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 2 hours ago by Cool Hand