Dtimmerman89

I guess I really don't know. I am not doing anything super specific. He gave me a kit, aftermarket decals, and a bunch of resin parts. I wasn't tasked with finding a specific reference to replicate. I am just going to work with whatever I was given. If it were my personal project, that would be a different story entirely.

My ex business partner got us sponsored by them at the beginning and while everything was kosher over the first couple years, things went sideways with the owner and a weird falling out happened. He used a bunch of our builds for promos and lots of people got to see them... so at least that was pretty cool.

There's a couple of ways to get your hands on one. You can purchase the STL on Cults3d or if you don't have the means of printing one, mcvproducts.net has them available with and without a chevy square body. There are some issues with many of the parts being out of scale and if you're like me, chopping and replacing is a must. The supplied Hemi engine is a bit thick and lacking details and the body panels of the square body ate super thick. These Super Modified 4wd trucks use a flip top fiberglass body and a kit supplied or vacuformed body are much more accurate in scale thickness. I went with a Moebius kit supplied body. My next one will be vacuformed.

I am more of the flat and patina/weathering builder, but the 2k clear stuff I do is stunning. Here are some of my favorites.

I absolutely love these builds and it's exactly my style. I rarely gloss any of my stuff.

This is a pretty killer looking buildand super inspiring. I am stoked to see the final product. Are you still going with the Flathead v8 for the power plant?

Body prep starts this weekend.

Thanks. I haven't even started the fuel and oil lines yet. I have a lot of work left to do, and it's going to be pure eye candy when complete.

Thank you. It's been a lot of fun so far. From left to right you have a clutch, reverser, left brake, right brake and throttle. Most, but not all have the throttle on a hand control. Under load these trucks use the brakes to steer and they are only located at the front

Thank you. I'll definitely be posting more soon.

That Impala is pretty killer looking. I really like it. I guess what I'll do then is lay down my pearl white and let it cure for a couple days. I'll throw my tear graphic mask on, use 1mm masking tape around the edge of the graphic mask, then another round of 1mm mask around that to give a tape guide for masking the whole vehicle off. Pull the middle piece of mask out, shoot the orange in. Pull the rest of the mask off leaving the white graphic covered. Shoot some intercoat over orange before masking the orange off and layering over with the flag mask. Spray that in black, pull all of the masking off, mask over the white on the flag. I can then shoot the purple over the rest, Pull the white mask off and fade it in purple. This way, I can still go from lightest to darkest, minus the purple... and hopefully have the result I am after.

This is all something I have imagined and I really have nothing to reference to, unless I were to draw it out. That is something I am quite capable of doing just for reference sake. I have researched for hours on end how to paint car graphics and didn't find anything of use to what I am trying to accomplish.

Hi, everyone. I am building a pretty wild and super detailed pulling truck and I have designed a paint scheme to match these crazy performance machines. The scheme is as follows... and I think it's going to be gorgeous and super flashy. Pearl purple will be the main body color over a white pearl base, a canted tear graphic, probably left in base pearl white, striped in pearl orange, and a pearl white and black checkered flag behind it with purple faded over to blend. I have some masks for the tear and flag graphics, but with the complexity of things, I am not quite sure where to start once the white pearl is laid down. Should I start with laying down the flag graphic first, then put the tear over top of it, cut the mask around the edge of the tear and paint in my black before doing the tear graphic? The illusion is to show the flag behind the graphic. I was always told to and always have been painting lightest to darkest, but I feel this will be painted more in terms of doing a lowrider type scheme where you paint the top layers first and the final color would be your body color. I guess I am not 100% on how to approach this and I really don't want to screw this body up ad I have already done a ton of scratch work to it. I am a little intimidated to just fly by the seat of my pants and experiment like I normally would.

Thank you, everyone for the kind welcome. Can anyone direct me to how I can I get a post moved to it's proper location?

I got some more work in today. I shot a few coats of pearl orange over top of white primer. I got the wheels shot in spaz stix chrome over a gloss black backer. I like the way that spaz stix looks more like a billet or near polished aluminum look vs the AK or Revell chrome that I would have used if I wanted a more realistic chrome effect. I am pretty happy with the results after a quick photo mock-up. Things are moving along nicely. I just need to gloss coat it and then I can start some actual assembly work.