Carfreak187 Posted February 19, 2013 Posted February 19, 2013 Car looks great....I'm new to the hobby and have build a few cars so far...I will post pics...I just was wondering what do you use to put the car together before paint
crazyrichard Posted February 19, 2013 Author Posted February 19, 2013 Car looks great....I'm new to the hobby and have build a few cars so far...I will post pics...I just was wondering what do you use to put the car together before paint het thnx , well before i just used the regulair plastic glue , like from revell or humbrol , like the liquid poly glue (watery stuff) since this saturday i'm working with plaststruct plastiweld , also watery but this glue claimed to glue together all sorts and types of plastics . so that means i could also glue abs onto styrene etc etc and i must say is just works .. real bizarre i have like hard plastic sheets that i got out of old window blinds .. its a bit like styrene but harder and i could not glue that with the regulair poly liquid glue , now with plastiweld it just glues togheter and also glues it on all other types of plastics for instance in the upodate i'm posting in this post you will see 3 metal tubes coated with plastic , those are glued to the engine and eitch other with plastiweld . oh and also with plastiweld its settled faster and it feels like its glued together stronger , so like a few seconds and i can already apply pressure or sand or file it tried some copper bushes for end pipes , off course i will bend the plastic so they will come outward a bit , just for seeing how it looks 3 stacks on the engine , these are metal with a plastic dipped coating ( dont know what they are for i scavenged these at work) together with the scalpt 3-window coupe in the garage .. the garage is finally progressing again , that needs a ton of work and detail still , need t waether teh bricks and make a nice floor (this one is just painted temporary)
crazyrichard Posted February 20, 2013 Author Posted February 20, 2013 thnx guys ! today i started to change the top of the engine , found a part in my partsbox (dont know what it was for)and cut out this section then started to drill holes in the top made a fuelline froma guitar snare fited the new stacks and test fitted a brass tube then used the top with rounden flat surface , not sure if i have to use these or just the straight tubes , i want to try to file the straight tube in a slash cut exhaust tips from brass i thought this fitted the theme and looks of all the speedholes then sprayed the engine in alu spray , will get more detail and some black and some chrome the details i will add will be separate made pieces
JMD904 Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 That's a wicked roadster! Its parts custom part hot rod.
slusher Posted February 20, 2013 Posted February 20, 2013 Awsume looking build so far, love the wheels...
crazyrichard Posted February 21, 2013 Author Posted February 21, 2013 thnx ira got the base of the engine done , stacks and valve covers in chrome (doent really show in this pic maybe they need 2 coats on top of the alu spray) some black things like a red distributer and red wires will pop massive later on
paulo valentini Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 Richard Great job, congratulatuions. Paulo Valentini
gautreau Posted February 21, 2013 Posted February 21, 2013 This is a really cool looking build.How did you get the bare steel look?
ryanm Posted February 22, 2013 Posted February 22, 2013 Very good richard i like your bare metal it looks tough
rustybill1960 Posted February 22, 2013 Posted February 22, 2013 Great work! thank You for sharing Man! Later Russ
crazyrichard Posted February 22, 2013 Author Posted February 22, 2013 (edited) thnx guys and the bare metal look is explained a xxx amount of posts back its actually silver aluminium zink spray and in fact there is really a layer of aluminium on the car .. spray the parts and it will look metallic grey , sand i long enough with fine paper and you will find aluminium stuck on your sandaper and the body starts to look more and more like bare metal ... Edited February 22, 2013 by crazyrichard
crazyrichard Posted February 22, 2013 Author Posted February 22, 2013 did the spark plug wires , made out of thin brass wire from old chanpaign bottles fitted them , bended them into shape and painted them red while fitted on the engine where they go in the engine i still need to pains some black (like the round holes that are now red) also did some fith on the door from the exhausts the udercarridge was a problem i could not sand there to get the same effect like on the body it was still clean an silver. so i washed it and made it look filthy .... didnt want any rust on the car so i kept it like this
Builder Posted February 22, 2013 Posted February 22, 2013 Your builds and all the pictures are great.
crazyrichard Posted February 23, 2013 Author Posted February 23, 2013 thnx a lot guys close to being finished maybe today .. this was the last rod kit i have .. maybe the next one will be a mercedes panelvan i wil turn into a shop hotrod ... that kit isnt 100% complete and wil only be used as a base but first i will finish this one , i never do 2 builds at a time
freakshow12 Posted February 23, 2013 Posted February 23, 2013 I love the looks of this Richard. I will have to try this bare metal look.
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