StevenGuthmiller

Argh!! I should have known that one! Used to listen to the "Hair of the Dog" album almost constantly when I was a teenager cruising around town.....On 8-track tape of course! Steve

Thanks guys! Steve

Very welcome! Steve

So glad I could help guys! I think you'll be happy with it. I just started using it myself & I love it! So easy & such nice results. Steve

Welcome Mark! Are you an astronaut? Steve

Did you find the metallic set Tom? I wasn't seeing it when I looked again tonight. I thought the metallics would look the most realistic. Steve

Just thought I'd jump into the dog dish "craze" with something a little more unusual than a Road Runner or 'Cuda. Steve

Thank you guys! Really! Steve

Thanks guys! I thought it probably had more to do with the spray can than the paint itself. Just wondered if it might be beneficial to warm it up, or if it would just be a waste of time. Steve

I tried using a small kitchen strainer but the powder is so fine it just ran through like water! I found it works just as well to just dump it on, slosh it around & dump off the excess. Make sure you save the "overflow" of course. Steve

I know a lot of us heat up spray cans to help with the paint flow better. Does anyone know if it would be helpful to heat paint for airbrushing as well? Steve

It'll be a stock build with "close" to factory colors. If I use the gray & coral the actual colors I'm using are 1959 Dodge "Coral" & 1957 Ford "Gunmetal Gray". But Pontiac had similar colors in '59 called "silver Mist Gray" & "Sunrise Coral". If I use those colors, I'll be doing the wheels in coral. Steve

I found it on ebay Tom. It's a little deceiving though. The bottles are not as big as you may think! but I recently used it on my '58 Ford & figured that each bottle would probably do at least 10 or 15 kits! With 16 jars, that's a lot of kits! Just go to ebay & search for "embossing powder" & you'll get a million hits! The "Hampton Art" stuff comes in several different sets. Pastels, neons, etc. The one I got is metallic. I have some of the "Zing" stuff from hobby lobby too. Same thing, just not as many color options as the Hampton Art ones. Amazon carries it as well. Steve

That's amazing in itself! That some one who grew up without ever being around these cars could capture them to this extent. Maybe the rest of us just take them for granted. You're a master Yuri!! Steve

Thank you so much Gabriel! Steve

Thank you Tommy. I knew it would look much better in natural light. One of these days, I need to put together some sort of decent background though. Steve

Sorry to bombard you with more stuff you've already seen guys, but the weather is holding & I believe this is the only other build that I needed to shoot outside. Thanks Steve

Now "THAT" is the most sensible thing I've read in 9 pages of this total waste of a perfectly good thread! But please.....continue to eviscerate each other. Steve

I bought these on line a while back for I believe it was around $17.00. Just about any color you could ever need. I don't paint mine, I paint the background & then mix my powder colors to what I want. I used these on both my '58 Ford & '65 Chrysler 300 builds & they worked great. I also just use thinned Elmers glue. Steve

Thank you all! I really hate posting photos that I've taken inside in the winter. I really suck at it! A little sun goes a long ways in helping produce a more accurate photo. It especially helps bring out the paint colors. Again, thank you!! Steve

Well, the windows are all down! That's a start. Steve

It's about time we dodged a crappy winter! Very cold, but not much snow. You guys can have it this year. I'm sure we'll get it back next. Steve

It's on order & headed your way! Steve

Seems like that happens to me a lot! When I'm ready to buy, I wind up paying too much. A week later, the same kit sells for much less. I've learned that bidding on kits where the auction is ending on a week day is always a good idea. Steve

The red wheels were one of those kind of quirky 50s things that I thought I'd consider. I've seen some odd, but actually kind on neat looking combos on these old cars. Examples; a '60 Plymouth Fury in yellow with a red interior? Another I've seen that kind of raised my eyebrows was a dark blue '57 Olds with red wheels. Anyway, I just thought red would fit with either white or gold, why not with both? Adding red for the interior would blend it together. Looks like the consensus so far is gray & coral anyway. We'll see if there's any more input. Steve