Dragonhawk1066

Looking mighty fine so far, Mike! How'd you like the craft paint? Looks like it laid down pretty good for ya.

Got the interiors painted today. A custom mixture for the blue, and some semi-gloss black for the other. I had previously drilled the small holes on the steering wheel spokes. I also painted the engines and transmissions and the gas tanks. I might get the bodies painted tomorrow, then onto all of the detail painting.

Looks awesome!

I went back to Hobby Lobby today to take advantage of their 40% off all model kits for what could be the last time, who knows. Personally, I think even though they are doing away with the 40% off one item coupon, they might only plan to lower the percentage savings similar to what Michaels did by going down to 20%. They could even continue to run specific % off sales on certain categories like they always have, maybe just not as often. We'll see at the end of February. It doesn't really matter anyways, unless they get more stock in, at least at the Flint, Mi. store, as the selection hasn't changed or been re-stocked in at least a couple of months. Pretty slim pickin's there lately.

That looks great, I love the colors!

Very nice!

Looks good! Great color!

I got my spraygunner.com (they have great prices and quick shipping) order in today. Createx Reducer, Retarder, Balancing Clear and Gloss Clear as well as a couple more Pearlized colors, Tangerine and Turquoise. I also got some ebay orders in, four sets of Pegasus Wheels from Burbanks House of Hobbies, and the '29 Ford Roadster flame masks by New York Speed Shop, sold by iceman collections. I also re-upped some supplies from amazon, 400 double tipped swabs, 300 6 in. long bamboo double tipped swabs, 100 eyeliner brushes for fine details, 120 foam make-up applicators for burnishing BMF, a 10 pc. metal file assortment, wet/dry sandpaper 20 piece 400-10000 grit assortment, 100 medicine cups for paint mixing, a 3-pk of 6 mm. Tamiya Tape, and a 30 ml Molotow Chrome refill for airbrushing the stuff.

A little more progress made on the Firebirds. I stripped the chrome off the wheels and alternator/power steering pump assemblies using LA's Totally Awesome for about 24 hours. It's weird that the chrome from one of the kits was a little more stubborn coming off and required another 24 hr. bath. I mixed up a batch of Stynylrez primer in an airbrush bottle using mostly white with 5-10 drops of black for a light gray. It's better and easier for me to gauge coverage this way, as white on white is too hard for me to see where there's coverage. It should also be light enough to spray the white paint over without too much trouble. In continuing my love/hate relationship with Stynylrez, the black primer for the chassis and other parts gave me some clotting problems, even when thinned. Hopefully it's just this batch, as my first batch of the white/gray/black worked very well. I'm also expecting to be able to finally try my other airbrush, a cheap dual-action purchased on ebay last year. I had not been able to try it yet due to needing a quick connect fitting for the air hose and for my Paasche H airbrush. I have both now, but still need a 1/8 to 1/4 inch adapter for the air hose. Why can't airbrush companies make their fittings the same size, lol??? Anyways, everything's primed and awaiting paint. More adventures soon, lol.

Keith, that looks fantastic!! I really like the gold stripes on that beautiful maroon paint job!

Nice! I do like the color!

Very cool!! That's exactly what I'm talking about, to me that just looks mean, especially in black! A lot of folks call the Buick GN/GNX's Darth Vader, but that T/A more looks the part to me!

They both look amazing!!

Nice looking Road Runner!

I actually started these last week, and I finally got some time to spend on them again after being kept busy all week by a variety of other things. I finished prepping the bodies by sanding down the mold lines, trimming the flash, and deepening the panel lines. I also glued on the front ends, tail panels and rear spoilers. All of the other parts are trimmed as well, and the engine halves and seats have been glued together and the seams filled and sanded. After seeing that the grille/headlight piece would be tough to install after attaching the front end, I decided to cut the part in half on both kits and went ahead and glued on the front ends. Everything is ready for primer now which hopefully I can start spraying on Monday.

The '98-'02's with the Ram Air hoods are just plain mean looking in my opinion, and they run like the devil too! I most certainly will try to get as in-depth on using the craft paints as I can!

Very cool and very creative!! Well done!

I decided to start on my Revell 1970 Pontiac Firebird kits. I'll be trying to do both at once, and hopefully be successful since they're low parts count kits. I'll be doing one in Blue (as close to Lucerne Blue as I can get), and the other in White with blue interiors for both. I'll be doing both with all craft paints, and have ordered a decal sheet from Keith Marks that has the Trans Am script for the fenders and rear spoiler for both cars, since they're missing from the kit decal sheet due to licensing issues. This should be easy enough to stay on track with and keep updated with pics, but with my forgetful mind nothing's guaranteed, lol. These have been my favorite Muscle Cars for a long time, so I'm hoping to do them justice in kit form.

I wanted to go to my HL to check out their Createx prices compared to spraygunner.com, and my wife wanted to go too, since we needed to drop something off at the UPS store close by. I ended up grabbing the Foose Impala for a project down the road, lucked into a can of Model Master Sublime Green Lacquer for a different project, and the wife picked out the Pearlized Purple and Transparent Deep Red. I ended up ordering my Reducer, Retarder, Balancing Clear, Gloss Clear and a couple of other Pearlized colors from spraygunner.com.

Wow! I remember collecting those Golden Wheels way back when, lol. I had the Dodge Wanted Van as a teen almost 40 years ago, I screwed up those big decals pretty bad, lol!

Very well done! Great paint!

Nice job! That certainly looks like something one would fine here in Michigan!

Looks good! I did one of those as a kid about 35 years ago, might be time to find another one.

That's a beauty! Great paint job!

Well done on all three, but that Snakeskin Viper is something else!! Very cool!!