Dominik

Thats so cool! Like it, you made a great job *thumbsup*

...last progress on the headlight. Next color i used is Schmincke Siena: Buisiness as usual, i painted the upper side wet in wet... ...also i want to have a more rusty look of the reflector, i painted it to: The goal is, that the right headlight lost his glass. Hm. Lost glass without cable or bulb? i grabbed my partsbox and took a look at all clearparts i collected in my career As lucky guy i am, i found an old sprue from a Tom's Toyota (thought)... ...with the perfect bulb - i cut out: To glue it in place, i took superglue lace on a wire... ....aaaaand: Done! After drying, i mounted the right headlight - so the front is ready. Tatahhh...: To see the difference of the weathering, a closeup from the left... ...and the right side: Thats it for today. Thank you for the time you took to read all the stuff i wrote

...more progress. I think i know, you are as curios as i like it looks on the car. So i mounted the bumper... ...the right indicator... ...and of course the left one: As the left side of the car has not too much weathering, i painted the left headlight only with flat aluminium on the upper side and fitted the lense with clear paint. Also i mounted it in place: It works Next was the right headlight. More weathering, more difficult work on it. I used flat aluminium, flat brown and my beloved hard brush: First, i painted the reflector with flat aluminium: Then i took some paint from both colors on my brush, removed too much paint while i tipped it on a cardboard... ...and also tipped it on the reflector... ...to get the reflector a little bit rusty. ...

Thank you for comments! Yes, Chris, i am working on the dioram. I will post it, when it is ready. Perhaps, i will do a thread of the progress in the Diorama-section. I don't know it yet. Lets go back to work As i wrote, the next parts were the Chromeparts and bumpers. The first step was on the rear bumper, to spray a layer of oven cleaner on the top: In the meantime, when the cleaner is working, i lay the rear bumper aside. Why i use oven cleaner only on top? Hm....i try something new. Normally, i remove the complete chrome and paint it new. Either with Alclad or i choose silver / chrome spraycans, wichever result i want. Then i make the weathering. On this one, i try to remove only the chrome on the top, were the weathering will follow. The front bumper is "easier". I took the shine while i sprayed with mat clearcoat on the top: For the weathering i use Schmincke (as always) "Umbra" and "Siena"... ...and painted with brush and water, wet in wet, layer by layer, till i had a desired result. For example the right corner, because it is more weathered than the left one... In my opinion, it is always the kick for me, to have a fitting part regardless of the painted body. While i work on the bodyparts, i never make "probe assemblies". I just take a look on the body were the parts will be mounted, work on the parts for themselfs. The result, the goal of the appearance is in my head! Thats my philosophy Next parts - i dont know what they are called - i've done the "indicators". Because they are to small to spray it with rattlecans. So i used Tamiya flat aluminium, a hard brush... ...and did a "drypainting" on the upper side of both indicators: Also i used the Schmincke colors like above and painted the same way the left one... ...and with more rust the righte one: ...

I agree!

The front quarterlights i only sanded to take the gloss... ...and fitted them: Also the windshield: The windshield i sprayed only a touch of flat clear paint from above. Now the windows are ready. Next will be the chromeparts on the front (bumber, headlights). So stay tuned

Thanks buddies for comments! I appreciate it. James, ...sure you can throw it away. But some of them i grab and put in a box with some rests of sprues. For Dioramas i make cans out of the circled pieces, or spray cans, knobs, hubs, wheel hubs or something like that. Also the clear sprues you can take for bottles, drinking glasses f.e. Be creative Some progress on the Chrysler - specially the sidewindows. They dont exist. First, i take a cardbord and draw the window line: Next step, i cut it out to get a template. Than i put some masking tape on a transparent sheet and transfer the template on it: Cut it out, made a crack for the b-pillar (seperation between the two sidewindows): Than i removed the tape and made a stripe of BMF on it: So far, so god. the easy part. Now, i made the weathering. Back to the scene: the right side of the car is standing under a tree, so there is mor green stuff on it, that is washed down. For this i used again Schminke "olive green" and "sepia brown", also a hard brush, a towel and a piece of used wet-sanding-paper (1000pcs ?) With the sandpaper I only go once vertically over the outside of the sidewindow, only on the parts, were i want to have adhesive color sounds complicated? The painting is wet in wet with both colors - I can only show an intermediate step: I used both colors as a mix of more or less green. After a short time of drying, i took the towel and tapped off a little wet color. Also i took the hard brush and emphasized vertical on the window: partially the same on the back window. After more steps of wet painting, drying, some rubbing i glues the windows in:

Congratulations Pierre!

Wow - you have a good eye for details. i think, it will come out very very great.

Great job, very nice detailwork!

Very very nice

Beautiful car . well done Tom!

Awesome paintjob Doc! Also built perfect. Whats the story behind it, why its called Tesla?

My brother has "a ton" of mpc Knight Rider kits. Long time ago, we disscused the correctness of the kit in our german forum. There are a lot of moviecar freaks, watching every detail on the cars. He told me - because i would like to build my own KITT - there are a lot of different kits bashed by mpc. Fenderskirts, engraved signs (firebirdemblem, knight2000, etc.), noses or other details are often in kit "what they should had in production" similar to the DoH General...a lot of mistakes molded. No word about the engine, they used... He gave me an old (1-issue)-mpc-kit and completed the body with correct parts. you can say, he kitbashed it out of different kits. If you want to build a correct KITT, so you must choose (like Chuck wrote) your personal season and episode . for me, i will only build the scene on the intro, while KITT is jumping over the sea Good luck buddie! Every (good) built KITT is a eyecatcher

Love it. More closer pictures please

wow - beautiful!

Beautiful! i think, i'm in love with the bug

interesting mix of styles. I'd like to see a complete paintjob like the roof from you - that looks awesome! I also think, a flatcolor painted body looks better than a weathered...but thats my taste, doesn't matter.

Well done! clean and looks like you see it on the road.

Cool one, a kit i am searching for (a human price). Like it - if you dont want it, i give you my adress The color is classic for this supra. Only a point of orange for the turn signals on the fenders i am missing.

Good job! I like the black one most, because it has the right stance

Great built! Very nice detail on the engine!

Nice colors and a very clean Ford. Well done!

I love the weathering from the underdog! Looks WOW!

...loooooong time ago, some more problems with my health - back again. After all pictures from the progress are gone (crashed my computer ), i saved some pictures to show. Also i hope, that i can make the updates "faster" Now, in the meantime, the 300 is ready. But i will show you the progress to the finish. For the upcoming weathering, i used colors from Schmincke. I worked with a hard brush, a lot of water and a tissue to work with the colors "wet in wet". Pictures from this procede i cant make because wet hands and flowing work. I only can show you result between some steps to the get the goal. Here we go with the left side: a closer look: And now the passengers side. More dirt then left, becaus it will placed with it under a tree: closer look: The backend: At last a overall view to this point: For the steps of the weathering on the passengers side (my first try!), i try to show you a little bit "step by step" the upcoming windows. Thanks for attention