OldNYJim

Really nice work Steve! You make it look easy...but I know there’s a lot of work on every piece you complete!

I’ve learned words I never would’ve imagined from the Italian people at my local bar ?

Thanks fellas! Just a little more progress on the paint...it takes a while because I like to clear between coats to make masking a little less risky - it would SUCK to get this far then have to start something over ?. Mixed up some candy green with Createx colors and shot the roof: And then today I started adding a little extra detail before I get to the rest of the candy coats...painted a little graveyard scene on the back end to fill that gap there: I used a pearl blue metallic for that part - I’m going for a purple shade for the main candy color for the lower portions of the body but I wanted some variations in the shades so this portion will have candy red over the top and the rest of the body will have a candy blue THEN a candy red to get the effect I’m hoping for. Once that was dry, painted some bats to continue the ridiculous theme I seem to have got myself into ? Those bats will be pretty subtle once the candy is on there I suspect, but it’s a cool little extra detail for people to notice hopefully... Next job is to start laying up the ‘real’ color - I can’t wait to see it looking more purple and crazy! ??

Oops - DRAWERS ?. I don’t even have the New York accent, I’ve only been here a decade or so...but apparently I’m developing it ?. FUGGEDABOUDIT, gimme a BACONEGGNCHEEZ ?

Michael’s emailed me a 60% off voucher, a 40% off voucher, a $5 rewards voucher AND a 20% off entire purchase voucher this morning...so that secured my plans for the day ? They let me stack the vouchers (which some cool staff members will let you, and some won’t) so I ended up with these two for just under $10 each, after deals: And whilst I was braving the Coronovirus in Manhattan I picked up a few other essentials to see me through the apocalypse...some sign vinyl, glue, brass stock, decal set and some little baggies for parts organizing Then I came home and my wife surprised me with a label maker I’d been looking at for a few weeks! Finally I can label all my draws so I don’t have to look through 10 of them to remember where I put stuff! ?? Not a bad haul today ?

This is way cool! Really love the scratchbuilding you’ve done so far! I’ll be watching!

Thanks Tom! I never would’ve guessed that, no! Haha! They look right at home on there!

You’re right - I did look at those too...I need to start collecting a few of those from the various manufacturers so I have a nice selection to pick from!

I don’t think that kit chrome looks too bad - what don’t you like about it?

Thanks fellas! Progress on this is REALLY disjointed...I’m trying to keep progressing to make sure it’s done by NNL East but that means doing a little on one thing and then a little on something else and then something else on the third thing then once the first thing is dry going back to that and so on and so forth...good thing I made a decent to-do list that I can refer to ? This week’s mini-projects included making some little chrome trim rings and gauges for the dash and doing the first of a few light washes on the radio-frequency gauge to bring out the tiny numbers that AMT helpfully put on there: Then I shot all the pieces that need to be leather-colored a flat tan color... And then added some shading to make them look a bit more leather-like: Love the look of that leather color against the body! More soon, soon as a BUNCH of paint dries and I can work on some more stuff ?

Good thing I just got a new bottle of Elmer’s!

I saw some of those fuzzy pipe cleaners at Target the other day and was trying to figure out a good modeling use for them...guess I found it! Good tip Mike!

So your tip is to glue the body to the chassis securely? ?

Oh, and re. those valve stems...what gauge wire do you like for making those? They look great!

Stunning work! Really enjoyed this thread, thanks for sharing your work on it! I know you just finished, but...what’s next? ?

Those headers look great! Super clean build so far!

This is a BEAUTIFUL build - really really impressive! Can’t wait to see more!

Another little update - but one I was looking forward to! Got all the templates cut from my Gopher Racing wood grain decal sheet: And got them in place! Pleased with how those look on there! Next job is a coat of clear over the whole lot, soon as they’ve had a day or two to dry. More soon!

He nearly fitted it in the space! ? It looks like it’s short enough that it WOULD have fitted if he’d gone nose-in

I like their Wicked Color line too, yes! The ‘regular’ ones tend to be easier to find where I am, but I’m sure in time I’ll end up springing for a set once I get bored of the regular colors. Seeing as I’m replying anyway, next job that I’m starting on this thing is the wooden floorboards in the interior. I picked up this woodgrain pattern decal sheet from Gopher Racing and I’ve been looking for a project to use it on - it’s a little cartoon-y looking I think for a ‘serious’ build...so it should fit right in on this one! ? Need to make a bunch more templates now and then get cuttin’ and decalin’: More soon!

Airbrushed some lettering today - the kit had decals but why use them and make things easy ??

Ok, time’s up! Masks off! ? Just a couple of little touch ups that I need to do on the blue and then I can hit these with some clear! More soon!

Wow, sure took me a long time to do any more on this one ? Next step, after getting the body parts in paint was the distinctive lettering. I could’ve used kit decals but I wanted to do something a step better than that, so I cut some masks so I could paint them: First up I shot a layer of Tamiya chrome through the airbrush - I wanted a little bit of a scale metalflake look and the grainy finish of this paint will help with that as demonstrated on this spoon I shot at the same time: Then a light coat of Createx candy yellow: And then a little candy Orange to add a little subtle depth and detail: And now I’ve gotta wait patiently an hour or so to let the candies set up (they can be a little gummy and tear if you remove the mask too soon) and we’ll see where we’re at on this one!

That’s an OUTSTANDING build - absolutely stunning! Just the kind of thing I was hoping to see in this thread! What scale is that?

Amazing! This board is the best for people having stuff you’d never see otherwise! Thanks for posting bud!