Altona Legends Car show

Here are some pictures that I took from 2019 in our towns car show. I thought I would do this know because there are no car shows this year in our town. I hope you enjoy.

This 1959 Bel-air looks great in white.

A 1952 Bel-Air. These came with inline 6 engines, hot rodders changed this with a small block V8. Nice burgundy paint job. You would find a lot of these in Cuba.

A 1964 Chevrolet Impala. I love the tail lights!

A 1967 Ford Mustang, this is quite the car. If this had a Cobra Jet 428 it could do the 1/4 mile in the 14’s!

The awesome tail lights of the Mustang.

This is by FAR the best car here! I bet this could do the 1/4 mile in 10 flat! If I could afford this I would buy it right away! So simple but yet elegant.

This here is a 1950 Ford Deluxe. I really like these cars. This was the first new type of car that Ford made since pre-war.

This here is probably the most underrated car american history. The 1958 Ford Edsel. People hated this car for the toilet seat on it. Henry Ford II made this to honor his father, Edsel Ford, but the public didn’t like it. “The Edsel was also a failure due to its reliability and timing in the car market,” Kevin from https://scalemodelingreview.com/.  It doesn’t look great but it’s okay. I probably wouldn’t have bought it in 1958 either.

I hope you have enjoyed this post!

-Patrick

 

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Nature Pictures

Here are some pictures I took a while back and I thought I could put them to good use.

Enjoy.

All of these pictures I took were taken from British Columbia from our trip last year.

I hope you enjoyed this post. I really enjoy taking pictures of the outdoors.

Have a great day!

-Patrick

Finishing the 1959 Eldorado Convertible

In the last post I re-airbrushed the Eldorado. In this post I will be putting the last bits and pieces together. Enjoy.

Here are the airbags, suspension, and the wheels. The last time I did this it came off so this time I will be sure to do it right.

Putting on the spaceship taillights. I really like the retro ’50’s styling.

The spears go great with the huge tail fins.

The top headlight lenses before they fell out. So I got new ones and put them in.

I put the windshield wipers on. The windshield looks pretty bad with the glue on it, and the crack in the middle.

The window vent. Almost lost it before!

I put in the A.C. hoses.

Put in the steering wheel. The dashboard could look better.

Put on the chrome stickers and painted the top of the fins silver.

The hard boot. I like the Eldorado better without the top.

I put on the door handles.

And now for the photo shoot.

I like the aggressive look that Cadillac gave it!

The big old tail fins go well with the bullet lenses.

I think the interior came out quite nice. I like the Createx red with the Testors red interior.

I like how everything in the interior goes well together.

Under the hood there is a 390 cu in 6.4 L OHV V8 with a 4-speed Hydra-Matic Transmission, capable of 345 horsepower. I also made a little Interstate Battery.

Finishing off with the aggressive but curvy stance.

I hope you have enjoyed my post! -Patrick

Re-Airbrushing the 1959 Eldorado

So I bought this kit last year with some birthday money, and when I get a model it takes me forever to finish. I cut corners and that makes things not look nice and not work nicely, either. I hot glue gunned some things and that made some parts, like the grill, not fit at all. Enjoy.

Preparing it for airbrushing. The paint chips are from me with an exacto knife.

The left side of the Eldorado. I just used regular frog tape.

The rear of the Eldorado. I put on little decals before when I thought I was done with the thing.

Here is the grill also all taped up.

Here is the airbrush paint, Createx Airbrush Colors red.

The amount I was going to use. I only ended up using over half.

After airbrushing. Came out okay, I could have done better at some parts.

The right side. My photography skills could use some work. I need to let it focus.

You can’t see the decals from before anymore.

The clear coat I will be using: Minwax Clear Coat.

The left side, the middle left of the picture has some little flaws I made that I should have scrapped off from before. The clear coat makes it a bit shinier.

The left side has some, too.

Another big problem. I should be better at this by now.

Taking off the tape. At least all of the paint and clear coat stayed out.

The right side without any tape on. It looks okay.

A lot of the shine goes away after the clear coat completely dries.

I will post putting together the rest of the Eldorado this week.

Want to know a good blogger? He is great with kits and very nice: https://scalemodelingreview.com/.

Thanks for reading! -Patrick

Kevin Harvick wins at the Brickyard!

Kevin Harvick holds off Matt Kenseth in the final two laps to win for the third time there. Denny Hamlin crashed on lap 156 due to a flat tire on turn two. Kevin Harvick’s first win here was in 2003, his second was last year, and he just had his third. If he wins again next year, he will be the first ever driver to win 3 times in a row.

His first brickyard win in 2003. Photo courtesy of 2003 Action Sports Photography, Inc.

Kevin Harvick’s second win at the Brickyard in 2019. Photo courtesy of Speed Sport.

And his third and back to back win, in 2020. Picture courtesy of The San Diego Union-Tribune.

The race went pretty much south on lap 16 when everyone pitted, except Kevin Harvick who outwitted the other drivers to pit a lap before the caution. But when everyone was pitting, one driver slowed down to pit, causing a domino effect and damaging eight racers, causing a red flag because Zach Price, the left and right rear tire changer on Ryan Blaney’s car, was squished between two cars. He ended up to be okay.

Jimmie Johnson also could not race because he tested positive for Covid. So Justin Allgaier had to race for him but had to be taken out of the race because his car engine blew a gasket or something because he was involved in the wreck earlier in the pits.

Thanks for reading! -Patrick