40 Ford coupe

yep love it in the day light allen and what colour or colours are you thinking for the pick up?

pickup is going to be an old weathered farm pickup,mixed some tamiya sky XF-21 with some olive green XF-58,both a flat paint here it is will be puttting dry pastel on it to dirty it up,no shine on this one,

Allan, that pic 4 posts up - that's the colour of summer.
Just looking at it is putting some warmth into my bones.
Thanks

Thank's Fred,glad it warms ya bones, call it orange surprize,

That's one awesome colour mate , what colour are you doing the interior.
Graeme

found some stock wheels for this one,coupe seats white,pickup dark brown

Thank's HOT EH,no more photos yet,still thinking on this one will wait a week for paint to harden before putting dry pastels on it,there will be no dung on it

ya done it again changed the colours mud guards are gloss black,the rest dark green, have to some more black and green ran out,for some unknow reason the green has some blue grit,which it sould not have heres new colour

will be making some changes to the 40 coupe found a set of drag slicks for this one,now to find the big Hemi for this one.pickup will be put on hold for time been.

Just about to smash the coupe ,its turning into a pig of a damm thing justed look at the paint it was full of small blisters all over it,the bonnet had more,so striped it back look at surface looked OK put some primer on it,all the little buggers have came back so me going to throw the damm thing in the bin now me know why me did not finish this one in 93,it will be another 17 years before I touch it again.

Seriously Allan, you have the worst luck with paint on all your projects.........if the 40 looks bad why don't you just make it look like it's got patina and rub it back in various spots, spray some primer here and there and wack it together, otherwise just paint it with either grey primer, red oxide or flat black and throw some painted steelies on it!!!..job done

The trouble with my painting Paul is I am doing it out side in the elements & me trying to rush it,going to look at the spray booth that I made and see if I can fully enclose it,have put the coupe a side for a day or two and will get some fresh primer next week had thought about doing what you said bit of colour and some primer on it in places.thanks for the kind words.

well gave it one more go with colour on it and it worked out great much to my surprise colour is tamiya gold leaf X-12 will wait a day or two before clear coating it,then will look at the rest of it.here she is Ta da.

can anyone help me looking for set of rims and white wall like the ones on this coupe,need for my coupe.

coupe in sunlight,

Found a set in my wheel stash of wheels all i have to do is paint the tyres white,they are real skinny ones.

Hey Allan, why dont you give TPB the parts box a go for the wheels.im sure you will can find what your after on there web site.HTH

Thank's,Geoff,have looked on the TPB site already,will go with the ones that I have found,looking in my stash for bit wider tyres,posted the photo on coupe before I looked, don't know half what I have in the 4 litre ice cream container its 3/4 full of rims and tyres

Oh think I know why I had so much trouble with the paint on this one is because I put a thick coat of grey primer on it back in '93 and put it back in box and forgot about untill a few weeks ago,have moved twice since it was painted and been auto primer it has absorbed moisture in it then put paint on it the moisture has came into the paint as small blizters,last night I wet sanded most of the primer off to a very thin coat,then painted it will watch to see if I have trouble again hope not and rushing things does not help.

allan wrote:The trouble with my painting Paul is I am doing it out side in the elements & me trying to rush it

Same place I paint Allan, and I've been known to rush it with plenty of mine..................only tip I can give ya is "PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE"

ya and to slowly down on my painting the old saying slow and steady wins the race