Corvette C7. First father-daughter project.

[khier]

Frustrated by the pitfalls in the1950 Ford F1 project, I decided to do something different, and to move my daughter away from the retarded material on the TV screen. I asked her to work with me on the interior. She chose this tan shade, and I decided to try cheap artist acrylic to reproduce the colour, and here where the fun begins.

 

I mixed some sienna brown with white and got quickly a close shade. I used my home brew acrylic thinner to spray the paint with airbrush. Well, I didn't have enough thinner and it remained relatively thick. However, it could be sprayed at 2.5 bar. The airbrush was merely spitting the paint rather than spraying. It looks like it is poorly pigmented or the pigment of a strange type. However, the spitting and the suspended pigment particles create a fantastic wood effect. Well, not really what I wanted but I have never seen such a perfect imitation of wood before.

Spraying further changed the effect to leather look. Now I know how I will finish my 3d printed luggage when I finally come to print them. 

These paints are real dog to cover. After a lot of layers the seats looked like perfectly weathered. Finally, after several tens of layers I arrived at that.

Ah, I forgot to say my daughter was gave up and the last, say, twenty layers were sprayed by me. 

 

 

 

So to summarize: 

Cheap artist acrylics are great for wood and leather effects and weathering. They cover very poorly. Therefore take a lot of time to apply properly. Although they are dirt cheap, they need great amount of acrylic thinners. Unless the thinner is home made, they are financial disaster. I have seen only solid acrylics. They can be probably mixed with Tamiya clear to create gloss and semi gloss colours. This what I will try in part 2 to make the seats stand out a bit.

Finally, here is the body. 

Edited October 25, 2022 by khier

[slusher]

Very sharp color!

[khier]

First attempt to apply a carpet. I would say it is perfect success. Much better than painting.

[ea0863]

It looks GREAT, and the color choices are so cool! Well done to you both  

[Joe Nunes]

Nice body color!  One tip you may want to consider for the "leather" seats and such:  after painting and drying time I dust off the part, rub my index finger across my forehead or beside my nose (did I really just say that!) and rub the body oil onto the area where I want a bit of shiny leather look. Doesn't take a lot of work and can bring another dimension to the interior.  

Joe

 

[slusher]

Nice flocking!

[espo]

Beautiful color for the body and the interior. The carpet looks great as well. 

[mustang1989]

That color is GORGEOUS!!! Very nicely done!!

Interior is coming along well too.

[khier]

On 10/27/2022 at 7:32 AM, slusher said:

Nice flocking!

 

This is a sheet of some fabric I bought from Tedi, the German one dollar store.

[khier]

Nhb  WIP of last week, mostly interior:

 

 

[khier]

Now I call this interior finished. Lessons learned: never use cheap artist acrylics unless you know you will never touch them again. I wanted to apply the nice speaker's decals supplied with the kit. The water thinned the paint on the dashboard leaving stains of light colour. I had to wet the entire dashboard to have a uniform colour shade.

Edited November 24, 2022 by khier

[khier]

And after a break of two months, here she is:

 

 

[ismaelg]

Nice! Those projects are cherished for ever!

Thanks,
Ismael