Ed "Big Daddy" Roth '56 Ford F100 pickup

[slusher]

Your making nice progress!

[eajonesgue]

My original intent was to paint the flames on the body, using masks printed out by a club member on his Silhouette machine.  The reasons I wanted to paint were:

- the decals looked like they were going to be difficult to lay down around the compound curves of the fenders

- the flame decals don't seem to be the correct colour for the restored truck - they seem more of a reddish brown shade than a bright red

- the original sheet has two decals that were damaged (see photo)

However, the vinyl masks had a number of tears in them and the vinyl masks did not stick very well.  Before looking at the masks, I contacted Bill Brillinger of Precision Design Company (www.pdc.ca) about getting him to make up decals for the dashboard.  I sent him the photos I had of the interior and some dimensions.  I did a mock up of what the dash would look like using masking tape.  Bill mentioned that he had the artwork for the flame decals that he did for a customer in HO (1:87) scale (talk about tiny).  I am ordering the dashboard and the flame decals (in a brighter red colour and in 1:25 scale).  During our conversation, I wanted to see how the original decals worked.  I applied the bed cover mural decal and it worked flawlessly.  I will use the kit decal pinstriping and lettering decals.

[meechum68]

WOW!!  The level of detail is .. awesome!!

I need to keep building to get better and one day put out this kind of beauty!