering on the engine ... maybe i'll do some minour small chips in the paint on the valve covers later , with slight silver showing .. also mounted the doorhandles and the side mirror , i toned down the rut runner i pre-made there

engine painted , second time i went orange after some examples .. will be weathered ..

yes in the future i want to do a glossy version like the black one

thnx thnx guys !! ..

omg soooo cool !!! love love love it !!!!!!!!!

hmmmm nice , very nice !!

went weathered on the engine compartment , really brings that to life now > when the whole car is together i need o fintune all weathering also on the paint

thnx Lloyd !

so i used this pic as reference , minly for the corner thats normally hidden by the front wing ... if you would go after making it exactly like the real nova .. then i should rip everything off and start from scratch ... going with the revell kit you cant really get it exact .. so first draft , build up with plastics and covered with thin copperplate , them painted matt black .. i know it normally bodycolor but in this case i went for black , more like when people work on old cars and they weld tuff and then just spray everything black with protective coating ... i actually made a weld in panel on the side lower part , cant get it on picture with the black color

painted it all black inclusing the ineer side of the wing ..that really made a difference now i'm going to think about the next step , either mildly weather all the black .. of leave it like thiss and try to build the dio looking like they jst painted the inside of the engine bay and are building it up again ...

gave the interiour a mild weathering you dont see a lot of the interiour .. but now its got like the been tanding for years look a bit painted the inside of the roof and pillars black all merged and glued together so like the real nova its got the plastic inner fender / mud gard , radiator brrace and front cross member .. no front wing ..now i need to make the corner firewall and add more detail like the real nova ... cros member still has the base paint of the body weathering sso that will be painted black first and then i will deside how to weather the whole engine compartment

wishy washy

thnx mark ! i finished the interiour assembly , needs a mild weathering ....used this steering wheel , painted the radio chrome , knobs will be black after this , windowcracks , vents and knobs chrome , shifter knob silver .. i just used the kit version ... thing is a dryfit reveiled you dont see a whole lot of the interiour especially with the dirty windows .. i decided to make it nice but not overdo it with details and .. dryfit , you see the haze of dirt on the windows is just right you still see the mags on the shelf rear panel / bumper loosely in .. i want to make it look like mild pitted chrome then the idea .. it will sit on wheels and tyres , going to use drag tyresss in the rear , normal tyres in the front .. bit like a dug out old drag nova in need of restoration . i dig the look and stance most work will go into this making the firewall in the opening and hinges behind the door , weather the engine compartment , add wires / details , engine .. maybe also without a carb like i did on the charger .. i loved that look

gauge cluster is in , put a layer of clear ggloss tape over that its got half a tank but the clock doesnt work all the glass is in , its weathered with a slight dirty haze , sstill see through so the parcel shelf with magazines will show

cool and yes .. i do want to put it on wheels .. maybe still use a more fat tyre in the back , like an old racer ...need to stay with the theme of it been worked on due to the front fender .. now i need to do the interiour first and put the glass in and merge them , then i can try to fabricate the firewall and hinge behind the door and make it stirdy , put in the radiator / support and make in one ...already have a piece of the lower window trip broke ...a piece of 5mm is gone .. did some simple interiour work , sanded the painted parts and on purpose used black i know wrinkles with no primer and spraying too thick at ounce .. gives a slight wrinkled seat look without being too weathered ...did the parcel shelf in cloth tape and put the kit decal folder on there .. will get some mild weathering in the interiour but not too bad.. and a new steering wheel , i hate the tock one ...:)

thnx .. it actually did lol haha.. started as a fresh revell kit , then got butchered by the previous owner with all painted parts ans body no sanding , no primer ...then i was the second owner and i molested the front wing ... rusted it out .. hahahaha

taped the body and cuout along the window trim , painted that silver and did the panellines in black all the browns are just a base .. when the chassis is merged with the body i will tackle that and work with some mild powders also did the rear trunk lock silver ..

nice !!

thnx guys .. first time i tried this , again just did stuff , not following any tuts ...just trying stuff out .. i like this effect myself ... still not used any powders and already its getting there .. thinking about doing the front windsreen like its bee dusty and the wipers have wiped .. and you see the stripes from the wipers .. just under the shower (best idea's are born under a hot shower) figured it would be cool to make the chrome slightly pitted and maybe do a grey wash over them to make them slightly toned down .. dont want to go overboard like make everything busted .. but ...plenty of idea's

decided to go all weathered yet again ... i primed the body , then a layer of real matte military sand color paint , over that i did a pattern with acrylic burnt sierra and painted the whole body baby blue then wet sanded it under the water tab ..while the paint was half way hardened .. reveiling the browns ...so i didnt do the hairpry under there and this worked great (was a try out) to tone that sanded / brown down i gave the body a mist of baby blue , very light so the sanded eara's where les hard color wise then with a brush i made runners where the doorhandles and mirror will go and did some general rust streaks .. first base weathering .. after the car i want to make a small dio , like i did on the charger .. different theme this time .. maybe a shed / barn ??

thnx olaf but no worrysthen i could build that kit .. so i will ue this to create something different like said

thnx guys , i also figured out the nova front wing bolts to the bodyside and front clip ...so no real structure .. the hood rests on the wing edge ..its got inner guards .. so i need to remove the white part going to the front crosmember .. but i'll do that when it gos together. now i have been playing with removing the grille do a headlight .. only the bumper .. but its best to leave all that off , no lights / grille or bumper , how the kit is made is far from reality .. the moldings on the side of the headlights need to sit on the wing irl ..the headlights are mounted on steel brackets with the housing over it .. i will just put the engine in and make it all look like its build up , restorated .. and maybe stick it in the garage on the lift .. fixed so its part of my garage dio i wanted to do another shiney build but then ....oohh whell i bought two already painted kits btw the other one is a 66 pontiac gto .. that one will be buld a bit like the abandoned charger .. maybe more like it still drives and is rough but restorable .. i dont want to strip that kit from all the painted parts tbh .... next shiney build def. will be a fresh kit .. i do want to build a nova in the future .. this 69 model all shiney and the older one

here some dyfit pics with the frehly painted parts .. so cloe up the gap on the side maybe use copperplate and mimick those indentations .. should work .. make visible hinges behind the door .. and figure out where to mount that part on so on final assembly it comes together nicely

yeah its a older one , might be a whole lot different , i hope so because when i see that i realise i might have more work ahead then i thought ... pfft not sure jut googled 69's and that was amoung them just dryfitted the radiator / support and fan schroud today ... all still in the colors of the previous owner lol .. looks like circus is in town hehehe then sanded those parts and the underside and interiourtub with inner gards .. and sprayed those all in a mix of matt and semi gloss black underside matte black interiour matte and engine compartment semi gloss support , radiator and fan schroud silver and semi gloss black that sure cleaned it up ! i found a few build pics of this car , firewall shows , sadly my kit version looks nothing like that ... not sure if i can make it exactly like this the way i'm going atm that said when i really compare my body to the one on the picss the pillars on the side are straight up on the original car and on my revell body they are sloped , talking about the pillar of the small side window on the front door and the doorpillar in the middle ...i think i might get away with making the side closed and make it resemble the round corner of the firewall like the one on the pic ?

what i mean with making the fender wells thinner got them this thin this one was a fail so now its removed the kit firewall on , need to fill those sides