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Slotto's Model Car Garage
Topic Started: Jun 5 2015, 01:55 PM (2,393 Views)
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Thanks Randy, Honestly I don't know the cid. The kit only came with one engine and the docs do not say but it looks like the same 409 that I built for the 64.
I love my chrome pens! I did the chroming with 3 different sources. BMF, my home made BMF and the 1mm pen. It would take a keen eye to spot the differences. Also I did a fair amount of customizing on the front buckets. They were a bench seat that I cut in half and I had to take a section out of the center of each bucket so they would fit in the car and play nicely with the door cards and center console. This was a first for me. I liked the pattern on the rear seats and I wanted the fronts to match. I was gonna use the Boyd Coddington wheels like I used on the Silver Dodge but in the 11th hour I decided on something else.

Stay Tuned...
Edited by slotto, Sep 4 2017, 07:25 PM.
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Thunderjet500
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Love those colors Steve and the 3D printed rims are looking pretty darn marvelous also.
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slotto
Sep 4 2017, 07:17 PM

I love my chrome pens!


I've also found you can take one of those pens, push the end down on some plastic packaging to form a small puddle, then take a toothpick or smaller brush for some smaller detailing. They make a refill bottle of ink, just haven't gone that route yet... I'd like to run some through an airbrush, see how that looks...RM
Edited by Hilltop Racing, Sep 9 2017, 10:18 AM.
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Yeah, I've puddled the stuff too. I'm just not sure how to refill the pen.
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Sill chugging away on the Ford Pickup and the 58 Impala. But this caught my eye the other day...

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That car looks very familiar.
Paint is nothing but gorgeous !!! I gotta ask, what method ?
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https://youtu.be/BJP5f-fsHrs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vq94cxeCw8
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Still in experimenting mode, this time I went with straight Duplicolor over bare plastic no primer. The results was dull dull dull. So I gave a second coat. More of the same. After it dried, there was a bit of of orange peel so I went after it with 1500. then gave the whole body a rub down with 5000. I washed her down with warm soapy water, terry cothed bone dry applied Future with a Q-Tip on the hood. There is immediate satisfaction when you apply Future. If you haven't used it, I'd say it's time to give it a try. Here's a before and after...

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The body being the before and the hood being the after. The spot on the scoop is my overhead can lighting. Semi satisfied, I pushed forward the body.

After the Future dried, I rubbed everything down with a spent drier sheet. I know it sounds silly and NO it will NOT scratch the finish. After that I used Meguiar's 2.0 wax.
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Hey Slotto, check out that Future Dip thread, the article about the Future and Simple Green mix, might be worth trying...RM
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