The 2013 Automotive Group Build

Trey: Your Merc's looking divine!

Tony: the Mustang's coming along nicely.   I'm suprised you didn't mask the striping or just make your own.

Greg thanks!

Tony the stripes look choice! Always did like that color combo,looking forward to seeing more!

Greetings; some great builds in here...  can a newbie enter this GB? I have not built any autos/cars in two decades, except for a couple easy kits with my kids. I picked up a few cars fpr my stash last year. I figured I could get my tires wet, so to speak, in here.

I figured I could start with a couple straightfoward Revell cars, then add a race car(s), probably one or more from the Heller 1:43 Championship Rally set kit.

I know the kits are simple, but I got to start somewhere :)

Cheers.

Tony,

That Mustang is looking good.

Hi Jmart - Please feel most welcome to join. Just let us know which kit you're building and start posting !

Hi Greg - I should have masked or printed my own. Those decals have given me nothing but trouble since I used them. I sprayed the thing with Future, and they peeled back again, I have never seen decals behave like that before. In trying to fix them, I'm made a bit of a dog's breakfast on one side, so I'm just assessing my options on how to fix it. I might even peel them off, sand back and respray the lower sides.

I did take the precaution of scanning them before using them, as I always do, so producing my own shouldn't be too difficult.

Cheers

Tony

Tony really sad to hear those decals are being such a pita,good thing you scanned them! Thats a great tip btw ,I should have been doing that all along as well.

I've got the flames shot ,kinda of on the fence about them.

errr....let me be the first to say....that the flames look 'hot'.

I think they look OK Trey, and will look even better in the context of the whole car rather than just the body.

I think I want one of those '49 Mercs, I might have to make some enquiries.

Cheers

Tony

Thanks Tony,appreciate that. I just could'nt get to liking how they came out and have sanded the body down and going for a second attempt. Hoping to get it right this time around.

Ouch Trey. What are you going to do different on the second run ? Good luck with it..

Cheers

Tony

Thanks Tony , here is the revised flame job ,its not really what I was after either but I'm burned out(no pun intended) so I'm just going to roll with this version.

Trey: it looks great!  Is it free hand or did you use a stencil?

Trey,

I do like this version better.

I put the final coat on the Nova and fixed the run on the hood.

Trey,

I tried the wash. I think I may still be a little dark but I'm getting the hang of it. Thanks for the tip.

Thanks Greg I used several 'cut' outs,you can see them littering the bench in this shot

If I had to do it again ,I would make it less 'busy'. I went from one extreme to the other,oh well for a first attempt at scale flames its passable I geuss.

Wheeler glad to be of help with the wash ,it looks fine. In fact it could even be darker on the block itself

Do they show up now??

Yea I see them now,the paint looks great Dude!

Thanks. I'm going to let it dry for a couple of days and try masking and painting the trim. I'm using this car as a test bed before I start on the 62' Bel Air hehehe.

Trey,

When I said I like this version better, I was talking about the second set of flames on your Merc hehehehe. When I re-read my post it I thought, Wait he must think I'm vain hehehehe.

Trey - these flames do look better.

Wheeler - that looks pretty good. Interesting color. What is it ? It would be good to file it in the memory bank.

Here's the latest on the 1/32 Stang. To be honest, I'll be glad to return to one of my normal scales. This is far from perfect, still needs some trim, panel lines and windshield to be added. It's fitted together for the photos only. Hopefully tonight is the night. I've given it a very mild polish, I'm not willing to risk more than that as it's only a shelf model.

Cheers

Tony

Wheeler its all good I got what you were say'n!

Tony the Stang is looking real sharp,great job on the trim too! What scale do you normally work in?

3rd time is the charm. I know I said it that was it ,but I could'nt stand how garish the flames looked. What do you all think?

Tony – Great, thanks! My first cars since I was a kid… start easy with Revell’s 1:24 ’53 Corvette Roadster and Plymouth Prowler. Then move to some race cars, the Heller 1:43 Championship World Rally kit containing Citroën Xsara WRC '05, Subaru Impreza WRC '02 and Peugeot 307 WRC '04. Not very complex or exciting builds but a good place to start. Will see what my 50% off coupon at Michael’s gets me next week.

Good looking Stang BTW

Trey – I like the last version of your flames…  Great idea on the cutouts. If you use enamel paints, you can always try to use a flat brush and blend in the colors a bit where they meet while the paint is still wet. Maybe a tad too busy up front, but I love the way it tapers off.

JMart - I've added you to the build roster. I like those little Heller kits too, they're a bit of fun. I've done a couple of their F1 cars and I think I have most of the rally cars. If you build three of them and I was to do a couple, we might end up with quite a collection.

Trey - The flames just keep getting better. This is definitely the best attempt so far. I usually build 1/24 or 25 for most cars and 1/20 for Formula One cars. Occasionally I dip into other scales. My Mustang collection (there is only 4 completed so far) are all 1/24 or 1/25 until now.

Cheers

Tony

Nice work on the Stang, Tony, it looks great.

Trey, those are some monster flames!

Glenn

Hey everyone, was just looking through the posts i've been mising out on the last few days. Everyone's builds are looking very "fine". I've been concentrating on my First Time GB. For thos who don't know, one of my first builds ever was Monogram's P 38. It' dated 1973. Sooooo. I too, have to deal with 40 year old decals. I haven't tried them yet, but I'm almost to that point now. Decal time within the next week.

Tax - How did your decals look? mine look brand new. There not cloudy or any thing. I have them scanned into the puter, but I'm out of color Ink. I'm not sure what I'm going to do.

I'll be back more when I get the P 38out of the way.  No, it's not a can opener. LOL I said that I'll build my P 38 at our last model club meeting and another member said "A can opener HUH?" LOL

Tony,

The Mustang looks great.The color on the Nova is Model Master Dark Red Metallic.

Trey,

Those flames look even better.

Greentracker - The decals looked in reasonable shape, but were slightly yellowed. What I didn't realise was that the adhesive had gone off and was quite ineffective. I've been watching your P-38. I have to build a P-47 for it sometime soon.

Here's some photo's of the 1/32 Mustang GT-350. It's certainly not my best effort, but at least it's completed.

Cheers

Tony

I thought I'd finish off the Triumph TR-7 next, I think it still needs 1-2 weeks of work. It will form part of a collection of Triumph cars I am building. I've already completed a couple of TR-3s and a TR-2. I think I've got every 1/24 Triumph that is available, in plastic at least, as well as a couple of 1/32 ones of cars that are not available in other scales. Once done I'll photograph them all together.

Here's the starting point:

Sprayed the vinyl roof with S-G black, inside and out.

cheers

Tony

Tony - The TR7 roof looks good, As does the Stang.

I'll be getting the Camaro out tonight. I'm only putting another clear coat layer on it. Then I'll do more on the Semi Van Trailer

Tony: the Triumph's looking nice.

On another note, I keep getting hit with set backs on my build.  First the gear shift broke off the steering column while I was installing it on the dash.  To complicate matters, after de-chroming the 4-wheel drive shifter, it went down the drain in the rinse process!   Now to wait to see it Revell customer service will fulfill my parts request.

Yesterday, I went to Blizzard Con and found Monogram's COP OUT kit...cheap...I bought it just for the old school beacon lightbar.  I thought it would look grat on my Revell Ford Bronco kit.  I even made a deal to sell the rest of the kit for what I paid for it before I left.   Well, I got home, checked the chrome sprue....great all the light bar parts are still there.   Wait...the clear domes......NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  There's only ONE clear rotator dome.   On the plus side, the single rotator might look good on the GMC's roof.

I did manage to touch up the paint on the GMC's shock absorbers.

UPDATE:  while removing the chrome parts from the sprue, I dropped one....while looking for it I found the second clear dome!!!!  YEAH!  It was hiding in the tan carpet of my man cave.....

Tony – Great! Cheers… hope to start my builds before our family FL trip. And congrats on finishing the Stang, very nice.

Greg – Great find! The place in our house that gets swept the most is the area around my workbench… the stuff I find!