37 Chevy

[Jantrix]

That's some nice weathering. Salt? Where do I find the how to on this? Hmmm interesting.... But hey, I thought those Chevys had six bolt wheels.

*checks the kit supplied steelies* Holy ###### he's right! Hmm............It's a custom. Yeah, that's the ticket!

The salt technique is fairly straight forward. After primer and a light blue color coat, I applied rust colored acrylics with a make-up sponge. When dry, I sprayed the body down with water and applied kosher salt. It sticks to the water and adheres to the body. A lil extra was added in particular areas. When dry, I shot the final green. After a couple days, I knocked all the salt off and used a stiff tooth brush and some rubbing alcohol to feather out the edges of the paint breaks and reveal more color from beneath. This is my first shot at it. DamnCranky is the real master at this. Look up some of his threads to get more info.

[Modellpularn]

Yes I see your point, you did use the custom grille. So it could have been an old conversion to five bolt wheels, speaking hypothetically of course.....

Thanks for the info regarding the salt. I have to check it out some more.

[Jantrix]

Okay we're up on wheels. The interior has been channeled and fits nicely. Paint is drying now. Th is the final stance. The interior is in a tan suede and will not looks as ragged as the rest of the car. I'm pretty damnn happy with it. Here's some pics.

Edited September 12, 2010 by Jantrix

[brett]

Not surprise you're happy man, that looks great! Going by the rest of the engine, maybe dullcote the rocker cover?

[DRG]

In all honesty I never could grasp the reason behind building something so that it looks old, misused and abused.

But I must say you have done it very well.

[Jantrix]

In all honesty I never could grasp the reason behind building something so that it looks old, misused and abused.

But I must say you have done it very well.

LOL! This was my attitude years ago when we first started seeing the rat rod genre show up in scale models. I mean why in world would you purposely make something look bad, right? Rust is the enemy of all true car guys, isn't it?

However after a while I started seeing the art in it. The craftsmanship. I mean it's not hard to build a model badly so that it doesn't look good, but it is challenging to make a car look authenticly weathered and distressed in the way a real car would.

I have the folks here on this forum to thank for showing me this new (to me) facet of our hobby. And thanks very much for the ataboys. Brett the valve cover is dullcoated and looks well faded, it just showed up a lil too bright in that photo.

Edited September 13, 2010 by Jantrix

[Jantrix]

Lil' update and yes, completion is getting closer. I have to hold back and do just a lil per night or I'll get in hurry-up mode and screw sumpin' up. Finished my engine up, added fuel lines and a wash. The interior is near done. Just used Krylon Make it Suede and some acrylic wash. I think I have to aged/water stained look I was trying for. I also used a bit of black sharpie to accomplish the windshield gasket.

Just a few parts still to get completed n weathered, driveshaft, shocks, stearing and the &%#&!! radatior which does fit worth a &%$@! Paint/weather the bottom of the interior cup. And then figure out my glass situation. The stock clear parts are way too thick and I'll likely cut new ones from clear styrene sheet. Anyway on to the pics.

[codie27]

This is looking great,love salt idea. I havent been daring enough yet to try some weathering,but you have described it to make it sound easy enough. Great progess so far,looking forward to seeing it finished.

[Jantrix]

This is looking great,love salt idea. I havent been daring enough yet to try some weathering,but you have described it to make it sound easy enough. Great progess so far,looking forward to seeing it finished.

Yeah I wouldn't say it's hard at all, but I do recommend the method using an airbrush like DamnCranky does. I did this with Krylon rattle cans and it was very tough to get all the salt knocked off and I have a little more texture than I think I wanted.

Thanks very much. More soon.

[Raul_Perez]

Very nice weathering!!

This one should look pretty cool when it's done!!

Thanks for sharing,

[Jantrix]

This is the last update. Tomorrow you'll see this in the Under Glass section.

Interior shot only sorry.

I finished up the last of the parts assembly last night. All that is left is the final body/interior/chassis assembly and then some more washes and detail painting. The exhaust was a lil challenging to get right but I'm real happy with the results and I think its a great focal point of the piece.

[Alyn]

Great work on the 8-ball shift knob, not to mention the rest of the car. My dad had a 37 sitting in our driveway for years before he was finally able to afford to fix it up. I built a model of the restored version as you can see in my sig. Your's is a really nice rendition of the car during the driveway years. Your weathering turned out quite nice, especially the choice of colors.