Post by Megacurve on Jan 27, 2017 15:35:54 GMT -5
Neko Works makes a series of small resin cast cartooned car kits. This is a Porsche 917K and is about 3” long. It has 6 parts: Body with front wheels, rear wheels, engine transmission, spare tire and engine cover. So it is mostly a masking/ painting exercise, and I used Tamiya Acrylics here.
Started by cleaning the parts with Jif, water and a soft toothbrush. The large casting gates on the parts removed, rear tire seems filled with polyester 2 part car putty, then the body got a coat of Tamiya white surface primer.
The pale Gulf blue was Gloss White with a few drops of Gloss Blue.
Masked off where the white and orange would later go with thin plastic and paper masking tapes and airbrushed our body color.
The body was then masked and Tamiya Orange applied.
Then windows masked off and gloss black airbrushed. The front headlights were brush painted gloss black. Body lines were filled with a VERY fine brush (a 000 Winsor & Newton Cotman) and the gloss black thinned with water.
A toothpick for size reference.... the squares on the cutting board are 1 cm x 1 cm.
As it is so small, and we do cartooning, we wanted to make it a cartooned diorama with an action pose of the car flying past your typical 70s photographers with a big BAAAVAROOMMMM from the car.
The inspiration for this is our 917/10 CARtoon...
And try and do that in 3D
The base is some ½” plywood sprayed flat black. The road surface is 800 grit wet’n’dry with the rouad lines painted in artists titanium white Acrylic. Road marks and car shadow is airbrushed Tamiya flat black. The back illustration put together in Photoshop and CorelDraw, printed on an Ink Jet Printer and stuck to some foam board with double sided tape. The car is supported on a short brass wire and a hole drilled in the road and car.
The wheels were painted Tamiya Rubber Black and some dry brushed gun metal on the spokes.
The GULF Decals were from a 1/43 scale aftermarket 70s decal set. The number 4 decals were left over from a Marsh Models 1/43 McLaren M20 kit we made over 18 years ago.
Started by cleaning the parts with Jif, water and a soft toothbrush. The large casting gates on the parts removed, rear tire seems filled with polyester 2 part car putty, then the body got a coat of Tamiya white surface primer.
The pale Gulf blue was Gloss White with a few drops of Gloss Blue.
Masked off where the white and orange would later go with thin plastic and paper masking tapes and airbrushed our body color.
The body was then masked and Tamiya Orange applied.
Then windows masked off and gloss black airbrushed. The front headlights were brush painted gloss black. Body lines were filled with a VERY fine brush (a 000 Winsor & Newton Cotman) and the gloss black thinned with water.
A toothpick for size reference.... the squares on the cutting board are 1 cm x 1 cm.
As it is so small, and we do cartooning, we wanted to make it a cartooned diorama with an action pose of the car flying past your typical 70s photographers with a big BAAAVAROOMMMM from the car.
The inspiration for this is our 917/10 CARtoon...
And try and do that in 3D
The base is some ½” plywood sprayed flat black. The road surface is 800 grit wet’n’dry with the rouad lines painted in artists titanium white Acrylic. Road marks and car shadow is airbrushed Tamiya flat black. The back illustration put together in Photoshop and CorelDraw, printed on an Ink Jet Printer and stuck to some foam board with double sided tape. The car is supported on a short brass wire and a hole drilled in the road and car.
The wheels were painted Tamiya Rubber Black and some dry brushed gun metal on the spokes.
The GULF Decals were from a 1/43 scale aftermarket 70s decal set. The number 4 decals were left over from a Marsh Models 1/43 McLaren M20 kit we made over 18 years ago.
