After a short break, from building cars, I have started a new car project. This one is Revell's 1971 Hemi Cuda. An hour ago I painted the body, in Dupli color's "purple with metalic effect" Looks like plum crazy to me





All questions comments welcome.

Nice purple! Any stripes to ba added?

I will add the big black Hemi decals. The ones which fills most of the back fender and part of the door.

Yep Jesper, sure looks like Plum Crazy to me. Really great match! You picked a good Cuda year there, much better than the old 60's version to me! Best of luck with the build and keep us posted!

Yes Sir, plum loco! Haha nice color, even the battery is body match.

Color looks good Jesper, i think everyone loves the Hemi cuda one of the a very coolest muscle cars produced.

I just got the '70 AAR Cuda and a can of Plum Crazy Metallic for my next project.

Thanks guy's
Got a little work done last night. Enamels, acryllics and a little oil to shade the exaust system.

Great work Jesper, i like the matching of the floor pan color to the body and the shading on the exhaust looks very realistic.

Thanks Robert.
The shading with oil' s is something I usually use, when painting figures, but can be used for various car parts as well. A very easy technique.

Hope to have an update soon.

That's something I've never tried{oils} but would like to...got any tips sir?!

I'll take a few pics, to help me explain Will be ready with my next update.

No rush sir...decal making and oils have always seems to elude me...I hope to rectify that someday...actually I'm retrying the decals thing recently with decent sucess...

I've never tried oils yet either. For washes and shades I only know enamel.
Your system looks good.

After a far to long break, I have an update on my Cuda project.
The engine is almost done. Only need to attach the wiring.
I have added BMF and finished the enterior.

Regarding the use of oil's on the muflers:
For starters I painted the mufler in an aluminium enamel.
I then use a fine tip brush and black oil paint. I add a very small amount of oil, where I want the shading to start. Just a small fine line. I then use a small flat brush and drag the oil paint towards the center of the mufler, just a few mm. I quite frequently wipe off acces oil, from the brush, on a piece of cloth.
At this point the shading will most likely be to far from the edge and not fadding enough. I then drag the paint away, from the center, back again towards where the shading starts. Again I frequently wipe of acces paint, from the brush. I drag the paint back and forth again and again, wipping of acces paint until I have the desired look.
It is quite easy and you have forever to work with the paint. It will be workable for days. If it doesn't look good, it is quite easy to remove the oil paint again.
A small amount of oil goes a long way, so the initial line should be very thin.
Hope this makes sense. If not I will try to make a drawing to explain better.

Nice to see you working on her again Jesper. Looking great. The BMF looks outstanding! I can never get it to look that good.

Hermon

Nice to see this one back!

-YL

Looking good and thanks for the "oils" heads up.
Question...are those supposed to be the ever popular mopar "thermo quad" carbs? If so they have a black resinish base to combat the thermo/heat effect from under the hood..they're also a p.i.t.a. to tune too!!!{big and lil butterflies - to save gas, right!} I suspect that the ones you have are supposed to be the carter equivalent{if memory serves correctly - and it's been a while!} so they'd be fine as they sit. The carter carbs run 4 equal sized butterflies on mopars...chevy got the odd big and lil's on theirs but no resin base.

Thanks guy's.

I do belive the carbs are the Carter equivalent.

did more work on her yesterday. Will post pics later, this week.

Hi guy's

I have finished the front and back section. The windows and interior are in place.




The wheels are finished as well. Brush painted with acrylics and enamels.


Should be finished by the end of easter.

She's lookin good! Can't wait to see her all done....I finally buttoned up my ferrari, well, one of them.

She's looking mighty sweet, Jesper. Nice work on painting those Mopar Rallye wheels!

-YL

Don't think your going to make it by Easter Thats looking very good so far though

He did say, "by Easter", but not the year

Erikssson