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I'm calling the interior done. There was no seat back for the front bench so I fabbed one out of 2 pieces of scrap styrene and a skinny strip. I flocked the carpet and package tray and hand painted the dash and vents with flat black then detailed them with the 1mm chrome pen. I hand painted the simulated wood with brown enamel. Also added the turn signal lever from a piece of stick pin. for giggles I wanted to see how the 2 colors play off of each other. I dont hate it.
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That looks like it could turn over. Very cool
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I'm new to buff and polish, I learn by doing and I make due with what I have on hand so, for this project I applied 3 coats of clear. Then sanded with 600, 1500 then 3000 wet. Then used Novus 2 followed by Scratch X. Both are probably close to the same thing, who knows? Then lastly i hit the body with lemon Pledge. This is what I ended up with. At a club meeting last month a fellow used a ceramic coating on his MGB. It was beautiful. You could see clear into next week with that finish. I'm looking into it.
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Very shiny. Great build. This does not look like a 50 Chevy. ?
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What did you see on the road today?
Slotto replied to Harry P.'s topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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Well, I use craft acrylic paints almost exclusively. What I do is squirt a drop of flat black into a bottle cap along with a healthy splash of water. I mix it up with a brush then wash the chrome parts to give them some depth. I'll let them dry and lightly go over the chrome that stands out with a stiff q-tip to reveal their shine.
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I picked this up at a show last month. It was a bag of parts in a gallon freezer bag. It had 3 wheels and the engine was missing. It was previously painted dark blue but had been stripped with the exception of the rear valance. I once again tried this crafy acrylic pea green metallic pearl. This time I mixed it up 4:1:1 alcohol, distilled water, paint and shot it at 30psi. It was a slow go but I got it done. Next I shot 3 coats of Duplicolor clear. Before paint, I did rub on the emblems with BMF. After, I removed the paint from the emblems with a mini q-tip drunk with alcohol. I darkened up the grill and wheels with a black wash and sprayed the interior gloss white. The wood grain is contact paper. I added a shift lever using a stick pin.
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You know me too well David. Wide and low.
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No build thread for this one. It seem I'm getting lazy about making them lately. I got this along with a handful of others from a buddy years ago. He had used a testors green from the rattle can. Well, I like blue so I blew it all apart and stripped everything. I used craft acrylic metal flake paint mixed 2:1 with alcohol and shot at 20psi. The clear is 4 coats of Duplicolor. The interior is painted with my gloss mix of black acrylic. And the details are from a chrome pen. The carpet and package tray is black flocking. I removed the 350 and wedged in a 396 which I cast in resin. I added carburetor linkage, a throttle cable, heater hoses, fuel lines, plug wires with boots and a rubber radiator hose. I also used some wire ends for the velocity stack and exhaust tips. I made all the glass from blister packaging. You'll see there are no wipers, side mirrors or door handles. These are lost. When I get a new set, I'll put em on. Thanks for looking
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Super clean. Liking the color