Snake45 Posted September 30, 2016 Posted September 30, 2016 A Little Red One, and a...well, you get it (or you don't). I'd already built the stock versions of Revell's snapper '63 Corvettes, but found myself in AC Moore with a 50% off coupon and nothing on their shelves I particularly wanted. For some reason the “Prince Purple” '63 roadster with the goofy modern Big Wheels caught my eye. Been on a bit of a plastic-polishing kick lately, and purple plastic is fairly rare, so here we go. I sanded/polished the emblems off the front fenders, rear deck, and hood stinger (hey, it's already not stock, so might as well slick it out a little) and polished the body with Walmart Trim Nail Sticks and Wright's Silver Cream. Just to pimp out the interior a little, I laid one wet coat of Testor White Lightning Pearl over the white plastic. The floors and dash are painted black. I liked the pearl white so much that I did the steering wheel in it, too, and now wish I'd left the dashboard white. Perhaps someday I'll have a fit of industry and mask off and airbrush the sun visors white and hit them with the pearl, too, but for the moment I just left them in purple, same as the body. While I was building it, I remembered I'd started another snapper coupe last fall. See, I'd bought some cool Krylon “Shimmer” paint in a metalflake-ish red and was looking for something to do with it. Decided to build a cheap, easy '63 coupe snapper as a Christmas present for a co-worker's young son, but when I got it home from the store, surpise! It's not molded in solid red anymore, but in a bright, metallic/pearly red that was a perfect match for the Krylon shimmer paint on a spoon. (So I still don't know how that paint works on a model.) Anyway, the co-worker took another job and I lost contact with her before Christmas, and before I finished the thing, so it went back in the box--until I recently came down with Snapper Vette Fever. Thought it would be fun to polish it up and finish it up with the purple one. And since the pearly/flaky red isn't a factory color, why not upgrade it with some new-school Big Wheels, too? These came from the snapper '57 Chevy. It turns out that American actually makes these wheels, called “Salt Flat Specials” or something of the kind. Both models have household-foil hood vents. Windshield and window chrome trim was done with my beloved Silver Sharpie. These stupid snappers make great slump-busters. [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Corvettes/Rev63VetteSnapsCD02_zpscehpg51a.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Corvettes/Rev63VetteSnapsCD03_zpsgi1mghra.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Corvettes/Rev63VetteSnapsCD04_zpsg7ji4dgy.jpg.html][/URL]
Snake45 Posted September 30, 2016 Author Posted September 30, 2016 Here's the new purple one with my original Daytona Blue stocker (polished plastic, kit Saddle-colored interior). [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Corvettes/Rev63VetteSnapsCD08_zpsodt02dfp.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Corvettes/Rev63VetteSnapsCD09_zps8spxjgrf.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Corvettes/Rev63VetteSnapsCD10_zpsxph9u0eq.jpg.html][/URL]
Snake45 Posted September 30, 2016 Author Posted September 30, 2016 And here's the new pearl/flake coupe next to my old solid red one (also polished plastic). While working on the new one, I never thought of it as anything but “red,” but when I dug out the old one, it's very definitely RED and the new, pearly one is more toward the red-orange side, something like Chevy Engine Red, though not as orange as say Hemi Orange or Hugger Orange. The pics don't do a real good job of showing how much difference there is between the two. [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Corvettes/Rev63VetteSnapsCD12_zpstyfhaqz3.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Corvettes/Rev63VetteSnapsCD17_zpsj9g3kkox.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Corvettes/Rev63VetteSnapsCD15_zpskvjstpzb.jpg.html][/URL] And here's a couple shot in the sun, to try to bring out the cool flakes in the new one. They didn't photograph all that well, but they look WAY cool in real life. [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Corvettes/Rev63VetteSnapsCD19_zpsmhbbgxnr.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Snake45/media/Model%20Cars/Corvettes/Rev63VetteSnapsCD21_zps4jubhjbs.jpg.html][/URL]
Foxer Posted September 30, 2016 Posted September 30, 2016 eheh Vette City. They do look cool .. started staring at my favorite split window but that Purple polished vert has me googling.
slusher Posted September 30, 2016 Posted September 30, 2016 Really nice Corvettes Snake. I do like that purple polished convertible..
Snake45 Posted October 1, 2016 Author Posted October 1, 2016 Really nice Corvettes Snake. I do like that purple polished convertible.. The stupid thing kinda grew on me, too, as I worked on it.
unclescott58 Posted October 1, 2016 Posted October 1, 2016 Always a good job on one the greatest ever Snake.
wisco8 Posted October 1, 2016 Posted October 1, 2016 Very nice work snake, I can see the difference in the colors, but they both look excellent!!!Best regards, Steve
Snake45 Posted October 3, 2016 Author Posted October 3, 2016 Thanks for all the kind comments, everyone! Much appreciated!
Chuck Most Posted October 3, 2016 Posted October 3, 2016 Not a 'Vette fan at all, but as a huge Prince fan I just had to take a peek... even though I was pretty certain that at least one of the two would be a little red something or other. Glad I checked 'em out now. It's almost as if they both were purified in the waters of Lake Minnetonka.
Snake45 Posted October 3, 2016 Author Posted October 3, 2016 Not a 'Vette fan at all, but as a huge Prince fan I just had to take a peek... even though I was pretty certain that at least one of the two would be a little red something or other. Glad I checked 'em out now. It's almost as if they both were purified in the waters of Lake Minnetonka. Dontcha just wanna drive 'em like it's 1999? (Did they have the big goofy wheels yet in 1999?) Someday I want to get around to building a Raspberry Beretta. (Warren Zevon and REM, doing business as Hindu Love Gods, covered it, and quite well, too.)
RestoModGuy Posted October 3, 2016 Posted October 3, 2016 (edited) Nice job on these "Snappers" I have built a number of these Snappers too, as "mind-breaks" in between the big builds. The details are sometimes as well done as the detail kits have, sometimes the same tool. I did the Snap Convertible, fun build and actually one of my favorites. Edited October 3, 2016 by RestoModGuy
Chuck Most Posted October 4, 2016 Posted October 4, 2016 Dontcha just wanna drive 'em like it's 1999? (Did they have the big goofy wheels yet in 1999?)Someday I want to get around to building a Raspberry Beretta. (Warren Zevon and REM, doing business as Hindu Love Gods, covered it, and quite well, too.) Wasn't 18" big and goofy for a wheel in '99? At least the 24" spinner had yet to be invented at that time...
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