OldNYJim

Thank you!! I’m using Oramask 813 masking film (which I like because it has just the right amount of ‘stick’ and is semi-transparent, which can be helpful for if you’re masking multiple layers) cut on a Silhouette scrapbook cutter. I used to do them by hand, but this is WAY easier, once the design is laid out…

Ok, tonight I got to do the fun part… Cut masks for my scallop paint job and laid them down: Next up, Createx black sealer. Nice light coat to start, just around the masks, then another coat for coverage (I didn’t want to risk the pink showing through the ‘real’ color): Then, Wicked Colors black pearl, which is really a dark gunmetal color with a barely perceivable flake to it: Then, the best part…I give it just as long as it takes to clean my airbrush to tack up, and then remove the masks…tada! Now I’ll let it set up overnight, do a little cleanup tomorrow on a couple of tiny spots that need some attention and then I can lay down some clear. Excited to see that pearl color under some gloss. Just a small update, but I love painting night! Thanks for looking - more soon!

Which one is the lowrider one? The Model Car podcast is pretty good (or WAS, it hadn’t been updated recently so I suspect it’s dead): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/model-car-podcast/id1450759340 And aside from that, there’s Scale Riders: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scale-riders-podcast/id1357921882 And…that’s all of the ones I know of, specifically covering automotive subjects. There are a LOT of podcasts covering other general subjects (armor, aircraft, figures, gaming miniatures) but not THAT many covering cars that I’m familiar with. Would love to find out about any others!

Thank you sir! A little more progress… Continued work on painting the bed floor…masked every other slat: …then brush painted a dark brown to add some grain, then removed the tape: Then, shot a coat of intercoat, let it dry overnight and masked again, shot a second (lighter) base color, and added some more woodgrain - this time a lot lighter for a more subtle efffect: Then, peeled the tape and it’s ready for some clear, followed by a light wash of a coffee brown ink to add a little depth: I did some research and find some good reference pics of era-correct license plates, made a file and printed a couple of test pieces: I’ll need to do a better print to lose the layer lines, but I wanted to see if the detail would come out at least… And I’m REALLY excited to get going on painting the scallop paint job…first step completed tonight…laying down the base color (followed by some intercoat) ready for masking and the MAIN color in the next few days: Sure is bright 😂. Thanks for looking - more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

That’s good to know - thanks!

Checked out the local comic book store this week, because I saw online they they carried supplies for miniatures - those Warhammer type tabletop games. They had some interesting stuff that I picked up to play with…some interesting acrylic paints that I hadn’t tried before, some materials that will be useful for diorama type projects plus some interesting tools…I grabbed this weighted handle, which is spring loaded to allow you to hold a small whatever-you’re-working-on for painting and detailing.

You’re doing a great job on this build - nice work!

Thank you @BK9300 - I enjoy your work too! A little more this weekend… Got the bodywork mostly finished I think…needed a little filler on the nose to blend it all together but it was pretty painless for the most part: Took a couple of rounds to get it as straight as I’d like, but I think it’s close now… When I get to the paint I’m going with basically that design I showed in my last post…fluorescent pink scallops over a gunmetal pearl. I was gonna go subtle with the frame and running gear…and then this happened: The pink is bright enough it messes with my camera…I love it! Not your typical traditional hot rod color… Painted a bunch of chrome today too: Just Molotow chrome over Army Painter black base, nothing too complex… And I made a start on shooting the wooden bed floor - I picked up some figure painting paints, and they have a bunch of interesting tan and wood colors that are useful, and their paint airbrushes like a dream: Once this has dried overnight I’ll mask every other slat, add some grain and then remask, add a very slightly different color to the remaining wood and then grain those too. And that’s it for another weekend - thanks for looking!

Not ON the road…but in the back corner of the parking lot of a store we went to today…plus a Falcon in the same lot, and a coupla cool trucks that I’d be happy to take home:

…and cheaper! 😂. I’m envious though, I’d drive one of these for sure! Those look great! Nice work! Yeah, that kind of look! Thanks for sharing! No big updates to report…it’s primer-hell-week this week. Prep, prime, sand, prime…but I’ll have a bunch of fun stuff to paint at the weekend. Got the frame smoothed out ready for primer and color: And smoothed out the body also - adding some separate wipers, plus some printed door handles too so that stuff had to go: I’m excited to get the body in paint…been figuring out some paint mask designs: Now, mine won’t run a hood, so ignore the fact that the hood looks pretty bare and uninteresting in that bottom pic there…that’ll be full of shiny engine and blowers and whatnot. Excited to get to where I can start paint on this, soon as I’ve finished getting the body and bed straight. Thanks for looking, and for the nice comments!

That’s actually what I started with - left it overnight, in fact, but had a couple of spots that didn’t wanna go. You’re braver than me… Good tip, thank you! So, I got stuck on a couple of dumb little issues that it took me a straight week to resolve to my satisfaction. One was front shocks, but I figured those out, and the second was the headers. I really had in mind, some simple flowing Lakes headers in that engine bay with angles complimenting the natural lines of the tinwork around them and the lines of the truck when viewed from above. Problem is, of course, that they’re pointing right at the firewall if they were ACTUALLY lakes headers, plus the wider heads on this flathead made it tough (impossible) for any of the styrene ones I had in my stash to actually fit. I tried a bunch of more conventional block-hugging designs, tried a 4-into-1, tried a bunch of stuff that didn’t look as clean as I wanted…so eventually this weekend I took some photos of the truck from the top down and designed some that did exactly what I wanted: It’s actually nothing crazy…I just couldn’t find exactly what I was trying to find with them following those inner fenders and kinda disappearing mysteriously under the firewall. Of course, you wouldn’t want them ACTUALLY running into the firewall, so the underside is straight pipes hidden from normal view: I think I want want those pipes to end with some fish-mouths like you see on a lot of motorcycle pipes, but I’ve never seen those on styrene…leads anyone? Anyway, that was a stupid design problem to get hung-up on for a week but I’ve made a career of exactly that so I guess it won’t be the last time… Next up, was the steering wheel. I found this in my parts stash, and the design (there’s that word again) ties in PERFECTLY with something I’ll be doing later…you’ll have to bear with me on that, but I was excited to find this wheel anyway. I wonder what it’s from? The rest of the kit interior is pretty basic…in fact this is pretty much basically everything else there is to it, from the kit: Made some door cards with printed handles (that reversed door handle is another intentional feature that will make sense later), switched out the plain-Jane bench seat for a couple of AMT buckets from something else, resin cast a Moon pedal and a skull shift-knob, and carved a shifter boot. Will probably hide the kit-supplied fire extinguisher in there also: Speaking of kit-supplied geegaws, I wanted to include the tools that come in the kit with this build, so I dug out a spare toolbox from the 34 Ford truck kits, and also replaced the bed floor with something that would be easier to paint: And I’m almost done with the fab now, at least enough to start prepping the body for paint. Before I start that work though, took some templates so I can make paint masks this week: And then blew the whole thing apart so I can start getting some major components prepped for primer…the frame was particularly bad with the sink-marks but a little de-caff Bondo will level it off the sixty-fourth that I need to make it nice: Thanks for looking all…more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Huh? 🤔

I stopped trusting that guy when he said bad things about Miatas * suspicious face emoji *

Looks like it’s coming together well…this one has been on my to-get list for a while!

I’ll be getting one I I wonder if they’ll have the smart idea of chroming the body right out of the box?