AMT ‘63 Impala Street Freak NNL East build

[bobthehobbyguy]

That is a fabulous paintjob. Looking forward tk more.

[OldNYJim]

Thanks fellas!  Just a little more progress on the paint...it takes a while because I like to clear between coats to make masking a little less risky - it would SUCK to get this far then have to start something over ?.

Mixed up some candy green with Createx colors and shot the roof:

And then today I started adding a little extra detail before I get to the rest of the candy coats...painted a little graveyard scene on the back end to fill that gap there:

I used a pearl blue metallic for that part - I’m going for a purple shade for the main candy color for the lower portions of the body but I wanted some variations in the shades so this portion will have candy red over the top and the rest of the body will have a candy blue THEN a candy red to get the effect I’m hoping for.

Once that was dry, painted some bats to continue the ridiculous theme I seem to have got myself into ?

Those bats will be pretty subtle once the candy is on there I suspect, but it’s a cool little extra detail for people to notice hopefully...

Next job is to start laying up the ‘real’ color - I can’t wait to see it looking more purple and crazy! ??

[Lunajammer]

[bisc63]

Coolness.

 

[slusher]

Impressive Jim! Is the top a decal!!

[Koellefornia Kid]

? Super nice!

[OldNYJim]

5 hours ago, slusher said:

Impressive Jim! Is the top a decal!!

No sir - all paint!  Here’s the mask;

Thanks for the kind words, everybody! ❤️

[Modlbldr]

Very intricate work on the paint. How did you make the mask? How did you cut out the spots you weeded?

Later-

[John Pol]

On 3/5/2020 at 6:10 PM, CabDriver said:

A little more on this one - laid out the lettering and flames which make up the biggest parts of the graphics:

Then gave them a coat of black in the relevant spots and laid out some extra details:

Then misted all THAT with some gunmetal silver in the relevant spots and pulled the masks off:

Next up will be some candy colors over all this mess - It’s looking as bananas as I hoped it would though so far ?? 

More soon!

How did you make your stencils with a circut cutter?

[Spex84]

I'd love to know what stencil material you used as well....as I now have access to a Cricut cutter

The Grim-pala is looking amazing so far! Looking forward to seeing the final results of this ambitious painting process.

[OldNYJim]

1 hour ago, Modlbldr said:

Very intricate work on the paint. How did you make the mask? How did you cut out the spots you weeded?

Later-

53 minutes ago, John Pol said:

How did you make your stencils with a circut cutter?

38 minutes ago, Spex84 said:

I'd love to know what stencil material you used as well....as I now have access to a Cricut cutter

The Grim-pala is looking amazing so far! Looking forward to seeing the final results of this ambitious painting process.

Thanks for all the interest fellas!  I’m using a Silhouette Portrait cutter with Oramask 813 masking film.  

Nothing too fancy about the process - just using the software bundled with the cutter to lay out the designs I need (or importing stock images that I’ve found online in the case of the reaper graphic), cutting the masks and then transferring them to the surface with a little piece of low-tack tape and weeding them ready for paint.  ??

[crazyjim]

Very impressive work.

[Modlbldr]

Thanks for the info. Some day I am going to have to look into a cutter of some sort. Too many interesting things can be done with them.

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[OldNYJim]

A little more today - shot a deep purple candy over everything that was meant to be purple, red orange and yellow candy over the flames, candy red over the lettering and then a coat of clear mixed with pearl blue Pearl Ex over all of that to make it flip and flop between black, purple and electric blue...cant seem to get any good pictures of the effect in the light here right now, but here’s a video in the meantime:

Hope that works...can’t wait to see it with the clear over the top too!! ?

[Scott8950]

The paint work is amazing and a street freak impala wagon is too cool.

[Nazz]

I'm lovin' the paint work! Nicely executed!  Those aluminum wheels from Futuratraction?

[OldNYJim]

59 minutes ago, Nazz said:

I'm lovin' the paint work! Nicely executed!  Those aluminum wheels from Futuratraction?

Thanks buddy!  Not sure on the wheels - traded for them with a user on here - I believe he keeps a stock of them for sale/trade:

 http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/profile/13331-vintagedragcrazy/

1 hour ago, Scott8950 said:

The paint work is amazing and a street freak impala wagon is too cool.

Thank you sir!!

[OldNYJim]

Some pics, after I finished the last little bit of airbrushing before I can clear this thing:

Pretty pleased with how it turned out so far!

[Gizzy]

Looking good ?

Edited March 16, 2020 by Gizzy

[OldNYJim]

On 3/16/2020 at 7:07 PM, Gizzy said:

Looking good ?

Thanks buddy!

A little work on the frame today - cut some masks after laying down a base coat of silver:

And I figured with this thing sitting so high it would be cool to have a kinda space/galaxy kind of look under there.  Laid down some space-looking blacks, blues, pinks and purples with a splattering of white and blue stars:

Then added some depth and shadow:

Then removed the remaining masks and shot some blue and purple candies over all that:

I’m going to add some more of the splattered stars to the frame rails once it’s all dry and I can mask it - but I’m pretty pleased with how ridiculous it looks...gonna be a LOT of colors and stuff to look at on this one!

More soon!

[Belugawrx]

WOW...that paint work !!!

[Scott8950]

That paint work is absolutely awesome. It looks like something youd see at the world of wheels with over the top paint work... Nice job can't wait to see it finished.

[OldNYJim]

Thanks fellas!  A tiny bit of progress - gave the body and chassis a handful of coats of clear so I can polish out all the lumps and bumps from the airbrushing:
 

And did some work on the engine - I wanted a coffin shaped blower scoop (like this thing wasn’t dumb enough already) so I designed one and had the cutter cut it:

Should be a pretty wild looking engine once I start getting some paint and detail on there:

That scoop looks RIDICULOUS here, but it looks just right (or just wrong enough) with the engine in the car.  

More soon!

[NOBLNG]

That is absolutely gorgeous...in a goulish demented way!? Seriously man, your talents are second to none!

[alan barton]

Hey Jim, another option for a coffin shaped scoop would be the body from a Hot Wheels Rigor Motor 1/64th toy. It was Mattel's take on Grandpa's Dragula from the Munsters TV show and it has some nice detail.

Love the insanity we are seeing here - don't stop now!

 

Cheers

Alan