Gluhead
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Welcome back. I've looked for ya a few times myself. Glad to hear it was just basic life in the way.
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Hopefully a quickie. Tamiya Bright Red and Dull Red on there so far. I'm not sure yet whether I'll make it all dull or all shiny, but it won't stay both. lol
I still have no idea which colors I'll go with for the interior. I'm not a huge fan of single-color interiors on these, but I'm seriously tempted to run with the same colors inside. Stock black n' white would be pretty sharp, too. I dunno. I'll figure it out, but if you guys have any great ideas I'm happy to allow myself to be even more confused.
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Nice. Jelly!
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T-Hot
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That be rad. Way rad.
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Yep! Pigment size. Paints/primers are pigments suspended in carriers and solvents, to put it simply. Pigment size does vary from paint to paint, and is often different for specific uses. This is why some craft acrylics airbrush fantastic (they have nice small pigment) and some are coarse no matter what you do (big rough...read:cheap and unrefined...pigment).
Like Jonathan said, spray both and you'll feel it. With the fine, you will likely still want to knock the surface down (just a light buff at least, which is completely normal) and with the super fine you may find it's ready to accept the color coats as sprayed. I usually find the super fine to be overkill for model cars, but I can see where it would help immensely with smaller scales and detail that's very easily lost in paint, like small figures for example.
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It's Don Holthaus. He's the Chuck Norris of resin casting. No need for pics, because you KNOW you'll get the best.
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If you think Mazooma's model collection is nice, you should check out his 1:1 collection...
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Yeah, just saw this on another forum. The Manta Ray was one of the first full-tilt customs I remember from really early childhood. It made a huge impression on me. RIP Mr. Jeffries!
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Wow...what a greenhouse on that one. Looks fantastic from every angle but that front shot. That's a face only a mother could love.
In any case, thanks for posting it...I've never seen that one before.
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Mark...sweet! You know how hard '40's are to get a good chop on. I think ya got it. Plus, hell...pops old car? Super cool.
I'm with you. I like drip rails. I think they look a goofy without them. But, they're easy to replace if you get rid of them for the sake of cannon and decide you can't stand it like that. Go for it!
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Wow. Yeah, great transformation here.
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Yeeeaash. Is that an illusion or is the roof literally dripping away at the rear? lol!
Brave man...good luck!
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Yep, I agree...fitting color for what you're doing. It's a solid color, yeah? I'd be real tempted to hold a can of gold metallic wayyyyy back and let some gold mica fall onto it before clear. blingbling
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Looks great, Rob. Heheh...love the bondo sticker on the bondo'd quarter.
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I've got one of these that I picked up at a swap years ago as part of a Toro junkyard for next to nothing. It looked like it'd been, literally, dipped into a bucket of enamel paint and tossed into a flowerbed, not once but twice. I finally tossed it in the strip jug a few months ago and was very pleasantly surprised to have the body come out almost flawless. Every speck of paint gone, even from the most difficult areas like in the badge lettering. The chassis and interior are not as much to brag about, but the interior is clean enough and I could care less about the chassis on this one. Oh, and sorry guys...it's not for sale...I plan to get it on the bench at some point this year. I scored a very similar condition '66 in the same junkyard. Both included fairly nice boxes, too.
Fred, the custom parts are very minimal...a hidden headlight grill that overlays the stock one, a very basic rear rolled pan, and those sweet Johan Hurst mags.
This should be a cool build, though...perfect style to go with for it. It was probably just a mental typo but it's Astro Supremes, not Cragar.
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As mentioned already, follow the directions...actually follow them...lol...and alclad is pretty dang durable. You can't handle the begeezus out of kit chrome and have it never wear off or dull down a bit, either.
Panel scribers aren't specifically for opening panels...they're actually for creating or refining the panel lines. Aircraft modelers have to do this a LOT, which unless I'm mistaken is what segment of the hobby bmf was actually developed for. I didn't even consider the question in any other context than that until I read everyones replies...but if I answer the question in the context I thought it was intended, then yes I use #11's for this but really wish I had a good purpose-made panel scriber.
I can't really comment on #3, but to say that for what really basic masking I do, I more often than not use bmf at the edge and block off large areas with tape. I've never been able to get a line that consistently satisfies me from tape...fineline or otherwise.
I guess I can make one other comment to that one - some crazy stuff is possible with spray cans, but an airbrush is infinitely better for intricate designs, no matter what kind of masking process is used, if for no other reason than the ability to control volume of paint.
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...where did it all go Wrong?...
You know that old saw about how as soon as there were two cars, people started racing them?
Kinda the same thing with people and the internet. It ain't no thing...just humans being human beings. And like Bill said, it's really not much of an issue here in particular. You think it gets ugly here? Go to a forum for some massive multiplayer online game and you'll realize how well-behaved people here are and how well we get along as a community.
Doesn't mean there will never be bumps in the road, but if you can't handle a few of those then model car drama is probably the least of your issues.
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Yep, gotta watch it, eh! I go back for my 4th stent next week, after having that heart attack in March and earning myself 3 then. I found out I'd developed t2 diabetes at the same time.
I'm 42, and the only reason I'm sedentary is because my back is screwed up pretty bad (much like our host, Gregg's, if you're familiar with his situation). But regardless of the reason, I am sedentary and have been for a chunk of years now. I gained 80 pounds (putting me at 280) going from being pretty active to unable to even walk through a grocery store. I lost half of it by adjusting what/how much I ate, but the other half just does not want to feck off. But, between several years of the sudden drop in activity and a high pre-disposition to heart disease and diabetes, here I am. So we do what we gotta do, right? But that doesn't make it easy! That's okay...nobody ever said livin' was a cakewalk.
Anyway, good luck with it!
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Thanks, guys. Glad ya like it.
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Foose based the one-off 1:1 wheels on the mags from Mickey Thompson's Challenger 1, so that might be a starting point in scale.
Call me crazy, but I betcha he's built a few model kits in his day, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if he still uses them when visualizing his designs... Like I said, Foose the guy I like. Foose the "brand", not so much
Probably so. They do look more like the MT wheels, but what first came to mind when I saw them was the old Halibrand Smoothies that the guys would run reversed. Oh, and agreed on the guy vs. the brand thing.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5778645&postcount=104
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I would sacrifice three virgins and eat a goat heart for those wheels...just sayin'.
I think the problem is there is the actual Chip Foose guy, who I like for the most part - especially his more traditional stuff - and then there is the Foose "brand" which I hate...
I think if Revell is looking for something to follow up the Stacy David car, then the Foose-designed "Fender Less" 3w would be sweet, despite the "faux-tina'd" paint job I think it's pretty cool...
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Terrible news...so sorry to hear this, Kevin.
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No justice done by this pic. The blonde looks fantastic with the brown to the naked eye. I couldn't be more pleased with the combo between them and how the interior colors play off everything. No clear or buffing yet...gonna let it sit a week or so before I touch it.
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I see. Well, still makes them pretty easy.
1956 Chevy "Mars Volta"
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I did almost run that direction...actually, something very close to it -- the distressed leather/tan combo that freakshow used on his '57 Ford street machine. In the end, though, my initial thought had taken root well enough that I went with it. Fits where the car is headed pretty well...
Don't even ask what colors I used. lol. I had every single shade of red I own sitting out and open...about a dozen in all, between the ones bottled and the ones I mixed as I went. Acrylics, enamels, lacquers and even one oil. The room was smelling pretty potent by the time I was done, and I'm pretty sure I had a good buzz on.
Worth it, though. My camera does not do well with reds but I'm really pleased with how it looks to the naked eye.