Revell 1934 1/16 rolls royce

[Gwyn]

Love the paintwork, that is a great colour. I look forward to seeing the completed masterpiece. 

[Marc Stock]

What colour is that ken?

[Guest]

Loving the colors and details. Curious about that double ignition!!

[Guest]

Lovely and bold colour! Love it

[Guest]

Thanks, it's squeeze green and candy  emerald green. The main green it the colour of my car a Ford fiesta, I was going to do it a pearlescent red but thought the green would go great with the gold when I saw steve5's soliel royal.

[Ian M]

I have merged the two threads under the original title and got them into the right place to boot!


great work and liking the custom paint job.

[Snowman]

Outrageous colouring, I like it! :x


Mega bling!! B|

[Guest]

Thanks Ian, very good of you

[Guest]

Hi all done the seats now, I quite like the used leather look, I've tried not to go too far, I want it to look cared for.

[Guest]

Hi all I was asked by a few people how I did the leather so incase anyone is interested here's how I did it.


First I primed it 





Then a very watered down coat of yellow ocher (I only used vallejo as I didn't have any yellow ocher in enamel, but enamel should work too)





Once that's dry a very thin coat of humbroll 62 





Then a normal coat of humbroll 63 then whilst it's still wet, scrunch up some clingfilm film and dab it on the paint till you get the desired effect.





Then a coat of satin varnish





If I wanted to take it further I could scratch the paint then rub some buff coloured pastel into the scratch, brush it off then varnish it again.








I could go on and pluck holes in it put oil stains and all sorts


It's dead easy .

[papa 695]

Nice work Ken and thanks for showing us how you do the seats.

[Guest]

This is looking great Ken.


I really like the effect of leather on the seats .

[Guest]

Nice work on the engine detailing. It's taking shape well

[Guest]

Oh well I've got another problem, we're baby sitting our daughters puppy (I can't be angry he's such a sweetie) being as how I've not had a dog for 20 odd years and my missus not  had one for even longer, we're a bit out of practise, the dog is tiny it's a sausage dog he's 16 inches long so imagine my surprise that he can get parts off a 30 inch high table. The fuel cap is missing a few other bits are chewed (not too bad they can't be fixed) ( some of the ship parts I don't want to think about (gulp the Soliel may end up shelved) I made a concerted effort to stick to just this build to try and get my confidence back and although I can't get a good gold effect on it so far, I'm pleased with how it's going, I may end up just spraying the gold with gold paint or doing it high gloss black, it's funny I would be so cross if a human had damaged these kits but I melt when I look at frankie, I do love dogs, I look at this tiny animal and I just can't understand how some people can hurt innocent little creatures, I look at him and my heart melts

[Guest]

Hi all here's another update