1941 Chevy Pickup

[KWT]

I've been on a Truck building kick as of late.. and a weathering one also. Decided to go green, since apparently green chevy's were not uncommon around here. Decided to tackle the Revell 41 Chevy Pickup. It is built curbside and I built it the way I would have seen one in my small town as a kid.

As always, thanks for looking.... on to the next...

[Tom Geiger]

Wow! You are really on a streak with these! They look great!

[KWT]

Thanks Tom... I do appreciate it

[Jim B]

Great looking Chevrolets!  They're generational.

[PappyD340]

You're on a roll for sure!

[KWT]

Thanks James and Larry

[espo]

Love it. Looks like it gets parked next to the other two. 

[carrucha]

Nice collection of Chevy pickups.  Good job weathering.

[KWT]

Thank ya much!

I don't know how the 50 and 66 ended up on this thread... ehh they fit the motive...

[slusher]

Very nice Chevies!

[KWT]

Thanks Carl I appreciate it

[Deuces ll]

Nice!.... ??

[Ace-Garageguy]

Great looking weathering, just enough, just right, very realistic.

You should do a tutorial.

[KWT]

Thank ya much guys...

19 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Great looking weathering, just enough, just right, very realistic.

You should do a tutorial.

Bill coming from a man of your talent and knowledge, I do appreciate that.

[Ace-Garageguy]

2 hours ago, KWT said:

Bill, I do appreciate that.

Hey...that '41 Chevy really speaks to me.

When I was a kid in a small town on the east coast, there was a farmer who'd bring fresh vegetables in to market on the weekends.

Your '41 is a dead ringer for his truck, even down to the slightly sunburned nose his had because it stuck out of the end of the shed it lived under most days.

Vehicles weather lotsa different ways, but I've never seen a better executed rendition of that particular look than your '41 here.

I like the other two as well.

They look like all the well-maintained old trucks I've seen all over the country, trucks still hard at work earning their keep. No longer shiny, but just as good at being trucks as the day they rolled off the line. It's a good look, a reminder of a time before everything was thrown away when the new wore off.

[KWT]

Thanks Bill.

I tried the salt technique with the 65 I did earlier in the year, but it came out looking like splatter paint.... let's just say, it wasn't at all what I wanted. After staring at the thing for a week I thought about trying a theory. So I repainted it and for kicks tried it this way...

It all starts with Red primer. And you have to get good coverage with it. Then the color of choice.. Since all the old Chevy trucks had a green in the line,  I went with Olive Drab for the flat faded look. After the whole truck is painted and dried out, I started hitting it with a 400 grit sponge. After I broke through the paint everywhere I wanted the rust to show through, I jumped up to 1000 and 1500 grit sponges and worked out the finer details. I looked at a lot of photos online and used what I could remember about relatives old trucks from my younger years. It ends up being A LOT of wasted paint. When I got where I wanted, I added Tamiya weather master powder to the spots I sanded all the way through. Waited a day or so and cleared the truck and the chrome tree in flat. Slap the kit together as much as you want... most of these I went curbside... Then on to adding the weather master powder to areas that needed more depth and color.

As I've added trucks to the "line", it became easier to work it out in my mind what to do and not. And, to me, they became a little better looking every one. And dang it, did I enjoy it to boot...

I'll see if I can't work up what I did and snap some pics along the way. Maybe it'll help somebody out..

[ChrisR]

Awesome!

[KWT]

Thanks Chris

[Chariots of Fire]

Awesome building and painting, Jeremy!  Nice work!

[KWT]

Thank ya much!