Alex Flint

I built this to look like it's ready to be crushed. I started it by grinding some rust holes in the body. Then I sprayed on some rusty metal primer. Next, I sprinkled on some Epsom salt and sprayed on a Light Blue. Once the blue color dried, I brushed off the large pieces and left the tiny pieces to resemble rust bubbles. After all that I brushed on some rust-colored paint around the rust holes. I even added some watercolor paints to the rust holes as a wash. On the rust hole in the roof, I added some very slight green watercolor paint to look like it's got a little bit of grass starting to grow on it. I completely eliminated the engine and the hood but kept the hood hinges and the radiator. I added a radiator hose made from a black hollow rubber bead cord and a wire mesh screen for the radiator itself. The broken windshield and rear window are made out of a glass laptop screen protector that I cut out with scissors and smashed with a hammer. The passenger side window is done the same way except I cut out a thin strip and wedged it in between the body and the door panel then chipped along the edge to look like it was shattered into pieces. The passenger side taillight was eliminated and replaced with some red and black bead wire for detail. I patted on some rust-colored paint onto the bumpers and grill to make them look like they are rusty and attached them on at an angle, so they look like they are falling off the car. I ground out a hole in the bench seat and glued some pillow stuffing to the underside of the seat and painted it a brown color and weathered with a brownish watercolor paint with a little black mixed in. I eliminated the steering wheel but kept the steering column and the dashboard. The crushed soda cans are 3D printed. I put a pack of Camel cigarettes on the seat that i printed out on an inkjet printer and filled with some very thin styrene rods to resemble 1/24 scale cigarettes. I painted the undercarriage with a rust-colored primer and, while the primer is still freshly wet, I sprayed a flat black color on and let it mix while it dried. I used a technique I learned in Scale Auto Magazine to make one of the tires look flat. I carved out the middle of one edge and glued a piece of styrene plastic to the leftover flaps and the painted it flat black and the end result is a flat tire. The rims are painted flat black. I added a bunch of stuff in the bed. Those items include a mesh screen radiator with rubber hoses still attached, two rubber tires from another kit, a set of bumpers from a 1980s GMC Pickup kit, a real metal jewelry chain I painted with black calligraphy ink to make it look greasy, a 3D printed crushed soda can, and a 3D printed roll of duct tape. This is my rustiest build I've ever done.

I call it DREADNAUGHT. It's painted with a yellow acrylic craft paint. the rust is two shades of brown acrylic craft paint patted on using some sponges i found at the dollar store. The body is a Jimmy Flintstone resin 1928/29 Ford Round Cab Pickup. The frame is a Nahuel Customs Tracknose frame that I 3D printed. The headlight pods are 3D printed with the lenses made from a couple of googly eyes. I even made some headlight bulbs out of some UV resin colored with a yellow dye and applied on the end of some pieces of styrene rods. The front suspension, the grill, the blower hat, the 1959 Cadillac taillights, and the rear axle are all 3D printed and designed by Nahuel Customs. The dual stacked supercharger is 3D printed. the drive belts are made from some narrow black masking tape. The spark plug wires are made from some red rubber bead cord. I attached some Black Box STL gatling gun exhaust tips that I 3D printed to the headers. the engine is a supercharged hemi from Iceman Collections that I modified for this build. the wheels and tires are salvaged from several different kits. The license plate is one of my custom designs that I did for this build. The steering mechanism is made from a 3D printed Matty's Custom Scale design and connected with a piece of styrene rod that I flattened at each end. The beer keg fuel tank is 3D printed and the chain that is on it is a real metal jewelry chain. I had to combine a Nahuel Customs fuel cap design with the beer keg design on my slicer program so that I wouldn't have to drill into the keg and also so I can 3D print both at the same time. The 1959 Cadillac Taillights are 3D printed with some clear resin that I dyed red and attached them to some piston style taillights that I also 3D printed. The visor is a Nahuel Customs design that I 3D printed and painted flat black. The interior tub is made from scratch styrene sheets and painted black. The smooth bomber style seats are 3D printed. The dashboard is another one of the Nahuel Customs designs that I 3D printed and painted the same yellow as the body. The firewall is made from scratch using a piece of a styrene sheet. The steering wheel is kitbashed and modified by cutting off the top and bottom curves of it. it is mounted to a piece of styrene rod I used as a steering column. It's hard to see but i 3D a bare foot gas pedal and a bare foot brake pedal that was designed by Nahuel Customs. I used a styrene tube to mount the rear wheels and I made a 4-link rear suspension from scratch. This build came out so nice I am going to build another one.