How far should I go
 

I got this midnight pumpkin body in a trade. It had been painted with stoneflek paint giving it a ghetto granite look.

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...1/original.jpg



not exactly my taste,

so after sitting on it for almost 8 months, I decided I wasn't getting any closer to chemical stripping of it, so I ran it through the shotblaster at work.

now I need opinions on whether the leave it and weather it?
or run it again and see if it gets cleaner/rougher

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...onerunside.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...nerunfront.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...onerunback.jpg

That's s freaking cool rusty look, if I where you I will run it in this way "thumbsup"

That't cool! I'd weather the heck out of it, and it will be an awesome looking truck. Geez, in the first pics I couldn't tell if I was looking at a body or a sand sculpture.

Just be casue it can be done doesn'y men it should. . .

weather it, I'd bash it like it is!

I agree.....it looks pretty damn good as it is now. Just add some more detail and some scale items and that'll be a very cool body. :)

i do think it looks cool,

the bumpers and rollbar are black and the grill is still chrome. a little detail work on the lights, and i think it will fit on my xc-01 chassis with the leaf springs.

yea, leave it and run the piss out of it..."thumbsup"

although the years may be different, i would paint
" sandford and son auto salvage "
on the doors and call it jethro....

http://www.ford-trucks.com/user_gall...id=120337&.jpg

Gee, that looks like shit. I like it. :lol:
"thumbsup"

I'm starting to dig it too

http://www.mywwwpage.net/charliecher...uck/53ford.jpg

looks like a good spot to start a build

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...1/PA270093.jpg

http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...1/PA270092.jpg

the bumpers and rollbar almost look too clean

that looks bada$$

I like it.

In the days I used to build plasticmodel cars, there was a guy in my club that made the sweetest weathered rigs and dioramas.

Try this on some scrap chrome first and see it you like the look:

1. Prepare a black wash with 50% mineral spirits/thinner and 50% matte black paint. "Wash" the while part (paint over the whole thing), and then wipe it with a tissure or paper towel. The edges and corners will be dark, you can do this as many times as you want wiping off more or less to get the look.

2. Either use "real" sanded rust, or pastel drawing stick in a rust color (run against fine sandpaper to get realistic scale rust.

3. Spray the chrome with matte spray or dullcoate and sprinkle on your "rust" appropriately, paying attention to edges and sections where rust settles. The "rust" sticks to the spray, the chrome is dull, and your truck looks like a million bucks.

I've been eyeing the Tamiya weathering kit at the hobby shop that is used for tanks and military vehicles, but the above method served me well.

I know, I should have pictures, but that was 15 years ago. . .

sweet i love that weathered look nice jod and good choice

Cool! Looks like it has barnicles!

I agree with everyone else...keep it as it is! Looks like it came from the bottom of a swamp! Through a bunch of weathered scale stuff on it and call it good.

I have done the blackwash technique in the past, and have thought about giving the body a spray and putting it behind the wire wheel while doing some of the rusty crap I have laying around here. nice to know it is an approved method :)

thanks for the comments everyone.

Have your truck sit at the sparky end of a grinder. Let it catch the tiny metal pieces, then let it weather while you are at work or something. It might work. I never got around to doing it.

I'm thinking of using a glue stick on the areas that are still chuinky from the ghetto granite, then doing the wire wheel trick.

The rust should stay stuck to the gluestick, and the gluestick should dry slow enough to alow this to happen.

it will also allow me to make specific areas of rust.

That looks very cool the way it is I'd stop and run it right now.