What Did You Accomplish Today? (Model Car Work)

[Dpate]

Did some test fitting on the bronco.  If anyone can spot the mistake i had to fix you get a free like ?. Also should of did more sanding, but i did buff some more after the fact and toned the 2K down little more.  Got some stuff coming in from joseph from fireball for the bronco too.  Besides the dust on the seats i should of did more work with the rear back seat too, but these 3 seats where my worst enemy lol. Build is NO WHERE near done though.

 

Edited August 6, 2022 by Dpate

[Tom Geiger]

Nice colors on the Bronco!  Second paint job should be the charm!

[Dpate]

9 minutes ago, Tom Geiger said:

Nice colors on the Bronco!  Second paint job should be the charm!

2nd paint job? This is actually the 2nd paint job using splash paints grabber orange.  Had to strip MCW grabber orange cause the decals, and the decal sheet i got from ebay they tore on me trying to apply so i said bump it.  Gonna add fender flares instead.  I wish i would of went with a lighter brown for the floor though, but it didn't turn out too bad.  

[Mike C.]

Got some stuff out of the way on my Revell 1/16 Chevy pickup.  I'm not going to dive into it just yet. I think I'll wait till  the weather gets a little less humid to start spraypainting. Fir now, just some details. Git my grill blacked out and detailed. Wile I wait for that to dry I need to make the holes for the proper, round headlights a little wider. I'm working on the 1/25 '84 GMC at the same time.

[Mike C.]

Spent the morning Brush painting semi gloss black and aluminum stuff. Not nearly done. The afternoon starting a new parts bin.

Tomorrow, yellow, red and orange stuff.

[Mike C.]

Also started an all tire and wheel. Parts bin. 

[Brudda]

Headers and exhaust. I will add exhaust tips when I mount the body

[Brudda]

Worked on the Muira. Received some parts. Put them on , now waiting for more parts. This is the only drawback on the subscription models. They may have been slow sometimes but I never was left without parts to not finish a model. 

[OldNYJim]

Designed some tires and printed them so I can build this kit - it’s missing a few parts, and I never wanted to part out a WHOLE kit that would then, itself, need parts ?

Plus, the tires in this issue of the kit are much smaller than the ones in the original issue, so I had chance to correct that too.  Next thing to tackle will be a rear axle (I have one, but need two…)

[Russell C]

Easiest paint removal ever! This is the '60 Buick I showed in the "What did you get today" thread on Sept 9, where I was wondering if the paint wouldn't come off without a fight. Turns out it already was feeling a bit tacky with a spray of 409 cleaner on it to clean off the grime, and after a coat of the spray can Easy-Off oven cleaner, the black washed right off with an outdoors water hose sprayer. Was almost the easiest disassembly ever, very lightly glued, except the headlights would not budge from behind, so I had to cut off the big bosses that the chassis screws pm to. Not enough clearance to pivot the grille / bumper out, otherwise. Had to break the bosses off the backs of the headlights and trim what was left flat to the body, and then use a long rod to punch them out to the front. They had a good grip to the buckets, but that at least saves their front faces from being marred, in case anybody will be needing them.

[W Humble]

Painted my 1961 'Plodge' 2-dr hardtop 'phantom' combo GM white: nice tasteful Plymouth rear body, with good-looking contemporary Dodge front clip replacing the 'Favorite Martian' front treatment of the Plymouth.  Still letting the clear-coat (PPG 661 spot clear 2K, with light pearl) get dry, then I'll post photos -- I hope.  I did the top amd rear-deck trim panel in medium metallic blue, and the oh-so-shallow JoHan interior tub silver-gray and the same blue.  Using the original promo chassis, I opened the frame for a (make unknown) 413 V-8 (cross-ram 2X4, but short-runner; I know, it's all I had!), 4-speed (ditto), and chrome rims with narrow w/w's (ditto again; not released until 1962 on low-priced three cars). A curbside build, it's going to have a slight 'dago' (shortend from 'San Diego', home of the raked front, PC folks) to be era-accurate, and a lower stance just because most kits of that era (and others, too) sat far to high to be scale-correct, I M Humble O.  Wick

[iamsuperdan]

Been a really productive couple of weeks for me actually. 

Finished two builds and am mostly finished with build #3 for an upcoming magazine article.

Started digging into and organizing 12 plastic bins full of models and model parts.  Here's a pic of when I first brought it all home in spring.

 

 

 

And got a good start on something I'm referring to as my Blasphemy Build. 3D printing replacement engine, wheels, tires, seats, and some other bits and pieces. Will also be my first foray into some serious scratchbuilding/modification of a kit. Some will dig it, others...not so much. 

 

Also starting to map out a couple of future magazine builds, and some personal builds. 

 

Been a busy month!

 

[cobraman]

Weren't you working on a Lightning ?

[iamsuperdan]

33 minutes ago, cobraman said:

Weren't you working on a Lightning ?

Lightning has been stalled for a bit.

Kind of forgot about it to be honest. 

 

Will have to get on that one.

[ewetwo]

Pretty much getting to the end of this build. Something I would not normally  build. Just waiting for the enamel to dry so I can attempt to put the decals on. And I want to thank Khils (Kevin Hillsabeck) for the many and much needed parts to get this together. A great guy. Thanks Kevin!

Edited September 27, 2022 by ewetwo

[ewetwo]

And I’ve been working on this for 2 months. Paint issues. Stripped 3 times. It’s as good as it’s going to get. I have 2 more of these kits but I’m done with them. 

[iamsuperdan]

Did some chrome stripping last night on a truck I'm working on. Finally decided on a colour scheme for it too, hence the chrome removal.

Also did some mockups with wheels sizes on a Mustang I've starting. The set I printed for it were much too small, so had to do some measuring to see what works best. Will print up set # 2 tonight.

 

[OldNYJim]

11 hours ago, iamsuperdan said:

Did some chrome stripping last night on a truck I'm working on. Finally decided on a colour scheme for it too, hence the chrome removal.

Also did some mockups with wheels sizes on a Mustang I've starting. The set I printed for it were much too small, so had to do some measuring to see what works best. Will print up set # 2 tonight.

 

I printed up some pairs of narrow rings on my machine, in 0.5mm increments, that I’ve been using to mock up to determine tire sizes for mock-ups 

They don’t need to be super wide - but having a bunch of ‘tires’ to do mock-ups with to work out stance has been invaluable and a big time saver I found.

[PatW]

Although not a car, but I did this over two days, and I've just got to add the orange painted markings.. 

The kit an Aurora one (C-119G Boxcar) has the date 1960. The decals were difficult to place as the position of each one is embossed in the plastic!

Edited October 5, 2022 by PatW

[TransAmMike]

12 minutes ago, PatW said:

Although not a car, but I did this over two days, and I've just got to add the orange painted markings.. 

The kit an Aurora one (C-119G Boxcar) has the date 1960. The decals were difficult to place as the position of each one is embossed in the plastic!

Good looking oldie Patrick and no problem its not a car.

[TransAmMike]

Cleared 2 '66 SS bodies and all I can say is 1 out of 2 ain't bad.  Got a bad sag on one side of one but this one came out nicely.  Not sanding or polishing yet.

[Dpate]

2 hours ago, TransAmMike said:

Cleared 2 '66 SS bodies and all I can say is 1 out of 2 ain't bad.  Got a bad sag on one side of one but this one came out nicely.  Not sanding or polishing yet.

Looking good man.  I'm thinking about getting a small thick PVC pipe with a flat endcap to hold my bodies like you got in the pic.  While the tamiya stand is nice it's honestly too small for my hands and it just causes me to many issues makes it harder to paint.  I need something that i can hold in the center and be able to put in the dehydrator.

[TransAmMike]

14 minutes ago, Dpate said:

Looking good man.  I'm thinking about getting a small thick PVC pipe with a flat endcap to hold my bodies like you got in the pic.  While the tamiya stand is nice it's honestly too small for my hands and it just causes me to many issues makes it harder to paint.  I need something that i can hold in the center and be able to put in the dehydrator.

I usually use the Tamiya stand but I was doing 2 bodies with only one stand.  Thats actually a rattle-can can.

[W Humble]

Not a Flying BoxCAR?

I don't have pics, but I cleared, cut and buffed my CD Maisto '53 Stude, now red body and yellow-white top, like on the cover of the big Stude dealer brochure for that year.  I'm also scratching (a bit on the big scale) a McCulloch blower for it.  I do like working with 1:16 scale, as my fingers are not so hot anymore.  I also have a '57Caddie Maisto that I am re-painting again matte black, a 'Stray Cats' theme car in 1:16. I used Ditzler 'Hot Rod Black' and wasn't pleased with it for 'patina' (I say it 'PAT'na', like the British, when I say it at all!) for all it cost me over $60 with hardener... and that was with the empolyees' discount, three years ago!   Wick

[PatW]

7 hours ago, W Humble said:

Not a Flying BoxCAR?

I don't have pics, but I cleared, cut and buffed my CD Maisto '53 Stude, now red body and yellow-white top, like on the cover of the big Stude dealer brochure for that year.  I'm also scratching (a bit on the big scale) a McCulloch blower for it.  I do like working with 1:16 scale, as my fingers are not so hot anymore.  I also have a '57Caddie Maisto that I am re-painting again matte black, a 'Stray Cats' theme car in 1:16. I used Ditzler 'Hot Rod Black' and wasn't pleased with it for 'patina' (I say it 'PAT'na', like the British, when I say it at all!) for all it cost me over $60 with hardener... and that was with the empolyees' discount, three years ago!   Wick

I don't know how it's written as the box art is in capital letters.