1950 Chevy Pickup - Times Three!

[Tom Geiger]

The story- Epicurean Garage is one of our favorite restaurants. Aside from the motor theme, the food is outrageous and the staff friendly.  With all that’s going on right now they are doing take out and started donating $5 an order to the local food bank. They are keeping their entire team working and wait staff is even doing deliveries.

They send out a daily newsletter and their generosity has been contagious. A local business agreed to match their $5 an order, then a wealthy family added to it and this week a doctor is also donating.

Now they are giving gift certificates to local restaurants to first responders and medical personnel to keep the other local restaurants going. Now more than five of them are matching the donations! 

I’ve always liked their decor and promised myself that I would build this truck one day. With being confined, John Papp started The Isolation 500 group build on Facebook so I thought now was the time! Especially since I had everything I needed to build it here at home.

So I worked on this one the past few weeks. I even did decals for it.  Then the above story started to take place as I built...

Which has taken me here!  I wanted to help in my own way but not able to donate a lot of money, why not build some models for them?  I had two of the snap version here in my inventory so I wanted to do simple duplicates of my original. This photo shows the first primer layer for the paint scheme.

Next color over red primer is gray primer....

Then some flat black!  Both the primer red and flat black sit so nicely that I will do vehicles in them someday!

And the final color is Duplicolor Forest Green.

The trick is that I wet sand this with 420 grit. It’s slow but I have good control to take each spot down to whichever level color looks good. Sanding in a circular motion gives a nicely weathered look layering the spots. 

Next up is weathering and rusting with Dullcote and Earth tone chalks. That’s a total of five different coats.

So we will see how this goes! I can finish the bodies tomorrow and other parts are all primed and / or painted. I’ll see how fast this goes and I will present them to the restaurant to use for fund raising. I can see auctioning them off to high bidders. There seems to be a lot of money being donated now!  Wish me luck. I’ll keep this thread going.

 

 

Edited April 20, 2020 by Tom Geiger

[Scott8950]

The patina looks great on those trucks.

[Tom Geiger]

13 minutes ago, Scott8950 said:

The patina looks great on those trucks.

Thanks Scott! I hit the post button right after I posted the pix by accident. Now there’s a whole story to go with them.

[Scott8950]

That's a good story and a great thing you are doing for them, I'm sure they will appreciate them. ?

[89AKurt]

Cool idea.  Of course I love the subject.  More power to you!

[slusher]

Great cause for the builds, you got this Tom..

[Tom Geiger]

To finish the story- I did finish the additional two trucks and I delivered them to the restaurant in the middle of Covid!  They were doing take out orders only with drive up trunk delivery for no contact back then.  I had the two trucks packed in a box and I had the carside service girl take the box out of my trunk.  

 

Then we weren’t able to go back to the restaurant until recently.. and what do I see on the Hostess Desk?  
 

 

[ewetwo]

Nice.

 

[crazyjim]

Pretty cool.

I was wondering how you get decals to adhere on flat paint.

[Tom Geiger]

54 minutes ago, crazyjim said:

Pretty cool.

I was wondering how you get decals to adhere on flat paint.

The body was gloss green that was wet sanded to expose the layers of color under it. The body wasn’t dull coated until after the decals were applied.

The decals were done on white decal stock.

[Zippi]

Yup.....very kewl story and great looking trucks.  I'm kinda parcal to the AD trucks as I have a 1949 5 window Restomod 1:1.

[hct728(Bob)]

Great idea, and nice seeing a whole fleet of them! Thanks for the how-to, too!

Bought a same model year 1/18 diecast pickup years ago when I couldn't find the kit, with the intention of replicating an Old Navy store truck, wonder what happened to it, LOL. Spent a lot of time and money in those stores when my boys were kids, though I would have preferred spending it at a restaurant!

[bobthehobbyguy]

Nice work. Cool project.