Opel Kadett K38 Saloon "staffcar"

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:26 pm

Ok, this is my firs time ever on a forum, so I hope I'm doing this right... My photo's are to big of size so had to reduce them..
I'm building a nice little car from ICM scale 1:35.
The kit itself requires a lot of cleaning, filling and sanding.
But I'm not afraid doing some extra work

This car is planed in a small dio with 2 figures and some props.

Website · Post by **Gav0909** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:31 pm

Looking good, and welcome to the forum. I look forward to seeing this progress.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:34 pm

Thank you!
Maybe you or some one els can help me.
I got some more progress pics of this build, but I can onley add 3 pics to this post.
How can i continue on posting pics and coment?
Some people got 3 or more pages on one post.
Do i got to reply to continue like this message?
I'm a rookie on forums...

Thanks!

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:47 pm

Think I got it now...
Here's some more progress...

Website · Post by **Gav0909** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:56 pm

What to do is open a Photobucket account, its free and a way of hosting your pictures online. You upload your pictures there, and copy and paste the link from each picture you want into your post on here and the pictures are there, they automatically resize as well and there is no limit.

Check this thread out for a guide on how to do it.

http://intscalemodeller.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=22

https://www.youtube.com/user/bnealuk · Post by **T3hGuppy** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 12:57 pm

Very nice so far buddy

Post by **Paul** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:02 pm

Welcome to the forum, that's a great looking car, very nice paintwork.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:11 pm

Thank you all!
Will give photobucket a try!

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:16 pm

Thank you for the help with my photo's guys!

I use Photo bucket now, so it won't be a problem now.

Here's my last progress pic (for now)

Post by **Dunhill2005** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 1:24 pm

Great job so far!!

Hurry up. I want to see the hole diorama

Post by **Paul** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 2:10 pm

Dunhill2005 wrote:Great job so far!!
Hurry up. I want to see the hole diorama

depends who's hole it is, but I may be interested to see that

Post by **Dunhill2005** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 2:12 pm

Sorry
I mean the entire (das Ganze)

Post by **NovYank** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 2:28 pm

Great progress so far man!!! Very nice details are being showed.
Can't wait to see the rest.

Post by **chief5437** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 2:31 pm

See, I told you they are good guys on here, lol!
Looking great by the way.

How long is it til the model show?

Post by **Scruffy** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 2:54 pm

Very nice! Your paint work, especially on the interior is very crisp, nice detailing on the engine too with the added wires.

Post by **Paul** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 3:16 pm

Dunhill2005 wrote:Sorry
I mean the entire (das Ganze)

No need to be sorry, I was only joking

Post by **wappynutter** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 3:27 pm

It looks like you could turn a key and start that engine my friend....

Love it.... What did you paint it with and how good are your eyes to detail so well.....

Looking forward to this being completed.... And again cars are not one of my favourite subjects...

Post by **Dunhill2005** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 3:33 pm

Paul wrote:
Dunhill2005 wrote:Sorry
I mean the entire (das Ganze)
No need to be sorry, I was only joking

I know...

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 4:44 pm

chief5437 wrote:See, I told you they are good guys on here, lol!
Looking great by the way.

How long is it til the model show?

Thanks Chief!
I'm just here on this forum and like it already!
Good idea to bring me here

The International Scale Model Challenge ( SMC 2013 ) Is taking place on October 13th.
http://www.scalemodelfactory.nl/smc2013.html
So i'm getting ready for it!

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 4:56 pm

wappynutter wrote:It looks like you could turn a key and start that engine my friend....

Love it.... What did you paint it with and how good are your eyes to detail so well.....

Looking forward to this being completed.... And again cars are not one of my favourite subjects...

Thank you!

The engine is base painted with Vallejo acrylic Brown. Then I took some dark metal pigment from AK and covered the entire engine.
Then some old rust pigment from AK, and started brushing it over the dark steel. Did some highlighting with drybrush and put some engine grime on some places. The batery is painted black and drybrushed it. Al the wireing is stretched sprue. The radiator hose is scratch build copper wire and some electrical tape. The hose clamps are made from tin foil.

My eyes are ok, but a loupe is required!

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 5:02 pm

Scruffy wrote:Very nice! Your paint work, especially on the interior is very crisp, nice detailing on the engine too with the added wires.

Thank you,
Always looking for super detailing it...

Post by **Coen** » Sat Aug 10, 2013 6:27 pm

This is excellent work Dude!
The detail is superb!
I can't wait to see the rest.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 4:08 pm

Ok, did some more progress today.
The engine is finished now, and I'm working on some detail painting.
But there was a little problem... The roof of this car would not fit properly!

There was I huge gap between the windshield and the roof... That made all the windows not fit properly too..
So what to do? Well I glued on the roof, and had to fill that gap! Sand it smooth, and do all paintwork over again...
But the windows must be put in first, so I had to mask them... again.

Here's the interior painted!

These are some photos of the roof and the windows. Tried my best to make it work...
But it's official now, I hate doing windows...

And here a good closeup from the engine.

Well, it is not finished yet, got a lot of detail painting to do, an adding the decals. Then I'm going to weather it. But it's going to be a light weatering I think

After this car I will start at the figures..

Post by **chief5437** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 4:17 pm

I feel your pain! You've done a cracking job on it tho, good recovery!

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 4:20 pm

chief5437 wrote:I feel your pain! You've done a cracking job on it tho, good recovery!

Thank you Chief!

it always sucks these setbacks...
One thing is sure, NEVER ICM models again!

Cheers Chief!

Post by **Coen** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 5:51 pm

I just spent 5 minutes on the floor looking for my eyes. They'd fallen out after seeing this. Wow. Amazing.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 6:47 pm

Coen wrote:I just spent 5 minutes on the floor looking for my eyes. They'd fallen out after seeing this. Wow. Amazing.

LOL! Thank you!

Post by **wappynutter** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 7:21 pm

Wow.... Still a cracking build mate despite the setback.....

and thanks for answering my earlier questions.

Interior look as good as the engine, shame you had to cover it up..

Good luck with the detailing..

Post by **dsone1121** » Sun Aug 11, 2013 11:37 pm

HEY FD,HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT POSTING PICS?

Post by **chief5437** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 12:08 am

Hi DS! Good to see you here.

Check this thread out, it should help
http://intscalemodeller.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=22

Can't wait to see your work on here!

Also, check out some of the guys YouTube channels, hopefully it will inspire you and FD to do some, lol.

Post by **chief5437** » Mon Aug 12, 2013 12:11 am

Oh, and I think Gav0909 did a how to video as well, it's on his channel.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:19 pm

Did had some time to do a little bit work on the dio for this Car...
The Opel isn't finished yet, but I'm letting it rest for a whill to prevent "rush" work.

So I started to build the dio.
Well, i'm still brain storming

, but I think I have a nice setup now.
The figures are frome "tank"and the are awesome. Little cleaning up to do, and very highly detailed.
The guard shack is from Eureka XXL also good details here.
The motorcycle is an old one from Tamiya that was actually in my scrap box for future use. It needs a lot of re-painting, and a new machine gun...
There is some barbed wire, signs on poles and sandbages to protect the shack planned.
I know that I let the car hood open. So I was thinking this scene would be like the car just broke down at the control post, and that the guard has to see the drivers papers first befor he can provide any help. Rules are rules. Something like tat

If you guys have any other idea's, please let me know!

Post by **NovYank** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:26 pm

That diorama looks fantastic!

Post by **Coen** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:29 pm

Wow Frans... do you ever slow down?
This is going to be fantastic Dude. Myself... I wouldn't change a thing. Your plan sounds perfect.
If I had to add anything, I would add a second vehicle waiting behind the first, maybe with an annoyed officer in the back looking impatient or something.
But that's only because I can't see how long your base is in the picture. It looks great as it is.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 8:53 pm

NovYank wrote:That diorama looks fantastic!

Thank you!

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 9:04 pm

Coen wrote:Wow Frans... do you ever slow down?
This is going to be fantastic Dude. Myself... I wouldn't change a thing. Your plan sounds perfect.
If I had to add anything, I would add a second vehicle waiting behind the first, maybe with an annoyed officer in the back looking impatient or something.
But that's only because I can't see how long your base is in the picture. It looks great as it is.

Thanks Coen,

I'm not a very fast builder for i'm Always pusching my skills to the limit...

As for that idea of another vehicle. I like that idea. It would only fit another small car, but a traffic jam sounds great!
I will certainly think about it

Owh, and the base is 18cm wide and 28cm long...

Cheers!

Post by **spruecutter** » Fri Aug 16, 2013 9:32 pm

A nice set up.

http://www.youtube.com/user/longlance67 · Post by **longlance67** » Sat Aug 17, 2013 4:55 pm

great build, love the engine detail you pulled it off really nicely !
the diorama is great, tells a nice story and isnt over crowded prefect !

great work !

Shane.

Post by **Lee** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 12:29 am

Cool work

Post by **bdr65** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 7:40 am

Great job all round. Especially love that engine....... wicked

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 10:52 am

Thanks guys! Appreciate the nice coments

Post by **chief5437** » Sun Aug 18, 2013 12:46 pm

This is looking great FD! Great scene and story, the traffic jam idea is nice but I wouldn't want to pressure you into buying more kits! Lol!

Keep up the good work my friend

Cheers

Sun Aug 18, 2013 6:27 pm

looking good mate

Post by **Nige201980** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:36 pm

Love it mate simple as that.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 8:41 pm

Ok guys... Here's a update.
I'm must say, i'm not to happy myself.
What a horrible kit this turned out to be.
Never, NEVER a ICM kit again. It are cheap kits, and so are the materials...
Nothing fits properly, hudge gaps, pin marks everywhere, lots of cleaning and filing to do.
I had to pin the wheels for they were coming of spontaneously!

And another thing that happend I can not explain: There is one window cracked all by it self?
Wow... Now thats new for me too

Well... I wanted to made this little car for my dad's birthday, but he will get another one

He gets the same Kadett K38, but from another manufacturer.
So this is turned out to be a car from hell

and I decided to keep it myself and make it an old and used one. Tried to make it look a bit decent...
I made a real (as we say in Holland: "rammelbak") or a "piece of junk" in english

Well, Im not sure if i'm putting it in the dio, I'm thinking of putting another on in it, but I'm not sure.
What do you guys think? Should I keep this on for the dio, or another car? A german steyr for instance...

Here are some pics:

cheers friends!

Post by **Coen** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 8:55 pm

Now that it's all painted and weathered Frans, it doesn't look as bad as all that.
That fit issues you've hidden very well, and that crack in the glass... well they didn't make glass like they do today so it did break easier and more often. So it's not unrealistic to have a cracked window.
A few drops of Future in it may lessen the obvious plasticyness of it, but the crack certainly isn't a bad thing.
Overall that car is still a great little piece.

My advise would be to try to lessen the crack in the window before you consider replacing the whole car.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 9:13 pm

Coen wrote:Now that it's all painted and weathered Frans, it doesn't look as bad as all that.
That fit issues you've hidden very well, and that crack in the glass... well they didn't make glass like they do today so it did break easier and more often. So it's not unrealistic to have a cracked window.
A few drops of Future in it may lessen the obvious plasticyness of it, but the crack certainly isn't a bad thing.
Overall that car is still a great little piece.

My advise would be to try to lessen the crack in the window before you consider replacing the whole car.

Thank you for your advice Coen, appreciate it.

You'r right about the window, it was more common those days.
What do you mean with a few drops of future? Is that a varnish of some kind?
Will try to do that.
I have not decided yet to leave it in our out of the dio, but I'm a bit disappointed in myself, so today is not the day to decide .
But Im still kinda like this car myself. And for it's a "old rust bucket", it has no problem breaking down at the control post...

Post by **Coen** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:12 pm

Sorry Frans,
I was silly and used a North American jargon word to describe that and I shouldn't have.
"Future" I think is also known as Klear... it's acrylic floor wax made by Pledge under Johnson and Co.
A lot of folks us it to make airplane canopy's crystal clear.
Armour modellers use it as a varnish of sorts.

Post by **fly1ngdutchm4n** » Mon Aug 19, 2013 11:53 pm

Coen wrote:Sorry Frans,
I was silly and used a North American jargon word to describe that and I shouldn't have.
"Future" I think is also known as Klear... it's acrylic floor wax made by Pledge under Johnson and Co.
A lot of folks us it to make airplane canopy's crystal clear.
Armour modellers use it as a varnish of sorts.

No problem, some jargon can be found by Google!
But you explaining it is more easy now...

I think I saw this stuff in our local do it yourself store, I will definitely give it a go! Thanks for the tip

https://www.youtube.com/user/bnealuk · Post by **T3hGuppy** » Tue Aug 20, 2013 1:17 am

Shame about the glass cracking.

Great looking car though.