StevenGuthmiller

Life is terminal. ? Steve

As a famous comedian once joked, “Scientists have recently discovered that saliva may cause stomach cancer. But only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time”. Everything will kill you these days. ? Steve

It took a while, but what's time when you're doing something you love! Steve

In my example above, the entire tub started in white primer. Then the parts to remain white were masked and the medium turquoise was air brushed on. After that it was just a matter of masking and brush painting the remainder of the striping. Once the painting was finished, I gave the entire tub a very light dusting of pearl acrylic to give it a metallic sheen. All of the masking was done with Tamiya masking tape. Steve

I use them whenever I can now. As Tom stated, they're really the best option for door locks. Steve

Sometimes, you just have to bite the bullet, take your time, and get out the masking tape. You can do some pretty neat stuff with nothing more than some good masking tape and paint. Steve

Started painting some of the engine parts. I sprayed black primer on the valve covers, followed by a little clear shot from a distance to add some texture. The carbs got Alclad "Pale Burnt Metal", the transmission "Dark Aluminum" and the tranny pan "White Aluminum". The fuel splitter was shot with "Pale Gold", and the exhaust manifolds with layers of "Dark Aluminum", "Exhaust Manifold" and a misting of red primer. The block and other parts are painted flat orange at the moment. I will do some detail painting before I shoot them with some clear to shine them up. Steve

If I’m not mistaken, the “over spray” thing was not a hallmark of Mopars from this time period. It’s been my understanding that the entire floor pan, as well as the engine bay would have been body color. I believe overspray would have been more of a GM/Ford thing. Please, someone correct me if I’m wrong. I will need to know as well for my ‘68 Coronet. Steve

The wheels were constructed using a set of Torque Thrusts from the AMT ‘62 Chevy for their basis. I ground off the outer rim down to the spokes and replaced the rim with a set of custom rims from an AMT ‘67 Ford Galaxie kit that I had leftover. Then I ground off the center caps and replaced them with a set from a Revell Mustang kit. If you want to view the build thread, the easiest way would be to go to my profile, click on the “activity” tab and then click on the “topics” tab under the “forums” heading on the left of the page. The build thread is at the very bottom of page 2 under the heading, “ ‘65 Fury. Back on the Bench”. get your reading glasses ready. The thread is 19 pages long! ? Steve

Wow, you mean you have to assemble it? That is lousy!!! ? Steve

There are a couple of much simpler ways of dealing with this sort of issue. first is to treat the door locks and other small features as you would a script and use the “foil under paint” technique. cover the feature with foil, paint the body and then remove the paint from the door lock, or whatever, with some thinner and a small conical swab or tooth pick. The other even easier solution is to use PE door locks. Steve

? This is a little like the technique I use for vinyl tops, but in this circumstance, a little more for the variation in sheen rather than texture. Steve

Something simple, but I decided to try splattering a little clear from a distance over my flat black Hemi valve covers to try to give them a little bit of that "speckled" or "wrinkle" finish. Doesn't look too bad, but I might try to add one more thin coat of flat now and give them the old "finger rub" treatment. Steve

I try to get at least a couple of hours per week at the bench, usually stretched out to many short jaunts. I would love to do more, but there are more often than not too many other things that take precedence over my modeling time. Steve

I believe that all of the main parts for the Hemi are cleaned up and ready for paint. I'm looking forward to finally starting to sling some color around on this project! While waiting for the parts to air dry, I whipped up a fuel splitter and fuel filter. Steve

The boys did a pretty nice job! Steve

That's a pretty car Helmut. Steve

Yeah, there doesn’t seem to be much about the conception of this thread that was constructive at all. Steve

Parchment was a pretty popular interior color back in the later ‘60s, and as Oldcarfan47 stated, it wasn’t pure white. As a matter of fact, in some cases, there were other variables of white available in the same vehicle. For instance, my 1:1 ‘69 Pontiac Grand Prix was available with either parchment, or pearl, which was a very light bone color like parchment, but with pearl metallic in it. Steve

Thanks guys. Just living the dream. ? Steve

My school's "driver's ed car" was a red station wagon. I have no memory of what it was, but I really did the majority of my learning in my father's second car. A tan 1968 Buick Skylark 4 door sedan. Steve

Very cool!! I’m especially happy to see that you kept the characteristics of the ‘60 Dodge intact. just goes to show that a very nice and tasteful custom can be accomplished without destroying the character of the original car. terrific work!! Steve

I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you Steve. Those types of cars have never held any interest for me at all. An occasional mild custom or day 2 build is likely as wild as you're ever going to see from me. I'm more interested in the "history" aspects of a particular car than I am turning one into a daily driver or race car. A good portion of my enjoyment of the hobby comes from researching the cars that I'm building and trying to keep them as close to what the manufacturer intended as possible. Steve

Looks like a worthwhile project to me Bob. I never object to cutting up certain aspects of a rare kit as long as the character of the original car remains intact. Removing a top to turn it into a convertible is completely acceptable in my opinion. It only makes me shudder when the would be customizers begin altering the car to the point of becoming unrecognizable. I think you're off to a terrific start!! I'm curious about a couple of things. First, I was wondering about the hubcaps that you have pictured. They appear to be the Modelhaus '59 Dodge pieces and not the '60 Dart. If you're interested, I have a pair of original Johan '60 Dart caps. I know, a pair doesn't help much, but you could cast them, or keep them for seed in the hopes that they will reproduce. Second, I'll be very interested to see what your solution will be for converting the Impala interior into the Dodge. That's going to take some consideration, but something makes me think that some signature Bob Spedding deluxe decals will be coming into play. For the first time in some time, I'm very excited to see the progress of someone's project. Keep 'em coming! Steve

Sat down today and moved that spring bracket and then began the task of figuring out how I want to do the linkages. I think this approach should work okay. Just using pieces of small plastic rod and stretched sprue. Steve