The Creative Explorer

I painted the lower halve candy apple red. I also added a clearcoat on it, this for maybe getting in trouble when I want to mask the car for the top halve. I have the feeling with a clearcoat the paintjob is stronger and able to withstand some more.I Without tape And a oopsy So, back to the paintbooth

Adding some more detail; I made from wire a hood-stick and when not in use, it will lay flat on the radiator Fixed a ugly spot The body in virginiuous white The paintjob took me a long time to figure out. I had idea's but wasn't sure. But I decided to try something new. and wanted to add a Mural on the lower halve. I made a concept with photoshop and printed this on white decalpaper, then I clearcoated it. Before And after a long hour of patience, cursing and so forth After another hour the other part was done too

I airbrushed the last coat of primer and everything looked okay, So I painted in the morning it's first white coat and in the afternoon it's second. White is a very good start for candy paint in bright colors. I did find a few more places to fix And back in the primer The hood showed it needed some refinement as well And fortunately I discoverd on time that my hood-hinges were gone missing, so I placed some tubing And on the hood, but this set-up didn't work I made brackets from copperwire and slided the tubing over it Glued it with powerglue for instant bond at the right place.

I used the same trick for the moonroof, since I made a boo-boo while cutting Because the body started to look completed, I used Alclad sandable primer for a nice smooth finish A few modifcations needs to be done, before I can polish the primer Because the body is getting somewhere, I found some time to work on the engine and parts.

I have to say that I find it hard to build customs like this. I am not the best builder and I have a lot to learn, but this one took a lot of time and patience. No matter how good my tools are, I keep having problems with having a seamless joint. But I do make progress if I compare it to 'El Modificato'. This is just my 2nd full-custom build where I reworked the body, but I think i start to learn. El Modifcato It can't be that I work for hours and hours to modify the body and stick with the molded in windshield wipers, no way. The frame is cleaned and primered. When I decided which colours to use for the paintjob, I can paint it. All the parts that I've worked on have received a primer coat to see where I stand at the moment. And obviously I need to work some more on it. The windshield is at a lower angle as well, to make it look halfway decent, the pillars had to be modified/smoothened to make it ook nice. I made a new tric; I put some tamiya tape on the windshield and used some petroleum jelly on it. Then I installed it and put the putty on it, let it dry overnight and removed the windshield. And because of the Jelly, it didn't stick to the windshield.

Goedemorgen Why not start again that kit? It is not a very good kit, but it is a nice canvas and it it buildable for a more experienced modeller. But it is a very nice object and not very well known. It gives you something different than the 'ol '57 for example. I am not all that happy with my paintjob, but I tried new techniques and I guess I have some learning to do. (I answerred in English, so the fellow members can read it as well ;-) ) The mouldings are now in putty And the front end is sanded smooth.

And now progress is slow, lots of puttying, sanding, looking and add more putty. small steps at a time I cleaned the frame, but it is not the most advanced one, lots of detail is molded in and doesn't look very nice. Especially the exhaust is very cheesy, but also very hard to get rid off. I started with removing the last part And I couldn't do the other halve. So I invented the multi-beam. A nice excuse haha. The idea is that all the plumbing and wiring will be used by the Multi-Beam, therefore gives me a clean look on the lower halve. More parts from the oven cleaner. Also the rear-lights are going to be frenched. I had to put a hole in the original mouldings. The roof slowly get's it shaped, slowly.

I solved it by removing 1.8mm length from the roof and this is where the moonroof came in handy, I only had to remove to small pieces on the side of the moonroof, stick them together and done Removed the front part The finished hood Everything is basically back into it's place and rebuild can start. To improve the strenght of the rood and prevent that the putty will crack, I added a few pieces of Evergreen and used welding glue. This way the plastic will harden and stick a lot better than putty. I also added Evergreen on the lower part of the roof for strength at the moonroof cut And the putty-frenzy starts!

I started carefully with the next step; the more I looked at the car, the more I got the idea something was off. I decided it was the roof, so a chop is in order. It wasn't a very high roof, but I think it adds some style to the car. The problem was, I didn't want a conventional chop. So I tried something different, I kept the rear window the same size, but the angle was sloped quite a bit. It gives some problems and I want to keep the huge moonroof. This is the standard hight I started to make a inch cut in the roof At the windshield I cut the pillars, so it worked a bit more easier and I was able to lower the roof. I removed a triangle at the rear-pillar, so I could angle the roof in the back Roughly how it is going to look A bit more clear One thing that happens is the the roof comes forward when sloping the roof in the back

So far I worked mostly on the changes in the rough, the more delicate work will come later in the build I added some more putty on the sides I wanted to french the lights, so I used the original mouldings and make them part of the body Slightly sanded I think these might be the winners for this build; Sombrero's I put some Tamiya putty for smoothness on the hood The front will be customised as well, I added the kit custom grille and glued it in, so I can integrate it in the body

I cleaned out quite some old projects and wanted to start something new and something I can work dedicated on. I got this kit earlier this year for 5 bucks at a local meeting. It was started, but relatively easy to tear it apart. When purchased The painted and disassembled parts And start! The idea is to go for a bit of leadsled idea, combined with some oldskool custom detailling The hood is going to be cleaned Just like the doors, the scripts, handles and locks are removed.

I just put one in backorder over here in the Netherlands, with a price of Euro 30.50, I think it fair priced. But I will wait for a in-box review before I will purchase. Just to see what is in the box.

I've had problems with this too, it was yesterday that I wanted to open an new topic with the same content, same question. But experience told me to just let it be. I see builds that are over the top, they are beyond humans haha, but I also see builds that have great flaws and get loving comments. Even when the trimming is messy and handpainted or the paintjob is just below par, they get good comments on paint and stuff. Fine ofcourse, since there is no better motivation than getting nice comments. But for me personally; I'd rather see a honest criticism. I've come to a point in modelling where I know the basics and every project (usually) ends beter than the one before. But I've got a long way to go, probably like 80-90% on this board I can still learn from my own mistakes. WHAT IF; Gregg could open a "on the stands" part? Where people can post for receiving criticism? Not 'Roasts', but positive criticism, where people can learn from it. This way people can choose wether to receive just 'ooohs' and 'aaahs' or actually helpful comment.

Seems to be shot with some normal videocamera's and some random people picked of the street. I saw no acting of any kind, but the horrid. Too bad, could've been nice

@Dan, I know. It was my main reason, next to the board that doesn't really work user friendly, to leave ASAP. I think I got there 4-5 years ago and I was stunned that there were only a couple of pictures allowed. I mean; come on! So I left and found this board, which I love a heck lot better than PHPBB boards and now the calmth has returned, a friendly, not so much censored place hang around. Where most boards are over-moderated, this one is way under-moderated and to be honest; I think it works a lot better, but that's just my 2 penny's ;-) @Curt: Serious? I don't use them so much, but I guess now I know why I could sometimes upload only 9 pictures instead of 10. @Gregg, that would be wonderful thanks!

I know what the answer is going to be (there are people out there without cable-internet) but the 10 pictures per post limit is so outdated. The most important thing in a workbench or under glass topic are pictures that goes along with the text, so we can see what happens. And if someone does has more than 10 pictures, they just add them in a next reply. I do fully understand the size of pictures, since it keeps the board beter viewable, but can we please unlimit or at least double the amount of pictures per post?

One thing is important; You build for your own fun. That should be the main reason I can't build by far as good as the top-modellers over here, but I keep learning. Remind; every model is a practice for the next one. Try new things, try to be challenged, but within reality. Just do whatever you WANT to do, wether you exceed or not.

So basically you got two of those kinds of days in the United States? I believe that there is also a Memorial Day and correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that also commemorates U.S. soldiers that died in all the wars?

What do you mean it is basically the same car? Both have nothing to do with eachother at all haha

Finally finished, it took me a while and besides of some paint-errors, this was for me the first time using Zero-paint. The color being used is Berwick Bronze from Aston Martin, but Steve is on this, since it is appearantly is nowhere near bronze :mrgreen:

A project which kept me fooling around with the paint, I never got a satisfactory paintjob, and even the last paintjob isn't perfect.

This is the horrorkit from Revell, it isn't that bad actually, just the usual fit-issues and issue fit's

Too bad they are not doing that modern thing; with sneak-pictures. Keeps the minds alive, now there is hardly enthusiasm, at least that is what I notice.