bluestringer

Polar Lights kit. A warped, ill fitting kit. I did the best I could with it. Tamiya Chrome Silver Acylic, and Tamiya Red. Some Rustoleum Bright Coat. Wired the engine. The little rubber blower belt broke, made one out of electrical tape. Decals were bad, broke several but tried to piece them on. All comments welcome, and thanks for looking.

Cool looking 55. Nice work.

Very nice 55 gasser.

Looking good Bob. Nice detail work.

Beautiful blue. Nice work.

Outstanding. That engine is a model on it's own.

I spray with my airbrush in my shed which has a big door. I just open it, put a fan in front of it and spray away. No fumes inside.

Looks good. I think you will like the bright coat. Just put it on in light coats. I did this Chevy 2 funny car interior with it, except the roll bar I tried making it look steel with some Tamiya metallic grey.

That's a nice looking kit Bob. Great start, engine looking good.

I used rustoleum spray cans for a while when I got back into modeling about 3-4 years ago. After I got an airbrush and started using model paints my paint jobs improved a lot. Not right away though because the airbrush has a learning curve. I still use spray cans for some stuff. I like the Rustoleum bright coat metallic spray, it represents aluminum quite well and seems to spray much better than their other cans.

Thanks guys. That story popped up on my FB feed and I thought it was cool. The photo was with it. I did a little poking around before I posted here to make sure it was true, but didn't pay attention to the photo. Those real photos are cool.

Yea, don't need that much and it probably does not come in many colors to use on bodies. I mostly use Tamiya acrylics, but once in a while I'll use the Testors enamel for a car body and I've found it produces a nice finish when I mix it with the lacquer thinner 1 to 1.

June 21 1955. Sam Gray, David Rutford and Fred Hallberg begin their cruise down the Mississippi river from Saint Paul Minnesota on a homemade raft. The raft was built of barrels and planks. Power for the propeller was provided by a 1939 Chevrolet they had paid $ 15 for. the car had 172,000 miles on it. The rear wheels of the car ran against another set of wheels which turned the propeller. The car's steering wheel turned the raft's rudder. In Saint Louis Missouri the men had a delay as the Chevy's valves needed to be ground. Outside of Memphis Tennessee a bearing on the propeller shaft burned out but the men were able to repair it with tools borrowed from a barge crew. The men ran low on food as they discovered a stowaway was eating their food. The stowaway was a rat. The men tried fishing for food but caught nothing the entire trip. Other problems encountered included mosquitoes, driftwood in the river and backwash from passing barges. On July 25 1955 the trio reached New Orleans. They planned to drive the Chevrolet back to Minnesota. Epilogue. The three men made it back to Saint Paul driving the Chevrolet in 49 hours. The car used five gallons of oil for the return drive. Photo Ramsey County Historical Society.

I've taken the little bottles of Testors gloss enamel, poured the contents into a 1oz. bottle, then filled the testors with walmart lacquer thinner, shake well, pour that into the 1oz. bottle with the paint, shake well. It produces a nice gloss finish.

Thanks Mike. Thanks Bob. Thank you. The realism I was going for was since the hood is in primer, the emblem would not be there. What I should have done was sand off the emblem, but the primer covered it pretty well anyway.