1974 Ford Maverick with Luxury Decor Option(LDO)

[RACINE ISHRAQUR RAZA]

1974 Ford Maverick with Luxury Decor Option(LDO) in white with Saddle Bronze Poly vinyl top & body side moldings. This is a 1:24 scale die cast model car by Motormax. On the LDO, just to do the vinyl top and the body side moldings along with special painted wheel covers required a lot of masking. For the interior I did full carpeting. The LDO interior is painted in Saddle Bronze Poly. Motormax never made the LDO, but did make a Maverick Grabber, so I might get one of those with the cool stripes in the near future. The LDO received the unique vinyl top, body side moldings, wheel color matched to the vinyl top, soft plush interior in matching color, deep pile carpeting, seat belts, roof liner, dome lamp, mushroom shaped door lock on the door inserts, and simulated matching paded vinyl wrapped tail-light panel. The side moldings along with vinyl top moldings are finished in Bare Metal Foil.

I worked on the floor & subframe similar to how I painted the bottom of some MPC and AMT model kits. Much of it is molded in one piece so I masked the wheel wells and spray painted the floor, followed by doing all the rest with a brush. All the paint in the various cans were diluted with a lot of paint thinner. When dry you don't see a lot of brushwork that way. I finished by spraying brown spray paint over the floor pieces but from far away and on top of them, so that when the paint particles land & makes contact with the floor, it looks like dust, but this is simulated dust that won't rub away when the car is handled in any way. Now it almost looks like a car that was driven fresh from the local new car dealership and taken on a long road trip all over Canada and USA.      

[RACINE ISHRAQUR RAZA]

One more picture to show how I spray painted the body side moldings after a lot of masking. Once the paint was dry I finished all the moldings with Bare Metal Foil.

[slusher]

Another  great looking Maverick!

[Jim B]

Fancy! Very well done Maverick. 

[RACINE ISHRAQUR RAZA]

Thank you all for the compliment! Much appreciated!

[ewetwo]

Sharp looking.