Evan_N Posted September 27 Posted September 27 Currently working on the Revell '76 Gran Torino. As a kid growing up in the 70's I have a real soft spot for cars from this time, especially typical daily rides that I would have seen in my neighbourhood back then. First car kit I've built in more than 40+ years, and it's going together nicely. I don't know if this is considered a "good" kit, but I'm really enjoying so far. I've got the engine and chassis built and just finishing up painting before installing them.I ended up mixing up some blue for the engine, as I couldn't really find anything at my hobbyshop. I know Testors makes (made?) a Ford engine blue, but they didn't have any stock. I tried to match it with pictures I got on line. I think I got pretty close. I left it a bit brighter, because I want to do some oil washes and weathering. 8
TopherMcGinnis Posted September 27 Posted September 27 Cool kit. They must've built a blue million Torinos. They was everywhere! The engine color looks great. What color are you painting the car? 1
Evan_N Posted September 28 Author Posted September 28 1 hour ago, TopherMcGinnis said: Cool kit. They must've built a blue million Torinos. They was everywhere! The engine color looks great. What color are you painting the car? I'm going to go with Metallic Silver, and a blue interior. Apparently that was one of the dealer options back then. I just need to figure out how I'm going to paint the vinyl. That interior blue looks a bit challenging... 1
Evan_N Posted Tuesday at 03:50 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 03:50 PM Made some more progress yesterday. The engine is painted and installed. I just need to pop in the rad hose, air cleaner, and do some spark plug wiring. Unfortunately a lot of the other "plumbing" is missing from the engine compartment. I'm not sure I want to tackle that on this build. I don't want to get bogged down now that I'm making pretty good progress. I used AK Streaking grime to get the dirt on the engine block, along with some pigments for the dust. I used a bit of rust enamel on the headers, but I think that they're a bit too silvery still. I might hit them with some brown to tone them down. 8
Evan_N Posted Tuesday at 04:02 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 04:02 PM Hey All, For the interior I'm going to with Apple Barrel 21484 Admiral Blue. I think this will give me a good base to start with. I'm also ready to spray the body colour. I'm going with Metallic Silver. To me the actual Ford colour looks to be more grey than bright silver. I found a substitute for 1G, Ford's Code, that looks right, but I'm not sure whether to go with a black primer, or a grey one? Any suggestions, or advice would be welcomed.
FoMoCo66 Posted Wednesday at 02:46 AM Posted Wednesday at 02:46 AM This thing is looking good, that engine color is almost spot on my friend. Also that weathering is amazing! 1
ksnow Posted Wednesday at 12:44 PM Posted Wednesday at 12:44 PM Excellent weathering on that engine. 1
DoctorLarry Posted Thursday at 12:59 PM Posted Thursday at 12:59 PM For a silver top coat I would use grey primer. You will get better color coverage. 1
stavanzer Posted Thursday at 02:15 PM Posted Thursday at 02:15 PM I agree on the Grey Primer. Your engine detailing skills are great. 1
TopherMcGinnis Posted Thursday at 04:40 PM Posted Thursday at 04:40 PM Gray primer. Your engine looks great! 1
Evan_N Posted Thursday at 05:15 PM Author Posted Thursday at 05:15 PM Thanks guys! I appreciate the encouragement, and advice. Chassis is assembled, the seats and interior has been painted, and I intend to prime the body later on today. I'll post some more pictures this evening. 1
Evan_N Posted Thursday at 11:58 PM Author Posted Thursday at 11:58 PM Making some more progress. I've sprayed the interior colour. The vinyl looks too flat and a bit too purple to me, so I'm going to give it a spray of Tamiya X-23 which should bring up the gloss, and enhance the blue. I'm basing my interior colour on these references that I found online. I've also done some work on the chassis. everything is installed underneath, and I can start to do some initial weathering 7
TopherMcGinnis Posted Friday at 12:37 PM Posted Friday at 12:37 PM Color looks spot on to me. I can hear myself sitting on the seat. 2
SpeedAndViolence Posted 8 hours ago Posted 8 hours ago (edited) On 10/3/2025 at 7:37 AM, TopherMcGinnis said: Color looks spot on to me. I can hear myself sitting on the seat. Or remembering back that one time during summer after 5th grade, when you were wearing shorts, and how it felt like you literally just sat on the surface of the sun. Edited 4 hours ago by SpeedAndViolence 4
meechum68 Posted 4 hours ago Posted 4 hours ago 3 hours ago, SpeedAndViolence said: Or remembering back that one time during summer after 5th grade, when you were a wearing shorts, and how it felt like you literally just sat on the surface of the sun. No lies!! And this is looking awesome! You captured the typical .. wet spots on the block perfectly!
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