[acisne]

This started as a kit and this is what was done to it:
Lowered front and rear.
Painted the recessed area of the wheels to look like the optional '05 wheel.
Seat inserts were painted silver plus a few knobs ands switches.
The two-tone charcoal paint was stripped to make it solid white.

 

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Close up of the front end.

 

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Profile

 

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Interior.

 

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another interior

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rear shot.

 

[Dennis]

Al you did an awesome job with it.
I have no patience with that stuff. I would of probally taking it and threw it accross the room. I wish I could just relax and do that stuff.

 

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Thank you Dennis! :cheers Actually, this is what I do to relax at the office. I have a work area in my office, and when everyday cr*p starts to get to me, I just close the door and start working away.

 

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I start clean to get relaxe. Man I'm Strange. When I was down In Mesa, AZ by my Sister to relaxe down there I Started to Bake Cookies. That another thing thats Relaxes me cooking. I'm Still single go figue :cry :cry

 

[Guest]

That F150 is looking mighty fine, Al! :cool

Nicely done! :nicejob :nicejob :nicejob

 

[ricallen]

That is awesome work, Al! I want to do that to my wheels, as that is a big improvement!!

Few questions:
How did you strip the paint?
Any additional detailing under the hood?
Did you paint the seats while they were in the truck?

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1)The two-tone trim is sprayed on top of the baked base coat, so it comes of with non-acetone nail-polish remover, cotton pads and elbow grease without ruining the base coat.
2)No extra detail under the hood, the black one that I am working on might.
3)Since this was a kit to begin with, the interior was out. I have taken them apart and it quite easy. If you want, I can scan or photo the directions and send them to you if you want to take yours apart.

 

[Guest]

Wow I like big fords!

I would like to know who did this kit and how you got the silver paint to look so smooth in the interior seats

 

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The kit is made by The Beanstalk Group just like the regular 1/18 model. KBToys sold them. Nothing different about the kit and it is pretty straight forward to put them together.
The paint was done with a silver Paint Marker made by Gangy ( I found it at HobbyLobby). It is oil based and goes on smoothly if you paint the whole area at one time. They have a fine tip GF-250 that I used to make an outline of what I wanted painted and a medium point (No.150) that I used to fill in the large areas.

I used masking tape on the first one and I still got paint runs under the masking tape, so on the second one (the one here) I did it free hand and slow and hed better results. They also make a flat-black fine tip that I used to hide the runs since the interior is black.

Al

 

[Ford GT]

:cheers Great work, I really like the wheels! :cheers

And that paint, and interior... :nicejob :nicejob :nicejob

 

[tanayast]

Clean work! 10/10!
:nicejob

 

[Guest]

WOW!That is excellent work!I'm a big fan of SUVS and Trucks and I think that looks great!The wheels look so real and all white body looks great,paint it red and post it on ebay and people may think it's a real 1:1. :lol :cheers

 

[Guest]

That looks very good . Great work :cheers
I love the wheels , much better than standard .

 

[gafotes]

That looks great! Stripping the side paint makes it look much bigger than before. Great work bringing out the best in that truck.

 

[OKC]

This started as a kit and this is what was done to it:
Lowered front and rear.
Painted the recessed area of the wheels to look like the optional '05 wheel.
Seat inserts were painted silver plus a few knobs ands switches.
The two-tone charcoal paint was stripped to make it solid white.

I know this is "grave digging" but do you happen to still have the pictures of this when you were finished with it?