bluestringer

I get the aluminum craft wire from hobby lobby. Comes in different gauge sizes and colors. And it bends easily.

Roll out livery..........................

Thanks everyone. I really appreciate the comments.

Nice Revell kit. I didn't do it justice. Tamiya purple acrylic. Rustoleum black interior. All comments welcome, and thanks for looking.

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.

Wasn't sure where to put this. I built it as a street/strip car. Got the slicks on it, ( set of redlines I found in my parts box) but the street tires are in the back so they can be changed out when it's ready to head back on the street. The exhaust is molded into the frame on this kit, and the engine has headers installed. So for the strip I installed some old school cutouts (which I forgot to take a photo of), uncap them by hand at the track, then cap them back up when headed back home. We don't need no stinking electrics. Paint is Tamiya Sky Blue inside and out. I painted the hood separate from the body and could not get the paint to match up with it. So I just stripped it and put the hood in primer only. The chrome side panels I did with BMF, but ran out of it so did the rest of the trim with a molotow pen, so there are some shaky hands warts all over. All comments welcome, thanks for looking.

If y'all don't shut up I'm gonna go out of my mind. I might just bust a spring, I'm already off balance.

Picked up at HL today.

After filming American Graffiti, transportation manager Henry Travers sold Steve’s '58 Impala via a classified ad in the San Francisco Chronicle. A local teenager bought it for $285, and on the way home, the brakes failed, and one of the taillights fell off. The owner kept the car until 2015, when it went to auction and was purchased by NASCAR personality and racing commentator Ray Evernham. Evernham had the car restored to its as-filmed appearance, and the renewed Impala made its public debut at the 2016 SEMA show. The character Bob Falfa, played by Harrison Ford, drove a '55 Chevy in the film, challenging reigning drag racer Milner. Three black ’55 Chevys were used, including a junkyard find for the crash scene and two others. These cars had previously appeared in the film Two Lane Blacktop. One had a 454-cu.in. V-8 and a Turbo Hydra-Matic 400, while the other was powered by a 427 cu.in. V-8 paired with a Muncie M-22 transmission. During the race scene, the car’s axle broke, and in a second take, the replacement axle broke as well. Only one of the ’55 Chevys remains, and for a time was owned by the same Kansas collector who had the ’32 Deuce coupe. It later went to an owner in Maryland, who restored the car to show condition, though it was extensively changed from its appearance in the film. In total, some 300 cars were used in filming American Graffiti. Local vintage-car owners were paid $20 to $25 per night (reports vary), plus food, to lend their vehicles to the production.

16 dollars? Dang what walmart is that. Get it at my local walmart for 8 dollars.

I've used Rustoleum primer in the past and didn't have problems with it. I've had more problems with the Rustoleum colors, except the Ultra Matte Black and Flat Black which seem to work well. But looking at the primer in question, I would not even try using it because of the fan spray nozzle, that is just too much paint coming out for a small kit body. I tried a couple of Duplicolor primers and had more problems with them than the Rustoleum. But after trying Mr. Hobby Surfacer 1000 primer it is all I use now. Get it at HL, kinda pricey for a small can but can do several bodies with it. I use Tamiya Acrylic colors and really like them.