Joe Handley

About a month ago I saw a new Chevy Traverse that was painted an interesting dark purple and decided I needed to try it on styrene too. Did some digging and found it was specific to the chromeless Traverse RS within Chevy and was called Stardust Metallic and thought that the Revell ‘65 Impala SS396 would look good in it as an otherwise showroom stock build as well as the AMT ‘69 Corvair, both of which I already have in my stash! Well, I was talking to the guy I get some of my supplies from a couple weeks ago about it as he can mix paint and put it in rattle cans for automotive touch ups. Ended up having him mix a spray can and we discovered Buick calls it Truffle Metallic too. After that I remembered I also have an AMT ‘62 Buick Electra 225 that I already started lowering, but never got farther than mocking it up on the kit steelies and thought it would look good on that with Testors Diamond Dust lacquer on the roof and in the hood sculpting and as a low rider. Finally got a chance to do a spoon test on Sunday using Duplicolor primers. Shot two with the grey sealer primer, one in grey filler primer, and one in black Sandable primer. Then applied the Diamond Dust to one of the two with the sealer primer, masked off the spear shape then laid the purple over all four with no other surface prep, the cleared the snot out of them with Duplicolor acrylic clear, getting the below results. Dad, Miguel, and I all noticed a slightly darker appearance to the one shot over the black primer (left most in top and right most in bottom pics) and lighter for one one shot over the silver. As a side note, I ran across a Corvette forum or blog where somebody thought this color needed to be offered on the C8 Corvettes as well. Just so happens to be one of those in my stash as well that may get this color too. As the weather permits, I’ll start posting progress pics of the cars in this color too.

I would be shocked if they don’t noticeably go up, not just models, but supplies too.

Thanks Gerry and sorry about just now getting back to you on this, I’ll on you shortly!

Thanks Gerry, that link helps a ton trying to figure this kit out and let me know if you do find those tires! I think I got this kit through one CARS club auction before you moved, come to think of it too.

Does anybody have the instructions and stock tires for the Revell 1965 Impala kit? I have the 85-2879 Lowrider Magazine issue that I bought 2nd hand years ago without any of the tires or the Daytons for the low rider version, but have decided to build this one as a nearly showroom stock Impala and just need the rubber to build it as a stock vehicle. Thanks

I get those when I’m on here at work too, both the questionable for work eBay ads as well as the Temu ads that……..well, I don’t want popping up on my laptop, phone or tablet, let along work computer. If they’re bad enough I will close the ad and mark them as inappropriate, but they still pop up on a regular basis.

Those look really nice, Think that’s what I’ll get to use in place of the Turbine wheels the GL kit comes with. May need to check out Texas 3D Customs for a 1/16 scale BBM and A833 as well.

It just so happens I have a couple of those Cobra kits, but I want to build them eventually, though. I like the 3D Sunburst wheels and tires that are offered, but I want something fatter than what they come in though.

Does anybody offer 1/16 resin NASCAR or Mopar Steelies and treaded tires that would fit the General Lee, or can at least be adapted to them?

My Sister in Law and her family (husband and 7m/o boy) live in the area, but they’re at least in a safe area, but they know a number of people who lost everything and are considering themselves lucky right now. I also have a friend through Instagram that’s a born and raised Angelino and he seemed pretty freaked out by it when I checked up on him and his family last night. He said it was the worst fire situation he has ever seen there.

I’m thinking you have had a lot more snow than we got here in Northern Illinois so far, we had about an inch or so when I got home a little while ago, but it’s been under 30 degrees all day too.

I’m not really into racing, mostly just bashing and crawling, plus I’m out of the loop as to what’s really the hot thing right now for racing in general.

Not gonna argue there😄

If it’s like the old Quadrasteer, you only have crab walk at highway speeds.

IIRC, the 4WS as of 20 years ago, was originally intended to help the turning radius of the trucks in most situations when the wheels would steer opposite directions as well as improved stability while changing lanes on the highway with the crab walk feature, especially while towing. With that, the truck would have both ends move in the same direction vs traveling through an arc to change lanes, which made doing so with a trailer that much more stable. They even had a program on so that if you had a trailer parked right along side a building and needed to pull it away from there, you could foot brake the truck, turn in the direction you wanted the truck to go, and all 4 tires would point that way and crab walk the truck away from there building and reduce the chance of hitting it with the truck or trailer.

I generally don’t do resolutions either, though it would have to be to not procrastinate on getting the club Christmas party build done like I last few years.

Thanks, we appreciate it!

Thanks!

Ok, finally got the pics taken and posted in the Finished Truck Builds part of the forum!

So here are the Raptors Dad and I built for the club Christmas Party. Dad’s is the Monster Truck built from the Raptor Make and Take kit, Lindbergh Weird-O’s Ram Monster Truck for the engine, axles, floor pan, and seat, 1/32 AMT USA-1 Monster Truck for the wheels and tires, then scratch built the frame, cage, leaves, and drive shafts from Evergreen products. He shot it in Tamiya White topped with their Fluorescent Red on the body, seat, and wheels, with a matte black on the chassis and axles. Mine is mostly box stock with the exception of the Fireball Modelwerks KMC Wheels and Goodyear Tires, then scratch built the bed bar and spare tire holder using a strip of masking time as a strap for the spare as well as a couple lengths of K&S aluminum tube for the tail pipes that I also slightly notched the back bumper for. The wheels and front skid plate are all in Tamiya’s Gold and Matte Clear sprays with Testors semigloss black for the caps and rings as well as other Testors colors over the black plastic the truck interior and bed was molded in. The body, spare tire holder, bed bar and rails, and chassis/bumpers are in two different types of Krylon Black. The main color is Matte Black while the flares and all the rest are a textured black to resemble bedliner. It’s also been lowered after being inspired by Vaugh Gettin Jr’s Fun Haver F-150 Pre-Runner that was also bagged so he could drop it low for smooth and paved surface shenanigans but could be aired up and be used off road like a proper pre-runner.

I saw a transporter truck leaving a local rail yard that had a few of those on it, first time I had seen any of them in person too. Usually I just see Teslas leaving that yard.

Here’s a couple more pics of our builds from the contest table. I am also very proud to say that Dad’s build won the contest this year too! One thing I did find both a bit funny and totally appropriate was the downloaded song in my 200’s head unit that came up shortly after we left the restaurant the party was at.

Lighting isn’t great, but here’s Dad’s and my Raptors on the table at the club Christmas party. I’ll try and get better pics in light tomorrow.

It should turn the charging part off or maybe go to a trickle charge mode, shouldn’t just keep dumping juice at a set rate until being unplugged.

I should add that my Dad is building one two, though he went further with his scratch building as well as some kit bashing with a couple different monster truck kits. The two trucks are going to be polar opposites of each other and have considerably different attitudes than the box stock snapper kit has.