OldNYJim

For light flames over a dark base (like your first example) I use this process - doing the darker color last means you don’t have all that paint build up trying to cover over it (so no raised edges to the flames and less chance of peeling paint)

This is gonna be a cool build! Following!

Highlight makes a bunch of really cool Mooneyes and VW photo etch stuff - I wanna do a Beetle just like this one (which features a lot of their photoetch)! @Eero does amazing work!

And, with the suppliers we use at work anyway, there’s apparently a paint toner shortage nationwide so even PAINT is hard to come by. Blue was first to go, then red a couple of weeks back…might have to go back to painting everything black like in ye oldy times

I picked this up in Hobby Lobby - it’s actually a little too large of a diamond pattern but it’s closest I could find to at least give the LOOK of what’s in the real car… Today’s little bits of progress…I ordered a pair of Detail Master Moon tanks (and some nice Moon photo etch pedals) to see how they’d work but they’re a little large for this particular build: So, I made as close of a facsimile as I could on my lathe instead: Picked up some Detail Master A/N fittings, painted them with Createx candy acrylic and made the fuel pump: Got the tank installed, and fitted a couple of wire hold-downs: I also ordered some RB Motion rod ends and stainless steel tube for the various linkages on the front end but they didn’t come yet - but managed to get the front axle on, and then airbrushed some heat-staining on the headers, made mounting pins and got them installed too: Next job will be figuring out the pedals so that I can get the floor in place - Highlight Model Studio’s photoetch set has the cool old rectangular Moon gas pedals that match the original car: Once the floor is in I can mount the rear axle for good and start finishing up all the little interior details! More soon!

I love seeing your work - looks great so far!

You’re braver than me - but it came out great! Super clean!

Picked up a little organizer cart for the shop - it was cheap because the paint was all jacked up and ruined….a couple of coats of Rusto and a Mooneyes decal later and I’m happy with my little Saturday-morning project!

That craft paint looks great! Are you laying down a barrier coat before masking, or just masking right over it?

I’d be more than happy with that finish you showed above as being ready for clearcoat - looks great!

I too am interested in this question, and actually nearly posted something near identical myself this week...where do you NASCAR modellers go to find detail shots of particular cars? Is there some good resource for this stuff that you guys like?

That color is gorgeous! I never used that color before - looks like it laid down nicely too! How cold is too-cold-to-paint in SoCal? Like, 65? ?❤️ I used to think NY got cold but it was, like, 15 here last week. Car got so cold the LCD display on the dash seemed like it was working slow - there was a lag! ?

I tend to do the same - if the 'sins' in the color coat are pretty minor I'll use the clear to hide them as best I can. I definitely would try sanding any metallics before trying to clear-coat over some cat hair or dirt just because "you can't sand metallics"...in fact I HAVE and DO - just need to recoat to cover up any burn-thru and get it all nice and even again. There's very little that you CAN'T fix with paint with some careful sanding and touching-in where necessary, in my experience...

I like doing that too - definitely helps to figure one out fully before committing to a more detailed or modified (pardon the pun) project Nice start! I’ll be watching!

I appreciate that, thanks Raoul! You’re right, there’s some great reference pics in there! I’d be interested to do some more research and see if there were a lot of differences between the ‘current’ clone and the first clone (which was crashed and rebuilt into second one). Add to that the very early version of the car with the top mounted blower plus another version which ran Revell logos and I could be building these things all year ? Thanks buddy! Tiny update, but one of my favorite parts of this build so far…the decals! Finished painting the ‘tins’ and shot them with a coat of Createx clear gloss. That isn’t my favorite clearcoat to polish, but it self levels nicely, protects the coats underneath and provides a good surface for decal application… It’s a pretty tiny decal sheet, as you’d expect… But they laid down BEAUTIFULLY and the white elements covered the yellow just fine - great job Atlantis! I’ll let them set overnight before starting to apply some clearcoat to gloss the panels up a little, but I’m pleased with how it’s starting to look like the car in the pics, finally! I also ordered a photoetch set from Highlight Model studio that has the correct rectangular Mooneyes pedal for the original car, plus a Detail Master aluminum Moontank…I can spin up a tank myself on my lathe but their kit has nice photoetched brackets too so I’m going to check that out and see if it’ll work. More soon!

A differing view on sanding metallics:

Those are awesome! Nice score!

Awesome! Thanks Mark!! Those are both really cool!

I saw that story reported in some of the junkier tabloids, but the NTSB report disputes most of those claims: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/10/22/drivers-seat-wasnt-empty-in-fatal-tesla-crash-ntsb-says Tesla says that the ‘self-driving’ add-on wasn’t optioned on the car involved, and investigators couldn’t make the self-steering function turn on in an identical car on the same road because of a lack of painted white lines that the system requires to function. Sad as it is, I’d suspect this particular case was driver error rather than technology error…

Thanks fellas! @Daddyfink - I didn’t know that kit came with a ‘chute, thanks for the info!! I should pick one of those up… Slowed myself down this week when I repainted a couple of bits that I wasn’t happy with, but made some bits of progress anyway… Got the engine mostly assembled (but with some detail still to come) and into the frame: I made some little aluminum mounting brackets to match the ones on the 1:1, but you can’t really see them now the engine’s in there…. Incidentally, I’ve been messing with using a satin black enamel base under some of my metal parts - it’s a nice way to get some variation in metal and chrome tones… Did some work on the body panels; added some material to the ‘hood’ to get that to fit a little nicer: Got all the parts cleaned up and smoothed out and started getting them into color today…I mixed up a small batch of paint to match the 1:1 because I’d like to build a hauler for this thing too and I want the yellow to match… Added the missing lug nuts to the wheels and got them ready for chrome: And now the engine’s in place I made a driveshaft shield like the 1:1 has to protect the driver - just a simple piece, although I still need to make a wrap around spring for it (not that I can figure out what that spring DOES)… Test fit to make sure everything lines up still: And that’s about where we’re at so far! Before I can install the rear axle I need to get the floor panel painted, and then figure out the pedals and THEN the axle can go in, followed by the rest of the steering assembly that I’ve started but not finished, and then once the body panels are in place I can figure out making the rear disk brakes that the 1:1 runs…got a very particular order that I need to assemble this thing in so it can actually go together…thanks for looking, more soon!

I know this is an old thread, but that's REALLY nicely done. Great subtle weathering and the tire rubs look SUPER realistic! Nice job @Jay!

Coke Fink, to hit both collector audiences ?

One way to find out - engage Snake-fu! ??

Yeah, the woody that isn't a woody (unless the wood is under the metal, I guess). And the headlights on TOP of the fenders?! That red plastic they used for those sucked too - it was the most rubbery hard-to-sand stuff I ever worked with. It was like trying to sand a pencil eraser. Glad that one came back in a more 'conventional' form later on

Wow, this stuff must be pretty magical - I should get this drum of the stuff: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Methyl-Ethyl-Ketone-MEK-55-gallon-drum/831293952 ?