Coney Island Cruiser - 5 Window T - Storm Jonas Weekend Build!

[OldNYJim]

Well, the weather outside is frightful so staying in for the weekend seemed pretty delightful - beats driving around in this!

I'm kidna tired of the cold weather already, so what better than a box-stock build to pass a snowed-in weekend?  I was daydreaming of the beach, and a little sunshine so i figured this Lindberg kid would make a cool surf-rod - New York style!

I wanna try the salt rusted technique so I figured this'd be a cool one to try it out on - any T that's been subjected to our East Coast air for nearly 100 years would definitely be showing some pretty heavy rusting, even if it had been painted at least once since as I figured this one might have been.  I started off with some rattlecan flat brown, then added some highlights and lowlights of different shades

Then, a healthy sprinking of salt:

Then, some bodycolour over the whole mess, allowed to dry for 15-20 minutes before brushing the extra salt off

LOVE this technique!!!

Onto the running gear!

 

[wayne swayze]

That's such a great idea...hunker down with a cool build, and try to ignore the weather !  Have fun !

[OldNYJim]

Well, there's so much show that they closed the subways and roads and I couldnt open my front door....not that I'm complaining at some forced model time!

Laid some base brown then Alclad on some of the moving parts and then wethered them back down like so:

Need to let the enamel dry lest I put a great big fingerprint in them but the axles and engine are ready to be glued in - I might even finish a model this weekend at this rate

[OldNYJim]

I love how this is coming together!

What a fun build!

[Luis Ayala]

Hi James,

Excellent job so far,rust looks great !!!

Hope the weather gets better soon.

Thanks for sharing!!!

 

[crazyrichard]

nice !!! and brrrrr thats some weather .. luckely here in holland the winter is (still) supermild , no snow at all .. its above zero atm .. love it

[Slomoslam]

That's really cool, and it looks awesome.