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On my scream the color looks like the same light gray AMT bare plastic has on some older kits.

I used to see lot's of those on Summer time. Tourists from Argentina had them in huge numbers. They used to be painted cool colors, like lime green, or orange. The same basic engine was used by Ford on the Corcel.

Cool color!! Did Gm also had a Inca Gold? I know of the Ford Inca Gold, that is a non metallic yellow.

I heard it in Dirty Harry's voice. And I also heard something more. Got my model building mojo back! And you punk? Feeling inspired?

No pressure cast, or spin cast. Just pouring the resin in the mold. After pouring the resin, I just do a little squeeze on the mold, so the air can get out.

Thanks Harry. Foiling those tiny lights was a real pain. Almost impossible to do without gluing them in place and then foiling. That's what I ended doing, so the fix will be a relative easy one. The rear bumper will have to get out tough, and be reinstalled latter.

I'm biased to talk, but I loved the color combo.

They are there Harry. Both are transparent parts. A little foil on the trim, and some paint for the lenses will fix that. Test Shots by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr

A real beauty!! Loved it!!

Exactly.I have quite enough time to join the halves without the flexible resin pouring out of the mold. Tried many times using runners, but those would "eat" a big piece of the tire tread, plus I would always get air bubbles.

Thanks Karl!! Thanks!! Thanks Cherlie. You know, I usually hear with great attention what Harry has to say, and try to follow his tips, like I've done a lot of times. By doing that, I improved my modeling a LOT. Nevertheless, Other than my main job, I also work on old cars, Fords to be precise, and I'm doing this for more than 20 years. I'm almost giving up on Engineering to just work on cars. During all this time I had my quota of cars parked for a long time, and or driven on countryside, and I'm confident I copied the looks of the underside of those cars quite well. Conditions here are quite different from what you see in the U.S. There is no snow, and there is lot's of clay powder on the roads. Reddish clay. Also there is the fact of people here used to pulverize the car's underside with ATF to "rust proof it". There is no real protection on that, in fact the ATF was great to damage rubber parts, but man, that stuff was great at making dirt to stick to the underside of a car. In the '70s the tendency changed from ATF fluid to mamona oil (vegetal oil) and things got worse. Some cars I have to literally scrap a layer of dirt with a spatula before being able to actually work on some parts. So, even tough I respect Harry, and value his insights, When I build another weathered car, it will be the exact same color on the underside. Mostly brown, with darker spots on places where oil would leak, some reddish spots on the exhaust system, and that's about it. Other cars I did almost the same: 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Restored Model Kit by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Restored Model Kit by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr This one is a 10 year old car. A 1957 Ford back in 1967: 1957 Ford Custom Tudor by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr

What I do is not using runners to cast rubber tires. I have a mold that is two halves. Pour liquid flexible resin on the both sides of the mold, and then carefully join the halves. Usually, some resin will "bleed" out on the sides, and lot's of air bubbles also come out this way. Until now I had no problems with air bubbles on the tires.

Guys, I hadn't thought about making tires for sale, not even sure if it's legal, since I'm using the Firestone logo. But if you send a pm with your addresses I can tell how much it would cost to ship some tires to you. There are basically two kinds of shipping trough Brazilian Correios: The EMS, that arrives in about 7 days, and costs more, and the slow mail, that can take up to three weeks to deliver, but it's safe, and a lot cheaper. I'm used to send model cars to a friend in Washington State, that's into collecting those tiny 1:43 scale diecast cars. I'm sending him the collection of Carros Inesquecíveis do Brasil, of Altaya editing company, (google that and you may even like the models) that basically is a complete collection of model Brazilian cars that are almost impossible to find in the U.S. for a reasonable price. Until now I never had a problem with a pack of models not arriving. Sometimes they get stuck in the U.S. customs for a couple of days, until they dismiss the possibility of the model cars being some sort of bomb, or Anthrax or whatever they are looking for at the time, but that's all. On the tires cost, I estimate I'm spending about 10 Reais in materials to make one. Today, one U.S. Dollar, buys 3,24 Brazilian Reais, so the cost of a tire would be about 3 Dollars? I have no idea of what would be a reasonable selling price, never sold anything like that.

OK Harry. One day I'll show you the underside of my Galaxie, will put the model side by side her, and you will understand. Remember, the picture taken of the '73 Ford was with a old Sony Mavica, and with flash. Remember, the car I copied was used in South America, on dirt roads that were mostly brown clay. At least, did you like the other one? It has a mirror!! And has no seams on the bumper chrome!! (thanks on that tip Harry).

I don't know where you got the red oxide from Harry. The model is more brow with some subtle reddish brown and oily gray on some areas, like the transmission. Red oxide is darker. Maybe the picture is not showing the correct color. You are not seeing this on a Mac are you? Macs hate me for some reason... Every time I deal with one it breaks.

Weatherstripping? What weatherstripping?? Thanks, you got what I wanted to do. This is a picture of the underside of the '73 ford that was parked outside for 32 years:

Well, let me explain. On the underside of a car that sat outside for a long time, things tend to get the same color, a mix of rust and good old dirt, as most roads way back when were dirt. A modern car would have more a grey-ish tone underside, and without that much mixture of corrosion and gunk, most parts would show the original color. On a car as old as this 1957 Ford, parked on the outside for that long, the original color of parts is long gone. To make this build I used as example a 1973 Ford Galaxie LTD Landau that was parked by a barn for the last 32 years. The car was brought back to life a few years ago, and all the underside was the color I painted the old '57. The new '57 has red oxide primer on the underside, and it's a lot darker. On the old '57, a few visible parts had to be replaced to make the car run and drive again. The gas tank, the fuel pump, the exhaust, the shocks, the belts, the hoses, the battery, the tires, the brake master cylinder, the radiator cap, all parts that are intentionally new. Other parts, like a rebuild on the carburetor, a complete brake job, maybe some wheel bearings, some wiring... Would not necessarily show.

Few more: 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr

1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr 1957 Ford: Old X New. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr

Thanks gentlemen!!

Thanks!! No, I don't pressure cast.

Sorry guys, but this car looks best in red and white. I guess It's all Stephen King's fault. The one I built IS a Christine model. Not being a fan of mopars, that was the only way for me to build one.

Well, many of my models lack mirrors. Not many kits have them. Solved that problem casting my own!! Now all my Ford car builds will have mirrors. Casting a Mirror by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr Casting a Mirror by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr Casting a Mirror by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr

I have being experimenting with many different resin cast tires. I really like the old AMT Firestone Deluxe Chamoions, but AMT is not including them in kits anymore... Only the Firestone Supremes. Also, I like the thread detail of the AMT parts pack Firestone Deluxe Champions, that are a new tool tire, even tough, the whitewall is a little on the small side for my taste. Not to mention it's tampo printed on the side of the tire without any lettering. I got about five of those tire packs, and on every one I had to repaint the whitewall on the correct side of the tire. Where the Firestone lettering is. Since those are really expensive to get here in Brasil, as they have to be imported, and cost same as a full kit, I've be trying to make a nice and cool whitewall for my factory stock builds without having to spend my kit money on tires. Started casting resin copies of the old Firestones from the AMT kits, only with a separate whitewall to make painting easier: Resin castings. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr After painted, they look nice, just like the originals, and once on the model, one can't tell the difference without touching them: Resin castings. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr Those are resin tires: 1955 Chevrolet PIckup by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr I was not quite happy yet. The resin tires are rock hard, and that can be a pain to adapt them to some kit's wheels, being the backing plates the worse part. So, I started to think about real rubber tires. Found a flexible resin, locally made by a company called Redelease, that duplicates the "feel" and texture of Tamiya tires. That got me pretty exited. Tried to use the resin to mold a tire, but even with a lot of mold release, a silicon mold was a total failure... I needed a tough mold. So it hit me: Using resin for a mold would work. Did a test and BINGO!! The rubber tire would pop out of the mold with ease. At this point I decided to make a hybrid tire. Using the large whitewall from the old AMT Firestones on the new tool AMT parts pack Firestones. Used the Dremel to cut the whitewall from the parts pack tire, and made the remaining "hole" a bit larger, so the larger whitewall would fit. This was the result: Original AMT Tire Cut. by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr Then a mold was made. The first halve was made from epoxy putty, and the second halve was made from resin: Casting rubber tires by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr I made two molds for the tire, one for the larger whitewall, and another for the stock parts pack whitewall. The whitewalls were molded in silicone, so they could be made with resin. The resin whitewalls are more precise on replicating the lettering and logos, and once painted it looks great: Casting rubber tires by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr Casting rubber tires by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr And here is the rubber tire with it's whitewall still unpainted in white resin: Casting rubber tires by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr Here is the finished product, rubber tire, with resin whitewall painted in semi gloss white: Casting rubber tires by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr The first set I made, and it's ready for installation: Casting rubber tires by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr Here the two kinds of tires: Smaller whitewall, and bigger whitewall from the old AMT Firestones: Casting rubber tires by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr Here is the thread: Casting rubber tires by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr The rubber part: Casting rubber tires by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr Casting rubber tires by Túlio Lazzaroni, on Flickr

I was planning to do so. Almost took some pictures of the two together today (still 15 to midnight here) but it was cloudy and gray. If i'm lucky, tomorrow it will be sunny, and pictures will be taken!!