MPC AMX

[slusher]

Looks very nice and great color..

[Roadrunner]

  On 9/3/2015 at 12:00 AM, tbill said:

looking good! i have one going on as well, went with lime ice. i like to hit bodies with about 4 coats clear minimum, then i wet sand with 2k [lightly], then polish with meguires 105 and 205 untill it really shines.

 

looking forward to seeing this come together.

Yes, I commented on that, it looks just excellent.

  On 9/3/2015 at 1:39 AM, cobraman said:

Looking very nice !

Thanks a bunch. If I can keep from trashing it, I'll be a happy guy.

[Roadrunner]

  On 9/3/2015 at 1:53 AM, slusher said:

Looks very nice and great color..

Thanks a bunch, Carl.

[Guest]

Looking good.

[Roadrunner]

On my way home tonight from an appointment, I intend to stop at O'Reilly's and grab some Meguiar's. Tomorrow I start polishing this beast.

[Roadrunner]

Roof all polished up. This photo may be a bit misleading, as clear actually has a bit of haze to it that I can't seem to get rid of,... yet.

[drodg]

Looks good.  Perfect paint jobs for me are rare.  Do they even exist?  

[disabled modeler]

Looks great Kevin....

[Roadrunner]

  On 9/4/2015 at 2:50 PM, drodg said:

Looks good.  Perfect paint jobs for me are rare.  Do they even exist?  

I have no ide, but I've certainly seen some that are mighty magnificent.

  On 9/4/2015 at 2:58 PM, disabled modeler said:

Looks great Kevin....

Thanks, Mark, I appreciate it, buddy.

[Roadrunner]

OK, here we go again. I'm wanting to proceed with extreme caution here, and yet see how far I can take this thing towards looking good. To that end, I've started vigorously polishing the passenger door. The Drivers side actually has a smoother clear coat, and is the side that will be outwardly displayed (no contests though), so I'm "experimenting" with the passenger side first. I figure if I can make the worst side look OK, the other side should be just as pretty.

Edited September 4, 2015 by Roadrunner

[disabled modeler]

That is beautiful....

[Custom Mike]

  On 9/4/2015 at 2:50 PM, drodg said:

Looks good.  Perfect paint jobs for me are rare.  Do they even exist?  

They do exist, but rarely if ever start out that way. Lots and lots of work goes into each "perfect" paint job I've ever seen!

Kevin, if the passenger side is the bad side, I can't see it. It looks pretty good in that picture!

[bismarck]

That is a beautiful paint job Kevin. One of my favorite colors.

[tbill]

if that's bad, you got it made!  that looks fabulous!

[cobraman]

Looks very nice. I wish all mine would look as good.

[Roadrunner]

It's actually coming along nicer than I had planned/hoped, so that pleases me. The underlying paint is real bad in a couple of places, but at this stage, I just intend to finish it, then move on, hopefully having learned something in the process.

[Roadrunner]

As I suspected (hoped), driver side is looking way better than passenger side. Not a lot of polishing left to do on this one, but I feel it's been a very good learning experience for a novice such as myself. Certainly far from perfect, but I'm OK with it as it is.

Edited September 8, 2015 by Roadrunner

[tbill]

man, that looks awesome!

i gotta ask though [cause i am not sure how i am going to do it], what are your thoughts on doing the AMX emblem on the 'B' pillar? i don't know if i should try bmf, or try a silver sharpie. what're your thoughts on that? we both need to figure it out soon, lol.

[Al Hoffman]

This worked for me maybe it will for you. I built a 1/25th scale & was working in a smaller area. Cover the full emblem with BM Foil. Trim the outside diameter as usual. Take your paint color & reduce it till it is a virtual wash. Flow that into the circle. It will collect around the edges. Then when dry you can go ahead & paint the rest of the foil.

Like everything else it looks better sitting on the shelf than the close up.

Hope this helps.

BTW, you are building a car that is dear to my heart. My second new car was a '69 AMX, blue, 390/auto with the silver Go Package.

[Roadrunner]

  On 9/8/2015 at 11:55 PM, tbill said:

man, that looks awesome!

i gotta ask though [cause i am not sure how i am going to do it], what are your thoughts on doing the AMX emblem on the 'B' pillar? i don't know if i should try bmf, or try a silver sharpie. what're your thoughts on that? we both need to figure it out soon, lol.

Thanks a lot, Bill. I think Allen has one good approach, perhaps the only one that'll work now.. If I had been thinking, I would have used BMF beforehand, and used the polish to remove the paint from the high points, as it already did on mine anyway (you can see it in my photo above), but I'll probably just do as Allen suggested, though just to be different, I'm considering black on the inside of the emblem.

[tbill]

Al, good thought on that, that may be the ticket.

Kevin, i had thought of maybe doing the 'inner circle' in white, may try it to see how it looks, if it looks horrible, body color it will be.

[Roadrunner]

After several delays, I was finally able to get some chrome on the wheels. Through a complete coincidence, this is probably fairly close to the stance this baby will have when finished. Lousy photo perhaps, but is shows what I intended.

Edited September 9, 2015 by Roadrunner

[72 Charger]

Nice the wheels look real .......!

[bismarck]

OOOHHHH that's gonna look GOOD !!!

[Roadrunner]

Still playing with the (not so nice passenger side), adding some chrome and washes. For reasons I don’t understand, there are no rear courtesy lights, though front lights are molded on. Strange.