Mark,
Thanks for the thumbs up. Like I said, I was amazed that the stripes are that crisp and clean.

Joel

That's superbly done Joel. The white lines look so much better than decals and on the blue is becomes that classic Cobra look.

cheers
Michael

Beautiful work Joel, your approach to applying the white stripes was carefully considered and worked perfectly. The Guardsman Blue is really striking and the stripes set it off nicely.

Looking forward to the overall picture with the clear gloss down.

My desk is a whole mess of parts racks with black primer everywhere!

Cheers, D

That looks absolutely fantastic Joel.

Looking forward to seeing your progress Damian.

My progress isn't as good. Body is stripped, cleaned up and ready for primer.

But, somewhere in all the paint stripping of the prepainted suspension, one of the front coil over shocks has gone missing. I believe it may have gone down the drain when I was moving the strainer at the bottom of the kitchen sink. I'm going to attempt to build a replacement, at least it won't be all that visible behind the tire and with the low clearance between the tire and wheel well.

Oh, and it seems I forgot the music, and in remembrance of Eddie Van Halen (VH was the first concert I ever went to). Eruption would be what would be blaring while driving this.

Michael,

I'm really thrilled that you like the entire look of the white stripes. Agreed that decals usually don't come close to the actual look and feel of paint, but 9 times out of 10 I can't come close to what a talented decal designer can accomplish.

For me, modeling as a whole really took on a whole new meaning when I switched from military aircraft and some armor to race and sports cars. It just became all that much more personal. The White stripe is a perfect example. I've run my fingers over those stripes in real life, and know how the lip was formed and why.

Joel

I'm with you there David, I haven't been this gutted since we lost SRV. Eddie was one of my earliest influences in guitar playing and I still listen to their music almost every day.

An amazing talent, a true innovator on the electric guitar, and a rock legend.

My choice of VH songs for today - Where have all the good times gone? (Diver Down), followed by "Happy Trails" from the same album.

RIP Eddie, have fun jamming with Stevie and Jimi!

Cheers, D

D,
Thanks for your Aussie Thumbs up. As usual, it means a great deal to me.

I'm trying to think more rather then jumping in and regretting it afterwards. So far it's working out for me, but at my age, the thought process doesn't always work to well

Next update will hopefully be the basic shell glossed and waxed, minus the chrome parts, etc.

Some how I don't see you as a messy worker especially considering that you always have multiple builds going on from Aircraft to cars. I'm really curious to see how you balance all of these builds now as you have so many going on.

Joel

I did the jump instead of thinking and the first coat of Frozen White is applied over two coats of 1500 Gray. In hindsight, I should have done the second coat of 1500 as white, the Frozen is still slightly gray after the first coat.

I'm hoping that after the rub out and second coat that is becomes whiter.




The scratchbuilt coilover to replace the one that appears to have gone down the drain.



Primer going on the chassis and interior with my backup airbrush tomorrow. I damaged the fine nozzle on my Krome, ordered the replacement so the Frozen White will have to wait until I get back from my Jeeping trip this weekend and a drive to Florida to see my in-laws the after that. Basically, after tomorrow, no model building for two weeks.

David,
the scratched out coil over shock looks great. I'd even consider building 3 more to replace the kit ones.

As for the Ford Frozen White issue, a white basecoat would certainly require less color coats, but you'll get really close to the chip color with an extra wet color coat as Gunze #1500 is a very light Gray, much lighter then Tamiya Primer Sealer.

Looking at your pictures, the white color stripes on your cutting matt on my (color corrected monitor) aren't really white, but more of a off white shade. I also pulled up a Ford Color Chip of the Frozen White and it's a shade off white of bright white that I used as a comparison. So I'd say that you're very close.

Have a safe trip to Florida and wear your masks. Cya when you get back.

Joel

David, I'm with Joel here mate. Another good shot of the Frozen White should brighten it right up! It's looking very nice so far, and a good save on the coil-over, neat work.

Some progress on the Nomad, we had a Primer Party a few days back.



And tonight I had a play around with an idea for the interior scheme.


Once I mask and spray the rear seat panels, door panels and transmission tunnel, and add some chrome detail for bling, I think this will look nice and retro.

I also shot the engine with Chevy Orange/Red, and the headers in white.

Cheers, D

Thanks guys. That is the plan after a wet sand. I thought about making the rest of the coilovers, but they really won't be visible even from below.

Looking good Damian, love the color combo.

D,
I'd say you had some primer party going on there. Needed not one but two Tamiya paint stands.

Interesting color combination for the interior. I guess a lot depends on how it plays off the exterior color/colors.

Joel

Great work going here.
The Ford GT looks great David but I agree with the wise ones and put on another coat.
Damian, the Nomad is moving along well. The black has done a good job of toning down the red and the interior is very sharp.

I am still fighting the last campaign but hope to be here in a few days

cheers
Michael

Hello all, here's my entry: old but gold Tamiya's Honda NSX. Classic kit, classic OOB build. Planned paint - black metalic.

Bartosz,
Welcome to KitMaker Network and specifically the AutoModeler forum, you're going to really like it here. We're always appreciative that you took the time to join us.

And naturally, thanks for enlisting in our current GB, it's going to be quite a lot of fun. Excellent choice of subject as the Honda NSX is certainly a car worth dreaming about.

Joel

Thank you very much, frankly I am not new here, but yes, this my first campaign bulid. I'll try to keep updates flowing.

Welcome to the Group Build Bartosz and thanks for joining us! I'm looking forward to your progress reports coming through.

Ok folks, I got the word from Jim that we can start to dual-post for this Group Build onto the new BETA forum site. Joel and I have transferred the posts up to this point to the new thread, but I would encourage everybody to start to COPY/PASTE your posts here across as you go.
I know that it will be a bit of a pain for the moment, but having played around on the new site a bit I am finding it very user friendly and easy to navigate, and uploading images is a breeze directly into your post.

https://forums.kitmaker.net/t/dreams-are-free-official-group-build-thread-copy-of-current-gb-on-main-site/329

Please don't hesitate to go and explore and familiarise yourself with the new site, there is already a bit going on there with the Model Shipwrights crew in full swing. I haven't been given a firm date for the complete changeover to the new site, but it is inevitable and essential for the Kitmaker Network to survive and thrive into the future.

Cheers, D

OK, so I’m doing this backwards, original on new sight and copy over to the old site.


So I might have done something wrong. I decided to just prime all of the parts, most of them still on the sprues. I’ve gotta hide that obnoxious yellow and a lot of these parts are going to end up with metalizers or Alclad II top coats. But I managed to use up an entire can of Tamiya White spray primer and didn’t manage to get 2 coats on all of the parts. The body shell was one of the missed parts and you can still see the yellow in the vents. :wave: Now where the hell did Jim hide my waving smiley?

Some assembly time on the Nomad, I have the engine together with some gold hand-painted bling to set some pieces apart from the chrome. I will go over them again to get the finish more consistent.




A quick test fit shows that the engine sits nicely in the chassis rails, and the end of the headers lines up neatly with the front of the mufflers, but there will be some work tidying that area up as the end of the headers is quite a lot smaller than the connection piece to the mufflers.

I am also in two minds whether to carve off the distributor and wire this one up. I found this image amongst my tons of reference files and I like the way they’ve routed the ignition wires through what looks like a set of tubes off the side of the rocker cover.


Cheers, D

Mark,
It really doesn't matter which way you go, as both sites are completely functional. If your post contains pictures, and you've posted on the beta site 1st as you have more options available to you. The old tried and true method of 3rd party host works on both sites. On the Beta site you can upload directly from your computer or the web and click upload, or actually drag & drop. I haven't done it any other way except by my 3rd party host as yet so I don't know how resizing works other then what you upload is what you get.

As for copying and pasting from the old site to the Beta site I didn't need to remove the either of the image coding for the pictures to show up. I haven't tried going from the Beta site to the old site as the pictures have a different code line that I'm assuming needs to be converted back to the old coding 1st. Since you did it that way, did you need to change the coding?

Hard to believe that you went through an entire can of white primer and the body shell still didn't fully cover. I would have gone the old tried and true way and hit it with gray primer 1st as a base, then the less opaque white primer. For any parts that will be air brushed with Metallizers, the base coat from Gray to Gloss Black depends on the actual Metallizer, so you didn't need to prime them white.

Joel

D,
The Chevy V8 is really looking quite good. The Gold does a great job of highlighting and adding that extra interest. A Tamiya Black panel wash will really add all that much more to make those parts part.

I always vote to do the basic ignition wiring on an engine. As for the wire route it's either over or under the headers, and since GM engines nearly always have the distributor at the back end of the engine, the up and over is the best way to accomplish that. What's really interesting to me is that the plugs are straight into the cylinder heads, but at a angle facing forward. That does allow a nice loop around 180 degrees back towards the distributor.

Joel

Joel, It's the same photo in both posts. But the link to the picture didn't make the jump from new to old. Only the text from the link came through, I just uploaded the pic to Imgur and then pasted that link into the post. Same problem with the "wave' emoji it just came across as :wave.

Mark,
That figures as the code for the photograph in the Beta is totally different. What I did was to delete the prefix before the HTTP and everything after the .jpg, then add the [] & [] in their places.

Joel

Now that I found that I don't have to go online to crop and resize pictures, Kitmaker's requirements are a bit of a PITA. Especially for the campaign galleries. Shoot, upload, edit, save, download to local drive, upload to gallery