MoparWoman Jamie Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 I hope this is the right area to post this in.I been working on this sense Monday evening it's a skill 3 kit made by Monogram. Now the hood on this doesn't open as I glued it shut. The was a nice lacquer gloss white, I weathered it to how you see it with using weather powders and chalk pastel and it's all sealed in. The chassis is also weathered. It has floor flat tires. Now the side glass windows on the doors and rear side windows I hand made myself along with the frames. The kit didn't have that stuff in for on the model. All the weathering is sealed in. The roof isn't glued on at all so it does come off so you can see the nice interior that I stuck in this baby , the carpet is not flocking either but a red powder that model builders also use for carpet and it looks much better then flocking does to . The chrome trim you see on the interior is all my kind of BMF and I hand did that all (took some time). I built this model to make it look like it set out in the pines where there was dust at and I wanted it to have the set there for awhile look and effect to it and got rain on over time. Also the rear window I replace the hard one with a hand made version. And as we know setting for a very long time tires goes flat . More photos coming
MoparWoman Jamie Posted August 6, 2010 Author Posted August 6, 2010 You can see more photos here http://www.cglfc.com/wforum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=26478&p=280374#p280374
danielpras Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 wow... i really like this.. specially how the rust effect applied on the body.. looks so realistic.. this is awesome you should make an old garage or junky yard barn dioramas for it.. took a pix of it, and people wont notice its a scale model..because it looks soo real.. cheers, dpm
The Modeling Hermit Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 You've done well with this one. There will be those that will point out that the interior and top both look too good for a car that's set out in the elements for years. There is a prototype for that. Before I moved here, I lived on a farm in Iowa. In the "back forty", in a stand of trees, there was a black 60 Oldsmobile convertible with a red interior. The body was covered with surface rust, just as you've shown, but the top was just starting to develop holes in it. The interior looked great, but just toughing the seats would leave a powder on ones hand. The problem is that the car had sat for a good many years, and had sunk into the ground. Under that carpet was...well...dirt. The floor pans were completely gone, as was most of the trunk. The frame was also rotted, and we had a rough time closing the door once we got it open. That was what it looked like when I first found it. When I left, I was showing the new owner of the property around, (about ten years later) and when we saw it, the car had taken on a V shape where the center was collapsing. I would have loved to have been able to have restored that car, but she was just too far gone. It did have an interesting history though, in that it didn't have one. Nobody knew anything about it or how it got there. Sorry for the ramble, but your model brought back an interesting memory.
vizio93 Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 Wow looks like a tetanus shot waiting to happen !!! Really nice job though, I like the flat tires, and the rusty chrome
philo426 Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 Great Job on the weathering! I wouldn't turn my Impala into a rusted wreck.I like them pretty!
MoparWoman Jamie Posted August 6, 2010 Author Posted August 6, 2010 You've done well with this one. There will be those that will point out that the interior and top both look too good for a car that's set out in the elements for years. There is a prototype for that. Before I moved here, I lived on a farm in Iowa. In the "back forty", in a stand of trees, there was a black 60 Oldsmobile convertible with a red interior. The body was covered with surface rust, just as you've shown, but the top was just starting to develop holes in it. The interior looked great, but just toughing the seats would leave a powder on ones hand. I know a good friend that is like a ledgent in a near by area. He had cars like this setting out in his junkyard field of cars for years. The tops on them look like what the model car roof looked like. I mean they littery set out in the elements for over at least over 2 years. yet they had a bad looking outside and yet good looking interiors in them which is surprising. Some of the cars in his place had the vinyl roofs rip and some was was fallen in and then there was some that was dirty but yet not fallen in at all. It sounds like we both seen good old cluckers and been around them to know how they look and smell and feel LOL. I know just what you mean, it's nice when you find a old car like that in the wood line, it makes you think of how that car was back in the day and what all it went through before ending up there. The problem is that the car had sat for a good many years, and had sunk into the ground. Under that carpet was...well...dirt. The floor pans were completely gone, as was most of the trunk. The frame was also rotted, and we had a rough time closing the door once we got it open. That was what it looked like when I first found it. When I left, I was showing the new owner of the property around, (about ten years later) and when we saw it, the car had taken on a V shape where the center was collapsing. I would have loved to have been able to have restored that car, but she was just too far gone. It did have an interesting history though, in that it didn't have one. Nobody knew anything about it or how it got there. Sorry for the ramble, but your model brought back an interesting memory. This model was built to look it had setting and suck into the ground, also built to look like the floor boards wasn't on the ground but afew inches off the ground though, you know that kind mix effect to it. I also understand what you say about the dirt under the carpet, I seen that to at my friends place. He left me one evening walk through the yard just to look at the old cars that he had setting up there at his place (he had his own work garage shop up there also). I remember walk to some of the cars and looking in them to see how they was and how they looked.. you know to get the idea for when building a model. Some of the cars I that was up on blocks I got down and would look under them to see how they looked. I even ask me friend about some of the cars and he told me he had so many he couldn't remember much about each car and all he knew was it was setting there. He would sell parts off them though to people fixing there cars up if they needed a part. He also had all kinds of trucks and afew bus's as well LOL. I always had to wading through the grass to get to some of the vehicles but in the end it was worth it though. My friend still this day still has some of the cars if not alot of them yet too. hey Don't feel bad about rambling like that, I'm glad that one of my builds sparked a good memory for someone about what happen before, not many times a model build will do that
MoparWoman Jamie Posted August 6, 2010 Author Posted August 6, 2010 Great Job on the weathering! I wouldn't turn my Impala into a rusted wreck.I like them pretty! Beautiful looking model man! Thanks also for the comment about my build.
The Modeling Hermit Posted August 6, 2010 Posted August 6, 2010 We almost forgot the old car graveyard friends...watchdogs, spiders, and snakes. I still have painful memories of working under a 68 Impala to pull the bucket seats. I got to yanking around on the wrench, when I heard something start rattling. I came out from under that car in a hurry, ripping skin off of my arm in the process, only to discover that it was a baby rattle on the rear floorboard.
MoparWoman Jamie Posted August 8, 2010 Author Posted August 8, 2010 I went back sense I remembered I had a convertible boot in the kit box, and sense the roof it's mounted to the car and the car can be displayed with or with out the top on, I thought why not fix the boot from the kit and weather it and then it can set in place for when the roof of the car isn't on the model. Also if you go to emodelcars and by chance look under vintage for anything . I'll post photos of the model with the convertible boot in place later on here, my camera battery is on the charger right now. LOL
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