Bringing home the next project........

[Thorrr 0]

Bringing home the next project

The 1956 Flashsider I entered in the "Battle of the Kustomizers" comp at Chillies Diecast Corner got 2nd to a previous winner, which earned me an entry into the "2009 Battle Royal".
This is a competition where where the 21 qualifiers have 3 months to build anything they want, ie. it's a no theme wild comp.
The timing of the comp was very bad for me, I was away on holidayz for 4 weeks [Hi to all you guys I met at Amcorp ], and then had to pack up everything as we moved house a couple of weeks after returning from our trip, and this resulted in me not finding any time to start my build until 1 week before the deadline, so I had to do something that was achivable in that timeframe.
I have always loved how Hot Rodders take old wrecks and transform them into automotive art, and decided that this would be the theme for my entry:
a Hot Rodder having finished his kustom Dairy Delivery bringing home the next old rustbucket to be rescued.

There ended up being 10 entries, and I got equal 5th, I think that's pretty good for what is not much more than a couple of Milds in an Open Wild comp

The build consists of :
A Dairy Delivery wearing True Fire paint, aluminium tape for the lights and grill and wheels from a Maisto Porsche Cayenne
A Dairy Delivery with some simble bumpers and raised wheel axles, paint weathered with chipping, washes and dry brushing and wheels from a Matchbox Rubbish King
A trailer scratchbuilt from the back of a CD case and paperclips

[xeifu 0]

very nice ha bro.......air brush.....

[mushr00m 0]

wow.. very nice.. wicked...

[cham2020 0]

wow
wow
Thor, that's awesome and the advatage of having an airbrush!!
lovely DD's!

[chee keng hong 0]

NIce spectra flame!! And the faded DD look so real!!

[kukubeh 0]

awesome bro. totally awesome!

[jhc7598 0]

wow, great customs!!! so envy with airbrush..

[sinclair 0]

Congrats on your success Thorrr!

This is really really awesome bro! I love that rustbucket effect on the DD.

[danielh 0]

awesome DD thorrt!!!!!!! love it...........

[Thorrr 0]

Thanks for the nice comments guys

Airbrush is great for kustomizing...... here is a cheap way to get started.....

I looked on ebay.com.my and see that they sell double action airbrush for RM99... that's a good price, but the compressors are much more expensive.


Here is the tip..... for my first airbrush I did not use a compressor, I was young and my dad got an old propane gas bottle and made a fitting for the top with 2 air valves, one was hooked up the the airbrush, and the other to a car wheel valve so that the gas bottle could be pumped up with air at the petrol station or with a bicycle pump.

not perfect but a very cheap way to get started.

[jhc7598 0]

wah, nice idea tho!! thanks mr thorrr!! yup, it's the compressor that keep me hesitating in owning an airbrush..
but u giving a nice idea!! thanks for sharing!!

[RGSUKAN 0]

your custom always not disappointing..great to see your custom here bro..i like it very much

[kurz 0]

Magnificent!!! and congratulations!!!

[elgee 0]

this thread is gold, and i'm really feeling the DDs. congrats on the 5th placing, a decent finish considering the circumstances. :-)

[ADVedder 0]

loving your works thorr!