Oh, noooooo... They're multiplying! '90 MUSTANG LX 5.0 - The SILVER FOX

[Musclecarbuilder]

Wow looking good! I really love that interior! And the paint is killer!

[mrm]

38 minutes ago, Musclecarbuilder said:

Wow looking good! I really love that interior! And the paint is killer!

Thank you.

My kid was home from college for the weekend and we were at the mall, where there is a store carrying action figures which he collects. They also have lots of Gundam kits and I found something that I want to use on the interior. The idea is the entire interior to be just two colors - the fox orangey “leather” and silver. 

[Musclecarbuilder]

23 hours ago, mrm said:

Thank you.

My kid was home from college for the weekend and we were at the mall, where there is a store carrying action figures which he collects. They also have lots of Gundam kits and I found something that I want to use on the interior. The idea is the entire interior to be just two colors - the fox orangey “leather” and silver. 

Nice!

[mrm]

I'm pushing on finishing this one too...

The engine is going to be a Coyote 5.0 I think it's only fitting. Fox and Coyotee - it's a good match. I have no idea where the engine came from. I had it in a tiny ziplock baggy in my parts box. It had a big hole going through it that I had to fill, which makes me think it came from something with solid metal axles. I painted Tamiya Gloss Aluminum and then gave it a good wash with Tamiya grey panel liner. The intake received some of my foxy color and gloss black in preparation for some carbon fiber. The exhaust collectors were sprayed with Tamiya Silver leaf, as it gives a nice ceramic coat finish, as suggested by Denis Lacy. I never though about it. 

 

The suspension on this kit is no joke. Very well detailed.

 

I painted the hocks yellow just to give the chassis some contrast. But everything else is in various shades of silver with metallisers and washes. As I have said before, I want the SILVER FOX to be in pretty much only two colors- Silver and "foxy". This is a cool challenge for me as I love color and it becomes all about shading. 

 

The interior received a custom steering wheel

 

What has greatly effected my building is some of the cool stuff I keep discovering different places that could be used for our hobby. Like some of the Gundam tools and materials. Like their markers. Those are of extremely high quality and extremely helpful. They are actually lacquer paint, have great coverage and dry very fast. The small ones are designed for panel lines and are the thinnest tip I've seen on a lacquer marker. They are finer than the tiniest Sharpie. They also come in a variety of tips. Definitely a game changer.

 

All the detail on my interior is done with Gundam markers. and I love it. 

 

The dash received some decals and and pedals and I'm calling the interior done. 

[catpack68]

Killer work Michael! I like how you incorporated the interior color on the intake. Looking forward to seeing this one finished?

[mrm]

5 hours ago, catpack68 said:

Killer work Michael! I like how you incorporated the interior color on the intake. Looking forward to seeing this one finished?

Thank you Scott.

I am trying to finish it together with some other stuff for the show this coming weekend, so the "under Glass" pictures would wait a little. 

[mrm]

OK, where were we...?

The fire wall got drilled and then the great wire migration began. LOL

 

Willwood master cylinder and some brake lines.

 

The battery received it's cables and some heat protection, currency of my wife's smoking habit. 

 

Everything starting to come together on the firewall. Silver and carbon - win-win.

 

Radiator received some grey wash after been painted bare metal silver.

 

It received an electric fan, braided hoses with some A/N fittings  and carbon of course. Had to make it look used without being overly dirty. 

 

Made me a cold air intake from about five pieces and it continues the carbon theme under the hood.

 

Most of that work disappeared once everything was put together, but I like the uncluttered look. Once the hood is attached you can see even less even when opened. 

 

Let's give a moment of silence to the fallen drill bits who faught bravely against this battle with time, but did not make it. LOL

 

More foxy stuff to come, so stay tuned. 

[mrm]

As I promised  - more foxy stuff...

The kit comes with two complete exhaust systems. One stock and one drag The drag one ends at the end of some muffler looking tips. It has no cats, but no mufflers and does not go past the rear axle. The stock one has cool mufflers and goes all the way back, but it has all the cats and nonsense at the front. So I chopped both and used the front section from the drag option with the rear section of the stock car, connecting the two with brass pins.  Now the SILVER FOX has nice exhaust consisting of Coyote headers going into straight X-pipe/resonator (with the help of some aluminum tubing) to two nice sport mufflers and out the back.

 

While I was under there, I made a new driveshaft from aluminum tubing with the y-joints from the kit's part.

 

I left the rear bumper and everything under it pretty much stock when I was planning my bodywork. I did that on purpose, because I wanted it to have sort of high rear, looking "opened up". I felt like it needed something cool under there. So my mufflers/exhaust tips are going to look like Gatling guns. Because 'Merica! ?

 

And now my chassis is officially complete.

 

The barrels which I drilled out need to get black inside them, but still it looks kicka$$.

 

I wanted the body to be as silver as possible and was planning on fogging up the taillights and keeping them pretty much silver-while. Until I realized they are molded in red. Great effort by Revell on two part taillight lenses in clear red and clear white. Just not that great for my purposes. I could not bare them in red with the clear back up lights, so blacked out they are! You can still see the red and through them if you shine a light. Needs a license plate tho.

 

At the front I needed an emblem. I did not like the blue decal and since I managed keeping the entire headlight assemblies silver, I needed a "silver oval" instead of a blue one. It was sourced from the Model Car Garage photoetched set for Revell's '32 Ford. 

 

I added some grey wash to it to give it a little more contrast. Just what the doctor ordered. I may drop a tiny droplet of 5 min epoxy to create the domed emblem effect. 

 

Now the really scary part -windows. They need masking from inside. Normally I'll put a Tamiya masking film (it's super thin)and trace the edge of the molded lines of the shaded area. And then follow the resulting ridge with an Exacto blade. No such mold line present here to trace. But I could see it. So What I do in cases like this is actually run Tamiya 2mm vinyl masking tape. This stuff is super flexy and curves beautifully. 

 

Then I apply my masking film and trace the edge of the masking strip underneath, which is now very pronounced.

 

The cool thing is that once I trace it with a blade, I can just pul on the masking strip and it lifts up the excess masking film off. Very foxy! LOL

 

At this point I have the windshield wipers, some weathering under and around the car, license plate and a good clean up and polish left to finish it. Oh, a front lip also.

I traced the bottom of the nose on a piece of paper. Folded it in half touching the two rear corners and cut it out away from the traced line, so it is absolutely perfectly symmetrical.

 

The resulting shape was transferred to a thin sheet styrene, primered, followed by matt black and then some gloss black. It is currently drying. If someone is thinking "is it going to be carbon", you would be absolutely right. 

Almost there...

 

Edited October 23, 2024 by mrm
An embarrassing amount of typos.

[mrm]

This baby was finished before the weekend. Some of you maybe say it at the ACME show if you were there. Soon to make its way to the "Under Glass" section. 

[SpeedShift]

22 hours ago, mrm said:

This baby was finished before the weekend. Some of you maybe say it at the ACME show if you were there. Soon to make its way to the "Under Glass" section. 

Turned out great.

BTW:  That Ferrari Grigio Nurburgring silver paint........is that in the Tamiya rattle can line?

Thought it might be a bottle paint for airbrushing...think there is one that was actually for RC cars.

Edited October 28, 2024 by SpeedShift

[Zoom Zoom]

22 hours ago, mrm said:

This baby was finished before the weekend. Some of you maybe say it at the ACME show if you were there. Soon to make its way to the "Under Glass" section. 

I was looking at it w/another builder, he commented how cool it was because it's a radical body but done tastefully with the more understated silver color. Very cool model!

[Mattilacken]

Great work! Got alot of inspiration for my builds when looking at yours! Looking forward to seeing this one done!  

[mrm]

21 hours ago, SpeedShift said:

Turned out great.

BTW:  That Ferrari Grigio Nurburgring silver paint........is that in the Tamiya rattle can line?

Thought it might be a bottle paint for airbrushing...think there is one that was actually for RC cars.

Not that I know of. I used original Ferrari PPG paint. It's Argento Nurburgring. If you tell me where I can get a safe to ship 2oz bottle, I can send you some. 

[mrm]

21 hours ago, Zoom Zoom said:

I was looking at it w/another builder, he commented how cool it was because it's a radical body but done tastefully with the more understated silver color. Very cool model!

Thank you Bob.

I started four Mustangs for the ACME show. This one got started last, but was the first one to get completed. Another one with similar but way over the top body, which was affectionately nicknamed "STICKERS", was the second one to get started and end up not being finished on time. 

[mrm]

11 hours ago, Mattilacken said:

Great work! Got alot of inspiration for my builds when looking at yours! Looking forward to seeing this one done!  

Thank you Anton. 

I just have to find the time to take some pictures. 

[SpeedShift]

3 hours ago, mrm said:

Not that I know of. I used original Ferrari PPG paint. It's Argento Nurburgring. If you tell me where I can get a safe to ship 2oz bottle, I can send you some. 

Thank you for the generous offer Michael, but according to my doctor today - I'm still in a holding pattern for the use of solvent based

paints until day 100 after my bone marrow/stem cell transplant (it really sucks .....guess I'll have to be content playing with builds and cutting plastic).

So, I will probably be doing no airbrushing until after August 1, 2025.

Hate to see the paint just sit on my shelf.

If any of you guys have experience with postal services shipping even small quantities of hobby paint - please advise.

Seems I always get asked about "hazardous or flammable" substances in my package. 

Edited October 29, 2024 by SpeedShift

[BK9300]

Catching up on your build - great detail work on your engine and engine compartment - adds so much!

[mrm]

On 10/29/2024 at 6:36 PM, SpeedShift said:

Thank you for the generous offer Michael, but according to my doctor today - I'm still in a holding pattern for the use of solvent based

paints until day 100 after my bone marrow/stem cell transplant (it really sucks .....guess I'll have to be content playing with builds and cutting plastic).

So, I will probably be doing no airbrushing until after August 1, 2025.

Hate to see the paint just sit on my shelf.

If any of you guys have experience with postal services shipping even small quantities of hobby paint - please advise.

Seems I always get asked about "hazardous or flammable" substances in my package. 

Yayks…! That’s a bummer. Well, I hope you get well faster. There is plenty of fun to be had with cutting plastic. Or you can always buy something like a 1:18 scale “die cast” CMC model of one of their Ferraris and stay entertained exploring it for days on end. 
   Anyway, when you’re ready the offer stands for any of the Ferrari/Lamborghini colors I have on hand. 

[mrm]

23 hours ago, BK9300 said:

Catching up on your build - great detail work on your engine and engine compartment - adds so much!

Thank you.
Honestly once the hood is put on, even when opened, most of that detail is gone.