You won't know what this is unless you've seen the movie HELLRAISER - entire "box" made of optical crystal. 24kt gilded gold.
This post is a little O/T, but I thought maybe some of you would enjoy hearing a couple fun model car building stories. I saw a really cool model last week on here from StevesGalaxie. It inspired to go open up a few old boxes of my models from years back and look em over again. Between my brother and dad and I, we have at least a dozen big boxes with 3-4 layers in each of just models. We use to go to the Portland Roadster Show at the colliseum, back when there was cool themed displays (crazy lights, smoke machines, mannicans dressed as mechanics or girls on roller skates and burgers, props, and fun details. I dont see that anymore) They use to have a model car contest too. If you entered in the contest, you'd get a free pass to the show for one day. You could enter as many cars as you liked. My brother and I "created" our own class for 'Derby/Demolition Cars' when we made more and more each year. Heres a few pics of a couple. My dad never entered the contest, but one year we convinced him to enter. It took all three of us two trips to the car and back to bring in all his models he had been building since he was a kid in the 50's. He filled three big folding tables of just his enteries and sweeped the competition! The second bunch of pics is a car my dad painted up with mushrooms all over it. it even had a mushroom aircleaner, ha! The car was called "Shroom and zoom". On the back it says "like this aint no apple man!" We always use to laugh at that one. The third bunch of pics, has what I call a Novette. I had a Nova and a corvette model and didnt want to build either of them. I found the body lines were amazingly simular, so it came alive! The last pic is the best. My dad originally built this in '63. It was the Big 'T' model kit. He chromed everything on it, even the block. Made opening doors, channeled it and kicked it up 1/2" front and rear. He made button tuffed interior with black velvet and small "diamonds" and painted the exterior a candy burgandy and called it "The Terrible Grape". I found it in a box a year ago completely apart. The glue didnt like the chrome. I molded the doors back to the body, sanded it all down, painted white walls onto the black tires, popped off the baby moon caps, scalloped it in purple and painted the block the same color. You can see its still not finished, but I hope to enter it in the next Portland Roadster Show!
I dig that T-bucket. Any idea what kit that was based on? Here's a little scupting I've been playing with:
Just more of my practice striping. Picked up the helmet for a buck at a garage sale to practice on. Probably give it to one of the neiborhood kids when I run out of space. When I become famous they can sell it and pay for college. lol
This is not real clear shot, due to the web cam, but here is a guitar I painted for a friend that is building them now. I used HOK Lazuli Blue pearl, Blue Green pearl and Egyptian Gold pearl for a ghost flame effect.....
Here's some practice striping i did on the top of a light..did some other stuff but don't have any pics
Monster, Glad I could be a little inspiration to you. You're work is pretty cool, and the "Terrble Grape" is a fantastic looking model! Yeah, Get that model ready for the Portland show! The rest of my models are online, see the link in my signature.
[ QUOTE ] Gowjob, That build-up is lookin' pretty good , too. Is that a 1/16 Revell kit? [/ QUOTE ] Yeah it is, with running gear from the Minicraft 1/16 Model A p/u I think I'm going to go with ribbed Firestones up front, since the tires I had on it in these photos put the apron within a paper's breadth of the ground. Here's a shot of what I'm doing to the pickup:
From the Fat Hack Funny Pages... <img src=http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/pd7f9a49b6b8f26448ffe4de7b2d97bc0/fafb8a09.jpg>
In this one...Titus is on hand to watch a Deathrod self-destruct at the Lawnchair Nationals! <img src=http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/p5e9dd6432ec885ba4ca31b68bb4cce8c/fafb8a0b.jpg>
Here a Yuppie-Rodder proudly displays his fiberglass kit rod carefully adorned with patina paint, fake bird poop, and airbrushed rust...his dream of being the Barn-Find Hero achieved at long last...after WEEKS of phone calls and credit card purchases! Magazine writers go berzerk as photographers capture their newest feature rod on film! <img src=http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/pc3edfa1a461698ded7fe6c080fa02131/fafb8a0c.jpg> (All in fun, people!!)
...then last night, I had my way with a hunk of floral foam... gonna cover it with gesso(?) and paint it up purty.
[ QUOTE ] ...then last night, I had my way with a hunk of floral foam... gonna cover it with gesso(?) and paint it up purty. [/ QUOTE ] pretty creative.... only used gesso in paintings for gloss effects, and texture creation. let us know how it comes out
Fat Hack you need to publish a comic strip. that is the perfect explanaition of th car scene today. i guess a cartoon can say a thousand words just as well as a picture.
No pics but I've Finally started work on a 1/25th 60 Starliner Custom. Was kinda inspired by what I've seen here. ...I've gotten 8hrs in on the Car so far! Of-course it aint gonna be no Adonis clone, the tailights were a little weak on That one!!!
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