Lead City Customs

[Kenmojr]

Impressive work on stretching the rear wheel arch...

[Cool Hand]

19 hours ago, BK9300 said:

Fabulous work, Luke - looks like it was that way all along!

Thanks Brian.

 

18 hours ago, SpikeSchumacher said:

Great tip!

Thanks Mathias, cant take credit for it, I learnt from others. Will see how it holds up I guess

 

14 hours ago, Kenmojr said:

Impressive work on stretching the rear wheel arch...

Thanks Ken, just copied how they do it on the 1:1's, hardest part was sanding the styrene to shape that was used to fill the gap.

[Cool Hand]

Sanded and applied another full coat of 1200 surfacer.

Will set it aside and let it cure for a bit, then come back to it sand again and apply more surfacer.

[Cool Hand]

So while I wait............ why not start another.

Need to try out some idea's I have for an old school full custom HQ.

And like all builds it starts with wheels and stance.

Out of the box stance.

 

After some quick adjustments, much better.

 

[Cool Hand]

First idea for the custom HQ done.

 

Before scribing new door lines to make it a 2dr.

After.

And using same technique I did on the LJ Torana, filled the original door lines with 3D printer resin.

Also filled the door handle pockets, side mirror mounting hole and removed the B pillar.

DDA collectibles havent manufactured the hard top coupe kit yet, so I made my own 😁 So happy with how it looks so far. 

Moving onto the the next idea.

 

[BK9300]

3 minutes ago, Cool Hand said:

First idea for the custom HQ done.

 

DDA collectibles havent manufactured the hard top coupe kit yet, so I made my own 😁 So happy with how it looks so far. 

Moving onto the the next idea.

 

Using printer resin as filler sure works well.  Do you use any kind of guide to scribe the lower, radiused corners of your doors?  Very smoothly done!

[Cool Hand]

Thanks Brian.

8 hours ago, BK9300 said:

Do you use any kind of guide to scribe the lower, radiused corners of your doors? 

I done the radius first.

Used Dspiae 0.15 to scribe new door lines.

 

[Cool Hand]

Shaved the trim from around the side windows.

 

Scribed around front window trim, filled the cowl vents, wiper mounting holes and panel lines.

 

Filled front bumper mounting holes, increased the size of the grill opening and grill surround.

 

Now onto rear bumper delete and smooth out the rear.

Edited Wednesday at 01:18 PM by Cool Hand

[Cool Hand]

Well thats all the body modifications roughed in, few more rounds of sanding and primer/surfacer 1200.

 

[SpikeSchumacher]

Wow, super clean and smooth! Love the hardtop modification.

[STU111]

6 hours ago, Cool Hand said:

Well thats all the body modifications roughed in, few more rounds of sanding and primer/surfacer 1200.

 

Intriguing. A two door HQ sedan. I’m liking the body mods, and like you, I’ve got a soft spot for the HQ, so I’ll definitely be looking in on this one. 👍🏻

[Brockc]

17 hours ago, Cool Hand said:

Well thats all the body modifications roughed in, few more rounds of sanding and primer/surfacer 1200.

 

This hq looks like it came straight out the old Australian Hotrod magazines from the mid to late 70s it needs some dragway 5 spokes to complete the look I reckon. Looking forward for the end result of this.

[Cool Hand]

16 hours ago, SpikeSchumacher said:

Wow, super clean and smooth! Love the hardtop modification.

Thanks Mathias, it looks good as a 2dr hard top for sure.

 

15 hours ago, STU111 said:

Intriguing. A two door HQ sedan. I’m liking the body mods, and like you, I’ve got a soft spot for the HQ, so I’ll definitely be looking in on this one. 👍🏻

Cheers Stu, ive built the HQ in all the styles I like. So wanted to try do something different.

 

4 hours ago, Brockc said:

This hq looks like it came straight out the old Australian Hotrod magazines from the mid to late 70s it needs some dragway 5 spokes to complete the look I reckon. Looking forward for the end result of this.

Thanks Brock, thats the era where I got most of the idea's and inspiration from. 

[Cool Hand]

I need a test mule to work out what I want to do for a paint job on the HQ custom.

So dug out one of my favorite kits for messing about and test out ideas. And like always the first thing to do is choose the wheels and the stance is set.

Going to shave the rear script, door lock, front side marker and flush the door handle.

Also tuck the bumpers a bit so they dont stick out as much.

Wont be doing too much other than basic body prep and keep it a simple oob.

 

 

Edited Thursday at 04:53 PM by Cool Hand

[Zippi]

The ole test mule is looking pretty good there Luke.  The stance is looking spot on dude.

[Cool Hand]

On 8/14/2025 at 9:28 PM, Brockc said:

needs some dragway 5 spokes to complete the look I reckon.

🤔

[Cool Hand]

5 hours ago, Zippi said:

The ole test mule is looking pretty good there Luke.  The stance is looking spot on dude.

Thanks Bob, going to be interesting to see if the colours I chose look the part or will it end up in the lacquer thinner bath and need a rethink on colours.

[Cool Hand]

Body prep done, bumpers tucked, smoothed the tail light panel and painted the wheel centers.

 

[Brockc]

6 hours ago, Cool Hand said:

🤔

Now your talking with them on it 

[Cool Hand]

Started some conversion work with the interior for the Custom HQ Holden.

Oob.

 

Converted to 2dr and new flat panels to build upon. Thinking some tuck n roll might be the go.

 

 

And update on the Pano, it has been wet sanded and polished, bmf done, so time for final detail work and assemblies and get it completed.