See, Stevenski-
I
told you it was a chick car!
Now the engine is ready to mount onto the chassis.
After mounting the engine onto the chassis, I installed the suspension components. The front leaf spring is metallic gray, and the rest of the suspension components are light black. Then I used titanium gold to detail paint the bolts holding it all together (This is really my first full engine build, so I'm enjoying doing all the bolts and other details). The front shock absorbers are painted red. Everything was given a wash of raw umber, to blend it all together and give it a little road grime. For anybody else planning on building this kit be careful, the steering linkage is so tiny that it's very delicate..... (luckily, nothing some superglue can't take care of though).
Now that I have the suspension done, on to the next logical step. I don't really like kit chroming. I think it somehow looks very out of scale, and it's hard to remove from the sprue without leaving funny marks around the edge. I stripped the chrome off of the hubcaps with some degreaser, and then painted the wheels (hubcaps and all) chrome silver. I washed this with black to bring out some of the detail.
Then I installed the wheels onto the chassis.
The body is painted and I'm waiting for it to cure in order to polish it. In the meantime, I'm working on the interior. Hopefully I'll be able to update on that soon.