OldNYJim

Do you happen to know the driver? Trying to find some pics of the 1:1 but not having much success…

Update…not sure if this one bodyshop is telling me my car’s total value or quoting to repair it 😂

Nice finds! Ive been meaning to track down one of those GT90s too!

One of our work trucks hit my car in the lot Company will cover the damage, but not excited about having to find a body shop…it looks like it would be an awkward spot to repair

That’s great news! Good for them! There’s a couple of Joann Fabrics by us too, so I’ll be glad if they get some more kits too (not that we’re talking about Joann Fabrics in this thread)

Only one license plate? For a state I don’t live in? Pfffttt, I’m out 😂

You can order prints through that site…I’ve never used it, as I have a printer, but it always gives you the option to order printed versions when you checkout…

Thanks fellas! A little more progress this week… Worked through my usual polishing process…started with wet-sanding until any orange peel was gone, then worked through my various polishes until I was happy… Got it pretty smooth: I always think I’m about there when I can read the writing on a bill in the reflection: As you can see, only downside of this process is getting all the polish trapped in the door lines and gaps, but a sharpened tooth pick and some water usually makes short work of that… Once the body was polished out, I brush painted my favorite super-dark super-flat black acrylic, then started getting the glass installed. Lately I like this canopy glue, which Hobby Lobby stocks: I just dab spots of it around the glass with a make-up applicator, keeping a little tension on the glass with some low-tack masking tape and after an hour or so it’s pretty much set. Dries almost clear too, and isn’t super visible, but I’ll brush paint some more black over the top just to make sure there’s no angle where you can see the glue: Glass on this AMT kit was pretty nice too - no scratches, not SUPER thick, actually fitted…this ALMOST wasn’t a chore… While the glue was setting up, did some work on the frame - scratchbuilt a driveshaft so I could get the motor in, and then wrapped the floor in BMF and buffed it to give a brushed aluminum look: Also got the steering rack installed - a little more detailing to do on there, plus the linkage back to the cabin, but that was easier to figure out with the motor and rack locked in place… And finally, painted my wheelie bars (black enamel followed by Molotow chrome) and spun up some little wheels out of some clear orange acrylic rod: These need a black wash to add some depth to the little springs before I install them, plus a couple of little Titchy Trains bolts, but I’m excited to see them on the finished car. And that’s another weeks kinda-progress - thanks for looking…more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

There’s so many cool stories here - thank you SO MUCH for sharing everyone Question for those who were there at the time…how come about every vintage survivor I have in my collection was shot without primer? Rattle can primer surely existed at the time, right? Seems like the ol’ paint-right-over-the-styrene technique is the most common thing I see on a lot of these old builds…

I like the tracknose Black Widow!

I’ve been casually researching old 60s building techniques…thread for plug wires, corduroy for tuck interiors, the old Testor’s square bottle paints…all those kind of things I’d be curious to hear from builders who were building kits back in the ‘golden age’ of building what their favorite products and techniques were - glues, fillers, paints - anything cool that you used to do back in the day. I’m interested in tools too - I guess the range of modeling-specific products to use was WAY different to what we have available today…I’m thinking of building a SOMETHING using as many period-correct tools and materials as I can, but I’d love to hear from people who were there doing it at the time Thanks in advance! Can’t wait to hear some stories!

Great work so far - and well worth the hours spent!

Thank you! I’m not a huge Vette guy myself - but I’d drive this one! A little more progress this week… Sculpted a parachute pack from Tamiya epoxy, and printed some ‘Remove before flight’ tags ready for when I detail it up later… Painted the rubber radiator hoses and added some ‘printed’ parts numbers: I need to matte coat these still and do some shading on the rubber, but I was pleased to get these little decals applied… Detailed painted the blower, got it (and some other bits) attached to the block, and ran plug lines… I considered adding plug boots, but I don’t think you’d see them once the headers are on anyway so I saved myself the misery 🤪 Did some work on the interior - painted the roll cage and added ‘padding’, wrapped the door panels in BMF, added photo pedals, printed a fire extinguisher and added a printed label, and added seatbelts. I need to make some gauge decals for the dash, so I can’t quite finish this yet… And, just to motivate myself not to screw this up in the final stages, a quick mock-up to see how the car will look on that base I made previously: Still plenty to do; next stage will be polishing out the clear after I laid down the final coat today, and I’ve got a few little parts to make and paint still…thanks for looking! More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Happy NY everyone! Hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year…I got COVID from all the knuckleheads at work who came into the office with COVID, but after a week in bed, some more progress… First up, spent a couple of days messing with that base. Made some sidewalk, a fire hydrant, made it look grimy…just a fun little thing to sit this project on when it’s done: Back to the car, I’m in that never ending prime/paint stage right now, but a couple of parts worth noting… I was intending to go with a black interior on this build, but it’s so wild that that seemed a cop-out. Turns out you could buy a 70 Vette with a BLUE interior though, and that’s way more interesting, so I shot the tub and dash today, and then flocked with a non-OEM blue carpet: Got a bunch more pieces to paint for the interior, plus a couple of bare spots of carpet to touch up, but I think it’ll be cool when it’s done… Started some assembly on the frame, so I could feel like I was making some progress on SOMETHING…the rear end is pinned and could be glued in place right where I intended for it to go - but the front end in the MPC donor kit is kinda loosy-goosy. It fits together fine, but I knew from the start getting the alignment perfect would be tough, so I used some Gold Foil Glue, which is like an Elmer’s type glue that stays tacky. Once the wheels are on, I can get everything aligned perfectly and glued with some CA to lock it in the proper place: And finally today, for the interesting stuff anyway, printed some valve stems to detail up the kit wheels a little: Not that they’re super visible anyway, but it’s a little detail that only took a minute to do… Oh, and I painted a bunch of parts in chrome and some various metal finishes…excited to start actually assembling some stuff soon! More soon, soon as I’ve done more! Thanks for looking!

Oh nice! I found the issue with the E-type in my stash but not the DB5…I kinda remembered seeing an article for that one, so thanks for confirming!

My local store hasn’t had any new ‘regular’ scale kits for a while…but they just got a bunch of 1:43 Airfix kits… I had one of their use-it-or-lose-it vouchers to spend, so I picked up the DB5 kit: It’s actually better than I expected, from remembering the 1:32 kits of British sports cars that Airfix used to produce back in the 90s…newly tooled, really nice and crisp, amazing detail where it counts (especially on that front grille, but the wheels look well done too)…I think it’ll be a fun little quickie build for when I want something not too taxing on my bench… Hoping they give me another voucher soon - I’d be semi-interested in trying that Spitfire kit if it’s similarly crisp and nicely done

Nice work Matt! I picked up the Airfix DB5 kit today off the back of your review of the Lamborghini and the McLaren…they looked like fun so I grabbed the Aston to try! Did that one make the magazine too? Would be interested to see how you liked the build on the DB5 too…

I saw that same bike at Dezerland too! Did you try the kart track? That museum is FUN! Cool project!

I wonder how they got the rear wheel arches so wrong - I wonder if the prototype they modeled from was like that? Weird… Looks like you’re making a good start! Nice work!

Thanks fellas! More paint today - this morning’s project was the door lettering. First up, I cut some masks and shot some black…this will be the drop-shadows below the letters, so it’s offset down and back from center: Loons like this: Next up, after a spritz of intercoat, laid down identical masks, but offset compared to the black layer, then shot some Vallejo white: The masks had started pulling up from the curves of the body by the time I took this pic, but I didn’t end up with too much underspray, luckily…plus the intercoat allows you to clean up and crisp up the edges if you need to once you’re done. Next up, some ghetto masking with some low-tack tape and Post Its…I didn’t want to intercoat the white layer so I needed a masking solution that wasn’t going to hurt the white. Once masked, shot a little teal green (this’ll make sense shortly, I promise…) Then, after some time for all the layers to tack up, time to see how it turned out… Some little touch-ups to do, but it turned out ok I think! Once I’ve made the final tweaks and fixed any little flaws I can get this thing into clear. Whilst paint was drying, I worked on the interior a little…printed a butterfly drag wheel that would be totally impractical in real life but fun for bragging rights maybe, plus scratchbuilt some ‘aluminum’ door panels, a simple roll cage and a couple of other details. I’m not going FULL drag interior on this, it’ll still run two seats but it’ll have a few racing goodies to add some interest… And finally, for today, I’ve been pondering having a little base to display this thing on - nothing super fancy, but I laid down some Vallejo asphalt paste on a wooden base so I can play with that a little, see if I can think of a cool something to put this thing on at a show… And that’s it for this weekend…thanks for looking - more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Ok, it’s painting day! Here goes a bunch of steps (with a bunch more to do tomorrow…) First up, white base over the primer… Followed by fluorescent orange (which is why I needed the white base) After a coat of intercoat, laid down some masks: I’m going for a pearl metallic blue body, and while the Createx paint I like is pretty opaque, I don’t want to risk it turning green with the bright orange underneath, so I shot a light coat of black sealer: Then, my favorite Createx pearl blue metallic: What I COULD do at this point is peel the masks and have a decent two-color paintjob, but I really want to contrast the simple one-color flames with a more detailed and interesting main color. So, next step, shot some lighter highlights around the flames - I’m trying to give the slight effect of the super-bright flames lightening up the color of the paint around them, or at least making it a little more interesting… This is the part of the process where I start to worry I’m messing it up, but I have an idea of the look I’m going for and have to just keep going until or I’ll never be happy with the finished result…but even with the light blue highlights I’m like “Urgh, am I making it worse?” Same with the next step - I wanted to add some little flicks of white paint around and behind the flames to look a little like sparks, so I used some white craft paint and a toothbrush to add some more detail: Next step, I wanted a slightly grainier flake to add some more depth and detail to the blue, so I shot this Testor’s flaked clear over top. This product is technically supposed to be shot over black to give a color-changing effect, but I’m misusing it slightly to add some more sparkles and interest: This stuff really doesn’t come into it’s own until you shoot some clear over top, but I’ve been pleased with the effect before… Then, finally, time to (carefully) peel the masks…tada! Still plenty more to do, but it’s starting to look how I imagined….more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

I was excited for this, and it was OK, but it didn’t blow me away. Swing and a miss…like Dan says, the documentary was better. The fact that they built replicas of his various cars was cool though…

Thank you!! A little more progress this week…mostly sanding and priming and going round THAT endless loop, but a couple of notable tasks completed too… Spent some time getting the frame straight - not least because I have to to feel good about myself, but also because it’ll be pretty visible when the build is done…all kinds of fun little sink marks and crevices and imperfections to fill before getting this into primer: The MPC kit engine had a rough-cast texture to the surface of the trans, and I ruined that when I was sanding everything flat and true, so I stippled some Vallejo putty on there to reinstate it… This is a trick from the armor modelers, but it works well for all kinds of rough texture you might want to add… I actually went a little TOO extreme, but I think it won’t be as pronounced when there’s paint and clear on there so I think it’ll work… With that done, shot a bunch of parts ready for various metalizer finishes…I like black for a base regardless of which paint I’m using, but I’ll switch between gloss and satin depending on the end result I’m hoping for… I was hoping to paint the body this weekend but didn’t get far enough along to get there…I decided to delete the marker lights, and tidy up the rear roll pan where the exhausts would’ve exited on the stock car…plus, finished cleaning up all the awkward sink marks that needed some work still: And after a bunch more tweaks and fettling, shot my first coat of primer to see how awful it is…actually, not too bad! Still have some tweaking to do, but it’s not terrible…excited to get to lay paint on this one! Thanks for looking - more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Can’t fault the scratchbuilding skills! Nice work!