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Bill's '96 Thunderbird * * F I N I S H E D * *

ij001

ij001

Well-known member
:blush: I know that I've started and failed to finish way too many car projects - if you look around this forum you'll find at least four unfinished projects carelessly discarded, however this time it's different.

Why ? - because I really need (not want) to get back to building (and finishing) a project. Cannot explain why, but I seem to have grown a sense of determination recently. The STAP/Droid that I built with my son, the MiG 23, and now this. Perhaps I'm taking the hobby too seriously, but all I can say is...

...I will finish this time.

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So, that said, the work you see in these photos dates from November 2012... Bought the kit (AMT/Ertl not Monogram) from 'Mikes Decals' and I'm using the decals that came in the box. I really like the 'feel' of the soft plastic that AMT/Ertl used in all their later car kits, I know that compared to Revellogram the detail is a little soft, but they just build so well (IMHO).

Out of the box I sprayed the pale grey plastic with white Tamiya acrylic primer straight from the rattle-can, then polished it back with wet'n dry and a LOT of water until it was glassy smooth.

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Next I sprayed glossy white around the hood, grill and front fenders, then masked it off, next a couple of coats of yellow and again masked.

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Finally a coat of Tamiya matt red followed by three coats of glossy red each rubbed-back after being left to cure for a few days.

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So with all that done I removed the masking and here's what I found:

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And that's where I stopped. The problem of the 'colour bleed' isn't that serious, in truth it's not a problem at all because on this car, the red/white/yellow faded in to each other and weren't a 'hard' demarcation at all. I think I stopped because something else 'bright and shiny' took my eye. So off to the 'Shelf of Forgetfulness' it went until I dug it out this morning.

So the next post you see will be the nose re-masked and resprayed and a little re-touching around the rear valance. The way I'm feeling right now, that may happen as early as this evening !!

Stay tuned.

Ian.
 
Fast Food - Bill Elliotts '96 Thunderbird

Looking very good there Ian ..... If you need any extra parts ..... I have a car stash ..... I even have some of those old AMT/Ertel Winston cup cars ..... as a matter of fact ..... I think I could scare up that very kit ...... :popcorn (y) :eek:ldguy
 
Fast Food - Bill Elliotts '96 Thunderbird

Swordsman said:
Looking very good there Ian ..... If you need any extra parts ..... I have a car stash ..... I even have some of those old AMT/Ertel Winston cup cars ..... as a matter of fact ..... I think I could scare up that very kit ...... :popcorn (y) :eek:ldguy
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Wow that's really generous, and depending upon how this 're-start' project goes, I may well take you up on that, (especially if you have the '95 Dupont Monte Carlo !!).

Thanks for the comments guys, going to be shooting the (hopefully) last light coat of yellow this morning.

Ian.
 
Fast Food - Bill Elliotts '96 Thunderbird

I am in exactly the same boat on the car models! I've got two on the shelf of doom and a third I really want to build, just can never seem to stay interested. :blush:

he's some :zen for you! good luck on the restart!

Skinny Mike
 
Fast Food - Bill Elliotts '96 Thunderbird

I'll just set back and watch with awe.

I wouldn't in a million years be able to pull off a car finish, let alone finish a car. I've been good of late being able to complete what I start, but having to wet sand and wait days between coats would kill me.
 
Fast Food - Bill Elliotts '96 Thunderbird

First job on the re-start this week was to repaint the red body as it was a little too dark for my liking. I used a new bottle of Tamiya glossy red and shot just one 'wet' coat which came out fine. Next I removed the yellow to get the body ready for re-applying the white:

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Here the yellow has been removed with very mild 'pure' enamel thinners just swabbed gently with a Q-Tip - I'm running very low on this fantastic stuff so I hardly ever use it now, because I'm not certain if I can get it here in NZ. I then re-masked where the yellow will meet the red with Blu-Tack (it's a 'soft' demarcation, like most aircraft camouflage). I also masked all the neighbouring body area.

I sprayed the white (two 'wet' coats of Tamiya acrylic, just this morning, and it seems to have come-out fine:

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Thanks for the encouragement chaps, I'm so pleased with the way this is going, that I've broken-open another 'relic' from 1990's NASCAR (see the new thread elsewhere). Next I'll go through the whole re-mask sequence again and spray the same Tamiya enamel yellow again.

Thanks for looking, stay tuned.

Ian.
 
Fast Food - Bill Elliotts '96 Thunderbird

ij001 said:
:blush: I know that I've started and failed to finish way too many car projects - if you look around this forum you'll find at least four unfinished projects carelessly discarded, however this time it's different.

Why ? - because I really need (not want) to get back to building (and finishing) a project. Cannot explain why, but I seem to have grown a sense of determination recently. The STAP/Droid that I built with my son, the MiG 23, and now this. Perhaps I'm taking the hobby too seriously, but all I can say is...

...I will finish this time.

h391d302.jpg


So, that said, the work you see in these photos dates from November 2012... Bought the kit (AMT/Ertl not Monogram) from 'Mikes Decals' and I'm using the decals that came in the box. I really like the 'feel' of the soft plastic that AMT/Ertl used in all their later car kits, I know that compared to Revellogram the detail is a little soft, but they just build so well (IMHO).

Out of the box I sprayed the pale grey plastic with white Tamiya acrylic primer straight from the rattle-can, then polished it back with wet'n dry and a LOT of water until it was glassy smooth.

h90a32bb.jpg


Next I sprayed glossy white around the hood, grill and front fenders, then masked it off, next a couple of coats of yellow and again masked.

h7a3a23d.jpg


Finally a coat of Tamiya matt red followed by three coats of glossy red each rubbed-back after being left to cure for a few days.

hdd3a21b.jpg


So with all that done I removed the masking and here's what I found:

h95130b3.jpg


h7e75d4b.jpg


hf3f4425.jpg


And that's where I stopped. The problem of the 'colour bleed' isn't that serious, in truth it's not a problem at all because on this car, the red/white/yellow faded in to each other and weren't a 'hard' demarcation at all. I think I stopped because something else 'bright and shiny' took my eye. So off to the 'Shelf of Forgetfulness' it went until I dug it out this morning.

So the next post you see will be the nose re-masked and resprayed and a little re-touching around the rear valance. The way I'm feeling right now, that may happen as early as this evening !!

Stay tuned.

Ian.
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Fast Food - Bill Elliotts '96 Thunderbird

Unusually the masking tape left behind a little residue, but other than that...

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I'm fairly pleased with the result.

Ian.
 
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