AMT ‘63 Impala Street Freak NNL East build

[Impalow]

This continues to be absolutely awesome Jim!   

It looks like you were able to get your cutter to score some styrene sheet?   I love that scoop.

[OldNYJim]

12 hours ago, NOBLNG said:

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

I’m second to PLENTY of people, but thank you ?

6 hours ago, alan barton said:

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

YES!  I’ve got a bunch of those here, I should’ve thought of that...the earlier issues have a really cool pair of skull headlamps that are good for shift knobs!  I need to make another mould of one of those so I can make some more 

[OldNYJim]

3 hours ago, Impalow said:

This continues to be absolutely awesome Jim!   

It looks like you were able to get your cutter to score some styrene sheet?   I love that scoop.

Yes sir!  I found this setting:

And I figured the force was controlling the blade depth too...turns out I was wrong, and that little dial moves the auto-blade that mine has in and out.  Works GREAT now I know how to use it properly ??  My old machine was a little simpler to use...  Thanks for the pointers!

Meanwhile, as I’m replying anyway, shot some Createx Pearl Purple on the engine parts this morning - should look cool against that black and purple body and the green roof:

More soon!

Edited March 23, 2020 by CabDriver

[OldNYJim]

A little more on this thing - had to paint a bunch of parts, including these suspension linkages so that I could get this thing closer to being a roller:

Modified the kit interior so it has a bed in the back to fit that coffin that I was want to put in there:

And shot all the interior parts with a base color ready for more detailing later:

And a quick mock-up to see how it’s going to look - it’s starting to look like a thing!  More soon!

 

Edited April 9, 2020 by CabDriver

[Scott8950]

looks great.. that paint work is very nice

[Belugawrx]

Yep that's some crazy paint? 

[OldNYJim]

Thank you fellas!  

Forgot to post the nearly-ready-to-paint coffin...gotta figure out a 70s paint trick that I haven’t tried yet for this thing! ?

[OldNYJim]

A little more progress - couldn’t decide between a patina’d look for the coffin in the back, a kind of old wood look, or something shiny and candy-coated...so I went for a little of both!  Shot the whole thing with silver, then a green candy then wiped that off and left a little in the recesses, then some red and orange candies which I hit with some seat to make them blister and split a little from drying too fast:

Ill add some pastels and to add some more depth to the cracks and crevices in the paint and then call that done - it’s kinda hard to see in the back there anyway but I wanted to do a little airbrush work on it anyway.

With that done, did a little work on the interior...again, it’s pretty hard to see in there anyway and there’s already enough crazy nonsense on this thing so I left it pretty plain aside from the pearl purple colorscheme to tie it in with the engine color:

Next up, I needed to make a headliner - I cut a cobweb design out of some styrene sheet and soon as the primer dries I’ll shoot that a candy lime green to match the roof:

And then this afternoon I did a little detail painting on the bumpers.  The attachment points on these couldn’t be in any worse of a spot - you can’t snip them off without really ruining the chrome, but I wanted a more subtle look anyway so they got cleaned up and shot with a chrome silver paint followed by a black wash, some orange for the turn signals and a little pearl white to try and improve those moulded-in lights a little:

More soon!

[OldNYJim]

A tiny bit more progress on this one...got the headliner painted:

Made some brake disks on my cutter:

And soon as those are painted I can assemble this thing!

I carelessly ran out of the epoxy that I like for assembly, but there’s more coming next week so more soon-ish! 

[Funkychiken]

That cutter is cool, the paint work is amazing!

[OldNYJim]

On 4/12/2020 at 5:47 AM, Funkychiken said:

That cutter is cool, the paint work is amazing!

Thanks buddy!

Pretty much done on this one!  Was a fun build!

 

[Scott8950]

I followed this from the beginning, it turned out great.