OldNYJim

This is true - I’ve been watching a bunch of aircraft and military modeling videos lately picking up tips on painting!

All of these seem to have those little dots on the side - the first one I did looked GREAT until I laid the clear down and couldn’t figure out what caused it. They’re barely noticeable in bare plastic, but much more so once it’s got paint and clear over top…

Thanks David! Tiny bit of progress today (especially considering the amount of time I spent at the bench being unproductive…) - got some purple laid down on the parts that are meant to be purple! First up, shot them all with Testor’s Purple Pearl: It’s a nice shade, but even over a light primer it was a little darker than I had in mind…not going for a traditional woody color scheme on this one: Has a little too much of a burgundy tint to it for my liking, so I mixed up a hot pink mica pearl plus Future combination… …which should lighten this color up nicely and add a little flip-flop to proceedings: Tada! Much more like I had in mind! Now, 90% of this will be painted to simulate wood when we’re done, but I like the color better now. And that’s today’s progress…thanks for looking, more soon!

Another fine cars and coffee today…it had Miatas: Mustangs: MGs: Minitrucks: ‘Merican iron: And more! https://public.fotki.com/NewYorkSpeedShop/11-cars/car-shows/cars-and-coffee-at/page9.html

Hope they sell big ‘n’ little dragster tires as a parts-only deal - I’m always struggling to find those without parting out entire kits to get them…

Thanks fellas! Interesting about the casket company, @David G.! Been plugging away at this thing - picked some big pointy headlamps out of my spares box, made the suspension linkages, made the inner door panels, picked some taillights and made mounts for them and found a license plate frame for the rear…next up is blowing it all apart and cleaning everything up and getting it ready for paint and additional detailing: (Excuse the poor alignment for practically every part on there in the pics above - it’s all held together with Elmers and poster tack ??). More soon!

Spotted these on the Atlantis FB page tonight:

Any day I see a Miata is a good day - and this one was super clean!

Another new episode!

That’s gorgeous Bob - great color!

Spotted this lady on Instagram recently - AMAZING how good she is at brush painting these miniature fabric-looking patterns on this model: Video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CRmEDTrn0Hj/?utm_medium=copy_link And a bunch more cool pics here: https://instagram.com/juliwerra?utm_medium=copy_link I feel like she wouldn’t have much trouble painting chrome trim and dashboard details if she built a car…

Like stockcars eh, Chris? ?. Nice haul! Found this on Amazon this week and it arrived today - should be set for plug wires for a coupla three weeks:

I’m not remotely in charge here, but other people do! Sounds interesting!

I know the one you mean - I think that's actually from the AMT 'Rides' series if it's the one I'm thinking of. Similar kinda deal though - they put some but 24" wheels in the box and a logo on the art and called it a collaboration Testor's did have a Boyd's Chevy pickup in their lineup though - a replica of the one Boyd built for Van Halen: https://www.ebay.com/p/1100627540 They're not cheap though...

That’s what I call an Italian American!

Thanks fellas! Haha! Thank you! I wanted to paint it a dark purple I think(hence the name)…but that name gives me an idea for another build…hmmm…. I like that you said that! I tried to make a subtle coffin shape with the roof so it tapers a little towards the back…good eye! Working on some of the boring stuff this last couple of days - most of that has been figuring out the floor, which needed to be two pieces because of the way I made the internal structure of the body (what a dummy ?) I like the sprint car style steering wheel that comes in the 29 kit so I’ll use that, and I modified the kit Revell dash to fit in this new body. Not decided on the seat(s) yet. Maybe a wooden bench? ?? Plenty of scratchbuilding and kitbashing fun still to go on the interior there… A little fun thing I had the idea to do - I redrew the standard Ford script logo to read “York”…as in ‘New’. You can take the New Yorker out of the city, but you can’t take the city out of the New Yorker… I think the licence plate will maybe sit in the back window there somewhere and just read “NEW” to complete the concept Cut a piece of styrene sheet with my plotter: Then got it positioned on the back there carefully (the glue will eat thin styrene sheet like this is you’re not careful…) Still working through some of the bigger, less interesting parts (supports in the body for the floor, for example) but I’m starting to get this thing to where I should be able to get a rolling mock-up together and figure out some little bits like lights and wheels and the grill. More soon!

I think you’re excellent at what you do John! Always enjoy seeing your work!

Interesting! I didn’t know about that stuff - thanks for the detailed reply dude! I hope you’re not disappointed too! The parts on that parts tree have my mouth watering already ???

Another one for my Boyd kits collection! Just need the 55 Nomad and I’ve got all of the AMT American Hot Rod series - the Nomad seems like it’s the rarest of the bunch though… Paid $15 for this one shipped, which wasn’t too unreasonable I thought…

That gives me another idea of something fun to do with my wife's Civic!

I look forward to seeing your results!

You don't need modelling how-tos Steve ? OP might find such a thing useful though...

What were you expecting to be disappointing about it? Unrelated, and maybe covered already, but spotted that Atlantis is selling their 1/16th drag tires as stand-alone parts, for those of you who have reason to stock up on those... https://atlantis-models.com/funny-car-tires-only-1-16-scale/ They've also got some individual glass sets for some of their kits available - would be cool if they started offering some of their most desirable parts individually!

For those interested, Donn Yost has a step by step paint and build tutorials that you can watch in an ongoing series of videos he posts on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScaleModelTechniques Might well be of interest in anyone hoping to use this enamel / lacquer thinner technique successfully...

I'm sure that's their concern - but they're not making any money either way right now. You can't buy it, and if you did it might not work on your PC/Mac regardless. You'd think they'd want to monetize all that old stuff in the same way Netflix monetizes old shows and movies. Netflix wouldn't be too popular if you could only run it on Windows XP though...they're missing a trick by not having all this stuff available digitally somehow