'39 Chevy Coupe Kustom

[Olds Rocket 88]

Wow...nice, keep those pictures comming......

[Clutch]

Thanks!

You're right Lunajammer, the one piece floor makes it hard to customize the body. It's because the rear fenders don't line up. The only way I could see around that was to cut the floor out and glue the fenders to the body before painting.

Progress;

I've made a 3 link suspension to replace the rear leaf springs.

Edited July 9, 2011 by Clutch

[Clutch]

Now that I know the interior, undercarrige and engine fit, I've started on the paint job. After something different, a month ago or so I was looking through some of the builds here on mcm for insperation and I found I paint job that I really liked. I can't remember the builders name but I'm pretty sure it was a '53 Chevy. He marbled the roof and dashboard using smoke, from burning sprue in a candle. Then he used clear orange overtop. I thought it looked amazing and wasn't that hard to do. So I gave it a go. But instead of going for a bright clear colour which makes the effect really stand out, I tried to blend it all together using different shades of grey, more of a suttle look.

Base colour is light gun metal with a silver fade, along the bottom of each sides, nose and rear.

Didn't really like the nose fade so I taped off the body and hit the roof and fenderds with silver.

With the base colour down and body taped, I burnt some sprue in a candle and held the body in the black smoke.

The soot from the smoke lightly sticks to the body and leaves a marble effect. I only wanted this on the roof and front fenders.

A light clear coat to seal it in.

At this stage, if I was to have sprayed clear red or blue overtop the marble, it would've really popped. But I'm after more of a dark horse and I went with Tamiya clear smoke overtop the whole body, blending it all together.

Once it dries, I'll give it a layer of clear pearl for some dazzle and then a few good clear coats. I want this thing to look like liquid.

Thanks for looking, all comments welcome!

[Lownslow]

man thats totaly sick so sprue would be burning altenative to candle soot? ive been wanting to to that for a long time

[Terror]

stone washed models. LOL.Nice work clutch

[parki]

WOW!!!! very cool car.

[LAone]

that looks really cool. i like the way it looks

[Pooreboyz]

nice !looks good!

[Jantrix]

This is realy quite impressive. I really dig this.