Tcoat

There is one product for all your clear plastics needs! Also used for shading, smoothing, decal pre and post coats, high gloss finish coats, and maybe even floors.

Maybe just the position or type of chrome but as Steven said one of the chemicals involved is Ammonium Chloride and this would chrome easily. Misting would explain my confusion on why it looked so much like a spray pattern but there was no visible residue on the painted parts. Also explains why the outer edges are worse than the backset parts of the wheels.

Arrived today but wife won't let me play with it since it is a "Christmas present". For my Cars I Used to Own project. 1958 AMT dealer only promo. Cost me near as much as the real car did in '81!

It almost looks like it was sprayed with something as there is a pattern but there is no residue left on any painted surfaces. I have had chrome react to vinyl tires before but never seen anything like that.

Not much in 1/35 but you can use 1/32 without issues. There are piles of 1/32 (1 gauge model railroad) modern buildings out there on many model railroad sites

My poor old 14 FRS and it's successor the Hakone

Yep! That Datsun had something like 40,000 miles on it when I got it but looked more like 240,000! The lime dust at the quarry just ate right through vehicles.

Hello all please allow myself to introduce...myself. I am Tony and I am another old geezer from London, Ontario, Canda. I was heavy into modeling as a kid in the mid sixties until early seventies when all hobbies were replaced by cars, girls and them military service. As a kid I built the usual gambit of of Aurora, Monogram and AMT kits from tanks and aircraft up to the usual (for the era) drag cars and hot rods. Almost all of those fell victims to explosion (fire crackers) and gunfire (well air gun fire) but not long ago a couple of survivors did turn up in a box in my parents attic. How about a 53 year old stretched sprue antenna that although badly bent still survived being packed in a box for decades? About 15 years ago I got back into the hobby with a vengeance and now, mush to my poor wife's dismay almost every horizontal surface in the house has at least one model on it. Until recently these have all consisted of: Scifi Aircraft Military vehicles Ships and subs And my favorite beating things up So I have no issues doing old, dirty, rusty, flat finished stuff. I am however scared to death to do new, shiny, clean things such as cars. Through the next year or so I will be building a bunch of cars. I will be doing new and shiny for cars I wanted back in the day right through to beat up rusty ones I actually had. The new list will be almost exclusively late sixties to early 70s MOPARs. The had list is a bit more varied. Cars I owned kits that I have already gathered/started on are: 64 Impala SS - Modded to a convertible 70 Coronet - Superbee converted to an R/T and beat up 77 Econoline van - Doing interior 75 Datsun pickup - complete and posted on this forum 58 Nomad - Dealer promo model from 1958 that will require a great deal of work to restore and update 2014 Scion FRS - Will wait until get practice on new and shiny 2020 Toyota GT86 Hakone Edition - Will also wait Kits/Resin bodies still looking for: Kharmann Ghia - Kits exist but low on priority list since I didn't own long 66 Corvair - Waiting for good price 58 Ford Custom 300 2 door - Not much hope 91 Eagle Talon TSI - Zero hope but I could be surprised 03 Lancer Rally - Probably have to rework and Evo OK so this ended up being way longer than I thought but that is me!

LOL Wait until I do the rest of what I plan!

Just imagine what people now would say if their 6 year old truck looked like that!

I have spent a few years collecting random kits of cars I have owned or would really have liked to own. It is now time to actually start building some!I will have two categories that I post up. One will be nice shiny new cars I would have liked to own (You WILL see a distinct trend) and the other will be cars in the condition they were actually in when I owned them (this is about as random a list as you could get).The first one I did is a want list '70 Plymouth Cuda Hemi. It is a much newer mould from Revell so has nice crisp details and loads of little extras like chrome door handles, separate windshield wipers and even an interior mirror. All in all a beautiful kit. I usually build military so I decided it would be first to hone my rusty car building skills. I was happy with the results. It is really hard to get decent pics of glossy surfaces! The chrome trim is all Bare Metal Foil and was a total pain to put and keep on! Bumpers and other kit chrome parts were sprayed with flat clear to knock the really bright plastic look down a bit and then covered with black tinted Future floor polish finish to bring them back to a more scale brightness and bring out detail. Went with the very popular white and black interior and it looks really great with the blue. The white does have some slightly dirty thinner brushed over it to give some definition and highlights. The hemi and engine bay are decently detailed. I did not do full plumbing but added plug wires to busy it up even more. All in all I am satisfied with my first venture and give it a 7/10 and hope that such things as adding chrome get easier as I move through these.

This is the model of a an actual truck I bought for for $75 back in '79. Mine was really a '73 but nothing really changed much in the couple of years so the '75 is close enough. It had already seen a hard hard life by the time I bought it from a guy that used it in a lime quarry so the paint was toast and much of the body had rust on the rust although there were very few actual holes. Being a single stage enamel paint job there was almost zero gloss left to it and the once vibrant red was more a really dark pinkish brown. I bought it strictly to drive on those frequent occasions when my '70 Coronet R/T was without an engine because I was rebuilding it yet again or to haul tools and tires to the strip (with a buddy driving it). It was a blast to drive though and soldiered on until I pushed it a bit hard one day after about 6 months and blew the head gasket. Then sold it for $100! The kit shows it's age with a pile of flash and is sort of a mixed bag with a really nice engine, body and drivetrain but an interior that other than the dash is just sort of vaguely interior like. It went together really well though.The main exercise of this project was to get the battered paint and rust just right. I am very happy with the results and it was a ride down nostalgia road through the whole project. The weird interior. Not sure what version had those fancy seats but I wasn't bothered enough to scratch build the vinyl covered park bench that mine had. The engine is a little jewel though! Hope you all enjoy!