54 Chevy Sedan Delivery-COMPLETED-09/16

Holy cow, that is a glossy finish.

If you ever figure out what was up with the bubbles, please elaborate. That would be scary.

crown: I hear ya on the reading glasses alright. I miss looking at stuff without glasses but it's just one of those things of many.

Greg: Thanks good friend. You tell me and we'll both know on those bubbles......and yes....that was scary as hell.

Oh Yes! That "Wet Look" gloss coat is the boss. Fantastic! That is indeed curious concerning the bubbles. Chalk it up to living right Joe. Gotta love when you're in good favor with the paint gods. Slick job on the hood surgery also.

Thanks Joe! I'd better cross my fingers because I guess the ol' "decal gods" ( there's really only one in my book) were with me as well because these things went on flawlessly. I got these from Speedway Decals and they were a great restoration of the originals.

Those look absolutely excellent Joe. And the fact that they went on without issue, priceless. Got me fingers crossed for you when you apply your final gloss coat over them.

beautiful nice decal work . 

Joe: Thanks buddy! That'll make two of us on the fingers crossed. lol

crown: I appreciate that.

Stunning. Yep, Speedway decals are awesome. I got a set of Dukes decals waiting to be used.

Thanks Lee for the encouragement and for the link to the decals.

Had to test fit the body today with a day after the lacquer coat had been laid over the decals. I do have some work to do as this coat didn't turn out as pristine as the first one did. I've got to wait a few days before I can start sanding and smoothing this coat out to come back over it with hopefully one last coat.

Here are the fruits of 6 months work so far:

looking gooood !! 

That looks really really sharp Joe. Despite your preceived flaws, the body work overall is absolutely jaw dropping. I'm excited to see it after you have put on the finishing touches. Great stuff my friend.

Thanks crown and Joe!! Hopefully I'll have all the smoothing out and final gloss coat completed over the weekend. I ended up priming the hood this morning and should be able to shoot some paint and gloss over that as well this weekend.

Thanks Eric! LOL.....hence the name "Wet Look" lacquer from Model Master

I ended up applying a coat of Tamiya Smoke to the wheels today which really brings them out more if you ask me. I intended to do this from the start but one thing lead to another and before I knew it the wheels & tires were on the vehicle. After I noticed it I was too chicken to attempt the coating but the more I looked at it the more I decided it had to be done to get rid of that toy chrome look.

Before: (notice the high glare from them here)

and after: (a more defined and realistic look and this picture has even been lightened)

real shiny 

Thanks crown. I've actually gotten it alot shinier since those pics. I wet sanded and polished it out this morning.

Folks I have mixed feelings about the Wet Look Gloss. It does produce a gloss that is unrivaled compared to any I've used so far but it has a serious draw back of bubbling due to the immense aeriation characteristic it has. From now on I'll be dispensing it into a paint bottle to allow time for the air to work itself out and then airbrushing it on. Lesson learned. I am, however, working past it. It took about three hours of wet sanding and polishing  to get this stuff to behave but once I tamed it-it produced a gloss that I never thought would end.

Here's what I'm talking about in terms of bubbles..........and they were everywhere!

after wet sanding and polishing:

This is more like what was on the majority of the body. I'll be using the same approach to this bad boy

Joe my friend, I regret that you encountered the bubble issues with your wet look but, My Heck, you have done an absolutely masterful job of sanding and polishing that finish into a thing of beauty. It looks fantastic. that is some great work on your part. Take a bow.

Well done. Yes, if you decant any spray can paint to use in a air brush, you just allow it to completely gas out before spraying it.

Already been there but thanks for the heads up anyways there Lee! Wheels......OMG the wheels!!! I'll get 'em off to you this week Lee! Oh man!!!!

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crown: I hear ya on the reading glasses alright. I miss looking at stuff without glasses but it's just one of those things of many.

Greg: Thanks good friend. You tell me and we'll both know on those bubbles......and yes....that was scary as hell.

 

Something to do with the high humidity in Corpus Christi?

Jim Barton

 

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crown: I hear ya on the reading glasses alright. I miss looking at stuff without glasses but it's just one of those things of many.

Greg: Thanks good friend. You tell me and we'll both know on those bubbles......and yes....that was scary as hell.

 

 

 

 

 

Something to do with the high humidity in Corpus Christi?

 

Today's progress:

I shot a primer coat on the door panels on Tuesday, a Tamiya X-7 Red coat on Wedensday and a Gloss coat on yesterday. Before today:

Still gotta pick out the details and BMF the door panels but I also managed to 1.)strip the hood, dry and primer that ,2.) strip the rear door and repair not only the bottom of the door but the top where it broke on me this morning???!!!!! Wow! and 3.) paint the center insert of the door panels. The boo-boo at the bottom of the door panel wont be seen as the seat will take care of hiding that.

Overall progress in one photo shot for today:

Nice color combo real sharp 

Yes, this is looking Bad-SS !

..."strip the hood, dry and primer that ,2.) strip the rear door and repair not only the bottom of the door but the top where it broke on me this morning???!!!!! Wow! and 3.) paint the center insert of the door panels. "....

 It's good to know I'm not alone ( why is there an echo, ech, co co co in here? ) in   redoing, and generaly having fits about the things that  didn't  need anything; Until...IT, happens!  Then that mad scramble to just get back to where you thought you were, so you can progress,to somewhere

Modeling is a relaxing hobby for everyone, no stress like at your work place....AHHHH,'tis Bliss

Thanks for the kind words crown, Sprue and Steve!

I've been working on my PE electric cooling fan from Model Car Garage for the last few days and finally got it underway. I still need to run the electrical ckts to it but the base fan is completed.



a little scale reference against my spare '54 Chev



I'm also continuing work on my interior door panels which have given me a lot of grief. I've stripped them 4 times so far. Just wasn't happy with the way the paint was behaving. I used acrylic for the white inserts and after I applied the gloss coat to seal it all in the acrylic paint started cracking. Then it was a masking issue that looked really bad and then I had a paint boo boo that went to crap when I was sanding to correct it. You know, the typical stuff. I used white primer this time around as a base coat so we'll see what happens this time round.

Hang in there man but you the master of detail . I to will be dealing with the same thing on my 55 interior soon if. Photo bucket works