Well, I know that I’ve been “hanging out in the garage” [whstl] (as wbill so appropriately put it!) lately, but I haven’t forgotten my Armor roots! [:O]
Since most of you would never usually go into the Auto’s forums, I just wanted to let y’all and some of the new guys here know that I have a new weathering tutorial up which can easily be applied to Armor, as I’m working with flat paints on a wreck of a 1963 Impala that Jenn and I found next to an old, closed-down quarter-mile dirt track that I used to go to.
There’s not only the hair spray technique covered, but also the use of oils and MIG pigments, as well as a radical, “cracked paint” effect that I discovered quite by accident. Check out the results—here’s the link to the “Auto’s” posting.
great job Karl. i always look forward to your tutorials. I have used several of your techniques. Now for a question, did happen to look for the owner of the Impala and ask if it was for sale? It would make a very nice restoration project.
They;re the two 71 Road Runners that I just finished. [:)] You know, my uncle calls cars “Shinys”–I didn’t think that anyone else used that term, until I heard you use it! lol!
And thanks, Anthony and modelbuilder. By the way, I didn’t find the owner of the Impala–the engine was removed, of course, ad the weirdest thing was that it had a '64 interior in a '63 body! If you read through my tutorial, you’ll see the problems that caused me in building this car accurately! [:O]
Restoring it would be a real project–you’d have to find an entirely nee interior!
Thanks, Spruce-ce, Bill, modelbuilder, and Mikey. [;)]
Mikey, I don’t have the skills to even replace the CD player. I’m completely “car-stupid”, and wouldn’t even know where to start with that Impala. Besides, I’m fairly certain that someone close by owns it. It was near an old truck too, in a field next to some houses.
In fact, the urban sprawl there is what shut down the race track where it was. Noise complaints from new residents–who moved next to a race track! [bnghead]
Yup I went to Buffcon, didn’t enter anything though. It was the same as last year… However I did make it down for my first AMPS and man was that a blast!!