I started building this model a long time ago, and never finished it. Got sidetracked with something else that took priority on the workbench and it got stashed away for a long time until I forgot about it. I recently came across the body, but haven't found the box with the chassis and all the other parts just yet. I'll find it soon, I'm sure it's stashed in the basement. Anyway, since I recently got some new airbrush paint that I've been playing with, I decided to give it a try on this model and if it worked out good, I'd go ahead and finish this thing up.
So far so good. I painted the body with Dupont Chromabase auto paint that I had the paint shop mix in a spray can for me way back when. It's a 1969 GM color called "Frost Green Metallic". No particular reason I picked it out of the paint chip book other than I dig it. I grabbed a child size fleece shirt from Goodwill and cut it up, used that for the carpet and dash pad to simulate shag-ish carpet. The woodgrain on the dash and wall pillars was done by lightly brushing some dark brown over the beige I painted the interior, then taking a needle and gently rubbing lines through the dark brown to expose the beige underneath.
The shift knob on the steering column is just a glob of glue, when it dried I coated it in some green glitter nail polish my daughters had. I build a balsa wood bed over the rear wheelhouses, and fitted it with some random Cragars and tires I found in my "spare parts" bin (it's a tote of all sorts of parts I've robbed or saved from failed model builds when I was younger). That's about as far as I got before it got shuffled away to be lost.
So while I have been up all night due to extreme knee and hip pain, I figured why not play with my airbrush a little. So I taped off a section around the body, sprayed on some Createx Wicked Silver for a base. Then I laid down Createx candy Tequila Yellow (more of a gold) over the silver base. Then I wanted to edge it in green, but I haven't bought any more candies since they whole Covid lockdowns started, so I mixed a little candy Tequila Yellow and a little candy Caribe Blue to make my own green, worked perfect. So I sprayed it for upper and lower shadowing over the gold. I dug through a stack of decals from past kits and found a Slixx decal set for a dragster I built. It had some gold leaf drag car names, so I put some together to come up with the name "LimeLight Outa'Site".
So I'm going to call this paint job done and just clearcoat it and finish building the model as soon as I find the rest of the kit wherever I stashed it. I'll update when I find it and finish it up. The pictures really don't do the candy paint justice. Once I get the clearcoat on the candy's will really pop and I'll grab some shots in the sunlight.