Finished a 5 ft. model today

[retired & glad]

Let me explain. I finished a 1941 Plymouth today and if you stand back 5 ft. it looks pretty good. Any closer and you can start seeing how bad my painting is. I didn't sand much on the primer and it shows.  hahahahaha.

Richard

[Super28]

Stand back 5 feet and take a pic and post it

[JollySipper]

What paints and primer are you using? The reason I ask is maybe you could get better results (which I'm sure it looks fine), with a different paint.

Since I've switched to Dupli-Color stuff I get a lot better finish than with say, enamels........

[retired & glad]

Well here is what it looks like but a little closer than 5 ft. I can only use acrylics now and the primer was Rustolium to start. That mistake went into the purple stuff. Got most of it off. I reshot it with vallejo black surface primer and it is my first time using this primer. Not bad but not perfect.

Richard

[plastic trucker]

I think it looks pretty good.

[Super28]

Looks good!

[bismarck]

I think it looks pretty good.

Yep. I think so too.?

[iamsuperdan]

What's wrong with that?! I think that looks just fine!

 

[retired & glad]

Thanks all. Inexpensive acrylic paint is about all I use anymore. I have to thin it a lot to shoot it with the airbrush. Next one will be better. I didn't spend enough time with the primer sanding and it shows up close. Top coat is Future. I've had the bottle of Future for years and still have a half bottle left. I need to play with the vallejo primer and get it a little thinner for a smoother coat.

Richard

[shoopdog]

Looks pretty darn good to me.

[cowboy rich]

Looks good where I'm sitting 

[martinfan5]

Dont feel bad, ive built plenty that look decent in photos or from a distance, up close, the paint job does not looks so good.

[Daddyfink]

Looks good and thanks for taking a decent pic of it! 

[Art Anderson]

Something worth keeping in mind:  Before DuPont & GM introduced acrylic lacquer, all lacquers were "nitrocellulose"  which did not keep a shine very long at all, wearing away in the process, due as much to weather as any polishing.  This was especially true with early metallics--those dulled out very quickly, even when well waxed.

Your '41 Plymouth, as it stands in your pic, looks (to me) far more realistic than you might think--it's pretty danged nice!

Art

[BigTallDad]

I used to date a five foot model.

[Eshaver]

Something worth keeping in mind:  Before DuPont & GM introduced acrylic lacquer, all lacquers were "nitrocellulose"  which did not keep a shine very long at all, wearing away in the process, due as much to weather as any polishing.  This was especially true with early metallics--those dulled out very quickly, even when well waxed.

Your '41 Plymouth, as it stands in your pic, looks (to me) far more realistic than you might think--it's pretty danged nice!

Art

Art, as a former Earl Schieb painter , that is why we used Enamel. Even the "Diamond Lustre" paints were Enamels .... Oh, they weren't 39.95 . They began at 49.95

[Belugawrx]

I like it,..

A little wash on the wheels,..

maybe a black pin wash, for welting over the fenders...

Cheers

[JollySipper]

I used to date a five foot model.

Double entendre?

 

[XJ6]

Let me explain. I finished a 1941 Plymouth today and if you stand back 5 ft. it looks pretty good. Any closer and you can start seeing how bad my painting is. I didn't sand much on the primer and it shows.  hahahahaha.

Richard

Still laughing, 5' Model yep have a few of them...Thanks for the laugh..

[retired & glad]

I used to date a five foot model.

Ray, in highschool I dated a midget a couple of times. I'm not but 5'9" and the top of her head was about just above my stomach.  Her parents were normal size and her sister was also a midget.

Richard

[D. Battista]

I used to date a five foot model.

that made me laugh ....!