Saltie Olds Posted June 5, 2022 Posted June 5, 2022 My grandfather Styve passed away on 10/25/98 and my grandmother Styve passed away on 5/30/22. So I’m doing my own personal tribute builds of remembering always having a blast playing with my toy cars at my grandparents house. This build and my next build will be my personal tribute build to my grandparents.
Oldcarfan27 Posted June 5, 2022 Posted June 5, 2022 They owned a Trans Am? One of my favorite cars, as you can see by my Avatar.
Saltie Olds Posted June 5, 2022 Author Posted June 5, 2022 44 minutes ago, Oldcarfan27 said: They owned a Trans Am? One of my favorite cars, as you can see by my Avatar. Nope, I had the Hot Wheels Hot Bird, and I always loved playing with it, when I was at their place. The next part of this build will be my custom version of the Hot Wheels Bywayman.
Saltie Olds Posted June 5, 2022 Author Posted June 5, 2022 Got the base color down, Testors Black Chrome. Now in a few days, I’ll do a very light coat of the main color, Testors Color Shift Turquoise Waters. 1
Saltie Olds Posted June 5, 2022 Author Posted June 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, Oldcarfan27 said: Cool idea! Thank You.0 1
Saltie Olds Posted June 7, 2022 Author Posted June 7, 2022 I got the headlights, grilles, and wheels done today. I’m using the kit’s tires and wheel backs. These wheels are from a Monogram ‘56 Chevy. The kit I’m building is the Monogram ‘79 Trans Am 3 ‘n 1. I trued your sand the backs of the grilles, to open them up, but sanded them out instead. So I’m using some photo etch screen for the grilles. I like how they turned out. A happy mistake.
espo Posted June 7, 2022 Posted June 7, 2022 Nice looking build. I'm interested in how the paint you're using turns out. I also bought some a while ago but haven't had a shoutable model for it and not sure how it will look, so I'll be looking in on this.
Saltie Olds Posted June 7, 2022 Author Posted June 7, 2022 1 hour ago, espo said: Nice looking build. I'm interested in how the paint you're using turns out. I also bought some a while ago but haven't had a shoutable model for it and not sure how it will look, so I'll be looking in on this. Cool. I did a very light coat of it, just on the corners. If you look at my AE86 E. Levin build, I have a slightly thicker coat on that build. Later, I’ll PM you pictures of a ‘64 442 that I did.
Saltie Olds Posted June 7, 2022 Author Posted June 7, 2022 Goth the very light coat of the Testors Color Shift Turquoise Waters on the car, and all the decals on it. Since I’m from WA., and so were my grandparents, I put on a Washington state plate.
Saltie Olds Posted June 10, 2022 Author Posted June 10, 2022 Here’s the completed interior in the car. And the engine compartment.
Saltie Olds Posted June 10, 2022 Author Posted June 10, 2022 Now I have the engine compartment completed.
Oldcarfan27 Posted June 11, 2022 Posted June 11, 2022 Looks like the Hot Wheel I had when I was a kid. One of my favorites too! Where did you get the decals from?
Saltie Olds Posted June 11, 2022 Author Posted June 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Oldcarfan27 said: Looks like the Hot Wheel I had when I was a kid. One of my favorites too! Where did you get the decals from? I got them from Keith Marks Decals. If you go to SCRedlines.com, you could create an account with them and order decals for either the 1/24 or 1/25 scale Firebird kits. In the Under Glass section, you could see the finished car.
Saltie Olds Posted June 11, 2022 Author Posted June 11, 2022 1 hour ago, Oldcarfan27 said: Looks like the Hot Wheel I had when I was a kid. One of my favorites too! Where did you get the decals from? My other favorite Hot Wheels is the Bywayman. I’ll ba painting it to match my Hot Bird.
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