Phantom Delivery

You may have spotted the beginnings of my '86 Monte Carlo Delivery in Pauls pics from the last meeting.
Well i've progressed to filler and a test coat of primer.
Still a long way to go but here's where i'm at.

Following a chat with Bryce paint (a while off yet) will be mid green with wood panelling.
Engine will be the injected SBC from the kit and I haven't decided on wheels or stance yet (slammed? Jacked up in the back? Stock for the factory look?).

Now thats out of the box, far, far, far, out of the box, gonna keep an eye on this

Not too far Unforgiven.
The box was just on the shelf next to the bench

As soon as I opened this the squared off lines said "easy wagon or delivery conversion".

Looking good............green, greeeen is nice!!!

Green and slammed dude! The most important thing is it's nearly a van! Woohoo!

Go the Family Truckster!

Actually it screams a two tone paint job, bright green on top with satin black on the bottom and a bright purple or brushed aluminium to seperate them, slammed on 20's with side exiting pipes just before the wheels..... Just my opinion.

Oh for a kit of the Family Truckster!

Ready for paint on the body.
That's a base coat of white enamel. Its not going to be green anymore and its not getting woodgrain.

its not getting woodgrain.

what about metallic purple

Nice project.
Adam

Wow man that looks killer, glad you decided against the wood grain,

Cool buddy - also glad you decided against the grain. Nice work so far.

Here's a tip for you all.
Don't polish white paint whilst sitting watching the TV.
Artificial light won't show up where you've polished through to the primer. Daylight will...

OK. Speaking of vans. I've got 3 colours on this now.
A quick polish and then it's on with the fine line tape followed by the last colour.
Pics when that's done.

This is "straight from the gun" with the tape ripped off.
Ice Blue Pearl & True Blue Pearl over Pontiac Engine Blue Metallic & White Pearl. Panels on sides are Creation Blue.

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeee, thought I wasnt watching didnt ya, lol

WOW - I'm speechless...(and that doesn't happen very often)

Nice paint job mate:D

Thanks folks.
There's still time for me to stuff it up as it needs polishing, a few bleed unders removing, one or 2 decals and clear.

And stuff it up I did.
I fogged on silver car paint forgetting everything else was enamel.
Oops

So following sanding back (far too much filler to strip it), repriming, sanding, priming, sanding, undercoating, sanding, spraying, cursing (the decanted paint kept separating into blue with white blobs), touching up, polishing, decaling, clearing & polishing here is paint job #2.
Not as fancy as #1 but much better executed and more what you'd be likely to see at a car show concept vehicle (which is what I was thinking).
Colour is Ford Deep Aqua under Acrylic clear with TPB ultraviolet bling powder.
Decals are from the Revell kit plus a few home made

Now comes detail painting, lights etc & assembly. Still plenty of opportunity to stuff up again...

Yeah, not sure about the piece of tape on the side Fred Doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the build
Looking good mate, now finish the bloody thing.