OldNYJim

That color is amazing! Love it!

I think keep it for this one! I’ve got an idea for what to do with it, maybe...we’ll see if it works ? AHHHH, yeah! That also makes sense! Good thinking! Thank you sir! Got some paint on the body today...well, paint, pastels, watercolor pencils, regular pencils, a little of everything ? First up, primer - this stuff’s pretty good for a buck a can! Then, a brown base to get us rolling; Add salt, to season; Then some black, followed by dark blue; Followed by some light blue (there IS a reason for all this, honest ?) Starting to look like I imagined it in my head...remove the salt with a soft toothbrush: Then, I buffed back through some of the light blue: Added rust streaks with watercolors from the places I figure water would drop and run down the body, including these rivets on the back: Then masked you some vintage hand-painted lettering on the side (I know, using a mask to paint hand lettering is cheating) then buffed back through it and gave it some more weathering and rust streaks to make it look like it has been there all along: And that’s enough ruining things for one day I think ? More soon!

Closer ?

Good info, thanks Dennis! I’ll be picking those up for sure!

I love it on those Boyd rims! I didn’t know that there were any kits with Boyd wheels aside from the couple of Testors kits...and those few AMT American Hot Rod branded kits with the ENORMOUS 24”s in, or whatever they were. Not sure Boyd had much to do with the look of the wheels in those kits anyway, they weren’t my favorite design Anyhoo, looking great buddy! Enjoying watching this one come together!!

I think I’ve seen that car around the city before! Huh, cool! I wondered if that might be about what it was, but didn’t know...thanks! Spotted from the side of the road today, next to the grocery store: Couldn’t get a better photo without trespassing - I’ll save that for another day ??

Today I learned that airplane wheels wore pants ? Perfect name for them, you just think they’d call them something more technical-sounding ?

* My wife, a true-crime fan and all round smart gal/wannabe-detective thought about this after I showed her and theorised that a working truck such as this would likely have less traffic thru the passenger door than the driver’s door. As such, rain water might be trapped in between the bottom of the door and the floor on that side more often than the other side, where the driver getting in and out of the truck frequently would stop that build up, and thus the driver’s side wouldn’t suffer rust damage as much over a long period of time. Plausible? Maybe ?‍♂️?

Been looking forward to building one of these for ages - and there’s a decent-sized 34 Pick Up build off on Instagram right now so it seemed a good time...picked up this old body from eBay, and a new kit from Hobby Lobby and I’m all set to see what the fuss is about Aside from wanting to build one of these I’ve been wanting to do a cool hot rod shop truck for a while, and I felt like doing some weathering and something with a little rust and patina - so combine the three and I can mark three things off my 2020 to-build list in one hit ?. The body I’m starting with is actually pretty straight and clean despite some glue-splodges, just a couple of little spots that will need some attention. Filled the holes in the cowl that I won’t be needing: I decided to keep the optional smooth sidewall, but added a styrene bead around the edge to make it look a little less flat: Added the coachbolts to the rear panel that the 1:1s have: The pins I used were a little large, so I’ve since sanded them down and flattened them out a little to get them closer to scale...and whilst I was working on the back of the cab I added the recesses that a stock 34 truck has on the lower panel there: The other side of those recesses is (just) visible in the interior of these trucks from what I can tell, so I added the opposite detail to the inside too, along with the factory wooden bracing...the bracing is moulded into the body already in the kit but it’s pretty soft and flat so this will add a little 3D-ness to the interior once it’s got some paint on it: And as you might notice from the bottom of the doors on that pic above I’ve added a little rust damage. I don’t want this thing to look full-rat-rod, all falling apart and full of holes, but a LITTLE rot and some dings and marks from 80+ years of service seemed appropriate. I looked up a bunch of photos of unrestored 34 cabs and tried to hit the spots where these rust and get damaged the most...weirdly a bunch of pics I saw had more rust damage to the passenger side of cab than the other, although I can’t think why that would be?* More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

And what does one do, heaven forbid, if you screw up and have to strip it? Do the usual suspects work for that too? Really impressed with your finish - makes me wanna try it myself! GREAT work!

Got tired of seeing this on my bench so gave it some more attention today...think it’s almost a wrap! Couple of little bits to add once the glue’s dried enough for me to handle it but I can about call this one done...will make a decent shelf model next to my other T build from last week anyway!

Looking great, with that 2K clear! Dumb question; what does one use for airbrush clean-up with 2K? Regular lacquer thinner?

Michael’s had all their Martha Stewart supplies marked down to a buck or two...I didn’t much care for any of the paint in her range, but I got a big stack of tape! ? Thank you sir! You’re always so generous with your comments - I’m very much enjoying your Dodge build!

Plastic spoons and ping pong balls might be a good start maybe?

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Love that color! There’s a Miata in that red color at my local dealer...it GLOWS in the sun, looks amazing! Glad to see some more on this one!

Thanks fellas!! A little more on this today... Got some work done on the frame and interior (what there is of it...) Made and mounted the glass - this tape was a tip I saw @Tom Geiger post up about. Worked great! Contemplated a change of wheels and tires... And made a license plate...when in Rome... ? More soon!

That’s really interesting- thanks for sharing Tim!

I would love to hear the story of why Ford had people take a speed reading course. No doubt it was intended to boost productivity - but did it actually work? Do they still have people take such a course?

Polishing day! Was nervous to see if this stuff WOULD polish - do people polish out tractor paint-jobs? ?? Turns out that they should - this stuff polished up pretty nice! The million dollar bill test... I’m not quite done with it at this point, still needed a round of buffing with Scratch X and Novus but it’s not bad! Some Scratch-X and buffing later... I’ll give it my traditional second-round of buffing tomorrow when I’ve got the daylight to work with, but it isn’t too bad! With that done, I can mask up the roof ready for a fabric top panel: Then hit it with a coat of my favorite black: Followed by a coat of matt clear, to stop it getting dinged: I shot this clear coat from a few inches further back than I would normally to try and add a little texture to the surface - worked out ok! And now we just need to finish the polishing process and get a frame for this thing to sit on! I did mock it up on a stock T frame last week for my own amusement - looked kinda cool on there too! More soon!

I’m really enjoying the scratch building going into this one - really nicely done!

Great start! Seems like this body would be a good way to get an A Coupe until Revell reissues their kit. I’ll be watching!

No sir, it didn’t - but someone I follow on Instagram did exactly that and added a Perspex front. Seems like a good idea!

Today’s sightings from Indiana - anyone able to ID the jeep?

I do something similar but with 1 cup...assuming a 50/50 mix for the resin I’ll put the cup on a digital scale, a 1oz or whatever of resin A and then add resin B until I get to 2oz. This way, ol’ cheapskate me gets to only use half the amount of cups ??‍♂️