bill-e-boy

Nice build of a nice kit - like it

NICE. This has turned out rather nice Bob. I like the overall old timey look and the colour suits it well.

This is looking good Bill I like the wrinkle paint effect you have on the valve covers - how did you do that please

Yup

Coming along nicely Bob The mock up prior to paint looks mean. I bet in real life it would be fairly loud with no mufflers too LOL

My how time flies by. I have been busy with work and life over the last couple of weeks but have found some time to sneak away to my modelling bench I sanded the body back with 320g and tried a new bottle of paint, and it has lumps too although not as bad as the first bottle. Oh dear. I have now filtered the paint, and the lumps are now smaller but they are still there - I will see how it responds to some clear but I fear this is heading toward a dunk in the tank Words have been said, and they weren't Oh, Jolly, Gosh While I ponder the paint results I have been getting some bench time on the motor and wheels. The inner rims are the inners from an AMT 34 PU that I cut the wires away and then cleaned up in the lathe The fronts were a little wide so I cut them back with my razor saw to fit the tires. The wheels are the wire wheels and rear tires are from a Moebius 500B and the fronts are parts box specials for a bit of tire rake. All cross plys to go with the old timey build theme. The wires have been treated to some Tamiya "Panel Line Accent" give the wheel some depth The motor is turning into a real multi-media fest with kit trans, most of the motor resin with bit of syrene rod for pulley shafts and some tuned ally for the distributor body. The cap has been drilled out for plug wires with a 0.45mm drill bit and painted SG black A mock up of the motor with the generator and pulleys to check alignment. And a quick mock up to show off the bling 8BA flathead with Thickstun head covers, Offy (I think) 3x2 manifold and wired distributor. Lots more bits to add yet and I have to fix the clash with the genny and the dizzy.

If you are using an airbrush you can tint the primer to any colour you want. I tinted some white to pink under a red top coat

It is well worth it. I baulked at the initial cost way back but the benifits just far outway the cost IMO. The use of an airbrush opens up new frontiers the easiest of which is custom mixing of paint colours. No longer do you need to rely on what is available in the rattle can range. And anyway you look at it we all spend quite a bit of our budget on paints whatever the way of application is

Good save for your build with the spare body - looking good I have used an airbrush since the mid 70's and actually hate using rattle cans on models - just can't get the hang of it. Rattlers are ok for implements and fab jobs in the workshop though - easier to lean than a spray gun. Airbrush cleaning is a chore but cleanliness is next to Godliness they say

The dark green stuff is done. I have moved onto the body and chassis. Base coat is Tamiya Titan Gold X31 And am now onto the colour coats. Paint is SMS Pearl Apple Green acrylic lacquer. I have having some issues with lumps in the paint that suspect are clumps of pearl. I have shaken the paint and have had a go with my Trumpeter stirrer. I want to buils up some more colour coats before I hit with some sanding - 3200g most likely Bit hard to see in the pix but the colour is almost like flip flop paint which is the pearl affect that I know does not photo well. There will be many more coats to build up the colour I am after. The gold is very prominent at the moment

Well we are off to the paint shop. Spent a good hour and a bit wet sanding the body with 800g. hand were all wrinkled up by the time I finished. Under the pink was a rough white under coat so that took some effort to get smoothed out Look Ma no pink left - well not much anyway All the stuff in the hot box has had a coat of Tamiya white undercoat and the small stuff has had an additional coat of champagne gold as a base color. The body and parts along with the chassis has had the undercoat sanded with 1500g on its way to be ready for colour The champagne gold is the base for this The stuff painted green will get a couple coats of clear tomorrow and the body parts and chassis will get some champagne gold base for its colour - I will let the cat out of the bag them for colour choice Thanks for looking

Unfortunately Norm does not send overseas anymore from what I have I can gather. I have a nice little stash of his products some of which I considered for this build. I have a feeling that some of the parts I am using for this build have originated from Norms catalogue. The flat motor and all of the go speed gear is resin but I don''t know who was the caster was as there was no packaging with the stuff I got Time to kick it into life. I recently finished my 32 3W that I chopped way back in 97 when the kit came out. It too went through a couple of theme changes but none included fenders. We all have projects that sit around for way too long to be completed

This is similar to my strategy of using my build time. One main project and a side project that will become the main project when the first is completed then start another side project. Then along comes a dead-lined group build and it all gets pushed to one side. Some projects get started and put to one side if there are too many issues or inspiration. I recently finished a build that I started in 1997 and had one revisit since then. Great to see it on the shelf. Any more than two projects on the shelf and I find that I lose impetus on all of them so the needs to be some discipline to keep the build numbers down. I think I have only two or three stalled projects, so I am quite driven to complete builds once I have started them Lots of builds going on in my head all the time though The discussion on paints is for anther thread but I do use a lot of Tamiya LP paints these days

Wel it is "radical" and I am glad that the meaning fits. Thought long and hard before I started with "suicide doors"😁 Look forward to seeing some colour

I have one (Dispae) and the grits that came with it only go down as far as 400. Way to coarse for colour sanding prior to polish

As good as it is it is not blown The Revell parts pack blown 392 hemi is very good There as some 3d prints that look good too

Am I showing my age here😬

There was an original build up in what think it was Car Modeler magazine way back in the late 60's. It was a build article after the original that Jim had built won a major competition. From memory it was across more than one issue

This move is very radical. May need some time to let it grow on me. Normally a chop will give the effect of longer doors but both is like I said radical especially with the wedge section. Suicide doors?? blue tinted windows, white interior, loud colour like a bright bright metallic (or pearl) blue and an Ardun with modern injectors - lets start dreaming. I saw somewhere an Ardunised Lincoln V12 - will that fit?

Looking good Ron. I feel for you over the paint issues. The red looks better IMO anyway. I have had issues with solid metallic colours with and patchy finishes before too. The AMT 57 300C is a dream kit that does not need a lot to make even better and an excellent base for a true box stock model as per the IPMS rules where you cannot add any after-market details and only what is in the box can be used along with paint and BMF

And the squirrels start a hoppin!! Thanks Suprenerd and Zippi.

The following pix shows the difference between a modified vs an unmolested front end for a Revell 32. This will drop the front by about 3mm I filled in the missing corners of the flange of the fuel tank. I have cut off the tabs on the chassis so I can get a better fit between the fuel tank and the chassis. Again pix shows modified and un modified The have been cleaned and glued to the chassis Also worked on the chassis K member that is an poor fit with large gaps. I added a thin strip of plasticard to each side and trimmed and filed to fit the chassis and have now been glued in Time for a quick mock up while waiting for glue to set up

What about ally tube - may be more available Worst comes to worse make it from plastic rod and tube and paint it Only thing polished ally just looks like polished ally that paint just cannot capture. I have found Alclad Polished ally is close but we cant get it anymore down our ways (NZ) Inspiration - the shocks and coil were machined in ally . The coil spring is painted ally craft wire

Thanks for the kind comments. Yes the build means a lot to me and others in the local community that my friend Mike was instrumental in setting up. The club/FB Group is Miniature Petrol Heads (MPH) and it is quite active on FB down this way.

I chopped this about 12+ years ago for a friend who unfortunately is no longer with us. It came back to me from his estate so I thought that I could carry on with the build in his honour. It was just the bare body along with a few other Revell 32 bits and pieces and some resin flat motors and speed parts. Original chop - about 3" The top was cut and stretched between a and b pillars and another stretch between b and c pillars It got a coat of pink when I was painting my 32 Sedan project. A quick mockup - tires are from Moebius 56 Chrysler 500B. Rear end lowered about 2.5mm Been working on the front end and I got it 3mm without too much effort. No pix yet Also worked on the resin flattie - whacked off the trans and mounted up a 5-6 speed unit from a Ford modular motor - not sure where it cam from - its not the one from AMT Vickie unit Lots of other stuff happening so will post when I get pix done Thanks for looking