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Post by acres on Aug 8, 2020 11:54:43 GMT -5
Ok the more projects there is the better or... Bought this Caddy maybe 10years ago, an old Jo-han kit, my idea is a low scrapin´ cruiser with some nice paint on it, started with shaving the handels emblems aso.   And then the paint, started with a real sparkling silver metallic as a base and then airbrushed a lime gold metallic, the idea from the beginning flake on the roof but the base i used is quite sparkling as is and maybe the car would look too much lowrider with flake. The lime gold was a nightmare to spray, for me atleast, it was impossible not to get it mottled?? is that the word ? in sweden we say flammig. An ofcourse a f***in fly had to land on the left fender, but at the 3 attempt we call it ok  Also done some work on the interior, gonna put some Bare metal on here and there.  |
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Post by froghawk on Aug 8, 2020 12:07:15 GMT -5
Nice. I like the lime gold.
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Post by FordRodnKustom on Aug 8, 2020 12:41:40 GMT -5
 Low and sleek! I dig that color combo, that silver 'flake roof really sets off the lime gold.
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Post by chepp on Aug 8, 2020 16:50:01 GMT -5
That's looking good. This is a car that the stock hubcaps look custom.
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Post by acres on Aug 8, 2020 17:22:27 GMT -5
That's looking good. This is a car that the stock hubcaps look custom. I totally agree with that, i´m gonna go with the original caps. My second choise would be Chrome reverse but these caps looks so nice |
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Post by spex84 on Aug 8, 2020 21:32:46 GMT -5
Ditto the previous comments!
Love that lime gold n' silver 2-tone; all it needs is to sit super-low and boom, it's a killer custom.
Looking forward to seeing this car with the chrome bits on!
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Post by RodBurNeR on Aug 9, 2020 4:20:01 GMT -5
yes! gonna be bitchin'!
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Post by cturner on Aug 9, 2020 20:08:15 GMT -5
The ONLY wheels (or covers) in my humble opinion that MIGHT look better re Sabres...that's all Imma gonna say
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Post by EchoBravoSierra on Aug 11, 2020 11:58:36 GMT -5
Love it so far.
I bought one of these cleanly built with no paint several years ago, and it's waiting its turn to be disassembled and rebuilt. The one in my head is wearing a Lee Pratt Impala suit- black with a purple roof and wires. We'll see if mine ever happens.
Can't wait to see yours done!
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Post by draggon on Aug 11, 2020 20:26:31 GMT -5
Beautiful, love those colors!
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Post by constructionbob on Aug 12, 2020 5:38:16 GMT -5
Love that colour! Keep on.. =)
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Post by skip on Aug 12, 2020 8:04:19 GMT -5
Love them colors! Maybe even as our British influenced folks would say,, "I adore the colour pallet you have chosen..." LoL!!!
Sidebar memory from when I was a kid...
Our local hobby shop was across the bay from us, so we had to take a half hour walk to make a 15 minute ferry ride 10 cents each way, and another 10 minute walk from the ferry to get to a well stocked hobby shop. I mention the "commute" because with the trek to the hobby shop we always made sure to pick the choicest of the new models on the shelf.
Cutting to the chase, this one guy chose the Johan (brand new then) 1964 Cadillac Coupe De Ville! The rest of us were adamantly not going to waste our trip the the hobby shop on some regular old Dad Cruiser. I think I got either the Little Deuce or T or something equally as cool on that trip the other guys kits were on the same coolness level as well.
We didn't even wait to get home to rip into the boxes, expertly breaking the two cello-tape seals without ripping or wrinkling the tape! (Something every kid I knew was well versed in. After all, you had to see what was in a kit before you bought it. Discretely of course lest you get kicked out of the store!!) As soon as we are seated on the little ferry boat's wooden benches each of us is checking out every cool part in the kit, some even starting to glue stuff together. Well that is all except Mr. 1964 Cadillac Coupe De Ville, he vehemently refused to open the Caddy until he has safely arrived home! he might lose a part or something... Mind you that our communal building location was either one of two places.
Primary build site in my parents front yard under a cascara tree on card tables and lawn chairs. This was a good location unless the cascara berries were ripe, worse yet when fermented! Cascara berries and bark are a major ingredient in laxative! The birds seemed to love the berries too!! There's nothing like the sight of a drunken robin bearing down on a strafing run, ready to paint the world purple!
Secondary choice was another neighbor kid's unfinished basement, a dugout with maybe two 60 watt bulbs. This accounted for a good many glue bombs from our "modeling club" as you could hardly see where you were gluing even in the available good light! Worse yet, if you dropped a part there was little hope of finding it unless it was either white or chrome...
On this occasion due to a bumper crop of cascara berries, we were banished to the unfinished basement. As soon as Mr. 1964 Cadillac Coupe De Ville in-expertly rips into the box parts are flying everywhere. We spent like twenty minutes or more of good modeling time sifting through dirt and looking under card tables and lawn chairs for the Caddy's steering wheel with out success. Poor kid was like devastated a 1964 Cadillac Coupe De Ville without a steering wheel, who ever heard of such a thing!
Now the great thing about modeling with other builders is that you have the ability to trade or buy parts from those with a surplus. So it was in the case of the Johan 1964 Cadillac Coupe De Ville. No one was ever really sure of the replacement part's true kit origin, it was round, looked like a steering wheel and it was all chrome! With the full black on black brush paint job, that chrome steering wheel stood out like a neon sign on main street at midnight!
So if you ever see a black brush painted, built Johan 1964 Cadillac Coupe De Ville for sale on eBay,,, Well now you know the rest of its story!
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Post by acres on Aug 13, 2020 13:32:27 GMT -5
Thanks for all the nice comments!!!
And extra thanks to Skip for such a nice story. remember myself ripping the plastic seal off, eager too look inside the box for some kool stuff
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Post by dodgefever on Aug 14, 2020 18:13:24 GMT -5
Good start, I like the lime gold. Love them colors! Maybe even as our British influenced folks would say,, "I adore the colour pallet you have chosen..." LoL!!! You've been watching too much Downton Abbey old boy,  |
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Post by skip on Aug 15, 2020 9:06:45 GMT -5
Good start, I like the lime gold. Love them colors! Maybe even as our British influenced folks would say,, "I adore the colour pallet you have chosen..." LoL!!! You've been watching too much Downton Abbey old boy, Nope, I’m the owner of a ‘71 Mk III Morris Mini Cooper S, I’m used to seeing like, anti-clockwise, and instructions that reassembly is the reverse of disassembly!! They have some pretty “Colourful Idioms!!” LoL!! Said Cooper is for sale BTW! |
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Low and sleek! I dig that color combo, that silver 'flake roof really sets off the lime gold.
