R. Thorne

Thanks, guys.

Great advice from all these guys. Everyone is spot on.

Thanks, guys. After all my mistakes in painting this one, I was sure glad to finish it.

Well, it’s done. Had ordered some decals to try, but they were too small. Decided to hand letter it. Did the driver’s side only as I may come up with something better in the future. Not thrilled with the results, but a man’s got to know his limitations, as Clint would say. Whoops, forgot to cast & mold the hood scoop. Will do that tomorrow.

Decided to go all black. Went over whole car with 2500 then the white (polishing) sponge. The results after 30 minutes drying time. I’m happy and ready to move on.

Well, my first attempt at a two tone paint job was not a success. Tried to remove the blotch on the door with wd40, goo gone, and finally sanding. Realized it was not tape residue, but, black paint had bled in from, I guess, a poor masking job. Other spots were from tape residue and resisted my efforts with wd40 and goo gone. At this point, I am thinking some cleanup and an all black 56.

Thanks, guys. Stockers are way cool.

The black turned out good, but I’ve got some masking tape clean up to do on the maroon, especially on the driver’s side door. Probably try some wd40 first. Gonna wait til the black has dried before I mess with it anymore.

Got a couple coats on separated by about 25 minutes. Gonna wait about a half hour and then remove tape.

I like it. Great idea.

Masked off and sanded and polished with the infini 4000 sponge stick for some ts14 Tamiya black.

Something like this?

This build was gonna be a replica of my friend Thomas Arnett’s car, but, lack of wheels and the unusual paint trim waylaid those plans. This build represents a Stocker from about 2008 era. Paint was Tamiya TS10 French blue (applied 3 times due to operator clumsiness) and TS30 silver leaf. Details of my screw up are in the WIP section. By the way, I still only used 1 can of the TS10 paint. It was a fun build and many new and different things were tried out. Maybe now I can finish the 56 and 57 Chevies.

Finish line reached (at least for now). More pics in the under glass section. Pics won’t post, try later.

Some more stuff put on and some more errors magnified by the camera. Boy, that panel between the tailights is awful. Part of it is glue, but most of it comes from the paint job. Don’t know how I never noticed it before. Also, one of the upper control arms walked away, I forgot the steering box, and, of course, with the different water pump, the lower hose won’t fit. Getting close to a wrap on this one.

At the risk of going off topic and beating it to death, one of my future builds.

Got the interior in with the help of my great little shim/spreader tool that allowed me to go in from the end of the interior tub and pry out the body to clear the side windows. The windows always seem to catch on the interior tub on most of my builds. You change one thing, then expect other problems to surface. Anyway, got the body on also.

Sorry, I meant ts14. I edited my post.

I like the ts14.

As I missed a couple of spots from the trunk to the back window, I tried mixing some gray with a drop or two black Tamiya panel line accent colors. The pictures don’t really show the difference very well, but I like it better than black on this color of car. Can’t change it on this car because the black base overwhelms the gray. Think I will order some dark gray on my next order.

If I’m not mistaken, Herb describes why that happened in the documentary.

Thanks, Elliot. I do my best to be truthful and show what works for me, anyway. I am almost always experimenting with different methods . Oftentimes, the pictures reveal faults that I did not notice. Thanks, Keef, I took the easy way out and tried a new product for the divider. It looks promising for future chrome side trim, also. Got the lettering done.

Side windows cut out of .005” clear styrene and installed. Next job is to put lettering and numbers on them.

Installed windshield and rear window. I am liking the e6000 stuff more and more for it’s tackiness, strength, and ease of installation because of it’s thickness.