In Progress - Ford salt flats racer

[CADguy]

Originally Posted by willimo

And where did you get those awesome headers and dump pipes? Those are perfect!

The headers, fuel injectors, intake manifold, and the 4 air filters came out of the Revell Steve Kinser sprint car.

Don't transcribe the tips just yet. Hopefully one of the methods I'll try this weekend will work well. Thanks for the offer.

The moon-disk covers for the wheels came out of the Rambler wagon kit I built a couple months ago.
Since I'll be leaving the engine exposed probably. I'll be adding some plug wires and minor engine details. Nothing too fancy.

[CADguy]

I scanned the pic that was the inspiration for the build. I thought it was cool how the front tires threw the salt down the sides and across the windshield.

Duplicating the salt caked on to the various surfaces will be the challenge.

[willimo]

That's a lot of salt!

[Tommycool666]

Originally Posted by CADguy

The inspiration for this car came from a magazine article in "Ol' Skool Rods". It's a fairly new publication that only has maybe 5 issues out now.

The wheels and tires on this car are about the size they showed on the cars featured in the article. The fronts could be a little less wide, but they came with the kit, and aren't that far off.



I've been thinking about that for some time now. I'm going to try some different experiments to see which looks best. I'm gonna try baking soda, or crushed rock salt in a watered down white glue. Whichever looks better. Either flicked on with a tootbrush, or maybe spinning a wheel and tire in a dremel to splatter it on. If that doesn't work, maybe snow like the armor modelers use?

I'm open for suggestions..

It'll definately have a Moon-eyes decal somewhere, among other sponser decals

go take some table salt and crush it so its almost liek a powder, then take some in your hand and rub it on the parts that you want covered, then tabel some salt you didnt crush and then take your tires and rub the salt on the face of them, this wiil make the tire appear worn and old , itll take the glossyness off, then roll your tires in the crushed salt taht is very fine so it gets in the tire treds. it works trust me when you crush it it scales it down alot to and authentic 1/25 scale and keep crushin the salt untill you find the grain you want.

[Tommycool666]

i read it too late i didnt get to the other pages, lol i just looked at the fiorst page sorry.

[Macdaddy4738]

Originally Posted by Tommycool666

i read it too late i didnt get to the other pages, lol i just looked at the fiorst page sorry.

reading the first page FIRST usually helps you understand what the thread is about..

anyways i LOVE the color! I was thinking maybe take some saw dust and put on your car with white glue...then airbrush it white. It will give the texture of salt (at least i think )

[Sigmaman]

Bicarbonate soda works well for salt too.Great build.

[CADguy]

Originally Posted by Sigmaman

Bicarbonate soda works well for salt too.Great build.

You're very right.

I tried a couple different methods of applying different "salts" last night.
Margarita salt was way too big, regular table salt was not right, crushed sea salt wasn't too bad. Garlic salt was a close match but stinky..

But.. baking soda flicked on with a toothbrush looked exactly like the car in the pic.

I just need to figure out now how to get it to stay on the car permanently.

That's the next round of experiments.
Hopefully lightly airbrushing the car with a acrylic dullcoat then applying the "salt" will work..

[bigfrit]

good luck with the salting !

Keep us updated on the outcome !

Olivier

[Cychalen]

Very interesting subject.
You only get one chance to apply the "salt" after the acrylic dullcoat.

[bvia]

Use an airbrush? Try using X21-(Flat Base).

Thin this with acrylic thinner and mist this on the places you want undercoated in white.

Once you've got the base coat down, use baking soda for the really layered stuff.

To attach it to the model, brush on Elmer's white glue (as it dries clear) or Krystal clear and then add the baking soda.

hth,

Bill

[CADguy]

Thanks for the tips guys. Hopefully I will have time this weekend to perfect the application of "salt". I'll try some different techniques on an old car body.

I completed assemebly of the engine tonight. I added some plug wires and gave it various washes to add some grime to the overall look.

Some XS Tuning brake disks were also modified and fitted on the front wheels.

[ol' dude]

Hey Cadguy, that '32 is looking good man, the engine looks awesome!! Can not wait to see it finished!!

[Eric Cole]

That engine looks fantastic CADguy and it looks really good in this car.

Eric

[willimo]

Man this thing is gonna be fine.