WIP: 67 GT500 diecast I'm dickin around with

[city_ofthe_south]

I've never done any diecast stuff before but the paint on this thing sucked. I got it as a gift ... years ago probably and was just going to assemble it with some cool wheels and fix the paint. Paint fixing didn't work so here are pics of where it's at.

Godawful paint out of the box:


Hope for the future. OOB paint looks half decent at this distance but it doesn't reflect hardly any of the magazine.


Clear coat failure. The stripes show it best. I figured there might be some lack of compatibility between what was on the car and my Dupli Color clear. Oh well.


Tangle with 220 grit and you LOSE sucka! I'll be letting a new can of oven cleaner handle the rest.

[Yard Dawg]

Keep us posted on the progress!

I have a whole bunch that I still want to do.
Here's one that I was able finish awhile ago.





Sort of a half-hearted attempt at the "True fire" technique.
Used HOC Rootbeer Candy over a Black Pearl base.

Looking forward to seeing how yours comes out!

[DWMotorsports]

Looks great...
Hard to be appreciative with such a lousy paint job...

[andrewmp6]

A lot of die cast have orange peal bad if you want the chrome around the windows to look right most hobby stores carry a thin chrome like tape you cut it and stick it on works great and looks real.I'm a old model car builder you need any idea on anything let me know.On the Lemans stripes Shelby used they get wider at the back of the car most die cast don't do this if you want to heres the specs on the real cars you'll have to scale it down http://site.cobranda.com/tech/lemans.pdf

[city_ofthe_south]

thanks folks. nah there won't be any factory correct stripes or anything else going on here. I'm not even sure what color it's gonna be yet. I've been thinking about doing the Super Snake style stripe with a single larger stripe and some narrow outter stripes ... or something to that effect. It's been soaking in oven cleaner a couple days now and the old paint is coming right off, so I should make some progress in the next week or so. I'd really like to correct the typical diecast "rounded corners" here and there but I'm not sure exactly how to attack that. You'd think the seams would be perfect on a diecast but apparently not. Anyway, it's my first try so we'll see.

[woody80z28]

That's pretty cool. I flat-blacked a hideously-painted Camaro gift once and it looked pretty mean.

I just bought a 79 Z28 and a 94 Z28 to make a model of my car. I need to convert the t-tops to hardtop and find/make a cowl hood, and I'm putting the 6spd, center bolt heads, console and seats all in the 79 to replicate mine. I'd also like to make my own subframe connectors and slide-a-links somehow. Any pointers?