Leighbo
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Hi Guys
With the competition out of the way its onto the next project, another abandonded famous car. This time its the Delorean time machine from Back to the Future.
I want to do this as if it was hidden behind the Lyons Estate sign and then, due to some change in the past/future, Marty never came back for it and the Lyons Estate was never built. So the scene will just be the Delorean and the sign, with both being reclaimed by the elements!
The kit I'm using is the Halcyon 1/24 scale kit which I bought online as an abandoned project, it looks like a kid had a go and got bored, so I'm gonna rescue the kit!
This is what the kit looked like when I opened the box
Whatever paint had been used on the car had melted the plastic in some places and some panel lines were quite faint, so I got some stripper on the kit and after some hard scrubbing I managed to get it all off. I then dried it off and sanded it by hand to get rid of the worst of the melted layer. I then used a hobby knife to re-scribe the panel lines. While is was at it I cut off the 4 lots of wiring around each wheel arch and will replace these with better wiring later on.
As for the interior I'm not spending any time stripping the gaudy red & blue paint as I am going to do a thick layer of dirt and dust over the windows so the interior won't show, so just I just sprayed it black.
Ifinished building up the kit, which didn't take too long and then shot a primer coat of black followed by a coat of vallejo model air steel, fortunately the sanding had got rid of the melted areas
I then painted in some more details and started some panel line washes to bring out the detail.
Thats all for now, I've got some more painting to do before I can get this together and then I'll try and get the sign planned out.
Thanks for looking
With the competition out of the way its onto the next project, another abandonded famous car. This time its the Delorean time machine from Back to the Future.
I want to do this as if it was hidden behind the Lyons Estate sign and then, due to some change in the past/future, Marty never came back for it and the Lyons Estate was never built. So the scene will just be the Delorean and the sign, with both being reclaimed by the elements!
The kit I'm using is the Halcyon 1/24 scale kit which I bought online as an abandoned project, it looks like a kid had a go and got bored, so I'm gonna rescue the kit!
This is what the kit looked like when I opened the box
Whatever paint had been used on the car had melted the plastic in some places and some panel lines were quite faint, so I got some stripper on the kit and after some hard scrubbing I managed to get it all off. I then dried it off and sanded it by hand to get rid of the worst of the melted layer. I then used a hobby knife to re-scribe the panel lines. While is was at it I cut off the 4 lots of wiring around each wheel arch and will replace these with better wiring later on.
As for the interior I'm not spending any time stripping the gaudy red & blue paint as I am going to do a thick layer of dirt and dust over the windows so the interior won't show, so just I just sprayed it black.
Ifinished building up the kit, which didn't take too long and then shot a primer coat of black followed by a coat of vallejo model air steel, fortunately the sanding had got rid of the melted areas
I then painted in some more details and started some panel line washes to bring out the detail.
Thats all for now, I've got some more painting to do before I can get this together and then I'll try and get the sign planned out.
Thanks for looking