Now that you mention it RL, could be a theme going here. That pink van could be a Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum van??? RM

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yeah!!! i like the idea about bubble gum theme!! LOL..

Wes

RM, the Bazooka Van would be great (even a Pink Panther Van ) but it must be a Charlie's Angels Van, Zilla, probably had a Farrah poster in his youth! Nice tribute. ...RL

Nah!!! The pinkie is a tribute to Farrah.. Rich's movie cars inspired Paint Master Z!! LOL

Farrah...Yep Check this out for a trip down memory lane. *click on link*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW_daBHfjag

Bob...hope those decals show up Tuesday...zilla

Liked Farrah, but Kate Jackson was always my favorite!! Can't wait to see the finished van Bob!!!

I could never decide between Farrah or Lynda Carter(Wonderwoman) Hehehehe!!!!

I could never decide between Farrah or Lynda Carter(Wonderwoman) Hehehehe!!!!

Oh man!! I totally forgot about the wonderwoman!! I love the way she runs! LOL.. I was like 8 years old! WHoooEEE!! LOL!!.. and for charlie's angel i was like 6 years old! My brother had a folder with farrah's famous picture on it. :)

Wes

A little cultural moment, in France do you know the name of "charlie's angels" ? "Droles de dames", what can be (poorly) translate by "funny ladies" or "what funny ladies they are"


:jest:


we are really good to find super names, here :freak:

Well I hope this VW Baja Bug survives it's next phase (crossing my fingers). This is a project that I've been working on for a while. It needs to get a Phssssssht of just a different shade of brown ( Testors Rust ) over this Testors Leather to give it depth and the dirt small speckle affect like TYCO did so well with that yellow TYCO PRO dune buggy.

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Was just messing around with my computer art program and came up with this.

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The foglights above the front windshield are from Tycos Off Road Dune Rail. The rear flag pole is from the same TYCO also. A slotted AFX front mag rims is mounted in place to replace that awfull molded tire and rim.

The rims are JL chrome steelies that have been stripped and painted by me.

Bob...wil post more pics when it gets finished up.

Very cool. I have always wanted to try doing a muddy Rally car!

Great job with the dirty work. :thumbsup::thumbsup: nd

Where did the glowing skull come from? That looks great!

Nice VeeWee Mr. Bob... the builder...Zilla!!! Mud always looks good on a Baja Bug!! That glowing skull makes me think of glow in the dark decal paper.. I think I have a link for the stuff.. I'll have to go through my links to find it..:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Here's the link if anyone is willing to gamble. It's more a self adhesive type of stuff.. never tried it, but looks interesting none the less!!

Cool!

Great job! Hope the final phase goes smoothly (er, speckly I guess . . .) :tongue:


:thumbsup::thumbsup:

A little cultural moment, in France do you know the name of "charlie's angels" ? "Droles de dames", what can be (poorly) translate by "funny ladies" or "what funny ladies they are"


:jest:


we are really good to find super names, here :freak:

Really, I thought it would have been more along the lines of "Angels Le Charles"


:freak: rr

WWHHHHHOOOOOOO Weeeeeeeee Your new name is boggin Bob ya need a big (-a word here-) set of mudders on her now.. lol.. nice job Bobbie...

Excellent!:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Bob...just doing it in the dirt...zilla comes up with all the build ideas!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup: Do all your dreams contain slotcars??? RM

Bob...just doing it in the dirt...zilla comes up with all the build ideas!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup: Do all your dreams contain slotcars??? RM

Hooters and slots... Hooters and slots!! Hooters and slots!! :tongue:

Great job! Hope the final phase goes smoothly (er, speckly I guess . . .) :tongue:


:thumbsup::thumbsup:

If smooth means holding back from smashing a simulated dirty VW Baja ho scale slot car then yeah it went smoooooth. No original AFX Magnatraction Chassis were hurt in the making of this build. I went through this chassis and it has a nice red ToRQ-ey armature that makes a drive around Las Zillas Speedway a dream.

Well thanks EVERYONE for the compliments on the dirty VW Bug and put a lot of time into building it. Guess what?

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Yes my dirty dancing spray job of brown didn't go as planned. Tried to fix it and fix it and fix it after to much brown got laid down from my erupting Iwata airbrush. I even practiced on a piece of white paper first.

What do you do when you find yourself in this circumstance? For 1/64th of a second Mr. Hammer came to mind and the image of small pieces sprawled out every place was what my brain was "JIVE TALKING" to my hand about.

NO!

Distruction is the path that leads to frustration and dispair. Plus beeing calm about this whole thing ( I don't know why either?) another brain cell told me to just paint it all black after washing away all the dirt and now mangled decals with some paint thinner.

This aint over yet. Ya'll couldn't guess what I have in mind for this body now in a million years...buhahahahahahahahhaaha (you can try but, you will fail simple humans) buahahahahahahaha :lol:

hartracerman that glowing skull is just an image saved in my art program and inserted into a darkened window of my Cloud effect original picture of the BAJA.

Bob...The black paint job is staying...zilla (no it's not Hooters U-JOE but, I do dream of them!, some big mudders are in the mix now Coach and yes I dream of slot cars everynight Randy but, only after thanking God for making me such a slot Geek.)

Awwwe, dang!

How about some ELO, Bob?

That Dirt-Devil was looking fantastic, yeah?
Done is done....so where do you go from here?
We want to know!

Joe...glad ya held the hammer back...Z870 :)

Bob, I feel your pain.
All that time spent building a hall of fame classic... gone in an instant.

Been there too many times to tell.

sorry for loss, man.

Yeah, back when I was doing those custom colored AW Chargers with the AAR strobe stripe, I dropped one of the pink versions right after i had just finished the detail painting and sprayed the clearcoat on. Well, that went right back into the strip jar. Glad I didn't have the decals on her, only had a set left at the time. :eek: rr

Bummer the mud got lost, Bob!!! :cry: I'm curious to see where you go with the buggy now... The hammer will never get you a solution.. only a surrender! Glad to see you're not giving up! :thumbsup:

Glad you stepped away from the :hammer". :thumbsup::)

The Blue Baja bug was looking good but relax, step away from the project & regroup! We, all, have gone that on extra step that did not work out but it does look really good in black! :) :) : ..RL

WOW!!!! COOL!!!! A Mad Max Baja Bug!! Who'd a thunk it!!! :-) piggy

I vote for the hammer!

Get 'em!

It'll feel great Bob!

I vote for the hammer!

Get 'em!

It'll feel great Bob!

Yup!!! It will!! Gus...Goopy paws...Hall has volunteered his services to put them all back together!!! Have at it Bob!!! :wave:

Well here is some pictures of how to rust a slot out. First it has to be an old body style to have this much rust. Next take a paper plate or a piece of bent up paper and start with Testors Leather or Testors Rust and pour it out onto the paper tray.

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With the paint poured out the paint starts to dry out on the edges. Now dip a brush into the mess and start dabbing the whole body. The dry paint will give you a slightly (you don't want large globs) raised rust effect.

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Moving onto black you can dry-brush (put paint on brush and swipe off most of the paint onto paper) it into the desired spots you want. This is totaly a look and go method but, don't worry as you are not even close to getting to the finished look yet.

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You can now lay some color into the mix via dry-brushing or go back with brown. The build up and depth is starting to take place. You have several paints on your paper now and can just jump back and forth till you get the look that seems right.

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Sometimes you may want the doors to look like they were cleaned up and painted black as a starter of fixing up that just didn't happen. With this you just add more black on the doors than the rest of the body. You are building a rust rod to suit your taste. Just mix it up the way you want. I still have a bunch of different rust builds to go & will be posting them up here as they get rusted up.

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To totaly enjoy this experience you need to have some snacks and a drink nearby. I have choosen Snow Caps and Coke Zero but, would not rule out a nice box of Bottle Caps by any means.

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah red steelies from rrr make this thing work for me. No this is not the Dash Mercury that has been in all the other pictures above. This is another one in the works.

Didn't do a Hilltop hood sink on the stacks as the underside of this Mercury has a bunch of stuff going on. screw post and divorced axle post. The Velocity Stacks come from a 75 cent orange Pickup truck that I have been hoarding from DOLLAR GENERAL stores across the whole Nation (well just Nebraska but, the whole Nation sounded more Dr. Evil-ish) lol

For the stack holes a little flat black is dabbled into them 4 stacks at a time rather quickly. Then a paper towl is used to whipe the tops off to give them the Black Hole look. Yeah I know what you are thinking...the stacks could have been chooped down a little bit but, this Mercury is leaning towards a Rat Fink style driver and needs a little CRAZY for the look to work. Red tinted front and rear windows are in the mix along with some Iron Cross decals (big suprise here...hahahahahaha) and maybe some SLOTCAR65.com red scallops with a side of Mooneyes for desert?

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Need to take this last picture of the orange truck still. Putting up the code right now of it in the box it comes in and what it looks like plucked. I just rip the darn things out of the box and pull the stacks out...yep it is that easy.

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Our kids Bree and Fletcher just learned how to ride their bikes Sunday without training wheels!! This was a fun time for both Ginger and me to experience this weekend. Also this means that I need to stay close by outside while they ride bikes so, rusting more bodies after work seems to be the answer. After they go to bed the detailing can be started.

Bob...more rust to come...zilla

Great looking rust bucket. Bob judging from the first pic ......Bob ....I'm Gonna Go BOOM from smoking :dude:and painting ...... Zilla is living dangerously:lol:

Bob Zilla, the man Rustoleum fears! Thanks for the class in Rust 101. I think you snuck into my back yard and "rusted" my barbeque grill...LOL

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You know, it looks familiar?

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Do I hear "sequel" ?

Bugs never die, and are better on gas. Isn't that intimidating?

Rich :thumbsup:

Well I am now the proud father of a Charlies Angels Pink van. Yeah baby! Now if I can just keep the A TEAM van and Mr... He ain't no Fool...T away.

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Yeah Russ I russtied your grill for yah man. Your Welcome hahahaha now cook us up some BBQ Briscuit and some Brats Please! Mmmmmmmmmmm

Rich the bug is just a black deformation right now while, your blown Mad Max is looking tough. Still love your Max build!!

Bob...Boom, Boom...zilla

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Wes

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Sweet Angel wagon Zillllla. :thumbsup:

Cheryl Ladd was my favorite Angel . . .

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Sweet Angel wagon Zillllla. :thumbsup:

Cheryl Ladd was my favorite Angel . . .

It would be hard for me to pick a favorite ANGEL as they were all Hotties!

I did a search on the Charlies Angels Van and found it...

http://www.charliesangelsfan.com/CAvan.htm

I see Joez mind in Melt Mode right now...PINK...Woaaaaaaaah!

Bob...I'm no Angel...zilla

Lookin' good, Zilla! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Now you need a Pink Panther van to park next to the Angels' Mobile Unit Van (MUV). Hey, how come everyone wants SUVs when they cold have MUVs? I'm just askin'....

Mr T at his finest:

Announcer: What is your prediction for the fight?
Clubber Lang: Pain.

Yo Adrain...

Earlier this Summer Fletcher and I went to an all VW car show near our house. Well it is time to do up a flat black slot bug now!!!!!!!!! Notice the nerf bars in the rear of this bug. Totaly a VW thing so, I am throwing my chromed Dash bumpers to the roadside via some Prym Quilting Basting Gun Tacks that I found in the craft center of Wally World. Bagain find at 50 cents on clearance & they were the last pack on the rack...Wheeeeeeeew got lucky!

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Haven't decided if the nerf bars are getting painted flat black or flat red yet? Will be using the all magical GOOP to set these into place.

I had to trim the Blasting Gun Tacks down with just a push of the X-Acto knife to get them just the right size. If you mess one up just toss it because, these come 500 to a package.

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Will be looking at all these pics to get an overall one car build. The first thing that sticks out in my mind after looking at all these pictures is "the less chrome and more black and red the better."

Slotrod65.com Red Scallops are going up on the roof and rear sides just like the green ones I used on the green bug CJ has now.

The chrome strip down the front hood will stay black and no chrome window trim is getting painted up. Am thinking of doing a front window black sun shade like one of the bugs in the pictures (probably will). The door handles, front trunk latch, the vw front emblem and rear license plate frame are getting silver-ized to add just a small bit of detail but, not to break up the blackness.

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I just have a feeling that when this is done another flat black bug will need to be painted up sooner or later (actualy this is a semi flat black).

Fletcher and Bree asked me to set up the Sizzler Track downstairs and have been yelling and screaming like crazy for the last 1/2 hour. Screams of joy! Well time for me to go join in the fun for a bit too.

Bob...with the right rims and a clear red winow job this thing should be a fun one to run...zilla

What is Goop?????

Oops, double post...

What is Goop?????

Read the "This Week In Model Murdering" thread... :thumbsup:

Read the "This Week In Model Murdering" thread... :thumbsup:

The whole thing, by tomorrow morning.

Test will be at 7AM Pacific time. (US)

Thanks for that! Zilla, I'm looking forward to see the Dubby! They look great done in matt colors!

What is Goop?????

It is Aurora or AFX plastic from Junk slot bodies that is cut up into little pieces. You need to remove any Glue or paint from the plastic before hand as goop doesn't like those things in the mix... It is also a good idea to make each goop batch from a single color unless you want a sew-a-side mixture. For example if you have a red body that needs a window post fixing and want to keep it in red plastic (not painted) then a batch of red goop will do the job. Well if you can get to the Bill Hall skill level that is. :)

Then is put into an empty Testors Liquid Cement jar or simular jar that they sell for Airbrushes at the Hobby Stores. Now you pour the Testors Liquid Cement (it has a pink label) over the plastic pieces and keep going till the Liquid Cement reaches and covers the plastic pieces. Put the lid on and walk away for 24 hours = Goop! :woohoo:

When I first came here Bill Hall was using the Goop and had the same question as you kiwidave. It is great for holding parts in place and dries like plastic but, there is so, so, so much more than that so, what LDThomas said...read and YE shall learn the gooping ways!

Russ,

Yeah Brother a Pink Panther van would be Kewl as all get out! The fingernail decal makers on Pay Bay will make any decal you want. All you have to do is find or make the image. Am busy as heck but, if the Ruster of Hutt wants to make one for himself....yeah baby! Or a Trick Truck with the Pink Panther! I need to find an image and spend 10 min. getting 20 decals made up for $2.00 and free shipping. :p I was Pink before Pink was Cool.

Starting to get back into the swing of things again. Here is the Candy Apple Red Ferrari 612 just waiting for me to put a clear coat of Future down on it. Will be brushing it on as I don't want the wing and head all shinney on this build up.

The Candy Apple Red Kustom Kolors (by House of Kolor) doesn't show up worth a hill of beans in the pictures. I may have to try taking another picture of it in the sunlight to get what this actualy looks like. The whole trick is the Silver basecoat under the transparent red. Just imagine a kazillion or so tiny silver specks (like glitter) shinning through the red paint.

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These are the chrome JL rims that were stripped down and airbrushed black, then airbrushed white (at an angle to let the black stay in the bottom part of the rim) and then hit with a clear coat. Phssssssssssssssssht. Am so going to do more of these rims up in white...yeah baby!

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Bob...Still love paint...zilla P.S. ALOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Decals are great too!!!

Cheers Zilla.

:woohoo:Thought I would post these pictures up of "Corky" from underneath. The goop here supported the front end after some critical material was removed for the headers and held in the post also. The rear got the goop treatment as well and hopefully this thing will hold together for the Hankster for a long time to come!

I think we should all drop Hank a line and thank him for the great site here that he provides and maintains for us all...Thanks Hank!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This body was made by our own Hobbytalk ALPHASLOT (Greg Gipe AKA:Giperjet & I think another name also). Have several handfulls of his bodies and they are top notch. Just need to get to them sometime. I do have a Ford Galaxie 500 giperjet in white now that needs to get pushed into my mix of cars that are getting worked on now.

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On a side note: This was when I first started gooping and posted these pictures up tonight, knowing that Bill Hall is going to rake me for using up all my red goop...hahahahahaha I was young (yeah right) and dumb in the beggining.

Bob...Bill has quite the Goop collection...zilla

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The 34 Willys built by Nuther Dave was my inspiration for Corky. It only takes a spark, some goop and yer off to the races baby!

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What is Goop?????

A little something I cooked up one afternoon. A viscous snotty colloid that can be used many ways depending on how it is thinned and or applied.

In a thick state think of it as bondo....in a thinned state think of it as lacquer. There's a few points in between too....LOL

Original colors, fool yer mother repairs.

Well I am now the proud father of a Charlies Angels Pink van.

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You have the right to be proud Bob...just don't let the pink rub you the wrong way...zilla!!! Very cool looking van. They could have used that for a "stand in double" in the series :thumbsup::thumbsup: ... RM

Bob GREAT STUFF!!!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:. I wanna spend a day inside YOUR mind :rolleyes:.... or maybe I don't :tongue:......

Love the stuff you come up with