Plastic Modeling

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

May as well build them. I wondered if I could find some reasonably priced and discovered they were reissued for the first time ever in 2020. Your rare $200 kits are now valueless. Be lucky to get $20 each now even for original run ones.

I bought snoopy about 20 years ago. Red baron my son bought me for about $25 last xmas. I never had any intentions other than making them and re-living the dog fights I had at 6-7 years old.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

OK So here is my first venture into cars in a while.
I have several to do thanks much to @Sapphireho

So happy to help.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

So happy to help.

I forgot to say that the Cuda donated it's shaker scoop and air filter to my other project. Luckily it had the second custom hood and air cleaner for the Six Pack carbs.

[Tcoat]

OK now for a vehicle I used to own.

Anybody wantta guess what this poor abused little guy was in?

[Ultramaroon]

L16 for a 510

[Sapphireho]

Pickup.

[Spuds]

Oh hey, I never actually took pictures of the finished minis. They look better IRL than in phone pictures. The camera messes with colors and texture for some reason.

Dante and Isani.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Oh hey, I never actually took pictures of the finished minis. They look better IRL than in phone pictures. The camera messes with colors and texture for some reason.

Dante and Isani.

I have come to the conclusion that there is no way to get realistic looking pictures. No matter what I try they always look like potato.
No flash can't see detail. Flash colours are washed out. Too far away end up with a shapeless blob. Too close and every little flaw is a beacon. This really applies when using paint to simulate a texture. In the pictures it just looks like crappy paint.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I have come to the conclusion that there is no way to get realistic looking pictures. No matter what I try they always look like potato.
No flash can't see detail. Flash colours are washed out. Too far away end up with a shapeless blob. Too close and every little flaw is a beacon. This really applies when using paint to simulate a texture. In the pictures it just looks like crappy paint.

[laughs maniacally]

have you tried shooting in RAW and touching up in photoshop?

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by soundman98

[laughs maniacally]

have you tried shooting in RAW and touching up in photoshop?

No, and he never will.

[soundman98]

Easier to complain

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by soundman98

[laughs maniacally]

have you tried shooting in RAW and touching up in photoshop?

No I always wear clothes.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Pickup.

Correct.
Mine was a '73 but they didn't change much so the '75 kit works just fine.


The kit is sort of a mixed bag with a really nice engine, body and drivetrain but an interior that other than the dash is just sort of vaguely interior like. It went together really well.

I bought the truck for $75 in '79 and it had already seen a hard hard life by then. I bought it from a guy that used it in a lime quarry so the paint was toast and much of the body had rust on the rust although there were very few actual holes. Being a single stage enamel paint job there was almost zero gloss left to it and the once vibrant red was more a really dark pinkish brown. I bought it strictly to drive on those frequent occasions when my Coronet R/T was without an engine because I was rebuilding it yet again or to haul tools and tires to the strip (with a buddy driving it). It was a blast to drive though and soldiered on until I pushed it a bit hard one day after about 6 months and blew the head gasket. Then sold it for $100!

The main exercise of this project was to get the battered paint and rust just right. I am very happy with the results and it was a ride down nostalgia road through the whole project.















The weird interior. Not sure what version had those fancy seats but I wasn't bothered enough to scratch build the vinyl covered park bench that mine had.





How the rust effects are done. Various rust shades are painted on and when dry water is sprinkled where I want rust to come through. Then salt is sprinkled on the water and allowed to dry. Once painted the the salt is scratched off and the underlying rust shows through.

[Ultramaroon]

My God, that's amazing.