JTalmage

Thanks. If anyone is near Indianapolis Saturday, I'll have it at the circle city model car show.

The gray was too faint unfortunately and I saw thru it

A '55 2dr JoHan Pontiac was available at one time.

Looks great! I have been wanting to do this for a while myself

Beautifully done. I have resin parts to convert one of mine to an MM1 car. The resin trunk piece leaves a lot to be desired, but yours looks great. What did you do to make it look so accurate?

Here's a quicky build that I've been wanting to do for a while. I found some paint at walmart the other day that spoke to me. This model features the 3d printed interior for the '56 Pontiac 4dr now available by Okey of JoHan. I painted the chrome on the dash and most of the door panels with molotow with a brush. Mirrors are parts box, and not correct but look cool on it. Custom license plate I made years ago. I wish I put a mirror off the inside of the roof but oh well. My only regret is the trunk. The scripts were not proud enough to let me sand thru the paint to the foil without making it a mess so I had to detail it the best I could with Molotow. Enjoy Here's some pics of the interior before it went in the car. I painted the turn signal and shift knobs white before it went together.

People.

I couldn't decide really where it fell. Thanks.

If anyone recalls the 2 Model T's I posted some months ago, I had loaned them to the Model T Museum in Richmond, IN for a year. Well, the editor of Vintage Ford Magazine came in one day and loved them soo much she wanted to do a story on them and my model building. So I obliged. The issue came out most recently and here it is! This is the 2nd time I've had a model car featured in a magazine outside of a Model Car related publication. First time was the short lived Roadkill magazine.

Oh also most of the surface rust will get rubbed off during the weathering process, and leave just the stain so it looks a bit overdone right now because... well.. it is

Another one I started for a club theme that I put off until last minute and didn't get done on time. I wanted to build a nice version and a rough version for the meeting but didn't even get the rough one done. Anyway here's some progress pics. I added dents and thinned out areas on the body, removed some trim and drilled holes, and created rusted out panels with an xacto knife. I started out with red oxide primer then white, masked the door and roof off, then added the blue. I added salt between the white and blue layers. I should have added salt between the primer and white/blue layers though. I also added rust solution before the white and blue layers too, but while working on the body sanding and removing salt, most of it rubbed off (bare white spots) so they got recoated w/ the rust solution (Modern Masters from HobbyLobby) I used the lowest axle setting on the back and the highest on the front to simulate worn springs. Perfect for a winter beater. For some reason these pics below look way more blue, and I think it's because I changed to an LED desk lamp bulb. I wanted to run winter grips on the back like this thing was a daily that saw a lotta hard winters before being forgotten. But the tires were 15" and the wheels were 14". I wrapped a strip of styrene around each back wheel and the mud tires slipped right on! Then, I bare metal foiled it, and started adding the rust base. So off it went into the bag after being hit with the rust activator. Here's what it looks like right outta the bag, still a bit sweaty! I wish I had put color inside the side trim before rusting but I forgot. We'll figure out how to do that later... lol

I just realized I posted this in the wrong sub forum.... my bad.

Yeah, you read that right. So I had bought an old JoHan 64 Rambler for parts of the 6cyl. It was a pretty wasted and busted glue bomb missing a lot of parts. I couldn't bring myself to throw it away! I needed to build a weird car for a theme in my club, that fit 2 different criteria. Competition Other, and Purple. I knew that I wanted to use a Nascar chassis under something but didn't know what. I tried a few different bodies and wasn't happy with any of the fit. Then I thought, well what about that crappy little Rambler I bought for parts??? The Corner Carving Rambler was born! It's an AMT Pontiac Nascar chassis and drivetrain, and the JoHan '64 Rambler body. It required a certain amount of body work to bring up to a somewhat presentable standard. The vent window was repaired, the rear panel between the trunk and glass had a piece missing completely! the rear taillight panel was broken in several places and poorly repaired the quarter panel had been completely broken off at one time and glued back on. This wasn't actually all that bad but required a little leveling. The cowl was also cracked in two spots as well. So I began my lazy bodywork by using silly putty to take a mold of the panel behind the glass that was broken so I could get the profile. I built up a pile of silly putty and used Bondic to make a replacement panel. with that glued in I began to file and sand on it. After a coat of primer I was nearly done. I worked on it more after this photo but didn't take any more pics. I had no taillights for this thing either. And I wanted it to sorta be a car that would look like it had working headlights and taillights and be street legal. So, what do you do when you need taillights? Borrow one from a mint unbuilt kit and cast them in silly putty and Bondic! My new kitten "Cheddar" always wanted to see what I was doing... I built the chassis and roll cage and got it painted and assembled because I knew I'd have to open up the wheel openings The old JoHan body was pretty brittle but I managed to get thru the wheelhouse carving pretty smoothly. This box of assorted files and flexboards really helped! It was time to get it in color, and my base was a gunmetal gray Tamiya, and I didn't get any good pics of the main body but I painted it Testors Purplicious. Taillights were painted in Tamiya clear acrylic red. I didn't finish in time for the club meeting but I stilled showed up. I still have a lot of work left to do. The last photo is a cropped pic I took of the entire table of purple cars. More to come... eventually.

Sorry, I was out of town for a week. Yes this is the AMT kit mentioned above. An uncommon kit nowadays

Soooo how about some small block Ford Motorsport valvecovers next? I could use a bunch for my personal use and projects... here they are on a 351w I have waiting in the wings. Charles could probably even add em to the lineup on his SBF engines... You don't have enough variations yet do ya Charles? lol

Trying to get my mojo back with this one (and others to come). I haven't built anything since right before I got the 'rona at the beginning of the year. I painted this one start to finish last night. Assembled it this morning. I built this one as "lazy" (no offense) as possible because I am not feeling it. I used Rustoleum Coral paint, Tamiya gunmetal for the roof, Molotow pen for the chrome trim, off white for the interior, some gel pens for the scripts, red sharpie for the taillights, and covered the whole thing in future floor polish.... Superglued it all together. I probably have 5-6 hours in this. But it shows. Pro tip.... don't use Tamiya blackwash on a paint job that can be affected by lacquer thinner!! That stuff only cleans up with lacquer thinner! Which, will take off cheap paint... ask me how I know... I will be using my trusty old Vallejo black wash from now on since it's water soluble. I didn't realize I had a decal for the cluster til it was already together. Maybe I'll put it on later. Boy there sure is a lot of fuzz static-clinging to that door now that I see it up close and personal!

A little bit of what I like to call fabricobbling. Probably some evergreen round stock of varying diameters cut down to look like a flange. A bracket made from sheet styrene. Some rust and weathering, and viola!

That is Exactly why I needed it! Lol Now, how may I obtain such thing?

No donor kit used.

Dig it!

Another estate pick. Another quick build. I think this is like a 1980 issue AMT snap kit. I always liked the first gen RX7's with a red interior. So I painted this one a Tamiya gunmetal gray with a sort of dark red interior. Also posing with the Toyota pickup from the same series of kits. Also I literally painted this car in the dark and missed a little a little on the hood. LOL.

This one was another one of my picks from the estate of the deceased model builder. I remember buying the Toyota when it came out with Dinghy most recently, but had never saw the Fire Chief kit so I had to have it. Super quick basic build.

Here I am with another vehicle started several years ago, finished last year or so. And also painted orange/yellow. This time the Moebius Ford F100. I wanted a sort of stripped down work truck look for this one. I got rid of the side trim on the body as the base models wouldn't have had it. The chrome was stripped and painted white. The color is Ford Chrome Yellow and it's rattle can base coat custom mixed, with 2k rattle can clear. I wired the distributor with hollow rubber tube for the plug boots on both ends, and used silver wire for the plug wires because I apparently didn't have any 6cy M.A.D. distributors in stock. I made a fuel line too, and that's about it under the hood. I blackwashed the seams and made a license plate for it and she was done. I actually just one first place in factory stock class at a show last weekend with it.

I bought this one as a bit of a glue bomb/rebuilder. Being a Ford guy I always like getting my hands on some vintage Ford plastic. I had this thing for a color I used on my '60 Lincoln. Turns out you could get it on EVERY 1960 Ford except a truck. So, eventually I'm going to have a green 1960 for the entire lineup. But here's the Falcon. It took a lot of body work to get all the glue marks to go away and finish all the seams correctly. Some detail was lost but overall it turned out nice I think. I foiled before priming and painting the emblems and sanded the paint away before clear. I saw a pic on the internet of a '60 Falcon the same color with a peep mirror and green wheels and fell in love so this is my interpretation. Lowered, custom wheels/spyder caps, aftermarket mirror. Sort of a... cruiser if you will. Maybe v8 powered if you use you imagination? Paint is the same Terre Verde/Willowvale Green basecoat from a rattle can custom mixed by the auto body supply store, and 2k rattle can clear. Foiled, blackwashed, flocked, wetsanded and buffed a little. Rechromed bumpers. Here's the before pics after I pryed off the glued on parts! And here it is after! Yes I realize Falcons are 4 lug since they weren't V8 but, you know, it's mild custom, so who's to say it doesn't have one now? ? I also realize most likely the face of the dash across would have probably been white. I didn't think about that when painting it.

Thank ya sir, glad I could be of service. Looking forward to what you do. You are always doing something cool and do great work, so I know it will be good.