Gorgeous cars there Damian. Thanks for sharing.

Looks good Sean.

Done polishing. Have now started foiling.

That's pretty. Is that foil around the windshield?

Jim

Yes, BMF around the windshield.

Looking very nice Jesper, neat foil work!

Cheers, D

Thanks mate. Will have an update soon.

Yes, that polishing looks good! Now the foil, and more foil, and more foil...
-Sean

Got some more chrome work done. Still a lot to go though.

Looking very nice Jesper, I really like the colour combination and the chrome sets it off nicely.

Cheers, D

I like it, Jesper. Big fins & chrome, baby! Ok, so there are no fins on the Hudson, but there's chrome.

Jim

I'm still a ways back, but slugging along. Here's the inside and chassis, ready to go.
Olds inside by windysean, on Flickr
Cheers!
-Sean

Nice looking interior, Sean.

Jim

Yes, this campaign ended almost two months ago. Nonetheless...
I've gotten the body and chassis together, but not without a struggle to keep the windows in, and crunching the wheel skirts in several times by holding it wrong. In this photo, I lost some chrome on the windshield frame during glass assembly...
assemblies by windysean, on Flickr
and it doesn't show well, but cutting out the kit chrome pieces bared some white plastic-- see the hood ornament.

Then, back to basic fitting-and-refitting, I scraped off the body paint on the top of the rear lip, to glue on the rear bumper, then realized it should glue to the vertical face instead, so I sprayed the green into a plastic cap and brushed it back on. Here I've scraped the paint off the correct surface, and ready to glue on the bumper.
assemblies by windysean, on Flickr
I don't normally do car models, but I was impressed with the solid glue points to fit the body to the chassis for this kit. That's always been a conundrum for me. Thanks, Revell!
Cheers!
-Sean

Dispite some difficulties, it's coming together nicely.

Jim

Looking good Sean, great work pushing past those problem spots.

My Caddy build is going backwards. I have stripped off the acrylic paint because I wasn't happy with the finish, now to prime and give it a good rattle-can gloss black coat.

I will post updates as I can.

Cheers, and I hope we all have a great year of modeling for 2017 folks!

D

Looks good Sean.

Slow but steady progress. Not an easy model to foil. Lots of quite deep grooves and panellines to get the chrome in, without ripping it.

Looking good-- you even have the tiny details like the door lock and window framing!

Looking really nice, Jesper. That sure is a lot of chrome!

Jim

Well, I'm finally calling this one done.

http://images44.fotki.com/v1409/photos/9/3756049/14253163/DSC_0185-vi.jpg

http://images40.fotki.com/v992/photos/9/3756049/14253163/DSC_0194-vi.jpg

http://images59.fotki.com/v1640/photos/9/3756049/14253163/DSC_0193-vi.jpg

http://images46.fotki.com/v1637/photos/9/3756049/14253163/DSC_0191-vi.jpg

http://images40.fotki.com/v992/photos/9/3756049/14253163/DSC_0195-vi.jpg

http://images12.fotki.com/v539/photos/9/3756049/14253163/DSC_0189-vi.jpg

http://images34.fotki.com/v1523/photos/9/3756049/14253163/DSC_0188-vi.jpg

Great build Jesper!

Thanks Richard.

Fantastic looking Hudson, Jesper.

Jim

Chrome, how do you do all that chrome? I've got a 57 Chevy Bel Air, with this highlight:
tail feathers
AMT molded in the big chrome features and the smaller ribs in the white area.
I've never done BMF on this scale and have no idea how to do the little ribs. Any suggestions?

My guess du jour is to paint the whole area withe silver or aluminum paint, clear coat it, mask off the big chrome, spray the ivory over the little ribs and then use fine grit 2000-2400, to knock the paint off of the top of the ribs, leaving the 'chrome' behind. Could that work??