With the UNCLE Piranha out of the way, I'm moving on to the Monkees' overpowered custom Pontiac GTO (true story! They had to put a weaker engine in to help with the road handling!)
Having got a larger Corgi version on a previous trip to Blighty, it seemed a perfect opportunity to fix up both at once.
1) The white rag top on both models was only painted in the center panel, so first up was cutting some thin strips to mask them. The open panel at the rear was especially tricky as I didn't want any paint on the interior upholstery or passengers!
2) It took a couple of passes to build up a solid enough flat white coating.
3) Touching up the red colour was also difficult as it is neither Crimson or Scarlet. After a lot of messing around, I mixed up the two and applied it by brush. Although the colour match was pretty good, the finish was flatter than the original paint which created a rather patchy effect.
4) More masking to allow a gloss overcoat and again not as plain sailing as I'd hoped. The final effect is adequate, but not the showroom shine I'd been dreaming of.
5) Some touch up work on the chrome and hubcaps and white parachute packs finally brings this song to a harmonious ending.
6) SEPARATED AT BIRTH?
Until it got heavily into research, I'd never noticed this similarity between the Monkeemobile and Captain Scarlet's SPC. The Monkeemobile is 1966, so just maybe, it might have played some influence in Mike Trim's design process? I'd love to meet him in person and ask a whole bunch of questions, modelmaker to modelmaker!
What do you think?
Looey
Oz Base
ive never noticed that similarity to the SPC before and feel like I should have!
ReplyDeleteGreat work on the models. How did you do the decals on the sides ? I do not currently have any of the Monkeemobile models, but they are on the Wants List.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first got the Husky, I was impressed with the quality of the Monkees logo. For a moment I thought it was Tampo decoration, but I knew Hot Wheels didn't develop that process until the mid 70's. Upon really close inspection I could see both cars are decorated with clear backed waterslide decals.
ReplyDeleteI was lucky that both my used examples had good logos, with only a bit of scratching to touch up. Worst case scenario, I would have downloaded a vector image of the logo into CorelDraw, sized it to fit and surrounded it with a suitable red background. Then I'd laser print it onto coated A4 paper, cut it out, hit it with some clear gloss spray and fix it on with spray adhesive like I did for the Uncle logo. Using coated glossy (photo style) paper is the secret ingredient that allows you to create prints that look exactly like professionalstickers.
Normal copy paper is too porous, so when you gloss it, the white stays matte and the pigments bead up with the clear.
Thank you. I really must give printing my own decals a try. Yours all look great.
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