StevenGuthmiller Posted January 29, 2017 Posted January 29, 2017 What exact color of Embossing Powder is that!? That does look good! -I use the Embossing Powder for my interior carpeting! -NICE tip!Actually, it's a mixture of black & gray powder.It gives it a bit of a "salt & pepper" look.I think it should have been a little darker myself, but there's always time for tweaking on the next project. Steve
Dann Tier Posted January 29, 2017 Posted January 29, 2017 Actually, it's a mixture of black & gray powder.It gives it a bit of a "salt & pepper" look.I think it should have been a little darker myself, but there's always time for tweaking on the next project.What about painting over the embossing powder so that its the exact color you want?!Steve
StevenGuthmiller Posted January 29, 2017 Posted January 29, 2017 (edited) I've done that on occasion, but I think painting over it kills the affect. I wanted a little of the salt & pepper look, just a little darker would have been better. I use the metallic powders for my carpets & I absolutely love it! I think it gives a much more interesting look to the floors than painting over the powder. Steve Edited January 29, 2017 by StevenGuthmiller
Dann Tier Posted January 29, 2017 Posted January 29, 2017 I've done that on occasion, but I think painting over it kills the affect. I wanted a little of the salt & pepper look, just a little darker would have been better. I use the metallic powders for my carpets & I absolutely love it! I think it gives a much more interesting look to the floors than painting over the powder. Steve It does look great......gives it that little sparkle that the carpet has when light hits it. I haven't tried the embossing powder yet, but it looks to me like it does a perfect representation of the "hook and loop" carpeting of early cars. Your interior looks fantastic!
426-Hemi Posted January 30, 2017 Author Posted January 30, 2017 Actually, it's a mixture of black & gray powder.It gives it a bit of a "salt & pepper" look.I think it should have been a little darker myself, but there's always time for tweaking on the next project. SteveSteve,I say that does tho look good! The color of it "tweaking it" a bit, I'm not sure I would on that mix........ that be AWESOME trunk lining!
426-Hemi Posted January 30, 2017 Author Posted January 30, 2017 -Yeah I can't see why it wouldn't work! I haven't tried it tho, I have thought about it!
426-Hemi Posted January 30, 2017 Author Posted January 30, 2017 Well a little further on this one (the body and hood sit in wait for a chance of another coat of Gloss Lacquer Clear Coat to be applied currently) SO I thought while I was waiting for things to dry on another build, I'd see what "little things" this one could use to be done to have waiting for when it came its turn! The one thing I had waited on in finishing was the Air Cleaner... -I did not get the "proper" air cleaner decal, BUT I did get something close and I THINK I added just enough "Roadrunner" to it to make it "passable"! Thats not to say I won't go back later on and give it the correct "pie-tin" decal, if I get one, as I made the air cleaner removable from the model! (I do that on almost all of my builds!) But, if not I'm good with how its currently done too!I made that air cleaner too! From what I have had and those I've used as well as knowing whats all out there for "stock" air cleaners for a 383 Roadrunner engine, nothing was even close to the actual part in looks! SO, it was turned on my Unimat lathe, with all the proper contours (or VERY close to), and made a tad bit "higher" as they were on the 383 Roadrunner engines, and then got painted as close as I could get it to be to resemble that of the real thing. Then once dry, The Pie-Tin area got gloss coated to seal on the decals, and the air cleaner itself got flat "dullcoted", as per the real thing, or what I've seen and remember seeing in the garage. The only "detail" left under the hood now is the PCV hose from the valve in the valve cover, to the air cleaner. Thats yet to come!This is all I've gotten done on this build but there WILL be some more to follow! As I need to get the hood and the body in the spray booth for hopefully the last coat of gloss Lacquer Clear Coat!Thats all for now folks! More will come as I get closer to the finish line! Comments always welcome too, ~ENJOY
72 Charger Posted January 30, 2017 Posted January 30, 2017 One step at a time John every little helps
426-Hemi Posted January 31, 2017 Author Posted January 31, 2017 (edited) It sure does Dave!!!! I have to "fill in time" waiting somehow!!!! This is why I'm building/working on 3 models at once "Round-Robin-Style".... THEN the 3 of them will be "D-O-N-E" around or very close the same time! Edited January 31, 2017 by 426-Hemi I can't type!
426-Hemi Posted February 2, 2017 Author Posted February 2, 2017 (edited) I've finally got the clear coat done on the body! SO I got right to polishing it up a bit, and getting it ready for the grille and tail light parts as well as bumpers, and such as this model NOW only needs BMF, window glass, tail lights, bumpers, interior roof liner painted to match the rest of the interior, and assembled! The frame is DONE, the interior is DONE, most of the details are ALL in place! SO there actually is very little left to do to this one before its completed!!!! So with that, I thought I'd give a little background on the body work, and the things needing done yet and then go right to the pics of the nice bright Red paint job! (Goes somewhere between PP-1 Matador Red and E-5 Rallye Red)....All these taken WITH my shops general overhead lighting as well as my work bench lighting AND my Camera flash!Then you got these:These were taken with no camera flash but the use of my bench lighting and overhead lighting!NO camera flash, no bench lighting, and only overhead lighting! I'm absolutely AMAZED at that finish! It looks GREAT! So with that, I got right to adding chrome parts....The grille is in-place and there to stay! The BMF is coming tho!Thanks for looking & following along on yet another build of mine! This one is SO CLOSE done! Stay tuned! Comments welcome and encouraged! ~ENJOY! Edited February 3, 2017 by 426-Hemi
72 Charger Posted February 3, 2017 Posted February 3, 2017 That's a stunning shine on that John . Looking forward to the finish
426-Hemi Posted February 3, 2017 Author Posted February 3, 2017 Thanks Dave! Yeah I'm all excited on its finish! I'm gonna be doing BMF in the next day or so so. this one is real close done too! Sadly, I had to pull one of the 3 kits out of the Round Robin build, for a short time as I'm almost out of Gloss coat to finsh the 2 that are the closest this one happens to be one of the 2 that I wanna finish, with the same can of Gloss coat and then the other is Rosco's police car so. the 3rd on I took from this round robin build was my Dad;s '68 Dart I'm modeling, I ain't got enough gloss coat to do all 3 at this time but just enough to finish the 2 hoods on the Roadrunner and the Monaco!BUT, thats OK, I'll be getting back to him when I get to the store to pick up some more! -OR I might try another spray can type lacquer clear coat I have in the shop and see if I can continue with that on the '68 Dart!Anyway thanks for looking & following along its much appreciated!
Canso65 Posted February 3, 2017 Posted February 3, 2017 Wow, that is a beautiful finish on the body John. Looks like glass!The work you have done on the interior is amazing. This is going to be one awesome model when you are done.
426-Hemi Posted February 3, 2017 Author Posted February 3, 2017 Thanks Rob! Much appreciated! Yeah wet sanding goes a long ways to a glass-like finish on Enamels and even Lacquer paints (ALL I use!) so.... I'm quite pleased with the whole model at this point, I can't wait to see it done! THEN I have Rosco's police car too, it will be finished very shortly afterwards too! Which will be another plus as well!
espo Posted February 3, 2017 Posted February 3, 2017 Beautiful finish on the paint. I agree the interior is really nice. Hard to beat a bright Red Muscle car.
David G. Posted February 4, 2017 Posted February 4, 2017 Looking good John!I really enjoy all the detail you add to your builds.David G.
426-Hemi Posted February 8, 2017 Author Posted February 8, 2017 Thanks guys! All of the commentary is greatly appreciated and actually enjoyed! I enjoy the detailing aspect myself to see just how-close I can get a model to what its real 1:1 is or was.... This one model here as you guys following knows has a little meaning to me behind it. From my accident in 2015, its a "healing build" and the work done to it, kept me from needing physical therapy for dexterity on both of my hands from that accident! Which gives it a little sentimental attachment if ya will so I'm putting as much into it, as I can because that memory will live with me and remembrance to it by looking at the model, you know?Was a way to heal, deal, and get day to day physical therapy on my hands at the time (It was thee only model I worked on then!) couple months later, I worked on other as I felt I could, BUT right after the accident, I won 1st place in a contest locally, winning THIS KIT, and then when I was able to work on models after my accident is when I opened this kit and went on to build it! I'd like to get this one done, before the "build" becomes 2 years old LOL BUT it is VERY close done!!!! Stay tuned more to come!
426-Hemi Posted February 8, 2017 Author Posted February 8, 2017 So this past weekend I was hoping to get this and one other model in the "COMPLETE" category, but that didn't happen as I had so much going on with a box I got on Saturday that well, the work did not pan-out as I had planed or hopped for, BUT the box I found, I am not complaining about, I am glad I got it! I just did not plan or expect anything quite that intense, BUT up till I had found it on my front porch, I did get some work done those 2 models! So, where to begin? Lets see, ohh yeah, I had gotten to look at the tail lights of a real 1:1 '68 Roadrunner and noticed the lights on the kit had some slight issues, that I HAD to remedy, AFTER they were already painted and such so I had to go about what I was going to do in a slightly different way! The outer edges on a real '68 Roadrunner has a chrome trim ring. The model parts did not have that molded into the castings,. and me being well....... ME I could live with them out of the box! SO, on a look for things to make those rings from I went..... And I found what is the best wire to be one, polished, and two, correct or close diameter of the rest of the chrome "outlines" so it symmetrically "match" the rest of the lens!Seen here is one thats "stuck" to tape made to hold the lens while I went and bent up the wire to fit the outer edges of the lens and be polished at the same time! The other lens thats still ON the sprue is the factory look, thats been painted! I added that trim ring on the other one thats NOT on the sprue!A little better in-depth look....Then you have the wire as its being bent and shaped to the lens circumference!A LOT of compound bends to make that fit that factory kit lens part! And polished up nice too! WHY does it polish up nice? Well thats a secret to be said now, that "wire" I used? isn't "wire" at all! Thats 100% Pure Jewelers Silver Solder! -Expensive? yeah just a little, I bought it for when I was building trains and needed it to seal up bearings and polish things smoothly to have a bit of a gleaming smooth surface as those bearings require a little different approach to the making of them when made of brass, and well, silver is easily workable the other way is nickel plating and I didn't want to have to send the parts out to someone else, so I did everything in-house, its not often I use the silver solder specially on a model car or truck, but its not a lot that I used here and to that, nothing else was correct in diameter to match up to the other chrome trim within that tail light lens! SO.... I think it looks GREAT and it bends and forms a lot easier then actual wire and looks good all at the same time! It was "fastened" to the lens much the same way I did black wire trim rings on another model headlights.... With that clear glass glue from Testors, applied a really thin line of glue where the ring would make contact, and then once dry, around the outer edges and added some more, let dry, and then sealed that in with brush on gloss coat lacquer.... -LOOKS great too!So while I was doing this, I was conjuring up the gut fortitude to go on with the BMF work too! *GULP* I still question that task with me.... Stay tuned, thats to follow! Thanks for following along and as always, Comments & Commentary welcome!
426-Hemi Posted February 8, 2017 Author Posted February 8, 2017 So while that work on the tail lights dried I got to getting ready to do the BMF on this car! I always second guess myself on that task, as I say I don't think I'm all that good at it, BUT, I am starting to prove myself wrong, I think.... This car however has an interesting BMFing task to it, that rear freakin' window! WOW, what fun that one is gonna be (What I was thinking as I was saving it for last!)I also forgot about going around the windshield wiper arms too! That was an interesting task, as well, but wasn't as difficult as I first anticipated! -Did those first, and then went on to do the trim around the windshield.... Turned out pretty good! I'm actually pleased with my efforts here and work! (I keep it up I'll have a better outlook at my BMF skills I keep this up!...And about the time I had a little more confidence, I was slapped, hard in the face, with a side "wing vent window trim" man does those SUCK! LOL I musta pulled the BMF off the drivers side 3 times BEFORE I was happy with it! (I hate wasting materials) but I simply could NOT live with how it looked either! And I found that the MPC cars, have an issue not noticed back when I actually "painted" the chrome onto the model, the windshield pillars, in the front, where the windshield meets the side vent wing windows, don't always have a "line" for the chrome trim on the pillar itself! SO as a modeler you sort of have to create it as you put the BMF on..... Making sure its semi even and straight..... As its so close to the windshield trim that off by the thickness of your blade can and will be seen! BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, is that a difficult one to do and look right! -THEN I get to do that rear window! OMG....WOW........ I'm am amazed at myself! Really, I'm so surprised how that window chrome went on, went down, and trimmed off.... I'm pleased with that and how it looks! I sat and stared at that work for at least 2 minutes in absolute amazement! LOLThen while doing trim, I ran into something that I was working on a whole other model... (one thats in my "Round Robin" build here, BUT, sat aside, the '68 Dodge Dart.... There is ONE detail this Roadrunner does NOT have on it, or with it as a detail part, thats partly "trim" and is chrome or well part of it is chrome and then rest is just metal..... Anyone know what that "detail part" might be?With that, I'll give you all a picture! -Have a look, and take a wild guess what it is, and post it.... I'll then reveal what I've made!NOT that handle of a file in the right side of the picture, that little "triangular" part, what you all think that is? Enjoy for now look forwards in responses to that little part!
426-Hemi Posted February 9, 2017 Author Posted February 9, 2017 Nope! LOL But again, thats a good guess too! When you know what it is, you'll be kickin' yourself as its "that" simple too!
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