JTalmage

Sweet ride! Where is the hood and the front floorboards.

Looks great! But the underside of the body is way too clean!

Can't forget this now-internet-famous Jaguar!

I think thats what happened to be honest. The Tamiya primer does dry very quickly, but the rustoleum paint goes on THICK and stays tacky for many, many hours. At least it did for me... I need to find some duplicolor and do it the right way.

I love it! I kinda want one!

But I gotta say I'm pretty impressed with myself lately. I made the door panels for my General Mayhem Charger which most of you have seen already. But I needed to make a spoiler for a car to make it look like a factory car, and its actually turning out really well! Made a "3 piece" spoiler for this mustang I'm working on. Besides lacking a tiny bit of detail, especially for eyeballing some google images, I'm pretty happy with it. Also, made some doors for a roadster body I got in on trade... again... pretty happy about that. Cant believe both went off without any major hiccups. I did cut the doors too short and had to simulate some "rot" but I think it adds character! They were soo simple to make, bend the evergreen a little here, and a little there, a couple cuts and contours... but Im really impressed with myself. I apologize if this is not in the correct subforum but I couldnt really figure out where to post it!

Thanks Fred. Sticking to Burgundy then. I dont really care for the color, but I love it on the '82 GT's!

thats a good looking car. One to be proud of...

So... I decided to wetsand the body once the paint FINALLY dried... wow that took almost a whole day. Wasnt happy about it. So then I resprayed it. It was a beautiful day yesterday, light breeze, low temp and humidity compared to the past few weeks. Perfect for painting. I took my cut open brown bag I've been using, a can of paint to sit the car on, and my color. Sprayed a coat on everything again. Hood fish eyed for no reason. that was no biggie because it was the underside. Body looked just ok. So I let things sit out there to dry while I went back inside to work on other parts. I ate some grapes, watched a few minutes of Magnum P.I. then came back outside to get my stuff. Well... mother nature decided she didnt like the paint job and blew everything over... and this is how I found it. mother nature gave me a custom gold leaf paint job, and a hood stuck to a can... yay. Purple pond here it comes.... So, since that had me at a stand still... I got to thinking how I got ahead of myself when I painted it, and I really wanted it to be a stock looking '82 GT... cant have that without the old 3 piece spoiler or the hood scoop... and MsDano85GT sent me some parts a while back, and among them was a hood scoop. It's a little narrow but it will look great on this kit, and no manufacturer I know of makes the old 3 piece spoiler... so I made one. It needs some tweaking and fine tuning but it will be good enough! not sure when I'll get around to stripping the paint... but I need to find some duplicolor maroon or burgundy first. Or think of another cool 82 GT color...

(stole this pic that someone posted here long ago... thanks google!) Boy what a bad kit... but when I saw it on ebay, I was excited that I found an early 4 eyed Foxbody and snatched it up virtually unopposed. I got the kit, and realized it was very primitive, and suffered from poor molding, but I was determined to make something good out of it. This is also a kit that I kept pushing to the back of the stack, and in my efforts to get em all built, this was my next in line after the barracuda. Anyway, I wasnt going to make a workbench thread about this car because it was that bad... but the other USAirfix thread got me thinking about it. I didnt take a lot of photos until I got the itch to make this car more "stock" than "custom". I wanted to have a stock looking '82 GT, even if it wasnt very detailed, and it was a 4cyl. And of course I wanted to paint it the classic maroon/burgundy that pretty much all 82 GT's I've ever seen have been! I filled a lot of the low spots, and also stuck the nose on it and filed it down to look correct. I cut the side pipes off the chassis, because I was going stock. I cant cut into the chassis to much to remove the molded in exhaust pipes because the chassis isnt very thick. I'm not going to go in to very in depth detail on this chassis anyway. But I did primer it and give it overspray. So thats when I primed and painted the body. First, Rustoleum was a bad Idea. Way too thick. But I tried to make the best of it. Didnt turn out well. Drivers side door and fender under the body molding was doing some cracking/crazing for some reason. No other spot on the car did this. Passenger side looked good!

^^^ This!

I also have the katch the kat kit. I've been contemplating how to build it as to show off the sparkle orange plastic, but not let it be see-thru still. I really like the orange, but I have a feeling its going to be hard to pull off and look good.

I build on a fold up table, so no room for multiple things going on....

Agreed. The Custom Mustang I have, has MANY low spots in the body, and some unusual high and distorted spots as well. I did a lot of sanding and filling. Of course, when it fell over on the sidewalk with fresh paint and got a "custom gold leaf" job on it, that didnt make it much better... ugh.

I have the yellow "custom mustang". I'm turning it back in to a stock looking 82 GT. I built the original spoiler and I am using a hood scoop that fits the bill. And painting it the appropriate shade of maroon/burgundy lol

Yep! Never seen a car that was converted to a stick shift on the floor, but they left the column in? I have. Gotta do what you gotta do to go racing! lol

dieseldawg142 sent me some taillights out of sheer kindness and asked for nothing in return. I am very thankful to him for that. Thanks again!

Thanks! Wow somehow I posted the same picture 3 times. Technology is not on my side today. Last shot was a chassis shot. At least after I first posted it

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Sheesh... 45mins dealing w/ PC issues, and another 30mins dealing w/ camera issues... Sorry for the low light pictures. The paint on this car really stands out w/ sunlight or a flash. Anyway... I hated how this kit went together especially in the back. Didnt fit properly but couldnt really do anything about it. On to the pictures...

Done and going under glass!

That is too cool

I'll have to check those out. I had a $25 barnes and noble gift card from almost 10 years ago that I finally used like last year, and I learned about Steve McQueen's show... and it was $26 on Barnes and Noble... ordered that sucker and watched all the seasons for the next 6 months lol

I love me some westerns. I didnt as a kid, but as I got older I really began to love and appreciate them. Of course Sergio Leone's "Man with no name" westerns are among the best in my opinion. I wish there were a dozen more. If you like The Rifleman, you should check out Steve McQueen's old series Wanted Dead or Alive. Great show.

I love watching The Rifleman.