MrObsessive Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 (edited) Well now she's finally all done! Hard to believe that it's been over 30 years since I first built this one and time sure does fly! I can tell you, this will be better taken care of this time around, so no more rebuilds will be necessary! Paint is '68 Corvette Bronze and I got to hand it to my paint guy.....according to pics I have of the 1:1 on my hard disc in this color, he got the match pretty much spot on! He mixed the paint in a very fine metallic so the flakes are not jumping out at you when you first view it. Tires are from the AMT parts pack redlines, and I had to tweak the wheels somewhat with some tape to make them fit a little tighter inside the tire. I did tweak the suspension somewhat as one major pet peeve I've had with Revell kits is that they always sit too high. Now the stance is the way I want it, and I can live with it. Here's a 1:1 for comparison as far as the color............. And now my resto of the original I did in 1988............. I decided to leave the uptop white for the time being. I do have pics showing the top in beige, but a nice bright white will do for the time being. Nice hardtop included in the kit. I decided to paint that body color as it looks better and I'm not a fan of the vinyl covered ones. I took a tip from Steve Guthenmiller and decided to try the BMF under script lettering instead of PE. Well I have to admit, I like the way this turned out, and I'll be definitely trying this again in the future! I didn't go super crazy with engine bay details, just some wiring for the engine and fuel lines. I do have the air cleaner but more often than not when shown, it'll have the air cleaner off. Thanks for looking folks! There will be other restos in the future, but I'm debating whether or not to go back to the Green Hornet Shelby. I have to redo some things on that (a bit of a setback) but OTOH, I really want to get that one done before year's end. Edited July 28, 2019 by MrObsessive
Tommy124 Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 Great work all around and in the details especially
geetee66 Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 1st class build. You nailed it. The stance is perfect.
oldscool Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 That looks fantastic Bill. That was the last kit I finished before moving back to the wonderful state of Florida.
bbowser Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 Very cool, my favorite generation. The Rallye wheels and redlines really set it off.
TooOld Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 Beautiful '68 and I love that color ! It looks great with the hardtop in body color !
MrObsessive Posted July 28, 2019 Author Posted July 28, 2019 Thanks for the nice words guys! I should include the link which is here, for those that hadn't seen what a mess this was before I started on it. I think I'm going to change out the license plate as I tried to keep some of the thickness by just cutting it off the sheet, but I don't like the ragged edges I see in looking at the pics. I have a number of those I can use, so it's just a matter of cutting out some .020 plastic sheet to size, painting it silver and then putting the decal on that.
Gramps46 Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 Looks outstanding and the fact that it was a resto is all the more special.
Snake45 Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 Absolutely magnificent, but then we've come to expect no less from you. Glad to see the foil-under-paint technique worked for you. I did exactly the same thing on the rear CORVETTE emblem on the Revell '68 I did last year, and it worked fabulously! (I used kitchen foil instead of BMF, but it worked just as well and of course the principle is exactly the same.) I too will be using that trick quite a bit in the future. Well done and model on!
Classicgas Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 Stunning! Color is spot on. Where is that carb from? Can you explain the foil under technique?
MrObsessive Posted July 28, 2019 Author Posted July 28, 2019 Just now, Classicgas said: Stunning! Color is spot on. Where is that carb from? Can you explain the foil under technique? Lee, the carb came from Fireball Model works. Certainly makes the engine instead of the plastic blob in the kit! As far as the foil, before I put on the color coats, I put BMF on each of the letters on the body. I painted it and then when it came time to rub out the paint with the polishing cloths, the paint came off easily as paint doesn't stick to foil very well. You want to trim as close to your scripts as possible because depending on how much paint you put on, you don't want the edges of the BMF showing through. I did it this way as there were Corvette letters on the PE set, but since the lettering on the body has more depth, I thought it would look more realistic doing it this way. Hope this helps!
Classicgas Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 Thanks. Do you apply it before priming or after?
MrObsessive Posted July 28, 2019 Author Posted July 28, 2019 3 minutes ago, Classicgas said: Thanks. Do you apply it before priming or after? Lee you want to put it on after you primer. The fewer coats you have to put over the foil the better.
Classicgas Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 That's what I thought. Gonna have to try this. Thanks Bill. I've heard of the technique but never seen it explained.
Dragonhawk1066 Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 Great job on the resto, it looks outstanding!!
smellyfatdude Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 Great color, great detailing and I love that interior!
Snake45 Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 2 hours ago, MrObsessive said: Lee, the carb came from Fireball Model works. Certainly makes the engine instead of the plastic blob in the kit! As far as the foil, before I put on the color coats, I put BMF on each of the letters on the body. I painted it and then when it came time to rub out the paint with the polishing cloths, the paint came off easily as paint doesn't stick to foil very well. You want to trim as close to your scripts as possible because depending on how much paint you put on, you don't want the edges of the BMF showing through. I did it this way as there were Corvette letters on the PE set, but since the lettering on the body has more depth, I thought it would look more realistic doing it this way. Hope this helps! I did mine slightly different. I put the foil on bare plastic, and I didn't bother to trim around every letter, just trimmed the letters on the ends and then straight across the top and bottom. I then painted with one coat of Walmart Black Primer, three coats of Testor One Coat Firey Orange, and three coats of Model Master Clear Top Coat enamel, airbrushed. At polishing time, I wet-sanded the whole rear panel until I got down to the black primer on the letters, and then I polished everything out as normal with Wright's Silver Cream. There's no border visible to my foil, but then my paint might be thicker than Mr. O's. Not saying one way is better than the other; it's just two slightly different ways to do the same thing and both results are quite acceptable.
Peter Lombardo Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 No surprise Bill, it looks great......... extremely clean and tight as usual for you. Love the color.... not red, not orange.... somewhere in between. Beautiful !
Snake45 Posted July 28, 2019 Posted July 28, 2019 18 minutes ago, MrObsessive said: Hey that looks GREAT! So does yours. "There are many paths to the top of the mountain."
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