The 2015 /16 Red Hot and Rollin Automotive Group Build--Ended

Joe - thanks a lot for your kind words! On the next one I'll polish the plastic! But I already have a few thin coats of primer on this one, and I would have to remove'em if I wanted to polish it. On the other hand all the problems I have are concentrated on the roof, so it would be doable.

seabe - thanks for the tip, but the problem I have is actually the one that the blemishes keep reappearing after the application of next layer of paint. After it dries I can sand it and then it's OK. Then I reapply primer, paint, clear, whatever - and the problem reappears from underneath. I don't quite understand it, it has something to do with the thinner of the Motip paints, I'd love to know how to make it stop and how to prevent it in the future.

Thanks again and have a nice day

Paweł

Hi every one, all of your builds look great.

Since my illness, I think its best not to get to heavily involved in the modeling. I'm going to attempt to do my build for this GB I Have a little (very little) bit done. The others will just have to go by the way side. Sorry guys

Pics will be posted soon

Eric: Great to see you again bud! Dive on back in when you get the chance.

Pawel: Looking forward to the outcome.

Ken: Didn't know about an illness and hope that all is ok. Bring the progress and the pics on. We'll be watchful for them.

Got the next build already under way.

I picked this kit up a couple of weeks ago because it was IMO just too dang cool. This one will be a sideline build when I either get stumped on or waiting for paint to dry for my current aircraft project, in which right now I'm waiting on paint to dry and trying to figure out some fit issues with it so I figured I'd start this thread. I'm not going to get as crazy as I did with my '54 Chevy just because I don't want something that in depth. But I do want to have some fun with this one so here goes.

Der Beetle Bus:



Now when I opened up the box I looked at the body and knew right away that this body was not going to fly at all. The wheel base is ridiculously short for my tastes and it would look more like a cartoon van than an actual vehicle. Here's where we start:



and I just couldn't leave it like that so I bought another kit and went to work:



Cutting the bodies at just the right points yielded a wheel base that I could live with



Top view of the difference it made:



and the side view :



and so it starts. Here's the set up I want to go with. Slicks and skinnies with my favorite kind of wheels. The ol' Weld Draglites:

This..................is more like it.







Body work and smoothing things out will commence shortly. I have to lengthen the roof and the chassis to follow suit with the body so stay tuned..............

Mustang I had a seizure and spent a couple of weeks in the hospital. I lost 3 days. I may have mentioned that had never been up in an airplane, helicopter, etc. Well, I can't say that now, the only problem is i was out of it and don't remember it. They life flighted me to Pittsburgh, Pa, Its about a 2 1/2 hour drive on the interstate. Oh well

Yea I agree that V Dub is going to be fun to watch

Ken - I sure hope you will get well soon!

I have ran across problems when painting the roof of my VW Van...

On the roof there were some marks left from the sprue attachment points. I have filled those with  molten sprue and sanded smooth. After I have put on a coat of Motip primer the imperfections seemed to get amplified. And they appear again after every next coat...

Recently I have put on two or three layers of primer, then let it dry for several days. Then I sanded the surface smooth and let it sit for two - three days to get rid of most of the solvent... It looked like this:

Then I have put on a coat of Motip primer-filler. All the imperfecions that were there before the sanding came out again:

 I know that even if I sand it nice and smooth and put the color on those will come out again... What to do? Any help appreciated! Thanks in advance and have a nice day

Paweł

Ken: Will be wishing you a speedy and the very best in a full recovery. It was great to have you in here anyways but I'm really glad to have you in here with us doing what we all do best.

Pawel: Man I've been there with this one. Something aint right here with the base finish. If you have a smooth finish on the plastic before the primer then it should stay smooth. I sand until I've got a shiny/ almost gloss finish on the plastic before the primer. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I would take it all back down to bare plastic and start over with the sanding process again. Unless somebody knows something I don't of if I'm totally missing something that's the only way I see through this. Hang in there with it in any case.

Everybody: I started on the chassis and here's what we had to work with OOB:



A couple of cuts and some trimming later yielded the correction:



Again, clean up will happen soon but I've gotta make sure this all works before any cosmetic work gets done. I did, however, get rid of those bumps for foot pedals. I think I can come up with something better than that.

Hello Joe!

Don't worry, I'm hangin' on! I'll try a couple more thin layers of  spray filler and it that doesn't show any promise I'll sand the roof down to bare plastic and I'll try starting over.

Good to see you converting your bus. Some time ago I've seen a show car collection at a shopping mall and they also had a VW bus with the center section cut out and the van painted as "The Mystery Machine" from Scooby Doo - I mean those cut down Beetle Busses relly existed!

So good luck with your build and have a nice day

Paweł

Thanks and to strip 'er down to bare plastic just get some brake fluid from the auto parts store and dunk it in a container full of that. It'll strip it down to the bare plastic without harming it and it cleans up with soap and water.

Hello Joe!

Thanks for the tip, but I think I have made some progress. I have sprayed three light coats of Motip spray FILLER on the roof with drying, sanding and again some drying between the coats and the result is like on the photo below:

So thanks for all the ideas and I will start trying them out when this thing goes bad again - that is if the surface imperfections come up again.

I have also found like three other minor spots on the body that are getting the spray filler treatment right now.

During the time when paint was drying I started finishing the wheels. I painted the BMW rims with Alclad 2 prismatic paint. I also sanded out the seams on the slick tyres. I also painted the disc brakes with Gunze Stainless paint and painted the calipers red:

Now let's see how the further painting of the body goes - thanks for lookin' and I hope you liked it. Best greetings and have a nice day

Paweł

Looking really good there, Pawel! Glad you could sort the problem.

I am struggling through what seems like a very straight-forward decal job. Except for the fact that the decals - even the kit supplied ones! - at times run over multiple body parts. The one time I try the decaling before assembly.  I'm doing that for a good reason, but now it seems like a pain in the ehhhrrr... lower back.

Nice work on that bus paint job Pawel. Niiiiiiiice recovery.

Seabe: Hang in there buddy. You'll get through it and we're lookin' forward to progress pics.

Everybody: Ok. That extra long rectangular opening in the floor is gonna mandate an engine that'll fill it. Don't think I haven't "been there" in thought. I'll be using Rick Dobbertin's blown, turbo'd and nitrous fed small block 350 for this using the Revell Pro Street J2000 kit:

The engine looks somthing like this:

Mustang - that is one mean looking engine! Go kill it!

The decals are done and started assembly. Starting to look like the car it's supposed to resemble. Hoping to put this one to bed shortly. Final assembly and... some fun to come!

Very little progress on the 43rd Ligier. Initial body assembly and I picked a blue which I think is close enough to resemble the correct blue.

Hello!

Seabe - good to see you modelling again! The Jaguar is lookin' good. You don't see those babies a lot, that's for sure.

As for my project - I've got the colour on - at last!

Now I plan to dry-fit all the chrome and put on the decals and clear-coat the whole body. I would just like to ask you - how do you like those decals??

Thanks for looking and have a nice day

Paweł

Pawel, you really sorted those problems of yours - awesome gloss on that kombi!

But... I have to share this. HALF AN HOUR... and more. I searched. One piece of WM on the Ligier I simply could not find. I even looked in my study's bin, hoping that it was still in the plastic bag. I found the empty bag... EVERYWHERE on the table, under every nook and cranny, under table, you name it. I actually think it was more than half an hour of searching for that one PE piece. Only to really look hard at the instructin sheet again. And then wondering whether this might not be made up of a folded PE section. Lo and behold... 

Sorry, very few other people would understand! 

Hello!

Seabe - No problem - I understand! Thanks for your kind words. Once I've lost a resin sprocket for my 1:72 M110 SP hoitzer. I looked EVERYWHERE, had to scratchbuild it in the end. I've found the sprocket about half a year later (after the rebuild) - I've lost of my concentration and put it inside the tip of Mr Mark Softer cap, in order not to lose it! And I've lost it...

Let's hope it won't happen too much in th futute...

Good luck with your builds and have a nice day

Paweł

Seabe: Thanks for the kudos and man that Jag is looking great man! Love the detail and the decal work. That blue coat of paint is looking good on that Ligier as well.

Pawel: That paint turned out out-freekin-standing. Nice turn around after all your trouble  in the beginning with the scratches.

Everybody: I cut the roof to the desired length. Here's the two bodies side by side to show the length added and the difference:

Test fitted into place on the body:

and a couple of overall mock up shots:

So, Jaguar done, pics below... Apologies upfront - that engin cover just kept popping up and I don't want to glue it shut. So it looks messy - I am not happy with that. On the pics some flaws showed up in the latter pics and I altered the weathering a tiny bit subsequently. 

Firstly, the finished views:

...And then the "really finished" views. Felt from the start that this will turn into a post-race car.

Dammit boy!!! Man that looks outstanding! I like everything from the paint to the weathering!!! Totally awesome build Seabe!!! Lemme know if you want to use one of these pictures for the front page or if you want to post up a "studio like " photo for it.

 Glad to have you in here! You going for another one?

Hey Mustang, I am so PO'ed about that engin lid that... yeah, I actually keep seeing that and missing the rest! Not sure - maybe the second last one - or the last one, since it doesn't have that cover in shot... but then it doesn't show the entire car.

Anyways, definitely up for a next round. And it will be something completely different! I am between two Honda's, 30 years apart in age! And they're two-wheelers - did we have that yet in one of the builds?

There's the 2014 Marc Marquez RC213V... and the 1984 Freddie Spencer NSR500 - towards which I am leaning. Both record-breaking years for different reasons. The "Baby Champ" (Marquez) one I HAD to get. The Fast Freddy one I saw the other day when I was in the hobby shop and just - never even thought about not getting it. And it's not often I get to build something I've just purchased recently - so this may be the one. Truckloads of masking on both... but some of the more complex templates seems to be included. But definitely leaning to the 84 Fast Freddy NSR500... 

Attempting to attach a pic of the real thing - admittedly this looks like a FOS version of it, but still...

I think I see what you're saying about the engine cover. That second one doesn't seem to show what you're talking about that much so do you want to go #2?

That bike is going to be really cool to watch and I'm looking forward to that since I don't see many bikes being built. Go for it!

Ok I ended up buying the J2000 kit for that wild azz 350 SBC in it for the build. 

I'm going to try something out here. I was also brain storming for a different look than the vehicle being "jacked up" in the back. I want more of a lowered looking Pro Street stance so I've got this spare '54 Chevy Panel Wagon body and decided to check something out. What if I cut the rear wheel opening out like so:

and then trimmed the bottom up so that it evened out at the body line on both sides of the wheel opening. I think I might be able to flatten this out a bit to get away from the body curvature and graph this in because l like the way this is lookin' so far.

Good to see you back in the game Eric and we're all looking forward to the progress pics. I'll post the changes.

Thanks Seabe and I'll make the entry. Say.............is anybody having trouble with PB again? This'll make almost 3 days for me to not be able to access the site.

All entries are up to date.

I've got the R/H side graphed in. I still have to do some body work and trimming but it's in there. I've got it mocked up here with my spun aluminum Weld Draglites. I may have to order a 5 lug version with a deeper offset in the back for that deep dish effect.Although initially not trued up , I'll get it all ironed out in the body work process. I think I've got my color selection down too. I'll be going with GM paint code 79U- Mystic Teal Metallic -a.k.a. Chameleon. Yeah...............this look suits me a whole lot better!

This picture captures the Mystic Teal Metallic paint color change fairly well. The sides look green and the hood has a purple hue to it. Other areas will appear blue. I've always liked this color and can't wait to put it on this van.