Model remodel

[special-K]

Ok,I was wondering if you had a trick to do them. That's one thing I hate about the newer issues of the 60s-70s vehicles. They don't give whitewalls anymore. Ok,so they went out of style in later years,but not in these years. If you want to build a "stock" truck,the wheelcovers only look good with narrow whitewalls,IMO.That's how you always saw them...blackwalls with hubcaps and whitewalls with wheelcovers. Sure,you saw people put whitewalls with hubcaps,like your truck,but I never liked the wheelcovers with blackwalls and don't recall hardy ever seeing it back in the day. I bought some truck kit parts lots just to get some whitewalls. With a he effort to build detail into my kits over the years...and hating it when friends would slap them together without a drop of paint...now I have the idea to build a promo in a factory color they never issued. That would be totally custom! Sure,anyone could do it,but have you ever seen it? I like things to be custom,yet not look that way. Like something that "coulda" but "wasn't". I have one of the dumb '72 Cheyenne "Rides" kits with the dippy wheels I want to do that with. I'm thinking medium olive poly.I have an old qt. that may still be good

[Revoh]

Originally Posted by special-K

I have the idea to build a promo in a factory color they never issued. That would be totally custom! Sure,anyone could do it,but have you ever seen it?

My dad actually has a red '71 or so Chevy truck promo that he painted the white section in to make it two-toned back when it was new. You'd never know it didn't come that way unless you knew.

I've tried that on a couple of pace cars. I had a '55 Chevy coupe with a broken top, so I made a pace car out of it.



I also thought it would be neat to have n '82 Camaro pace car promo, which they also never made, so I just masked off the blue strip and gave it a quick, promo-quality shot of silver.



I'm not really very good at this stuff, but I like messing with it.