Revell - 1/16 - Rolls Royce Phantom (1934)

[Ian M]

LOL Sorry Ben. :-)

You snooze, you loose! (and its normally me that gets gazumped!

Ian M

[bluriusz]

Thanks guys!

Will try it tomorrow.

One more advice I need. Dashboard in this Rolly is of course made of wood. Any tips how to achive wooden finish on plastic parts?

[Guest]

One of the most hard things to achieve in a car model is real wood effect.

I've painted WWI wood prop's by doing a light wood base colour and allowing it to dry the get a household sponge

cut a tiny bit of sponge off it, then dabble a darker brown colour onto the sponge. Wipe the sponge on some scrap

card to remove excess paint, now pull the sponge across your light wood colour to give a knot/grained effect.

Your best trying it out on some scrap bits of plastic to get the hand of it, Not hard and it will look good.

When you have a nice effect allow to dry and paint a nice clear gloss over it.

As for painting the outer gloss panels you'll have to really work at it to make it look correct at that scale,

I did this 1/16th scale Ford a bit back and it took me nearly a week of polishing the body to have no

imperfections or orange peel effect in it, look at the reflection in the boot lid of my ford....

[yambam26]

LOL Sorry Ben. :-)You snooze, you loose! (and its normally me that gets gazumped!

Ian M

Quite alright Ian

aha true :P

Ian Lanc,

What lacquer did you use out of curiosity?

Very nice finish there!

Cheers, Ben

[bluriusz]

Ok, I got the door extended and filled. Waiting to be grinded to proper size, which will happen tomorrow.

Have also idea for the wood effect. If it will work, will definately show the result. Gotta next question. How to achive chrome effect? Similiar to mirror. I have found some solutions, but I don't want to buy some chrome spray if it won't work. All I know is to paint it gloss black, then spray chrome once or twice and polish. Do you know which chrome spray is the best by any chance?

[Guest]

Another idea for the wood is to drag a heavy guage glass/sand paper over the surface once or twice creating shallow scratches. you can create knots by pressing a thin metal tube end into the plastic and then use a needle to scratch the grain around the circular dent.

sand lightly with very fine paper to remove any burrs and then paint it in a base colour lighter than what you want as an end result.

when dry mix a wash of thinned gloss black and paint over the top, the wash will find the recesses and create the grained effect for you. If you need it more polished then spray with hair laquer or use a proprietry varnish.

this works well with acrylics, not tried it in enamels as i dont use them.

[bluriusz]

Thanks for all advices. I was on holiday and just back to work on the Rolly.

And must say that it is the most difficuilt model I've ever built. Struggling to polish it to even good finish. I mean when I use that Tamiya Polishing Compound it's ok, but then it turns from nice glossy finish to a sort of matt:/ Don't know what to do, tried to do it different ways and always the same result. Don't mention freaking curves and weird shapes that this car has. If I will be still in the dark, I think I will give up and finish it to the point I can. :/ I never ever thought that it will be so hard..

[Ian M]

I might be wrong but I think you need to give it a clear coat after the polishing compound.

Ian m

[Guest]

Sorry to be nitpicking Ian, hope you can forgive me:-) Painting/clear-coating after polishing is not a good idea - polishing should always be the final and last step, to enhance the already glossy sheen of a clear-coat or glossy paint.

Most polishing compounds leave a little residue on the surface that could cause trouble with additional clear coats. If indeed you have polished too much of the clear away and need to add more, then there is no way around sanding it down to base-color, or better yet stripping the entire thing and start fresh.

As to your problem bluriusz, it seems to be either too much compound used or it may be too coarse a grain. If it's the first a good wash in lukewarm dishwater should do the trick. If it's the second scenario, you'll need to buy a polish with a finer grain - most polishing systems come in 3-steps typically called coarse, medium and fine.

I have no personal experience with the Tamiya polishing, but I have noticed that they also carry a liquide wax it might be intended as a part of their system.

/Daniel