1964 Oldsmobile Cutlass 442------update 12/19/11

[crazyjim]

Looking real good, Bill.

[Tony T]

Great looking green. The metallic photographs decently at least!

[charlie8575]

Bill, interesting idea about clearing over the foil prior to painting.

Did you find that the water-based material stood up acceptably to the automotive paints?

That green looks really nice on it, by the way. Gives me ideas for my own builds of similar vintage.

Charlie Larkin

[MrObsessive]

Did you find that the water-based material stood up acceptably to the automotive paints?

Well...............almost!

I had to completely strip the hood as I made a mess of it earlier. I'm going to have to reapply the BMF to the letters and do it again. The acrylic did hold up under the automotive paint. Pretty much like what Future can do to make for a good barrier on bare plastic against the hotter paints. One thing I did notice is that I'll have to completely block sand the hood again. I don't know if the Plastikote primer had some kind of reaction with the resin or what------but I notice some interesting "ripples" in parts of the hood that certainly weren't there before I painted.

BTW, that color is called "Jade Green Metallic". I had it mixed at our local automotive paint jobber. Metallics with a digicam don't photograph as well, as the flakes to me look "jumbled" and not as even as they appear in actuality.

[kustoms]

Bill thank you for posting your builds here again. I always enjoy seeing your work. you had mentioned earlier somthing about embosing powder for you carpeting? what exactly is embosing powder? and where can it be found? does it come in colors or do you paint it? from the looks of it its alot better looking than flocking. Your Olds build is looking great so far im looking forward too seeing more. thanks again Bud Ellis Kustoms

[MrObsessive]

Thanks Bud! In regards to the embossing powder, here's a pic of the type I use.................

It comes in a wide array of colors, and I got mine at our local Michaels. I find it a bit better than using flocking as some brands of flocking are just a bit too heavy handed for my tastes.

Thanks for asking!

[kustoms]

Thank you Bill for the quick responce, Ill check out my local craft store and get me some of it too try and yes, I agree it does look more too scale !

[Tonioseven]

Embossing powder is what I use now instead of flocking. The Olds is looking great Bill! I'm still watching & learning.

[Bill Edman]

How do you use the embossing powder

[MrObsessive]

Bill you can use the embossing powder pretty much the same way as you use flocking. What I do first is get a water based acrylic paint that is close to the color of the flocking-------in this case black!

I then do one square at a time, as opposed to doing the entire interior floor at once. I paint a square, then I'll sprinkle the embossing powder on, pat it very lightly----------then when that section is dry, I'll blow off (or tap off) any excess. I just keep doing this until I'm done. Like flocking, any bare spots I'll go back over until it appears to my satisfaction.

At the beginning of this thread, there's a pic that shows the carpeting done with this brand embossing powder.

Hope this helps!

[MrObsessive]

Whew! I though I lost this thread since the changeover------and the fact that I haven't worked on this since my house was flooded from Tropical Storm Lee in September.

Well things are back to normal (almost) as everything is all cleaned up.........but I still have no furnace as I haven't been properly reimbursed from BofA. That's a story for another time though.............

Anyway, this kit has been fighting me tooth and nail since the day I started it! While the parts were very well cast, for some reason, I've been having trouble particularly with the hood. The original hood had a bow to it which hot water wouldn't cure------so I went and ordered another hood from The Modelhaus.

Weeellllllll..............after I had that all painted, I didn't like how it turned out (dust flecks), and I went ahead and stripped it with Easy Off. The Easy Off took the paint off, but after a few days I noticed the hood had a slight bow to it. No biggie I thought, so I heated it up and straightened it out. The flooding then hit my home a few days later so I didn't look at it again for maybe about a month after it was put away. A few weeks ago when I was trying to get things back in order, I took a look at the hood and it was warped again!

Ok.............something's wrong here-----I've never had resin have a "memory" like this and not only once but twice! Well, I decided I'm not buying another hood. I'm going to take a page from KennB and scratchbuild my own.

Here's the results of my attempting this..............

Here's the original hoods that I can't seem to cure of their bowing. The closer one is The Modelhaus, the other is the original hood.

The plane of the hood is flat enough to warrant using .040 flat styrene stock with no issues so that's what was done here. Since the only styrene sheet I had in this thickness was ribbed on one side-----I went with this. The underside of the hood won't be seen, so it's no big deal to me.

I simply made a tracing around the hood, and went from there.

The leading edge of the hood was made by simply cutting along a straight line, and bending it there. I wanted the radii to be consistent from end to end, to some careful sanding and shaping was in order after fillling the underside with some super glue.

Stay tuned for more!

[MrObsessive]

I needed to measure the exact center of the hood to place the windsplit, so that's what was done here.........

The windsplit was done by using some strip styrene in the appropriate size along with the little "spear" at the leading edge of the hood. It's hard to photograph with the lighting I had, but it's there.

Next, I'm going to barrier the heck out to the hood with Future Floor Wax, and then attempt to paint this again. Once everything's nice and dry, I'll rub everything out along with the rest of the body. Hopefully, I can wrap this thing up once and for all, and there's no more drama with the house such as floods, collapsing ice/snowstorms, etc.

Thanks for looking and comments welcome!

[spkgibson]

I'm having the same problems with both of my 71- and 72 Hoods I just got from The Modelhaus, They keep bowing also, I used the hot water trick to fix the bow, But it keeps comming back, I haven't even primed the hoods yet either, I have heard to freeze the resin after you fix the warp. I may have to. I love the color on this 64, It fits it very well.

[Dirkpitt289]

That is an amazing looking color