AMT '57 Chrysler 300C

That's going to be some paint job, I'd be afraid to wet sand it to be honest.

dublin boy wrote:That's going to be some paint job, I'd be afraid to wet sand it to be honest.

I'm not going go mad on the wet sanding Shay, I'll knock the dust nibs out with some 6000 grit paper, and go from there, there's enough clearcoat on the body, so I'm not worried about going through it.

dublin boy wrote:That's going to be some paint job, I'd be afraid to wet sand it to be honest.

Whats the worst that could happen ? if you burn through the clearcoat, you just have to give it a few more coats and start again.

But it is worth it, the dust nibs were only small and some 6000 grit paper soon had them gone, then polished, so far I've wet sanded the parts that needed it and polished out the roof panel















Once all the bmf has been done, it will get a coat of wax

Fantastic Geoff. 

Beautiful finish.

Looking good Geoff.

Finally got the rest of the body wet sanded and polished, also got the headlamp buckets, which are supplied in chrome, masked up so the body colour inserts could be airbrushed

Super finish and colour Geoff.

Interior built up and fitted onto the floorpan





Headlamp bowls masked up and painted body colour



Rear lamps built up



Roof lining and interior lamps



Bonnet masked up for the black insulation can be airbrushed





The bmf starts ....











Rear bumper in Alclad





The radiator support had the bonnet latched drilled out before it was painted body colour



Painted body colour, and the bolt details picked out

Beautiful work! The detailing is fantastic and that body colour is gorgeous!

It actually takes longer to mask up than to apply the bmf, but doing it this way, you have two edges to trim up to with the scalpel blade, it also reduces the risk of the blade slipping and damaging the paintwork, using the tools shown, and a little time and patience, I have no trouble to doing the bmf at all

Got the spears masked up, hopefully I'll get the bmf all finished on this one today

Incredible work, that paint job is gorgeous.

kpnuts wrote:Incredible work, that paint job is gorgeous.

Thank you, got the one side done, just the other side to do later, and the bmf is all finished

Bmf all finished .....

Gorgeous work Geoff.

^ ditto.
I was very surprised to hear you found the fit to be so good. I recall the tail lights and interoir being terrible.

Plastic Freak wrote:^ ditto.
I was very surprised to hear you found the fit to be so good. I recall the tail lights and interoir being terrible.

The interior went together like a jigsaw puzzle, just went together absolutely fine, I've dry fitted the rear lamps, again, no problems there either

I'm still waiting delivery from China, my photo etch scissors, so the only thing I can do now is install the glass, but even though they have been sealed in their little plastic bag, they did have a few very small, but noticeable scuff marks on them, so they were polished, using Holts motorcycle polish, I find the Novus plastic polish a little too coarse for clear parts, and this is the best I've found to polish them,



Right one still needs to be polished

Nice work all round Geoff.

Skid wrote:Nice work all round Geoff.

Cheer's Al'