Dragonhawk1066

Fantastic! Beautiful color, and a nice job on the vinyl top!

Looks great! I love the color!

Whatever calls to me at the time, usually from a list of future projects I have. It will also depend on whether I have the color, and the time of year as I can't spray lacquers in the house. I just got the AMT '69 Hurst/Olds kit and am dying to start it, but I'm painting it Tamiya TS-26 Pure White, so it will have to wait until April or May when I can spray it in my shed. I usually concentrate on builds that will be painted with spray cans during the warm months, and I will spray bodies at the end of summer to build in the colder months. Conversely, in the winter I concentrate on builds that will utilize Water-based Acrylics that I can spray through my airbrush in my hobby room.

I finally got back to the Cameo after my gauge decals came in. Here's a little before and after. I also had to perform some surgery to get the radiator and electric fan from the SSR to fit. Before I put it away last week, I also had to tweak the cab/bed assemblies for a more precise fit. It's getting real close now!

I went to Hobby Lobby yesterday and got the White Freightliner, '34 Ford Pickup, and '90 Mustang LX 5.0 Drag Racer along with a bottle of Createx Pearl Silver for a different upcoming build. Then I went to Rider's in Flint for a can of Tamiya Pure White, a bottle of Tamiya XF-28 Dark Copper and X-34 Metallic Brown, a bottle of Mission Aluminum, and a sheet of BMF Chrome. A couple of separate ebay purchases brought in the '69 Hurst/Olds and '69 Olds 442, and Madworks airbrush. And finally, since the first one has worked really well for me, despite bending the needle and losing the needle locking nut down the sink drain, I bought two more cheap Gothobby airbrushes from Amazon. One of those will be used for Lacquers when I finally start tinkering with them in the shed this summer.

Here's Revell's 1997 Chevy Corvette Coupe. The instructions were pretty vague on some parts locations, but it's a decent kit overall. On final assembly, the front end wouldn't snug down over the inner fenders without forcing the hood to pop up near the windshield. I took it apart a few times to try to solve the issue to no avail. Despite this issue, the stance is still pretty good, and for the most part, I can live with the look. The color is a custom mixed attempt at the rare Fairway Green Metallic factory color using metallic craft paints sprayed through my airbrush, and cleared with Pledge Floor Gloss. The interior is a mix of Stynylrez Black Primer, and Anita's Gloss Black craft paint. Overall this was a pretty fun build, and represents the newest vehicle I have built so far. As always, thanks for looking!

My ebay score arrived today. I have a project in mind for the Prowler trailer, since I'm enjoying the '55 Cameo build I couldn't resist the price for another, and I took advantage of a great offer along with combined shipping to snag the Corvette.

Outstanding work!

Outstanding!!

Very nice!

My initial mock-up showed I had clearance for the rear wheels, but while assembling the bed, I noticed that I was mistaken, and surgery was in order. I measured and cut out the inner bed wall, and then very carefully cut pieces out of the bed floor. I used a pill bottle to make the arches and .020 sheet styrene to fill in the arches. I thought I had everything measured correctly, so I primed, painted and cleared the fender tubs with Pledge yesterday. Upon re-assembling the bed this morning, it was apparent that the tubs were just a bit too small. So, back to the pill bottle and sheet styrene to make a couple more to be painted Monday.

Thanks for the great comments everyone! I finished the interior and pinned the SSR side view mirrors. I also sprayed on two coats of Tamiya Smoke to tone down the wheels.

Looking good! I just finished that kit myself, although I didn't kitbash it, I did highly modify it and it was a lot of fun. I actually bought two of them as one was mis- marked and I couldn't pass it up for the price, but thankfully the flash and mold lines on mine aren't nearly as bad as your pics. Looking forward to seeing this one come to life!

Thanks, I airbrushed them. I airbrush craft paints all the time, mostly for engines, chassis, and interiors. I have also airbrushed several bodies with the metallics. They definitely need to be thinned though. I started using just plain blue automotive windshield washer fluid, which works well. I now use a "homebrew" thinner that consists of 3 parts distilled water, 1 part isopropyl alcohol, and 5-6 drops of glycerin, as a flow improver, per 8 oz. batch and the results are great.

Nice looking Cutlass!

Very nice! Looks good in Bahama Blue!

Nice looking Nova in a great color!

And finally to get things current, I spent the morning wet-sanding and polishing the body parts. I ended up using Micro Mesh Polishing Pads starting at 6000, then 8000, and 12000. After that was some Novus #2 polish and then Meguiar's Ceaner Wax. I tried starting wet-sanding with 4000 and then 6000 wet/dry sandpaper, but both were too abrasive for the Createx UVLS Clear, so the polishing pads ended up being the perfect starting point. I really like my experience with these Createx Paints so far.

The interior tub was left in the gray primer, and the seats were given a two-tone using a custom mix of craft paints. I hand painted the door handles and window cranks with Molotow Chrome. The gauge cluster was painted and detailed and Molotow was also used for the bezel. I painted Molotow on the steering wheel, and drilled holes and used wire for the column shifter, turn signal, and tilt wheel lever.

The engine was painted with Decoart Dazzling Metallics Zinc, the transmission in aluminum, and then detailed and assembled.

Then it was time to make something of the woodgrain bed floor. I airbrushed the piece with Apple Barrel Khaki craft paint. I then brush painted Apple Barrel Nutmeg Brown over the Khaki, making sure not to get any thick spots. After that I dry-brushed Delta Ceramcoat Black using both straight strokes and a swirling motion to try to give it a natural look. It turned out pretty good, so I brushed on a coat of Matte Varnish and let it dry overnight. In the morning, I taped off the the bed and trimmed out the slats to airbrush the Molotow Chrome. When that was done, I carefully pulled up the tape and surprised myself with what I think is a pretty nice looking woodgrain bed.

I did the prep work for the body, including sanding off the door handles. I primed it with Stynylrez Gray Primer, and then shot the Turquoise, using five coats. Two lighter coats, two medium coats, and a heavy coat. I really like the Createx paints so far and absolutely love this color.

It's kind of far along in the process to start a WIP thread, but I thought I'd start one anyways, lol. I got the inspiration from Scott Inman, aka lghtngyello03 for this one. I'll be using the engine/transmission, seats, wheels/tires, and hopefully exhaust from the SSR. The color will be Createx Pearlized Turquoise. I opened up the grill, stripped the rest of the chrome and re-chromed it by airbrushing Molotow from the refill tube. I cut and flattened the front springs, and mounted the rear springs under the mounts to lower the suspensions. I'm not going for an ultra-low ride, so the height is pretty much where I want it.

Very nice! I really like that color, I'm going to have to look for it next time I go paint shopping.

Great color and shine!