OldNYJim

Saw this cool old Vette, apparently broken and stuck on a junction on my commute home…there wasn’t a good place to stop but the guy was on his phone when I looped past so hopefully he got things resolved…

If you're set on white glue, I'd personally go with Aleene's Tacky Glue instead of Elmer's - like the name suggests it's MUCH stickier than Elmer's, costs about the same and has the same wash-away-able properties as any other white glue so that you can easily remove it when you're doing mocking everything up.

What he said x2! I missed this thread first time around but I’m glad I saw it now!! That bellytanker is a real cutie!

Great attitude…and great results! That’s a gorgeous color!

Why not mask the van and lay down your own flames? Hand draw them on the tape, slice them out with a sharp scalpel blade and you’ve got the perfect flamejob for the body you're working on

Revell made a WRC kit too, which beats the Tamiya in some respects because it includes a 20-something piece engine...if that matters to you.

Ha - I was reading that article and thinking what a great build it was - (belated) congrats on the well deserved magazine coverage! A little more progress this weekend - I’ve been trying hard to tie up all the little loose ends of making parts and fixing stuff so I can start batch-painting some of the chrome pieces (which is a lot of pieces on this one…) First up, designed and printed some pulleys to replace the kit part: Whilst the printer was running, printed a PA horn for my base, plus I designed and printed some track rod ends: The kit steering linkage looked like a good place to make some improvements…still need to figure out a steering box for it: That whole front axle assembly could actually use some more detail, so I added some spring shackles and printed bolt heads: Need to figure out some little disk brakes and then these bits are ready to go to the chromer’s… Speaking of brakes, this kit doesn’t have any for the rear either so I printed some 2-piece drums that will still work with those distinctive kit wheels. One snuggles inside the rear wheel so you can see the drum thru there, and the other piece is a backing plate file that has better detail: Keeping the printer busy this weekend, next job was printing some magnetos to replace the kit piece…also started cleaning up the scoop and getting it ready for more detail later: And finally, I’d been playing with some new paint techniques on the sister car, knowing it would be super easy to strip that acrylic craft paint that I used…well, the experiments didn’t blow me away so I stripped that back and started laying color down on the second car again… And that’s about my process this weekend - thanks for looking, everyone! More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

That whole video series of 50+ videos is really useful (even for experienced builders). I've watched all of them at least a couple of times already...

Those hexagonal ones would be great for A/N fittings and stuff like that. Do you recall who makes those particular ones?

Ding ding ding - I think you're right! It seems too large for 1/32, and a little underscale for 1/25, but looking at some pics online, that's definitely the one. Thanks Dave! Good eye!

Picked this out of a box of junk at a swap meet a couple of weekends back…and I still can’t figure out what kit this would’ve been from. Definitely a multi-part body (because it’s falling apart), looks about comparable in size to an AMT 1/25 T body…anyone know the origins of this one?

Imagine an alternate world where this was more popular than the Model T and we ended up with thousands of C(hevy)-bucket hot rods! That would be a fun scale project actually - plus the other variations shown on that concept drawing…

This is coming together beautifully! I was just experimenting with gold leaf on a body this past weekend…actually, I’ve been messing with it for a year now, on and off, trying to figure out the best technique for applying it…still not quite there yet…it’s definitely something where you need to be prepared for failure when you attempt it

That’s a really great tribute - I enjoyed the compilation of clips of him speaking about modeling, and seeing some of his work that I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for posting that

Curbsides are great as part of a balanced diet. Ditto snap kits. They’re like M&Ms and sirloin steaks…both good, in their own right ?‍♂️

Thanks fellas! Luckily, past-Jim made a lot of mistakes and learned what NOT to do, so present-day-Jim struggles a little less…I still mess up my fair share tho ? Speaking of paint, a couple of little projects completed today… I felt like working on the display base for this thing a little today, so I painted the 3D printed concrete blocks that I had made previously, and wanted to lay down some lettering to they match the scene in the box art. Cut some masks… Taped the blocks together to keep the alignment right, then laid down the masks: And after a little of my favorite Createx black sealer, we have some passable lettering: These will get a little weathering before I’m done, but I was excited to make a little progress on the display stand anyway… There was no way I was gonna be able to successfully paint the tiny door lettering that this car should have, so I laid down decals for that today… And with that the body is finally ready for clear…excited to shine this thing up. Less excited to lay down the chrome portions after clear, but it’s gotta be done… And finally for this weekend, stripped the chrome off the suspension pieces so I can start pinning them together, removing imperfections and seeing where I can add some detail to bring them to life: That steering linkage can definitely use some work, and there’s some boltheads and stuff I can add to help things along. And that’s about today’s progress because I spent the rest of the day by the grill reading old SAEs ? Hope everyone had a good labor day! Thanks for looking!

Thanks fellas! Today’s job was the signwritten lettering on the rear quarters. First up, cutting some masks (not that the cut lines are very easy to see…) There will be two steps to painting these…step one will be a larger sized letter, painted in red: Masks applied to the body: Then, a light coat of Createx pure red (which only lays down nicely over yellow pink or white, but luckily we’ve got one of those as a underlayer already): Next up, I shot a little intercoat, which is a clear to protect the paint so we can (relatively) safely mask over the top of it: Whilst that was drying, I weeded the next layer…the idea here is that I’ll lay a smaller set of the same letters down over top the ones I’ve painted already, leaving a thin edge that I can paint in black, as though the letters have been outlined with a pinstriping brush: A good trick to apply multi-piece masks is to use a very low tack tape to hold them in position - I’m using a cheap vinyl tape from Amazon that has a less sticky glue than the masking material: Once I got the second set of letters aligned (as best I could anyway - there’s only a scale quarter inch gap either side that will form my black outline) I shot Createx black sealer: Then, after giving it five minutes or so, removed the outer edges of the masks (if the paint starts to pull up with the mask at this stage, wait a little longer…) Then CAREFULLY with an X-acto and tweezers removed the remaining mask material… Looks something like this: As usual, I’ll leave this overnight and then do any little touch-ups before locking it in with some clear. Whilst I had my airbrush out, I did a little weathering on the base I made for this thing, and masked and painted some divider lines on what will be a little drag strip: And I’m starting to paint some interior pieces. Since there isn’t any color guidance from TD’s artwork on how the interior looks I have a LITTLE creative license I can use here, but I’m trying to keep it sensible and feasible…the bucket seats will be black with yellow flaked vinyl inserts (plus red belts, to keep the color scheme going throughout this build) and I wanted to do a flaked red Mooneyes style rim for the steering wheel (so that when you look at the dash you’ll see yellow dash, black gauges and red wheel all complimenting each other). The seats got a coat of a coarse-flaked Createx silver, and I shot the steering wheel silver, then dipped it in Future, then dipped THAT in a little silver flake mica powder: Once this has set up overnight I’ll brush the excess flake off the wheel (and clean up the spokes) and shoot candy red over that, and candy yellow over the seats. Another fun day at the bench…thanks for looking…more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Amazing work! I bet that roof and the seat were NO walk in the park to model. Nice job!

Thanks everybody! I’m using Adobe Illustrator and Dimension mostly - and TinkerCAD for the simpler stuff… A little update - started laying down some decals. The numbers on the side of the car span the front fenders AND the doors, which isn’t an issue unless you cut the doors open. To lay them down, I taped the doors closed and laid down the vinyl, spanning the two (and laid down the one for the trunk too, while I was at it… Then once they had dried, carefully sliced down the door gap with a new scalpel blade, and applied a little setting solution to the edges on both sides to make sure they wrapped around the edges nicely: The various sponsor decals aren’t well printed on the repro decal sheet that I ordered, so I dug through my decal stash and found replacements. The Hooker decals on the fender took the most digging to find…I wanted some smaller ones than would have been on the original Monogram decal sheet, because in the box art they’re smaller too…found about everything I needed after a couple of hours opening boxes and hunting through stuff… There’s another one I need to tackle on the door too…but that’s gonna take a little more work than I was hoping… Just a little update - but I was pleased to make a little progress in making this thing look Badman-y finally! More soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Man, that’s a great race-work kinda paint job. Nice work!!

That’s a gorgeous color Dave - GREAT choice! Thank you for the info!!

Thanks fellas! Good luck with your pickles Bob! A couple more tiny bits of progress… I wanted to paint the engine Chevy orange, but I didn’t like how the color looked with the other colors in this build. The brightest yellow I could paint, bright red lettering…I wanted a nice bright cartoony orange to keep the color palette how I had it in my head. Even my usual go-to Createx collection didn’t quite have the tone I wanted but I found one that matched the color in my head: I’ve been trying to solve the puzzle of how to paint the embossed 3D printed license plates that I’ve been printing lately, and found a few tricks that work but none of them were quite as easy and foolproof as I would’ve liked. I found a little rubber roller on Amazon at the weekend, and ordered one to experiment with. Painted the license plate black, then used a little white acrylic on the roller to pick out the fine lettering…I haven’t nailed the technique yet, but it’s the best way I found so far: I also got a set of aftermarket decals in the mail… …so obviously I’ll be trying to paint as much of this stuff as I can instead of actually using them ? First up, the stripes: I measured the decals as a guide, but also referenced the look of the box art seeing as that’s the thing I’m really trying to copy…turned out ok I think! Once this black has set up overnight I’ll clean up any little flaws or bits of whatever that needs fixing, then I’ll hit it with a light coat of clear so I can get the next steps done. Oh, and I’ve been working on the base for this thing a little too…can’t beat a fun evening of Bondo-ing some flaws on some concrete blocks to get them as perfect as can be ? Just a little progress, but some progress…more soon, soon as I’ve done more!

Apparently Donn Yost has, now, passed away. I never got the chance to hang out with Donn, which I really regret - but I enjoyed his tutorial videos, learned a bunch, and admired his amazing skill at laying down a paint job. A real loss to the community. A coupla three of his builds linked below:

Huh! Interesting! You're right - it's smart to have given the price. Do they have any cool rentals over there? Jaguar E-Type or an MG? ?

I LOVE that color Dave! Do you recall who makes that acrylic?