Recently, I have had some mental health issues. When that happens, I have to take a step back from nearly everything to concentrate on getting my self better. Some times, depending on the severity, that can mean a few weeks even a month of tough mental struggle. During this period I am unable to do most of the things I enjoy, so my model making took a back seat.
Before this happened, however, I had managed to work on the interior and engine of the Mustang. Once put together the interior was looking amazing. With the new chrome paint accents and black carpeting, it was looking very realistic.
Some of the decals were incredibly tiny yet, I'm sure you will agree, look amazing once the interior was put together.
Next, was the engine. This will be the first car I have built that the bonnet (hood) can actually be opened and the detailed engine can be seen. The F40 had a visible engine but not a lot of the engine was visible, just the top. The Mustang, however, has a very detailed engine. It was mostly painted in metallic silver such as aluminium and manifold colours. The main block was coated with blue ink to give it a metallic blue hue as intended, rather than a simple gloss blue. I feel it looks a lot like a Hammerite blue and I just love this look. Rocker covers were black with silver dry brushed over to pick out the lines and the 'Cobra' lettering.
The exhaust manifolds were rather interesting to paint. They called for merely a metallic silver type paint but I thought it would be cool to paint these as if they were heat coloured. Metal changes colour when heated and often is left with a blue hue due to continuous heating and this would be great to paint on the exhaust manifolds.
I looked around on the internet and found a Youtube video on how to paint heat scorched metal from RobPaintsModels channel.
Rob utilized manifold paints, gold paint and Blue and Purple inks to provide an amazing look. My manifolds were slightly different. I decided the heat would be at it's hottest where the manifolds joined and thus the colours would extend out in both directions from that point rather than ending at one end, how Rob painted his exhausts. My manifolds were also much smaller and thus I had to tweek and play with the settings on my airbrush. Once painted and glued, the engine was starting to look amazing.
There is still work to do with the engine, I am hoping to put in ignition cables and such to increase the detail even further. The air filter will be added later in the build process. Overall I am very happy with the result so far especially those coloured manifolds.
Prior to my mental health issue, I had tried to paint the main bodywork with the base coat of gloss black. However, during the Twitch Stream I had difficulties mixing and spraying the paint properly, which lead to a bad coating of paintwork. Therefore, once it was dry I sanded back the bad parts of the paintwork and once I was back on my feet, I repainted the base coat.
Once the base coat was dry I finished it off with a metallic coat. There are still parts of the paintwork that were not as high a quality as I would of liked, but overall, considering the issues I had, it wasn't bad. Hopefully the metallic shine will show through a little more once the gloss coat has been added but the decals come before that.
So prior to that step, the paintwork is complete for now.
Once the gloss coat is added, the paintwork should really 'pop'! That was the latest update for now. After my mental heath issues I am glad to be back and building once more and very pleased with what I have accomplished so far. I can't wait to see how this build turns out.
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