1964 Impala SS "Grand Finale"

[Tonioseven]

BEAUTIFUL work as always from you!!!

[Six-Fo]

Some progress 8)

Got the body polished

Got myself a TPI injection from AMT Firebird kit. Took hell of a work to get it fit, not to mention the struggle with fitting the distributor between injection and manifold

Scratchbuilt the air filter

[crazyjim]

Looking marvelous, Slim.

[tyrone]

that paint looks awesome...

[Beavis]

man that paint is wicked! cant wait to this thing sittin in 3 wheel motion lol

[Six-Fo]

I'm actually selling the body to one dude because I'm not happy with the paintjob and overall quality. He'll give me a new body so I can try something different.

[Six-Fo]

This is what I'm up to

[Six-Fo]

Something I've been up to, sold the previous paintjob and got new body. Sorry for the blurry picture, it was taken with dishwasher:

[Roadkill2525]

Man the paint is just fantastic.

I looked around but could not

find any one selling the zero

paint in the US. Is there a dealer

that sells in the US?

Zero Paints is done by Steve Hemming who runs Hiroboy.com, the only place to purchase.

[crazyjim]

What kind of tape are you using for the intricate masking, Slim?

[Guest JamesDE]

Awesome work bro!

[Six-Fo]

Thanks guys.

What kind of tape are you using for the intricate masking, Slim?

I cut them out from ordinary masking tape, comes out much cheaper. I just tape two blades together and then I can cut thin lines.

[tahoebrian]

thats beautiful, simply beautiful

[gilsdropshop1]

SUPER CLEAN 64 HOMIE CANT WAIT TO SEE IT FINISHED!!

[Six-Fo]

I freakin hate it when tape pulls some paint off. Everything was perfect but the tape had to screw up. I dont know what to do anymore, fixing with brush didint work out as you can see from pictures and I just dont want to start all over with primer and stuff.

[DANB]

I feel your pain its rubbish like that that stalls projects and pushes you into starting another.

I think i must try doing one of these kits soon, i have not yet tried paint jobs like the ones in this thread.

[Six-Fo]

[Dr. Cranky]

The beautiful, delicate work continues. I like it, looking forward to more.

[Six-Fo]

I could really swear right now, but I dont want to get banned so I try to hold myself back

Anyways, heres the story:

I keep messing up the body color the more i build this car.

I did hell of a preparation this time to prevent all this, but i dont know what the hell is going on. First the quality was perfect, but messing up everything and fixing it brings the quality down

First the pinstripe tape peeled off paint, tried to fix it, but quality suffered bigtime

This is the comparsion of the previous paintjob, which i didnt work so hard on primer and surface preparation, but it didnt peel anything off.

And it has NEVER happened to me before, that a god ###### BMF peels off paint, i've only finished 3-4 trims and already these have happened:

Whats worst of it: I sold previous body because I was not happy with roof paintjob, but overall body quality was pretty ###### good. Now I managed to make a perfect quality paintjob(i will show it in few weeks maybe) but body quality gets worse and worse every day. Makes me wanna smash the whole thing to pieces and build a new one, but I have no time for that because model car show is 2 weeks away.

[Assa9]

I just destroyed my best paint job too. Was perfect until i laid the clear. Also on my 61 i pulled paint with bmf i dont know wtf sorry i feel your pain

[rustybill1960]

I am very impressed with Your "tape work" Dude!

I should think that that would drive a person to "maddness!"

I am gonna give it a try on a lowrider I have planned!

Your patients with this paint work is just as impressive as your skills!

Thank You for sharing with Us all

A real knock out preformance Man!!

Later

Russ

[Jantrix]

I feel your pain. I use the low-tack blue tape and had it pull Duplicolor off my Studebaker hood while I was making off a stripe. I got so pissed I just chucked the whole thing back in the box.

[Six-Fo]

Okay, I decided I will throw this car in dot-4 after model car show and will try again. So no point of keeping this paintjob in secret anymore

[JamesW]

Siim, before you foil, lay down a thin coat of clear, that'll help. I always clearbefore AND after foil. Never had a problem with the foil pulling up paint doin it that way.

[slammedi'am]

Sucks about the paint but amazing paint work...