1979 cadillac

[evilone]

Well this was sold to me by a friend for $60. It was built and nice looking but i didn't like the testor rootbeer brown on it so i asked if i could change it and his response was its yours do what you want to it. So i stripped it down, cut the trunk open, repainted it celery green (by krylon) and shot a coat of green pearl over it, i also gave him his rims back and swapped them with some 1109's.

Heres the pics

paint day

today after waxing and foil

I still need to work on a filler to cover the trunk floor and a sub box for the trunk.More to come so stay tuned.

[Modlbldr]

Kevin-

That is a great looking color with the pearl green over it. I saw that Celery green in Wally World the other day. I should pick some up. I love the 1109's on it too.

Later-

[charlie8575]

I was trying to figure out what that color was. Very nice work. I am curious, though. Is that pearl green lacquer? Aren't you a little concerned with it crazing the Krylon enamel?

Sometimes, I wish I built more customs, playing with colors like that can be fun.

Charlie Larkin

[Railfreak78]

Thats a cool looking Caddy. I've always wanted one of those myself even the 1:1 Can you guys explain "crazing" ?

[charlie8575]

Thats a cool looking Caddy. I've always wanted one of those myself even the 1:1 Can you guys explain "crazing" ?

Crazing occurs when there's a bad chemical reaction between paints or paint and plastic. The results can be anything from a cracked finish to plastic being etched to plastic or paint actually dissolving.

Charlie Larkin

[evilone]

I was trying to figure out what that color was. Very nice work. I am curious, though. Is that pearl green lacquer? Aren't you a little concerned with it crazing the Krylon enamel?

Sometimes, I wish I built more customs, playing with colors like that can be fun.

Charlie Larkin

Actually bro all the paints are krylon except the last clear coat(its folkart high gloss)

I mixed the pearl in with the krylon gloss clear and shot a few cover coats.

Then i sprayed a few mist coats of the folkart before i layed the wet coat to seal it all.

So far this type of technique has worked on over 30 builds and has not failed yet.