My KW done!!!!

Very cool! Is that a paint job already, or is the kit molded in two different colors of plastic?

Thanks Doog, That is the paint job, I tried to do a marble look on the white. It didn't turn out that well, but I already had to strip the paint off the cab once ( due to the cold,or bad paint)so it's staying. Here is a closer pic.

Two good ways to get a marble type effect.

 One on the wet paint crumple up, and stick some saran wrap to it.  This is used on fullscale lowriders, before it's oversprayed with a candy color.

Aother great way which lends more of a tiedie or psychadelic effect is after you have your base color sprayed, spray a couple of different colors on top of a container full of water.  Swirl the paint around a little bit, while it's sitting on top of the water.  Then dip the model in, and pull it out.  Presto a cool and different effect.

prowannab wrote:

Thanks Doog, That is the paint job, I tried to do a marble look on the white. It didn't turn out that well, but I already had to strip the paint off the cab once ( due to the cold,or bad paint)so it's staying. Here is a closer pic.

 

I don't have any photograph, and the model is long gone, but a method I used to great effect was a sponge.

Start with exactly what you have (it will look great underneath!) and mask it off. Mix a 10:1 ratio of white and tan. dip your sponge in it and blot it on some scrap. Now use the sponge to dab the paint over the base. Make sure that you turn the sponge after every dab, so that there is no uniformity to the paint that you are putting down. Repeat til you get the desired effect.

After that you can add the dark lines that you find in marble with a fine tip brush, and a mix of 50:50 Panzer gray and tan.

 

Practice on some scrap til you get the hang of it.

Thanks yall for the advice, I'll have to try that in the future. I did try the saran wrap, but the thing I didn't pay attention to, was the paint was the kind that dries in fifteen minutes or less so I really didn't have that much work time. I think that on the rest of the sruff i need to do that to on this project I'll get some regular dry time paint.

Well, this is were i'm at right now with the truck,not actually I do have some more work done than what's in the pics, my daughter took the camera with her to her mothers house last week and couldn't uplaod anything, so here is what I had done up to tuesday last week.

Now all you need is some CB antennas and some airlines on  the back and you are ready for the road.

Well, this one is pretty close to being done, just a few loose ends to tie up and I can put this one to bed. It has been a pretty nice build all together, except for the crap paint that I decided to use. DON'T GO WITH DUPLICOLOR PAINT, IT SUCKS!!!!!! In my opion! But everything else went along pretty good. This is the first time I'm going to do this , but I've compiled an extra work list, it is as follows.

1-stretched the cab 1.5"

2-stretched the frame by 1"

3-added a forward axle and all neccessary equipment

4-stretched fuel tanks by 75%

5-scratch built chain rack

6-scratch built light bar

7-added door windows

8-added antenna wips

9- scratch built windsheild visor

10-addded chrome catwalk

11- made chrome drive shaft

12- made custom exhaust pipes

13- made custom air intake pipe

14- scratch built drive axle fenders

15- added extra chrome to various positions

and finally here are the pics, please feel free to tell me what you think, good,bad or indifferentand thanks for looking.

Great looking model you have built and all the extras you did to it really adds to it. I am no expert on truck models but I like it.

Mckay