What Did You Accomplish Today? (Model Car Work)

[Slotto]

drawing and printing continues. These are 22"

before

after. If I do this, I'll have to drop her a bit

[Lownslow]

Designed and printed a rig so i can work on my builds and have both hands free. 

[Lownslow]

Also printed a Mad max body for my 71 mustang after having a accident trying to fix a warp

[OldNYJim]

18 hours ago, Lownslow said:

Designed and printed a rig so i can work on my builds and have both hands free. 

That’s awesome, nice idea ??

[Lownslow]

9 Different styles of window filler for the 1976 amt caprice, i scanned the roof, front and back to develop some custom parts

[Mattilacken]

On 3/15/2024 at 10:07 AM, Lownslow said:

Designed and printed a rig so i can work on my builds and have both hands free. 

Looks quite handy! Nice! Would you share?

[Mattilacken]

Post it here as well. My progress for last night. Engine is in, wheels are done, touch up done to the rear window area. Interior is starting to come to gether with the basic paint layed down.

[JollySipper]

Painted the '41 Plymouth today, along with getting it cleared.......

 

[FoMoCo66]

42 minutes ago, JollySipper said:

Painted the '41 Plymouth today, along with getting it cleared.......

 

Man there's a lot of those on the forum right now. I like the color of the silver on that body, looks sleek.

[Lownslow]

Scanned the AMT 76 Caprice and did a Brougham gangster window conversion, was going full top but decided on keeping it a Landau, i designed 9 different versions of side fillers and 4 rear fillers so there will be a lot of different combos coming

[Brudda]

The headers on a 1/12 mfh 917/30. 

[Russell C]

8 minutes ago, Brudda said:

The headers on a 1/12 mfh 917/30.

Too bad I have such poor math / fingers counting skills ... for a brief few moments there, I thought I was looking at a flat 14.

[Lownslow]

Made two different EG style Grills to give the caprice a more superfly look

[FoMoCo66]

I wired my first engine with actuall wire yesterday. It was the S&M 71 cuda hemi. The daunting thing was that the car has 2 distributors, but that was no problem since I just took it 1 distributor at a time. I also did fuel lines and carb linkage. It really wasn't that bad and I am really happy with the results! Yes the real car looks like a hairball with that tangle of wires to.

[catpack68]

I painted a Revell 71 Boss 351 body a little bit ago. This will be a box stock build. The color is Tamiya TS-20 metallic green,which looks a little like Grabber Green metallic. Close enough for me anyways?

[Lownslow]

Completed the E&G Continental kit

[OldNYJim]

I’m I’m on a real T-bucket kick lately but I don’t really want to keep buying kits to get the bodies when I’m scratchbuilding and kitbashing about everything BUT the body…so I just printed a batch…

I know the door lines should go out, not in, but stock Ts don’t have V8s and crazy paintjobs either so I can live with it…

 

[StevenGuthmiller]

On my way to completing a 2-barrel Rochester carb for my '64 Lemans project.

Just added a little detail to a center carb from the Revell '66 GTO kit.

 

Not perfect, but with some detail painting and a little weathering, it should do pretty well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

[Brudda]

Turbos on th 917/30

[atomicholiday]

Fired up the airbrush and painted a few small parts today.   First time in around ten years!   Man I'm out of practice.  

Also,  not sure about this new airbrush I picked up.   It's probably my technique,  but it seemed like it used way more paint than I remember.  Felt like it was spraying full throttle or not at all.   I'll keep practicing,  but I might switch back to my old airbrush. 

[PatW]

Finished today,

Edited March 31, 2024 by PatW

[Bainford]

On 3/30/2024 at 7:44 PM, atomicholiday said:

Fired up the airbrush and painted a few small parts today.   First time in around ten years!   Man I'm out of practice.  

Also,  not sure about this new airbrush I picked up.   It's probably my technique,  but it seemed like it used way more paint than I remember.  Felt like it was spraying full throttle or not at all.   I'll keep practicing,  but I might switch back to my old airbrush. 

What are the airbrushes?

[atomicholiday]

51 minutes ago, Bainford said:

What are the airbrushes?

The new one is an Avanti I picked up cheap at Harbor Freight.  

 My old airbrush is a Testors Aztek A480.  I did some more experimenting yesterday.  I think it’s mainly just me getting used to the difference between the two.  Operator error.

[Bainford]

33 minutes ago, atomicholiday said:

The new one is an Avanti I picked up cheap at Harbor Freight.  

 My old airbrush is a Testors Aztek A480.  I did some more experimenting yesterday.  I think it’s mainly just me getting used to the difference between the two.  Operator error.

Yes, lots of variables when getting into airbrushing, the operator being the most variable of all.

[Beans]

Used Rustoleum automotive clear coat over brush painted craft paint, just to see how it would turn out.