1/8 Golden 'T' "24 hour quickie" (prepping stage)

[The creative explorer]

Small update, most work is quite boring, sanding , sanding and sanding . But things are progressing and I think it is fair to say I can finish up before the 4th, I would've never tought I could build a bigscale in just a few weeks time.

These are all the parts that were goldplated, looks a lot better this way


I laid them on my cleaned out desk and you can see there were a lot of parts plated .


One last comparisation with the old and the new wheel


I glued the firewall to the tub and will smoothen the seem, I also will sand off the bulge on the top part of the tub


The frame will be completely boxed


And I started to detail the carburetor, I think it is one of the better looking ones I've seen in 1/8 scale


Working on the tub


And made a mock-up, just to see the whole picture of the car, so I can let my creative part work on colors and paintjob

[Deuces-wild]

Nice!

[Old Busted Hotness]

Looks a lot better with the gold stripped off. Your new wheel is very nice, too!

[The creative explorer]

Thanks guys,

Yeah, I agree, it does look a lot better without the gold, it was just too much.

[The creative explorer]

Time for the first setback, I have not used spraycans for a very good reason; they are difficult to stick to the plastic. No matter what, there is a fragile line between good or bad.
I swore off the spraycans long time ago, and went onto the airbrush to much satisfaction.

Because of the size, I went for spraycans again. I had them laying around and I thought; why not.
I know now why not, I am not going to explain everything, but let the pictures do the talking

[Old Busted Hotness]

What kind of spray cans did you use? I've never seen that!

[3.Star]

I am puzzeled.

[The creative explorer]

OBH; I used MoTip, the owner of Duplicolor. They are pure automotive paints, but the primer didn't stick on the plastic. And since we don't have that nice plastic- primer from dupli-color over here in Europe, I couldn't use it. The plastic primer we have is just terrible, it leaves an terrible texture.

Yesterday and today I worked hard on getting the car back in primer and giving it's color. I think it turned out pretty well after the first disaster. I chose this time to go for the airbrush and when I looked through my colors, this color appeared to me rather well.
I shot the car in primer and then in Green pearl , but since you all know me; I can't do standard paintjobs. I had an idea, I wanted to do the puzzlepieces again, since I thought they were a nice alternative to the often used checkerboard. But instead of using hard colors, like I did before, I wanted to ghost and make it very subtle, so that you had to look twice to see it. Next to that, I also wanted to do some mild ghost-flames.
After I did the puzzlepieces, I started making the flames and used flat white paint for that, After I was satisfied, I got the green paint back and since it is semi-opaque, I shot a few layers till it basically disappeared. And I was happy with the result.

I used the same style for the front radiator, that I painted in the evening

[Herman]

Same here: rattle cans in itself are quite good, but finding a good primer ...

[The creative explorer]

I've been working hard in the weekend in between my scheduled responsibilities to get all the panelwork in color, I had to do the frame and the bed with latch.
For the frame I had the idea to implement the project name; Granny T. When I was spraying the car, it had the same color and sheen as the Granny Smith apples, therefore Granny T was quickly born haha.

[The creative explorer]

Thanks guys,

Yes, I omited the lanterns, I had no idea why I would want to use them, since they don't look all that good anyway. What I am going to do with the rear light is still unknown, I do like your idea, maybe I will put that in work. But only on one side and not hanging.

I think this will be the last update, most of the parts are now in color and each part is being single bagged.

I also improved the radiator, it looked quite simple and I made a shroud and used some mesh for it.

I started with adding some styreen to the both radiator plates, so it would add strength


Then on the top


I removed the radiatormesh part one side at a time, to keep the measurements correct.


I used styrene strips for strength and length


Both sides have been cut off


In the meanwhile I worked on the rocker-cover


By spraying them in gun-metal, added BMF and filled the slots with red.


Some perseverence needed for glueing the mesh to the radiator


Testfit in the shroud


Backside


And done


The wheels got some paint to match the front wheels


All the parts so far


And the interior tub


Pick up bed is colormatched as well.

[ScaleMotorcars]

Looking good.

[The creative explorer]

Thanks :)

Well... goodbye, I am off to the 24hr build and probably have the endresult tomorrow.

[hot ford coupe]

I'm looking forward to seeing the results. Nice work so far.