79 Chevy Nova street beater

[customline]

Yessiree, this is shaping up to be a right proper worm can! 🪱 (a cracked windshield is always nice, Rob. 😏)

Edited August 25 by customline

[rv1963]

Thanks Carl thanks Jim.

[David G.]

The good work continues on this, nicely done Robert!

David G.

[rv1963]

Thanks David.

[rv1963]

Time for an update, I sprayed the final color over the rest of the body a nice pale green, it's really 2 different shades of green vallejo pale green on the upper surfaces above the body line I mixed pale green and about 30% white for a faded  paint affect. The third pic shows more weathering to the white door and the fourth pic shows weathering to the hatch and some damage caused after the masking take removed a large area of paint from the hatch lip, I will have to weather the damaged area again, I also made the pictures a little bigger. All comments welcome.

Edited August 27 by rv1963

[customline]

I think I would leave that tape removal mishap just the way it is. It's beautiful! I would try that elsewhere as well. It's a nice effect. 🙂 . I would call it "perfectly peeling paint"

[rv1963]

Thanks Jim I am going to leave the peeling paint but I will weather it a bit, I may add a few darker rust tones to what is there now, I will have to think about.

[David G.]

That's a great color choice Robert! It's the type of color that lends itself perfectly to that chalky oxidation that one often sees on old cars.

The tape pulling the paint off the rear of the hatch is what I call one of those "happy accidents".  It'll be cool how you work that in.

David G.

[rv1963]

Thanks David, I have already worked on that damaged area and a few other spots as well, I will try to post another pic very soon. I am trying to get as much done as I can before the school year starts and I go back to work full time, when I go back that may slow things down a little.

[rv1963]

Update time, first 2 pics show lots more rust along the entire body plus dark grimy washes to bring out the details, the third pics shows my fix for the paint that peeled up on the hatch, I used my Xacto knife to make some jagged marks in the plastic and than add some very dark rust tones, fourth pic is the grill witch was given a silver coating of sharpie marker and a dull coat to kill the shine. I almost forgot in the last pic I had the same problem just above the front window trim with peeling pant so I painted it by hand and added my rust tones to hide most of it, not shore if it worked oops.

Edited August 31 by rv1963

[BK9300]

Fabulous rusting on your beater!

[rv1963]

Thanks Brian.

[customline]

It's looking like a junkyard queen now, Boss. Who could drive that anywhere? 🥵  in most states you'd get stopped just to see if it was registered and inspected. Don't forget to put a pair of bald tires on the front, worn really bad on the inside with belts showing (I speak from experience  🤤.)

Edited August 31 by customline

[rv1963]

Thanks Jim, doing some interior work now.

[Bullybeef]

@rv1963 That is some very convincing weathering, I’m impressed! It takes so much more work to make a model look old and rusty than new and shiny! 

[David G.]

An excellent recovery on the peeled paint Robert!

The rest of it is coming along exceptionally!

David G.

[Biggu]

Robert, you absolutely NAILED the drivers door. That is perfect. Your weathering is an excellent tutorial on how to make it look real ! Outstanding. 
Jeff

[customline]

I have not seen better weathering (even on a 1:1 !) - than this rust-bucket chevy 😎, 

[espo]

Depending on where this car may have been, these 1:1 Novas were susceptible to rust even in some west coastal areas. 

[rv1963]

Thanks Bill I agree, thanks David I wasn't shore if my fix would work but I am pretty happy with the results, thanks Jeff, Jim and David.

[slusher]

Really nice rest and wear on your body. You did a great job!   DSometime I would like to do one"

[Scott8950]

The weather looks great, nice job.

[rv1963]

Thanks Carl and Scott.

[customline]

19 hours ago, espo said:

Depending on where this car may have been, these 1:1 Novas were susceptible to rust even in some west coastal areas. 

Back in the mid '70s, my sister drove up to RI from FL in a '70 Challenger she bought down there. The firewall was rusted out. THE FIREWALL!  😟 I guess she never opened the hood.

[espo]

1 hour ago, customline said:

Back in the mid '70s, my sister drove up to RI from FL in a '70 Challenger she bought down there. The firewall was rusted out. THE FIREWALL!  😟 I guess she never opened the hood.

I spent many years living in southern and central coast areas of California. You could almost tell when a car had spent a lot of time near the beach areas as the onshore breezes would bring in the fog and anything sitting outside would deteriorate much faster than a car that was even a couple of miles inland. The only place I have ever seen anything eat cars worse was on a vacation to Maui. The cars on the western side of the island would deteriorate faster than the cars on the eastern side.