1/24 diecast Chevy Nomad.

[minitnkr]

Don't care for black rims myself, but burnt orange sounds good. I like cream or white for roof.

[Andy T]

Don't care for black rims myself, but burnt orange sounds good. I like cream or white for roof.

Hmm, orange, white & chrome

You're tempting me.

[minitnkr]

This guy went for 265cu.in. V8 (little Vs under tail lights) & full trim option package--bumperettes, eyebrow/fender/door chrome, rocker panel trim, sun visor, etc. Photos for reference only.

[Andy T]

That's beautiful!

Maybe a bit "classic" for what I'm going for but I'd feel like a king driving that for real.

[minitnkr]

I was attempting to show you what the "deluxe" option rocker panel & eyebrow/fender/door trim looked like originally in case you were unaware. This was back in the day when the option sheet was two pages single spaced.

[Andy T]

I've finally decided on black for the roof so that got slapped on today. I had some left over from a maclaren I painted a while ago so used that. The very fine gold sparkle is a bit more prominent at this scale, but it's hard to see for the dust!

[Andy T]

The roof was masked off and I gave the body a coat of Halfords red oxide primer



Then a few coats of Peugeot Orange Power followed by clearcoat. I was doing this at work between other stuff so the weapons were a bit OTT! Iwata LPH80 for the colour, Iwata W300WB for the clear. Both are 1.2mm nozzles so I needed to feather the trigger a lot :smiling5:



Back home and sat in the sun, sparkling and curing

[minitnkr]

Very nice choice of orange well applied.

[Jim R]

Great choice of colours. You've got a nice sparkle.

[Andy T]

Thank you both.

As I mentioned earlier I'm not happy with the fit, panel gaps etc, but it's good practice for the next (plastic) one I suppose :smiling3:

[JR]

Looks pretty good Andy. Those colours are perfect.

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Dont know how I missed this build Andy. Just been through it. A very interesting and unusual project. I think you have done well especially with the modifications. Looking forward to seeing the end result.

[Andy T]

Thanks gentlemen.

I'm still faffing about with this until I decide what kit to build next, so I painted & fitted the anchors, making some larger callipers for the front



I'm also smoothing out the overriders and licence plate mounts in the bumpers, trying to get all of the chrome parts ready to paint at the same time.

[scottie3158]

Andy, the paint looks superb.

[Stefee]

Looking the business now - how about some neon lights under the sills and functioning air suspension?