Eugene Rowe
Dropping a lot of cash on multiple examples of the same kit!Just how did you mess up the previous efforts?
Forunately the 1950 Chevy 3100 Pickup can be found for $18-$20 if you look hard enough. So it's not like I am dropping $30 or more on each one.
I try to learn a new skill with each build. And on this pickup, I am trying to incorporate 3D printed parts, and I am trying to do some scratchbuilding. More specifically on this pickup, I want to make a hinged hood, shave the handles, fill in some details to smooth the body, and tub the bed for wider tires in the back.
All of my failures were probably fixable. But I look at the time involved fixing versus the $20 for a replacement kit, and make a call. Is it work my time to fix my failure, or should I just start over?
The first failure was choice of filler and screwing up the hood hinges. I wanted to try a 2 part filler, and chose the wrong one. And the hood hinges were too bulky and hit the engine.
Then on kit number two. I got the filler figured out. I got the hinges figured out. But then I fell in love with this lowrider paint. The metalic paint comes in all sorts of great colors and looks amazing.
Well, the lowrider paint is urethane. I tested it on spoons and it burned through all of my go to primers. Then I found that Rustoleum can stad up to the paint. But I HATE Rustoleum.
So I primered the model with Rustoleum. Then applied the paint. But it still managed to burn through the Rustoleum primer in spots. I pushed forward anyways because I thought the clear could hide it since it wasn't too bad.
The metallic paint was too rough because of all the flake. 6 coats of clear and some of the flakes were still causing bumps in the clear. By now there is so much clear on there that it just looks silly.
I didn't want to fool around with stripping the paint. Or figureing our what can even remove urethane. So I bought kit number 3.
This time I am not using lowrider paint. I have figured out the hinges. And I have all the 3D printed parts built, and painted and assembled from the previous attempts. This 3rd kit is really just so I have fresh body panels. Everything else is built and ready to go.
Yeah, buying copies of kits can get expensive. But for me $20 is worth it instead of spending all week, or even a couple weeks, trying to fix something.