Just to me, firewall body color. You’re on your own with the top /boot lol.
You gonna take another crack at the lacquer you shot the first time ?
Coming along nicely Mike. Looking forward to the repainting efforts.
Thanks oldermodelguy and Joe!
I have decided to use Tamiya TS-53 Deep Metallic Blue which is close in color and shade to the Dupli-Color Stellar Blue Pearl. The Dupli-Color paint seems to be too hot chemically.
That’s going to be a good looking color on that car.
Great choice !
Thanks Joe and oldermodelguy! I had forgotten that I had this paint in my paint drawer. I should take an inventory of what I have in there. As you get older…the memory of…what was I talking about? [:D]
I took a piece of wide masking tape and masked off the grille so I could paint the grille surface flat black. When I removed the tape, I was left with bleed-through and tape residue on the chrome. Now to figure out how to remove the bleed-through and the tape residue. The seats have been painted. I sanded the body, but the side panels need to be repainted since they fell victim to my dropping my small bottle of paint thinner for brush cleaning.
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I used to spray my grills with a really cut back #2 or 2.5 tip and needle so fine a spray you caouldn’t really see the mist but if I got in to about a 1/4 inch of the surface paint started to collect. I moved to a brush thoughand just hand paint those items these days. especially for washes where you want the chrome bars showing. That A I’d probably do with the #2 and lacquer. I say that and then probably would grab the hand brush anyway lol ( getting fickle in my 70’s here, or daffy !) What I do is vasoline the chrome, just a fine film that wipes right off with tissues and 50% mix of alcohol.
Thanks for the tips oldermodelguy! I took a piece of wide masking tape and burnished it down and sprayed my flat black paint for a uniform covering. Apparently, my burnishing was not good enough and I had some bleed-through. The bleed-through doesn’t bother me as much as the tape residue and I don’t want to damage the chrome plating when I try to remove the residue.
Thats going to be a fantastic looking car when you are done. Cant wait ti see it finished.
Thank you lurch! This Lowboy should look great when it is done!
I went and added the headers to the engine and realized that the ignition wiring was going to interfer with the headers. I removed the wiring from the engine block, added the headers and then reinstalled the ignition wiring. I did have to redrill some of the spark plug holes and the rewiring with a pair of tweezers and a magnifier was a lot of fun…NOT!
Looks great to me.
Thanks lurch!
I think that the wiring looks great. Nice color.
Thanks JohnnyK!
Another two coats of paint and soon the '29 Lowboy will be ready for final assembly! It appears that my flash highlighted the door lines of the model.
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Another two coats of Tamiya TS-53 Deep Metallic Blue. The flash seems to have highlighted the door lines.
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Apparently, I didn’t sand the old paint enough and my glossy wet paint dried into a semigloss finish. The more I look at this, the more I like it! It seems to fit the theme I have for this rod. I added two radiator support rods made from some wire I had in the drawer. The tough part was getting the bends out of the wire.
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Damn Mike! Your stuff gets better and better!
Thanks John! The more I think about this model, the more I am finding things that seems to be off. The engine doesn’t sit straight and I may take this model partially apart to correct some things.