Harry P.

If you use texture paint, it can be any color. Just use your final color over it.

It looks good to me, Nice work.

I think you did a pretty good job on this one.

Yep, that's Baba Wawa!

You can do it. It's just a matter of measuring/marking the location of the strips, then gluing them down using liquid cement. It's not anything you couldn't do. But if you're uncomfortable doing that, just spraying the top from a distance, even without the "seams," will still look good.

Uh... didn't you just post the answer?

Thin strips of styrene glued to the roof before painting it.

Yes, paint the body, then mask it off and do the roof. Yeah, a distance of 12-15 inches or so would do the trick. Experiment on a piece of scrap styrene.

Several ways to do it. There are aftermarket vinyl roof kits available. Some people use masking tape to create the vinyl roof texture. I do it another way. Mask off the body, then spray the roof with flat black (or whatever color you want the roof to be)... but from a distance. That way the paint sort of dries before hitting the surface and you wind up with a pebbly surface that looks like an in-scale vinyl roof. It's one instance where you want "orange peel!" Another option is to use "texture paint" available in crafts stores... it's meant to leave a bumpy surface and look like stone.

Sunny and 82 today. Fingers crossed... winter may finally be over!

That's a pretty impressive display! Nice work...

Looks good to me!

Ok, I have to admit that since I "retired" from ROM/Auto ID, I haven't paid all that much attention. But what's going on here? Matt, are you the new man? What happened to Ken? What happened to posting the answer every Friday? Just curious...

But the OP specifically excluded British bands in this thread. British bands is a thread unto itself. Don't even get me started... Beatles... Led Zeppelin... Rolling Stones... Pink Floyd... Hollies... Kinks... and on and on and on...

Technically didn't get this today, but 2-3 weeks ago. And I posted a full-blown WIP on it...

I like your exterior colors. I'd go with a similar turquoise color for the interior. I don't know how "factory correct" it would be, but the car would also look good with an ivory interior to play off the roof color. Maybe a combo turquoise-ivory two-tone interior? Could look pretty slick.

Don't know, Bill. I just assumed that modifying kit parts as extensively as you have done with the wheels would disqualify a model from "box stock" status... just as if you had used parts box wheels, for instance. I don't really know... the rules for "box stock" vary from contest to contest.

Isn't cutting up the wheels going beyond the "box stock" category?

A 1911 Chevrolet must be incredibly rare, seeing as how the first production Chevrolet to be sold to the public was the 1913 Chevrolet.

Because they are all part of the "Killing" series. It's an ongoing theme.

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It's just weird. Back when we had the chat room working, there were always people in there. However, too many people were misbehaving in there and we had to shut it down, Now that it's open again, there is never anyone in there. Maybe people don't realize the chat room is up and working again?

Who is this?