Some projects on my bench

[cozwurth]

I painted this one a few weeks ago, but went about it a little backwards. Painted first, then modified. The blue is DecoArt Ice Blue metallic acrylic, similar to Createx or Wicked I think, with a lacquer clear. The chassis is a Dash Blizzard with Jag DK-4 wheels and tires so I could tuck them up in the body.
Original AW stance looks like an off-road recovery vehicle. Fronts down, rear ig getting there.

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[cozwurth]

Now the rear is where I want it. Can't get much, if any, lower without trimming the rear deck. Glass is trimmed front and rear, and the bumpers got a coat of Molotow chrome.

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[ecbill]

Dec 17, 2023 7:09:30 GMT -7 cozwurth said:

I painted this one a few weeks ago, but went about it a little backwards. Painted first, then modified. The blue is DecoArt Ice Blue metallic acrylic, similar to Createx or Wicked I think, with a lacquer clear. The chassis is a Dash Blizzard with Jag DK-4 wheels and tires so I could tuck them up in the body.
Original AW stance looks like an off-road recovery vehicle. Fronts down, rear ig getting there.

Nice blue paint.  Stance looks much better in last shot.

[cozwurth]

I'm working on the next Nova now. I like to have pairs of similar cars.

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[cozwurth]

This is the Henry J that I'm trying to get running right. As far as body mods go, I've just trimmed the rear post flush with the tub, and clearanced the rear wells for the AFX sized tires. I have ideas for paint color and lettering. I may see if I can raise the nose a bit for more of a gasser look.

[cozwurth]

Henry J is out of paint jail finally. It turned out OK for a basic scuff and shoot.

I was torn on what to do with the decals. My choice was to print on white decal paper and have a border and background with crisper colors, or print on clear and have a little bleed through. I don't trust my printer to hit the exact same spot if I run the paper through again, especially on something this small.

[cozwurth]

Now, has anyone seen a cherry picker around here? I need to get the engine in this thing. No? Well, I guess I can use this tree branch...

My oldest daughter and I worked on the decal. We both dug through pictures of Henry J gassers online and never saw one with this name. I remembered the "Keep On Truckin" guy, and downloaded some groovy hippie 60's fonts and fiddled around until we had this one. The mini version on the car had to lose the shadow behind the text. The software I was using didn't scale that very well, so it had to go.

Now I just need to make this thing go. I've put some break-in time on the chassis and it's moving fast enough now that I'm not afraid it's going to fall down on the straights. Still a long way to go. I think I'm going to change the arm out, but that's for another thread.

[cozwurth]

Another little side project. This poor Mako and a Ford GT came to me directly from the Tammy Faye School of Cosmetics. They were rough, to put it mildly. The Mako cleaned up nicely, but the GT? Well, I think they were going for some extra credit in prep work. She's still soaking in the stripper. Back to the Mako. Screw posts and wheel wells are intact, but the glass was a wreck, one A pillar missing and the other broken. I was able to wet sand and buff the glass to some semblance of clarity, but I don't have a hunk of butternut yellow styrene to make a batch of goop for the A pillars. Removed what was left of the one pillar and carefully masked and painted the edges of the glass to look like pillars to hold me over until I get the material for goop. It will live to run laps again, most likely on a Tuff Ones or similar chassis.

[crazynski]

Looks good, Dave.

[cozwurth]

I've been exploring around the site a bit, and was reading Skillets thread until my phone kinda stopped letting me scroll through. I'll definitely be looking more at the custom work there. I have done a little "goop" work on a couple of Vegas to get rid of AW's goofy scoop. I wanted some factory looking hoods since I was building a couple of cars that I've owned in the past. On one I used a portion of a 63 Corvette hood that I cut out of a wreck, and the other I used a hood from a 64 Corvette. Cutting, trimming, filing, sanding, filling, and more sanding. I knew they were going to be painted, so I didn't worry about color match. The notch in the hood section was to locate it on the front post while I was fitting the other 3 sides.

[cozwurth]

After they were fitted, goop was used as a body filler to finish closing gaps and get things smoothed out. Sanding primer finished up the small stuff.

[cozwurth]

And the finished products with Vincent wheels and even tiny license plates that match what I had on the cars back then. The Orange is a 74 GT that was my first car. The black is a 75 Cosworth Vega. The CV usually has gold wheels, but mine were bead blasted and I never got around to painting them.

[ecbill]

Dec 23, 2023 8:06:42 GMT -7 cozwurth said:

Now, has anyone seen a cherry picker around here? I need to get the engine in this thing. No? Well, I guess I can use this tree branch...

My oldest daughter and I worked on the decal. We both dug through pictures of Henry J gassers online and never saw one with this name. I remembered the "Keep On Truckin" guy, and downloaded some groovy hippie 60's fonts and fiddled around until we had this one. The mini version on the car had to lose the shadow behind the text. The software I was using didn't scale that very well, so it had to go.

Now I just need to make this thing go. I've put some break-in time on the chassis and it's moving fast enough now that I'm not afraid it's going to fall down on the straights. Still a long way to go. I think I'm going to change the arm out, but that's for another thread.

Liking then Henry.  Was alway fond of the keep on truckin Guy.

[ecbill]

Dec 23, 2023 18:26:08 GMT -7 cozwurth said:

And the finished products with Vincent wheels and even tiny license plates that match what I had on the cars back then. The Orange is a 74 GT that was my first car. The black is a 75 Cosworth Vega. The CV usually has gold wheels, but mine were bead blasted and I never got around to painting

Excellent work on the Vega.  Enjoyed seeing the step by step process.

[skillet]

Nice you got it going on in here