Beep Beep - 1968 Plymouth Road Runner

Finished this one too.

that's one top build.

Very nice ,low and fast .What kind of paint on the rims ?,really looks like aluminum.

Torgny

Thanks guys.
Paint on the rims is Mr Metal Metaliser (chrome on the lip and a mix on the rest of the wheel) under a coat of brush on acrylic clear gloss. Centres are then done in Testors Model Master Chrome Silver.
i brush the metalisers on over primer coated with clear lacquer.

Bugger, that's another one I've got to get back into, thanks Fred Nice job mate.

Straight outta the 70's man...................

Finished already...? You certainly are the Roadrunner on here...meep meep. Great work!

Thanks folks.

Paul - when I was growing up this was THE look to go for with street cars - Jacked up at the back and slot mags.
Bryce - sorry, i'll go slower next time

I love it. It look like it's straight out of the early eighty's with the jacked up as#

very nice

Looks great Fred. I'll have to show my Dad next time he comes over. He had this exact runner in the 70's, same colour, same wheels.

Ta folks.

Clutch - spooky!

What you all can't see in the pics is that the clear has crazed on the roof and in a few other places. It's odd, it seems to have crazed underneath as you can't feel it but can see it if you angle it to the light at just the right (wrong!) angle.
It's acrylic paint with acrylic clear so I put it down to either the polish (meguiers scratch x 2.0) I polished the paint with reacting with the first coats of clear or a problem due to leaving the first clear coats for too long before doing more (compressor playing up).

If ya cleared over polished paint, that'll cause all kinds of problems.

Model looks great regardless and the crazing probably adds to the look of a well used muscle car anyhow.

Love it Zen. I wouldn't change anything about it. those rims set it apart.

Thanks Shoey.

Carps - i've cleared over polished paint before and it's never been a problem. I'm carefull to use only polish and not wax/polish (been there, done that - didn't read the container and much fisheyes resulted) I use Meguiers Scratch X (enamels) or kitten cutting compound (lacquers) to get them smooth before clearing. AFAIK both of these contain no wax.
Favourite culprit for the crazing is I think a half to 3/4 hour gap between coats of clear while I fiddled with my compressor trying to get it to work properly. I suspect this may have been too long and I should then have left it to gas out completely before continuing.
But who knows? I'm certainly NOT going to try to replicate it.