'82collectoredition

Not that good at making models but I'll get there!

billcarson

very nice! how do you make them and out of what materials?

'82collectoredition

I just bought plastic model kits online and use testors model paint with different brushes and also an air brush. I'm working on a '53 Vette currently. It is a very fun hobbie!! Mabye I should build a different car other than Corvette

doorgunner

"It must be nice owning that my Corvettes!"

Easy Mike

Which kit? Monogram or AMT?

jr9170

ed427vette

Here is a quick pic of some 1/24 scale corvettes in my collection. They are resin kits.

billcarson

very nice hobby and easier than struggling with trailing arms.

JayRay

I feel the same about my 1:1 1977 Corvette

Building Models actually pushed me into trying the full size version.

'82collectoredition

Amt

terry82

I used to enjoy building all kinds of models .fun hobby.i still have a few cars and the invisable v8.

TCracingCA

The Aardvark SS looks great! I am still trying to figure out what color to use to get it as perfect as yours! The two Stingray Racer- I forgot who did that kit (I have one) and it is basically just two styrene half shells, so you have done some scratch building! Cool! The GT-40 looks to be straight out of the Monogram box, but you said Resin??? Thunder Valley or LeMans Minatures maybe? and the Tipo 61 Maserati I think is another rare Aardvark kit!

Just a taste. Thanks for sharing!

TCracingCA

Not necessarily so!! I could have 20-30 hours into building just one car or even more! I can professionally assemble any plastic kit to a high quality in about 5 hours straight no mods or customizing, not counting drying time!

TCracingCA

It can be addictive! Nice start!!!!!!

You will be drilling distributers for plug wires, adding carpeting, and sanding out the rubber tires for a more realistic look in no time!
The coolest is getting a real spray can automotive high end acrylic Laquer primer and getting the authentic colors from the real paint stores!

Some tips
I will get a pair of wire snips and cut the spruce apart by what color I plan to paint a group of parts! I put some alligator clips in the end of sticks to hold the spruces while I spray paint! Then after painting let the parts dry and then carefully cut the dry parts out onto a tray to not lose any! One parts at a time I scrape carefully the gluing surfaces to the bare spruce! Then I glue assemblies, and then do the brush touchup of where the spruce was cut! For assembly, minimal glue! The liquids brush type dangerous for beginners, because it will ruin paint! I use testors liquid with the needle applicator tube! And I use epoxies and super glue for some things! Like when attaching a mirror, I will drill a small hole in the body and one in the mirror and super glue in a piece of rod spruce or wire and then a tiny bit of epoxy on the wire sticking out and superglue on the end of the wire to give the part attachment strength. I use like foils for mirrored surfaces! I use a fabric tape to make belts, pulleys after cutting off phony badly cast ones! I like the Tamiya bottle paints for interior leather/vinyl. and will let a brush coat set up and then texture that with like a dry brush! I will Semigloss spray like chrome parts to give a more realistic finish, but I evolved into the real expensive metalizer paints! For the body I will remove it from the spruce and prep with 600 grit and an xacto blade! I will glue a spruce post on the inside roof and using one of my alligator clips to hold the whole body on a stick , start spraying! The body with primer! I will let prime dry for at least a day and any painted part even longer before handling! ! I will wet sand the primer with a 1200 grit being careful to not take it off the paint on corners or edges! I will dust coat lightly the entire body before making full even stroke paint rubs! I use elmers glue for windshields or carefully with epoxy small dabs! Etccetc etc etc etc etc etc

Rescue Rogers

i"ld like to find a 1/16 kit for the winter. I nice relaxing build. I loved building them as a kid. I had the model T with the electric motor. I loved that thing

oldgto

I haven`t seen any in a while.... but there used to be a garage with tools. It doubles as a plastic display case. (Sorry the car is not a Vette.) If you can`t find the garage, I think the tools are still out there. This is the only model I`ve done since I was a kid....

ramair_bryan

build a C-7 and fix the tail lights................

C3 4ME

When I bought my '79, I remembered that I built a 1:8 scale 78 Corvette model as a kid and dug around in the attic and I found it. I always painted a date in a hidden part of every model I built I found a date of '82 on this one. I've told myself, one day I'm going to take it apart and paint it to match my 1:1 model.

TCracingCA

Thats awesome! I still see garage equipment kits at like model expo, kit collector swaps and shows on occasion! You have a lot of good stuff in that diorama!

billcarson

very nice stuff here and i stand corrected.