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Heartattaq

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  1. Cranky, I have really grown to love your paint jobs, love your vids and all, do you have a personal opinion for a good starter airbrush, and paint that is easy to work with, for a guy like me who is wanting to get into airbrushing? I already have a compressor. Thanks, Derick
  2. WOW I thought that 612 was a real car for a minute. I had to do a doubletake, very nice build.
  3. Like everyone else said, beautiful build, Love the engine detailing.
  4. Beautifully executed, really dig that color too
  5. I have the little bottles of TEstors enamel gloss black and Flat Black Paint. My question is has anybody ever mixed the two to get more of a matte finish? I need to paint some engine components but they aren't flat or gloss in colour they are more of that matte hiny plastic finish. Anyone had success mixing these two paints for that affect?
  6. This modeller used Tamiya Gold I would say it looks closest to Tamiya Ts-84 Metallic Gold Spray
  7. a set of big beefy trac bars would look nice on that, great colour scheme i love the cowboys.
  8. Awesome Info thanks Joseph. I am so OCD that I can't progress on a model unless I have everything related to my supplies fo rthe model and proper colour research for the model. Thanks for confirming for me, I can go forward with this a little more now hehe
  9. ya generally people put in body lifts to give the appearance of more lift but sometimes it is just to effectively clear larger tires that dont necessarily need a suspension lift, such as 31" or 33" tires. For the purposes of modelling try adding blocks between the springs and axles.
  10. Well started putting the engine/tranny together, running into frustrations already. Living in a small town in Canada Can't just run out to the store to get the colors I need. After researching, there are alot of various colours I will need, that I don't have /sigh. On another note, does anyone know if the cars engine block, cylinder heads, and Transmission were painted, or were they just iron and aluminum? Have been looking around but can seem to find this answer. Will show some pics once I have something substantial.
  11. Thanks Bryan, and that would be great Lawrence. What I want more than anything is a nice sized pic of a stock engine bay. Most of the GN pics I have seen the motors are modified in some fashion. I want to keep this build as if it rolled out of the factory
  12. Well I was able to get away to the city today, to pick up some tires for my real car, and decided to stop a the hobby shop, After a 18 year Hiatus I am gonna try my hand at modelling again. I went to the Shop in Sudbury, and although he had a LARGE collection of plastic model kits, there were no early model nascars and nothing really jumped off the shelf saying build me. So I saw the Grand National which has been a top 5 favorite car of mine forever. I really kick myself for discarding all my supplies so many year ago, being on disability now, I really couldnt get everything I wanted to but got the basics. The wife wont be happy, but maybe it is sometimes better to ask forgiveness than permission . That being said hopefully I will be able to find some cheap nascar models down the line as that is my true love, and I will collect all the other little items I need along the way. I am going to use this thread to show pictures of the progress on my progress, and if anyone has any photos of Grand nationals stashed away for reference material that would be a huge help. Here is the first pic of the what the model should look like completed. More to come soon, as my health allows, I really want to thank the members of this forum for sparking my interest and love for this hobby again, the great work YOU ALL do is motivating and inspiring, thanks all. Derick
  13. Hey Jesse, I posted in your other posts and have seen your work, and knowing your age and level of patience we all had at that age, you are probably rushing through them a bit, but that isnt a bad thing it is a normal thing and something that is easily fixed, it all depends on the level of detail and quality of the end item you want. Like I suggested in another of your posts, I was the same way, I started nascar modelling when I was 13 and I would bang them out, they looked good, but I knew they could be much better. That is when I started following the advice of another builder, and I began looking at each piece in a model set to be it's own model. so for instance I would take the engine halves, put them together, sand and fill where needed until I was extremely happy with it. THen I would set it aside, and for example start on the roll cage. I would take each piece of the roll cage, treat it as its own model, filing, sanding and filling where needed and painting. when I was done with each individual rollcage piece then I would put the rollcage together and treat that as its own model. That way I learned patience, and not to rush to see the finished product, instead I got to see all the small finished products morph into one final piece that I could be very proud of. Keep it up mate your still young, and you have lots of little tricks to learn, One thing I would suggest, that really helped me, was getting subscriptions to the various modelling magazines, there is such a wealth of information in each issue it is amazing.
  14. I absolutely love this paint scheme nice work
  15. Beautiful. Im not usually a fan of the big wide rims on old school, I love lots of rubber on them, but for some reason I really like this. The color scheme is gorgeous
  16. Keep it up Jesse, another little technique I learned was to make a chuck on a dremel to put the tires on then I turned the dremel on and ran the tire over a piece of Sandpaper it got rid of the moldline down the middle and gave it that raceworn look. When I was your age, I had the patiece of a 13 year old. A fellow modeller on an old forum I used gave me a great tip. He said to treat every piece in your model kit as its own separate model. So for instance take the two engine halfs, set the rest of the model aside and just work on those two pieces like they are the model. Only move on to the next part of the model when you are absolutely happy with what you got. Good luck and keep it up, I love seeing nascar models especially from the young up and comers d^^b
  17. Nice job, I remember a while back read an article giving me a tip, to take a tire from a nascar model, paint a bit of flat black paint and maybe some rubbe rdebris from the tireand rotate it on the side of the panel of the car, so it looks like they were rubbing each other, saw pictures of it once it was a very cool detail. Believe I saw a pic of the technique in an old back issue of SAE on a Dale earnhardt model.
  18. http://www.revell.com/support/skill-level.html
  19. I agree about the paint job. One of my favorite paint schemes
  20. Was gonna offer the same advice as Sean. Nice start. I see you have some of that green Masking tape, a strip on the right side of your picture. Maybe use some of that when you need to paint straight lines, you can use the tape to mask off the straight line you need to make, then peel it after the paint has dried. Keep it up.
  21. Props to all of you for supporting Jesse, and any other young builders that happen to show up here. Nice to see that some younger kids are still taking an interest in this hobby in our digital age. And Jesse in your own time, andin your own way, don't forget to pay it forward. =)
  22. 1980 at Atlanta http://www.mikesdecals.com/product_info.php?products_id=1278
  23. Well I think I answered my own question. from all the research I have been trying to do, I have found enough wesbites to believe he drove a Monte Carlo in 1980. but the cars he did race in 1980 had differant front ends /cry
  24. You can see what I mean about the caprice marker lights wrapping around from the headlight in this pic.
  25. the reason im asking is that from info I gathered Rusty Wallace ran his first winston cup race in a caprice for penskie. THis one I believe. But that just doesnt seem like a caprice front end as the marker lights dont wrap around and the signal light areas (albeit hard to see, look like they are on the lower area of the bumper. I have no knowledge of this era of but to me this looks like a monte carlo, with the side marker light are being hidden by the DueHard contingency sticker If anyone could offer some insite into what make this is he actually drove and what kits are available to tackle it, this would be a giant jump in the right direction for me thanks
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