realgone58

Awesome!

Here's a few of my vintage travel trailers. All 1/87 scale. Green striped one is a 1955 Nashua kit by City Classics, then I took another City Classics kit and weathered it. The pink one is a '59 Pacemaker bi-level (yes, they actually made these), an older kit by Bachman/Plasticville.

Here's an Iridescent Green/Sage Green X-EL Johan promo that I detailed up a while back.

I was thinking the same thing, but this thing sure looks awesome! Great idea.

Gorgeous!!! Love the color!

The model kits were made of polystyrene and didn't warp like the promos did.

Thanks much for the kind words. The Aquamarine color is actually the color the kit was moulded in. The only thing I painted was the roof and interior. The Aqua is a Ford color with a promo like gloss to it. Hubley made these in factory built form as promotionals for Ford, and later in the year issued this kit. I think these were destined to be Aquamarine promos, and after watching the sucess of the recent (at the time) AMT/SMP and Johan customizing kits, they designed some customizing parts and a decal sheet, and made this available in kit form.

This thing is killer!!! Rust is just about right on where it would be on the 1:1 car. Awesome!

Just finished this one, from the original 1960 Hubley customizing kit. It was actually moulded in factory Aquamarine, with a nice promo like gloss, so I chose to leave it alone, but added the white roof. I two toned the interior with some metallic turquoise and white. I also used parts box wide whites because the Hubley ones were way too small for the car. The beltline chrome foil was a challenge because there really was not much definition to the moulded in trim. I used masking tape for my edge to trim the foil. More time on the foil than anything else, because the kit is basically an unassembled promo. Interesting fact is, they moulded the kits in Aquamarine, but not the promos. Promos I've seen in baby blue, light yellow and white. To make a "woodie" Country Squire out of one of these, the lower side trim would have to be removed. I think the Country Sedan looks much better than the Squire anyway.

Beautiful!, and it's held up well. I love to see some of these older kits built up boxart style.

Looks awesome!

I don't think it's as bad as you think it is. Looks pretty good.

Your really going to town with that shiny paint, eh? Looks fantastic! Love the sparkly fogging! Hope to see it at the F.A.S.T. meeting.

What a beautiful build! Love the color too, right on!

Beautiful!!!!!!!!!............I've got one planned as well.

Ok, yoos guys talked me out of it. I guess a can could blow up in the mail.............not cool. It would have to be a local thing I guess. They do sell spray paint on ebay however, so they must ship it somehow, but I'm not trying it. I disagree about not having enough paint to spray a kit, as I could get three kits out of one of the big cans if I wanted to. Also, I've never had any problems with clogging. Airbrush is just not for me. I tried once, can't thin the stuff right and can't get used to spraying with it. I've been using cans for 25 years. MCW gets almost as much money for his little tiny cans as my local auto body supply gets for the big ones. I've used MCW before and nearly ran out of paint on one kit. Too expensive for the little amount you get. Oh well, it was an idea, but I'm glad you brought the shipping thing to my attention.

Beautiful!! I'd love to get some of the Modelhaus resins, but quite pricey!! I plan to do a '58 Buick station wagon.

Been thinking of something interesting for a while now, and I'd like to see what you guys think. I build mostly replica stock, so naturally, that means most of my paint colors are not readily available on the shelf anywhere. A couple of years ago, I had a 1:1 '72 Dodge Polara. The car was Dark Tan metallic (Chestnut metallic in the Plymouth camp). I went to my local auto body supply shop and had them mix up the color (from the factory color chart) in a 12 oz spray can so I could shoot my rims. (I ran stock steelies with dog dish caps and trim rings on the Polara). Nice laquer, even coverage, two coats and done! Didn't even need clear. What to do with my second can? Shoot a kit!!! Came out great over my favorite primer, polished out well, and again, no clear really needed, unless you build a custom or hot rod show car I guess. Anyway, I wanted to order more colors for more kits I plan to build stock. $20 something bucks a can. But you could do about three kits with one can. I really do not want more than one kit in the same color. What I am saying is that we could possibly create a section of the forum for leftover paint that we'll never use again. It's better than letting it sit around and get old. Perhaps we could trade a few bucks for someones half or three quarter of a can? If you figure $20 bucks for a kit, (even more for vintage stuff) and $20 bucks for the body color.........that's a lot of dough we could offset, and we could also use up the paint before it goes bad and has to be disposed of. So, what do you guys think? A paint trade section? I still have a half a can of '72 Dodge/Plymouth Chestnut metallic available, and will be ordering a few cans of other colors for more builds I have planned. Even though they are factory colors, the possibilities are endless. Dragsters, hot rods, kustoms, bikes, etc. Oh, and by the way, for anyone doing a '69 muscle Mopar, Model Master one coat laquer Mystic Emerald is a dead ringer for factory F6 Bright Green metallic.

Thanks for the nice comments guys. I've had several 1:1 '63-'64 Chryslers. '64 Newport sedan, '64 Newport 4 dr h/t, '64 New Yorker 4dr h/t, '63 Newport sedan, and a '64 300 sport 2dr h/t. Guess you can say I like them. Hey Gluhead, grab your station wagon, they are very rare hardtop wagons! Nextime I'll try my pics outside. The flash on these pics made my foil job look bad.

I rescued this off the 'bay, it was an old built with the wrong hubcaps. I just happened to have a set of '63 Chrysler hubcaps, took her apart, purple ponded it, sprayed it in factory color Teal metallic, and did some foil work. It actually looks better in person than it does in my pics. My camera flash picks up on everything!!!lol. Glad to have found this, as these things were never re-issued and are pretty expensive.

Saw it, but I haven't found anything that I want. I have to figure out a way to design the font that I want to use.

Ok, It's time for me to get an airbrush!!! That Baccaruda is killer with the 2part urethane.

I contacted Duplicolor and they discontinued the old Truck & Van clear. However, they informed me that it is now called Perfect Match Clear, which is in the 8oz cans in the auto store along with all the factory colors. It is acrylic laquer. I tried it over Model Master one shot laquer and it worked pretty good, but not quite as good as the Model Master one coat clear.

I found this one on the 'bay and it was reasonable. It came in the mail very fast. Haven't seen any of his stuff on the bay in a month or so however.

Anybody out there that can make some custom decals up? I am building a series of old drag cars (Willys, Henry J, '40 Ford, etc) and I have a great ficticious race team name I'd like to use. I would like to do it in a vintage style font as well. Can anybody do this, or is there a computer program I could get affordably to design my own and print off on decal paper?