The 2015 /16 Red Hot and Rollin Automotive Group Build--Ended

Ken - I sure hope you will get well soon!

I have ran across problems when painting the roof of my VW Van...

On the roof there were some marks left from the sprue attachment points. I have filled those with  molten sprue and sanded smooth. After I have put on a coat of Motip primer the imperfections seemed to get amplified. And they appear again after every next coat...

Recently I have put on two or three layers of primer, then let it dry for several days. Then I sanded the surface smooth and let it sit for two - three days to get rid of most of the solvent... It looked like this:

Then I have put on a coat of Motip primer-filler. All the imperfecions that were there before the sanding came out again:

 I know that even if I sand it nice and smooth and put the color on those will come out again... What to do? Any help appreciated! Thanks in advance and have a nice day

Paweł

Mustang I had a seizure and spent a couple of weeks in the hospital. I lost 3 days. I may have mentioned that had never been up in an airplane, helicopter, etc. Well, I can't say that now, the only problem is i was out of it and don't remember it. They life flighted me to Pittsburgh, Pa, Its about a 2 1/2 hour drive on the interstate. Oh well

Yea I agree that V Dub is going to be fun to watch

Eric: Great to see you again bud! Dive on back in when you get the chance.

Pawel: Looking forward to the outcome.

Ken: Didn't know about an illness and hope that all is ok. Bring the progress and the pics on. We'll be watchful for them.

Got the next build already under way.

I picked this kit up a couple of weeks ago because it was IMO just too dang cool. This one will be a sideline build when I either get stumped on or waiting for paint to dry for my current aircraft project, in which right now I'm waiting on paint to dry and trying to figure out some fit issues with it so I figured I'd start this thread. I'm not going to get as crazy as I did with my '54 Chevy just because I don't want something that in depth. But I do want to have some fun with this one so here goes.

Der Beetle Bus:



Now when I opened up the box I looked at the body and knew right away that this body was not going to fly at all. The wheel base is ridiculously short for my tastes and it would look more like a cartoon van than an actual vehicle. Here's where we start:



and I just couldn't leave it like that so I bought another kit and went to work:



Cutting the bodies at just the right points yielded a wheel base that I could live with



Top view of the difference it made:



and the side view :



and so it starts. Here's the set up I want to go with. Slicks and skinnies with my favorite kind of wheels. The ol' Weld Draglites:

This..................is more like it.







Body work and smoothing things out will commence shortly. I have to lengthen the roof and the chassis to follow suit with the body so stay tuned..............

Hi every one, all of your builds look great.

Since my illness, I think its best not to get to heavily involved in the modeling. I'm going to attempt to do my build for this GB I Have a little (very little) bit done. The others will just have to go by the way side. Sorry guys

Pics will be posted soon

Joe - thanks a lot for your kind words! On the next one I'll polish the plastic! But I already have a few thin coats of primer on this one, and I would have to remove'em if I wanted to polish it. On the other hand all the problems I have are concentrated on the roof, so it would be doable.

seabe - thanks for the tip, but the problem I have is actually the one that the blemishes keep reappearing after the application of next layer of paint. After it dries I can sand it and then it's OK. Then I reapply primer, paint, clear, whatever - and the problem reappears from underneath. I don't quite understand it, it has something to do with the thinner of the Motip paints, I'd love to know how to make it stop and how to prevent it in the future.

Thanks again and have a nice day

Paweł

Pawel, I agree with what Mustang has said. To add - grey primer does exactly that for some reason - it accentuates flaws. So the trick many guys do is go grey primer, to see the flaws, smooth out. Grey primer again to make sure there's no remaining (or new!) flaws, then only white.

Disclaimer - I am not one of them, seems a bit over the top to me.

That looks really good so far Pawel and I'm glad you're back in here building this jewel.  As for the scratches.............if you don't already have the sanding kit then try to get a fine sanding kit that's got sanding pads that range from 3200 grit all the way up to 12000 grit. Start with the 3200 and walk up through the grit ranges-4000, 6000, 8000 and finally 12000. Get the plastic as shiny as you can stand it and THEN prime it. I have a few scratches myself but I'm finding that the smoother I've got the molded plastic , the smoother my priming and thus the smoother my paint job. Let me know if this helped you any.

Here's the kit that I'm talking about BTW:

Hello Joe!

That Chevy is really beutiful! Nice work on the chassis and on all those little details you have put there!

I for myself had a really long break from my bus, but picket up the work again some time ago and I have another update for you. I have also started a separate thread for the bus here:

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/4/t/172395.aspx

And here's the update:

I have finally completed the front suspension - I had to build the horizontal arms from scratch. I painted them babies using Mr. Hobby metalizers:

I have also strted to work on the interior - it's pretty bare in the Hasegawa model, only has the shifter stick, so I have scratchbuilt the pedals, together with a moon-style gas pedal, and an emergency brake handle:

The rear deck is also painted:

The blue paint will also be the exterior colour.

By the way, can somebody help me? I'm painting the body using Motip car paint from a spray can. I had some minor scratches on the roof from sanding, so I have put a coat of grey primer on the roof and it kinda increased the scratches. So I have sanded it and recoated, maybe three times now and the scratches keep coming back after the paint dries... How can I help that?

Thanks for reading and have a nice day

Paweł

Awesome Mustang! I loved what you did to the interior from the beginning! Really liked those detail. And the gloss you got o this thing is super. 

Starting to sort out my paint/masking mishap. Ran my marathon yesterday, so with recovery week coming up, I'm hoping to show some progress soon... if my secret misstress Sleep does not lure me away! 

Well folks, I ended up finally finishing this thing. To go back to when I was a kid I was drawn to the Revell Street Demons line-up and ended up buying them all. I only built three of them back then and this was one of them. It's funny how when the hobby follows us into adulthood we see how much we either overlooked or just how bad the kits were back then. But hey, we were having fun back then right? lol . I took this project on in January of this year and although this kit does suck, I've had a great amount of fun with it and learning opportunities left and right over the course of the last 8-1/2 months. Although I was drawn to this car as a kid (and still am), as an adult I didn't care for the gasser stance for a "street" car and wanted something a little more jazzed up and to have some fun with it. Sooooooo, I created a dropped down party mobile. I mean .............with all that room in the back the possibilities were endless. I started out with my eyes being a lot bigger than 1.) my ability and 2.) what there was room for back there. Over the course of the build while my vision/ goal was always the same, I had to modify the ideas somewhat and my abilities got a tune up but I'm very happy with the end result.
I won't go over every detail of the build but I will say that there were 7 different kits and a lot of aftermarket involved in its making. What really blew me away was the fact that there weren't any headlight bezels/ buckets (and there still aren't to this day with the latest release of this kit!!!  ) and the hood hinge cut outs at the back of the engine compartment just make you want to slap the original kit engineers.
I'd like to thank all of you guys in this Group Build who commented/ encouraged me throughout this creation. You guys are da bomb.

The kit:


Glamour shots:






















and then there's what's inside:

Lookin' forward to it Dan! Hope you have a fun and safe vacation.

Looking great Joe! 

Im still working on my body to get it ready for another coat of paint. Progress will be delayed until I'm back from vacation. 

There are some areas that I need to touch up on this thing as far as the body goes but I'm at the point to where some of it I'm almost afraid to do anything with. At this stage things can get very unforgiving for me and it's either don't do anything about it or take the chance to correct it and risk starting all over again with the body. After what I've been through with this thing, starting over with the body would result in at least a 2 month set back and another set of decals that I'd have to get printed and shipped to me.

Anyways here's what's left out of that list I had a couple of pages back. I'm almost there...........

1. Rearview Mirror and “Tree”
2. Install Rear Bumper
3. Install Radiator Hoses and clamps
4. Install Body Onto Chassis
5. Install Door Handles
6. Gloss Coat Hood Assembly
7. Install filler placard for area below rear door

It looks as though I'm about done with this build but there's still some ways to go. I'd say I still have about a month left here.

I hear you on that Seabe. I'm never sure what my results are going to turn out like. lol

Looking forward to the progress.

Urgh, been learning some lessons in the dark art of masking this week. Part 2 hopefully this weekend. And what is worse - not much guidelines for masking a quite complex (on places) decal scheme's border. 

So now onto getting rid of some micro bubbles before stage two of masking - the reverse mask! Where some white sections clearly have to be redone. You can see where this is heading... 

If I haven't said it before - I never liked masking! 

Dan: She's lookin sharp man! It's kind of cool to see something bone stock being built from the 60's.

Seabe: Wow! Look at all that engine detail. Wowzers!!! Keep up the good work bud.

Sorry I've been away from the GB scene for a while fellas. Had alot to do and feel like I'm going under some times.

That interior looks real good, Mopar-D!

Had an out-of-town trail run race, plus weather is rather miserable now. So no progress on the Ligier, since spraying the body will have to wait. But did manage to get the pipes done and installed. Tried something different on the pipes, hmmm... it's okay. Not over the moon with the result, but okay. Rear end basically done and on to front suspension. And then the dreaded body - well, masking the body! 

Some pics of the engine area.

More work on the chassis finishing up the exhaust and added shocks, on the interior I had to add the 3 speed shifter on the column remembering this is a plane Jane no option car I need to fill in the hole in the floor still, little moe detail in the engine compartment added master brake cylinder and windshield washer motor I modified the one in the kit that looks like a horn. Sprayed a 2nd coat on the body that needs a lot of sanding to smooth out the finish. 

That's sharp especially the master cylinder (Felix the cat) lol it's difficult to bench the cars but I'm trying to start up some plane kits for two gb's

Thanks Dan. I got the TV glued down to the table yesterday but had some difficulty in getting the body to fit right on the chassis due to not positioning the TV in the right spot on the table. This morning I was able to remove the TV and reposition it on the table to allow the body to sit properly onto the rolling chassis. Looks like everything is fitting the way it's supposed to now.

Looking good Joe. 

simpilot: The lights still on bud.

Seabe: Man these 43rd scale builds are your specialty. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you'll do with this one.

Dan: Simply beautiful work on those interior trim panels, chassis and the engine. Seats turned out fabulous this time around and you gave that car a great stance as well.

Tim: Man is it great to have you back in here!! Will be checking out your project when I get home where I can view the blocked images here at work. Looking forward to seeing your beautiful paint jobs again.

Everybody: In the interim , I did some more work on the master cylinder and brake lines today. Still gotta form and install the vacuum hose for the power brake booster but here's today's progress.

The plug wires were just for the pics, but that is how they will be installed.  The only reason I have to take them out is to install the headers.  Its too tight to try and intall it with the hearders on, otherwise I would.  Thanks!

Tim

Now thats a right fine looking Mill you are building there Tarron!  Um.......you did hang the plug wires just for a show pic, right?  LOL!    Nice ride, you're gonna have some fun when its finished.   Just curious, whats the final gear??

looking good with that interior

Tim nice project you have going on. 

Second try at adding some texture to the seats with these decals. I sprayed some Testors decal sealer on the decals before putting them in the water and no problems with the. Decals cracking this time.