Interior
work started with the carpet. Nothing looks more like
real carpet than real carpet. I always like using real material
for my model car interiors. I suppose I could use flocking,
but I only do if I can't find a suitable real material....It
is very important to find material that is in scale.
I find material that is in scale and I cement it on using
clear nail polish. Nail polish dries real fast and is really
sticky just before it dries.
I painted
the interior floor flat black because I wanted the underside
flat black. I should have left the interior floor bare white
plastic. Bare white plastic works best for this method, because,
the nail polish tends to melt the paint.
If you
put too much nail polish on or tack down the material when
the nail polish is too wet, the paint can bleed through the
material. But I have used this method for years and so I know
how to prevent bleed through.....
Well,
the interior is coming along. I wanted to have Hawaiian seat
covers for this 4X4 surfer rig. You know kind of like the
kind you buy a the local auto supply store.
I also weathered the window cranks a little. Do they look
well used.???
OK,
to make seat covers first print out, in color, what ever you
like. I pulled this Hawaiian shirt right off the internet.
Now the trick is to shrink the picture down to 1/25th
scale.
Just
make a bunch of sizes on your word processor or photo program
and print them out in black and white until you see a size
that looks right. Hopefully, when it's in the size you
like it's not to small.
I needed
to use two pictures of the shirt to cover the seat. And
I had to "somewhat" match the pattern.....
Then
cut out the pattern and crush up the paper in a little ball.
Roll it around and make it feel like material. Don't over
do it or the ink will start to fade too much. Make it
look like this piece of paper. It looks and feels like
material.
Check
out this pink flamingo design. Boy that would work good on
a Rat Rod.
Glue
the crinkled paper on the plastic with plastic cement. (The
kind that melts the plastic). The glue will soak through the
paper a little. Don't worry about that. When it
dries you can't see the bleed through. Oh yea..!!!!!
make sure that the plastic underneath is NOT painted.
Or else the paint will bleed through......
Where the seams are (paper to paper) use a little Elmers
white glue. The Elmers glue makes the seams disappear..!!!
And it ends up looking like this....... All I have to
do now is add a little black pastel powder where the 1/25th
scale surfer butts would hit the seat.
Have fun..!!!
Then
I built a surf board rack for the interior. I used bass
wood. I had to make sure that the board would sit above
the tailgate when the body and interior are glued together.
And I added little strips of black material on top of
the rack where the surf board sits on the rack. !
Now
I wanted to add a towel to the interior. So lets drape
it over the surf board rack....
I printed
out two blue Hawaiian flower patterns on paper. I cut
them both out and crunched them up and wrinkled them a little.
I dipped them in a white glue and water mixture. About
a 50:50 mixture. I sandwiched them together so I had
colored pattern on both sides.
I made
a wood pattern that matched the surf board rack and draped
the wet paper over the pattern to dry. I used a CD so the
dried towel could be easily removed. Well the pattern
kind of faded away, but it still looks like a blue towel. (
Maybe I should not have crunched them up first...???
)
When
dry it draped perfectly over my surf board rack like this........
