1970 Wildcat Buick WIP

Urbanlamb wrote:

Nice!!! I'm going to follow your work to see how this turns out.  Can someone enlighten me as to how the salt thingy works?  I know about the hairspray method, just recently featured, is the salt a similiar effect?

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Nice!!!

I'm going to follow your work to see how this turns out.  Can someone enlighten me as to how the salt thingy works?  I know about the hairspray method, just recently featured, is the salt a similiar effect?

SWEEEET!!  Continue the great work

Mark

Pretty cool concept here, baron, and it looks like you've got it together pretty well.

I actually had a thought to do a big rig like this once, but realized I'd have no where to store it!

I'm looking forward to seeing how that salted finish turns out!

What a neat buildup, this one will sure make all the shiny cars in the displaycase nervous !

My worth on this for additions would be having "Spikes" coming out of the center of the wheels , to keep those others "rig" from side swiping you . And this car just screams for multi colored body panels and a "scale" rattle can paint or graffiti on it.

Trying out the salt thingy on this model . I airbrused a red brown color and salted everything . Then using rattle cans i sprayed the body a coral blue . I plan to weather this after removing the salt . The bottom i used light earth , only dark color i had . I plan to weather this also . The chrome parts were sprayed with chrome . The rest is just a grey primer . The inside i am still thinking on how to paint . Might add some sort of carpet like item to the roof and floor . The seats i might go with a white/blue/black look to them . Here is a pic so far of what i did . This is something i was just doing so i could resist painting my Stug III too ealry for the primer to set .

I think it looks good so far, and its definately an interesting concept.  It's always fun to see people do them as somthing other than just stock.  As far as a sugestion, I only have one really and that would be to fashion some kinda rollcage outta the trees as extra protection for the driver. 

And I have that problem too about staying on just ONE build, right now I have, one I'm in the middle of re-doing, one that I just can't seem to get the body color right, a couple more that are almost done but still need a lot of work, and the one currently on my desk right now haha.

Added the front window armor and added a weld seam along the edges . Also built a side armor and added weld seams around the angle styrene . Here are some pics of what i have done so far . The model is white so i am having problems getting good pics . It will show when i get a primer coat on it .

Next i plan to work on a front fender ram and some gernade tubes . FUN FUN FUN LOL

Thanks for looking .....

Here is what i have done so far in this fast build . I added bars to the rear window with styrene rods . I made a metal plate from sheet styrene and cut away a view port with bars added with styrene rod . I also removed the chrome plate with bleach . I am now working on side skirts with etched brass mesh and angle styrene . Here is a photo of what i have done so far .