1941 willys gasser

[dragzz]

just doing this for a friend  i just did the repaint and going to do the wiring on it for him and run the lines . the paint i use was nail polish then did 3coats of clear it came out look great let me know what u all think here some pic  

 

 

Edited May 14, 2016 by dragzz

[Yenkocamaro]

Kool paint job, Thomas. I'll bet it looks even better, outside in the sun

 

Cheers,

Lance

[dragzz]

yes lance it does i will take some pic of it out side i did the paint as it was in the 60s thay use metal flake back in the days

[David G.]

Nicely done. What scale is it!

David G.

[dragzz]

hi david  its 1/18 scale  i wated to make the paint look just thay in the 60s

[AzTom]

Very nice!

[dragzz]

well i found some more of the same nail polish that i was using for the paint took a bit to find it but i got it  so i got the hood and doors all in paint and cleared  came out looking great here some pic i took out side of it

 

 

[Yenkocamaro]

Looks good, Thomas. Holy cow, one bottle of nail polish wasn't enough? Although its best to paint everything at once, it looks like there was no problem with the paint and flake matching? I wonder how it would look, with a coat of candy over the flake....Hmmmm

 

Cheers,

Lance 

[dragzz]

thats a great thot candy must try that on the next one  tys yenko

[David G.]

Oooo sparkles!

Wildly cool.

David G.

[Marlowe]

That's awfully clever and very creative.  I'll have to remember that one!  

 

[slusher]

Great paint Thomas 

[dragzz]

thanks slusher 

[10thumbs]

Thomas, it's been a while since you first posted these pics, but it's been recently commented so I'll chime in.

My thoughts are that the paintjob quality looks very nice.  Just I dislike the flakes, they appear way out of scale and look odd to me.  Like the beginning of a 1st snow settling on the car.

I like doing candy and metal flake paint myself with House of Kolor products, none of them have such large flakes, and that stuff is real automotive paint.  Nail paint is nail paint, those flakes look funky to me too on real fingernails, and I just don't like the look on a model.

This is just my opinion.

[Ken Gilkeson]

looks good to me. they used flakes as big as current bass boats do now back in the day. especially on dune buggies. just an observation.  

[Yenkocamaro]

Thomas, it's been a while since you first posted these pics, but it's been recently commented so I'll chime in.

My thoughts are that the paintjob quality looks very nice.  Just I dislike the flakes, they appear way out of scale and look odd to me.  Like the beginning of a 1st snow settling on the car.

I like doing candy and metal flake paint myself with House of Kolor products, none of them have such large flakes, and that stuff is real automotive paint.  Nail paint is nail paint, those flakes look funky to me too on real fingernails, and I just don't like the look on a model.

This is just my opinion.

While it may not be an exacting scale flake, I think its pretty close. Being 1/18th scale makes it more believable, than 1/25th scale would. Remember, this represents Metalflake, not Metallic paint. JMO Check out this site.

 https://www.metalflakecorp.com/metalflake-metalflake.html

Cheers,

Lance

[dragzz]

hello 10thumps  what iam trying do with the 1941 is do the same paint job as the 1960 was back in the day yes i do know what u mean by todays looks. but this going by the the old day .thank u for the info

[dragzz]

got some more done to the 41 i got the wiring done and rad lines just about done here some pic 

 

 

[dragzz]

ok here it is all done now .its now on display at lordco for all to see here some pic of it