BIG REDS wanna be Nick Cage Build thread.

Check the timestamps you fuck.

You posted it on facebook at 5:49, I posted it here at 5:40. How bout you go pick up some tools.

:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

Nice Facebook - Stanceworks post…I thought it looked familiar lol

Freakin love the shift knob!

Nitrous button, not a shift knob.

edit: apparently also a shift knob. :facepalm

Both

after hanging out with the guys from vintage motorsports a couple of weeks ago the owner mike convinced me that the car could really go to another level with a second colorsand/buff now that the paint has fully cured over the winter. So today we started on it.

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/6761/img3527ep.jpg

up bright and early on a foggy morning
http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/9323/img3521k.jpg

spent about $50 on painters tape to make clean up as hassle free as possible.

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/6427/img3522oc.jpg

the 3m 1/4 in tape works great for taping over bodylines

http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/7154/img3523ae.jpg

some before shots, again not too bad but could be better.

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5268/img3524ff.jpg

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/4792/img3525d.jpg

some spots that I didn’t do yet the first time around like the lower nose

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/5371/img3526b.jpg

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/5135/img3528u.jpg

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/6149/img3529s.jpg

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3889/img3543t.jpg

getting it all flat

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/9781/img3531y.jpg

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/2781/img3532sd.jpg

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/6296/img3533l.jpg

mike with the wool pad

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/6222/img3534mj.jpg

some after wool pad

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/1851/img3536n.jpg

http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/4990/img3537e.jpg

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/1228/img3538q.jpg

perfect

http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/3987/img3540q.jpg

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6145/img3541q.jpg

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/4066/img3542.jpg

The car isn’t done yet, but ill be going over the car again with a foam pad to get everything thorough and putting a few coats of wax on it.

wowwwwwwwww

Very nice.

impressive!

Holy christ. I guess you were right, it does look like glass.

“He put so much goddamn lacquer on that thing. It was an accident waiting to happen” - Greg Focker

and this pic scared me:

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/2781/img3532sd.jpg

please tell me thats not burned through!

here is the after picture…no burning

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/1851/img3536n.jpg

wow

Looks awesome dave

LOL arguing over whether the house they were standing in front was actually theirs LOL

finally got the paint to the point where I’m satisfied. After many many hours of color sanding/buffing.

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/5352/img3589n.jpg

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/5208/img3587cp.jpg

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/4475/img3586q.jpg

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/9030/img3585y.jpg

http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/533/img3583p.jpg

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/6753/img3582d.jpg

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/7640/img3574q.jpg

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/4601/img3571kc.jpg

and a couple nice ones of the metallic

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/3816/img3577u.jpg

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1231/img3580eu.jpg

Looks great!

most excellent! any tips for me for doing curves on my cars? or edges of the shoulder lines and such? :smiley: