Psychographic

She's been moved to the under glass forum, thanks for following along.

This thing is so hard to get a picture of, it's either the background is light and the car is too dark or vice versa. Here are some decent shots.

Is that the cool jacket with all of those shiny buckles?

The other side is roughed into shape. I decided to cut the inside of the front rims and tires and add them to the back. I narrowed the frame and started on the tubs.

Thank you all for the kind words.

This is the car that got me back into modeling. I started this in June and have moved onto other projects, I'll bring you up to date on it and finish it. It's one of my all time favorites from my childhood. The Silhouette. I've probably built more of these as a kid than any other model. I like taking some of these great showcars of the 60's and giving them a modern flair, hopefully without destroying their original beauty. Mocking up the extended wheel base. OK, now for the fun part, let's start cutting. I filled the wheel openings and moved the side recesses from the middle to the front and made new lower sides.

I'm going to take a wild guess it's this one,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

This is the first model I have finished in about 40 years. I did some builds about 25 years ago, but never finished any of them. If you missed the build, http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=48052&st=120&gopid=547502&#entry547502

Next stop, Under Glass.

The compressor turns on until it hit's 55 psi, then it turns off. During use it kicks back on when the pressure drops to 43 PSI. Correct? If so, this is how an on-demand compressor works. It doesn't matter what pressure you are spraying at. The purpose of this type of compressor is so the compressor shuts of when you are not demanding air, when you need air it comes on. This is useful for frequent color changes and other times when the airbrush usage is on and off frequently. If the compressor shut of during use, you would have no air supply for the airbrush as the compressor is tankless and has no reserve. Make sense?

A shot of the engine and rear suspension. Yes, that is a starter hanging off the back, who wants to use an Indycar starter to just run to the store? You can see I finally had enough of that ugly plenum that came with the kit and swapped it for a scratch built one. The pipe coming from the turbo goes up to the scoop on the side of the roof once assembled.

Have you ever heard of Steve Buckwalter? I think he runs ARDC, the guy would remind you of Vogler, Kenyon and Wolfie. And not to throw this thread in the wrong direction, What a cool build this is, both subject and execution.

On a boxy body like a 66 Nova, I think they look crappy, but on something with a lot of curves, I like them. And this thing has a lot of them. BTW, the color is DuPont Absolute Purpleen over a custom mix DuPont black basecoat, the clear is Nason.

A little more progress to share with everyone. The front suspension is painted with Alclad, the discs are mounted and the lines run. The engine and rear suspension are in.

That is SOOOOOOO much better cut down. Good thinking.

Which one? Click on the pic.

As for idea's, you can't beat mother nature for color combo's. Try looking at some salt water fish, the ones that live on reefs, Do a search for Regal Angel, Flame Angel, Clown Triggerfish, Flasher and Fairey Wrasses, you'll get the idea. Corals are another good source, butterflies, tropical birds. etc. As for drying times with enamels, have you thought of adding a hardener? Tractor supply sells a 1/2 pint of Valspar hardener for about 16 bucks. I use this with my lettering enamels and it dries in a fraction of the time compared to not using it. I'm guessing most model enamels are very similar to my lettering enamels. As mentioned before laquer thinner will also speed up the drying time. If you don't like the LT idea, Dupont 3812S is the fastest reducer I've found for enamel that will still produce a gloss finish. Acrylic enamel reducers dry faster but it will dry satin most of the time. I think the biggest problem with enamel is not the dry time, but the cure time.

Thanks for the compliments everyone. I'm getting the cockpit ready and the front suspension is going back in. I didn't take into consideration how tight it was under the "hood", before I painted the body the dash just fit, now it doesn't. I had to re cut the area for it so it would fit lower. Once I'm sure it won't be in the way, I'll mount it.

The body is sanded and buffed, the headliner is flocked and the ribs done in Alclad. I still have to finish the dashboard and flock the door panel areas.

This is a great build, do you have any links to your other builds? I'd love to see a finished one. Where the heck do you buy your plastic that you can build about 6 cars for $12.

I should of kept my mouth shut about the headers. The other side wasn't as agreeable as the first, but it wasn't too bad. The roof is sanded and polished, so now I can Alclad the ribs and flock the underside. Tomorrow the body gets sanded and buffed, then I can paint and flock the underside. I need to find some taillights for this thing, PRONTO. I want it done by Sunday.

I consider this a Showrod. It obviously wouldn't be legal in IRL, and it certainly couldn't be street driven. I might put a number on the sides of the rear wing, but there are no graphics going on the car, I think the body and my choice of color will be plenty.

I won't bore you with the 5 or 6 rounds of filler I did. How about this, we skip to getting some color on it? The base is DuPont black basecoat. If you look I added a scoop on the right side of the roof, it's a headrest from a Deora with a wedge cut out of it to match the angle of the roof. While shaping the grill area and cutting slots for the front wings to fit into, I managed to break the bottom of the nose off. I set it aside to fix later on, and of course, lost it. As soon as I gave up looking for it and made it from scratch, I found the stock piece. This was good as I like my nose better, I think the wider flat bottom is meaner looking. I love this angle. It might seem like I'm breezing right through this build, but it was started in late August, you are seeing a month's worth of progress to get to this point. It was then set aside while I started the Corvair build. I'm just now getting back to this for what I hope is final assembly. There are countless hours into mating the Lola to the Vette. It didn't help that the Vette was already chopped to pieces. Getting the undertray to fit the body took the longest, but now it fits like a Snaptite model and feels extremely solid. In fact, while painting it, I dropped it 4 ft onto concrete nose first and it just put a small gouge in the plastic.