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I don't know if I got the shade of pink right, but I got as close as I could.

 

Thanks! Gosh, it sure is loud, isn't it?

-Dave

 

"Baylor Green with the Orange Flake roof. Orange wheels with dog dish center caps and wide whites. Oh and ditch the ski rack!"

 

Ha! You don't do pink to be subtle, eh?

 

Can someone take 5 inches out of the lid of this and lower the ass end down so the rear wheel is in the wheelwell were it belongs. Thanks Dale

 

True. Still, I'm rethinking running mufflers - so I can drown out that paint!

-Dave

 

Dale,
Chopped & Channelled.
If only it were this easy in real life!

 

I don't want it channeled. I just wanted the tires moved up in the wheelwell area. Not saying I don't appreciate your effort just I want the frame to show because of the 32 reveal I put into the frame. Looks great though. Hammer this bitch. More out of the lid and we might just get there. Thank you very much!

 

Here you go...

Damn, I'm sloppy today- Need to remember to put my glasses on.

 

oops, I think it's a bit more than 5 inches. Sorry 'bout that.

 

No, That just about perfect. Thanks you very much. I wish I had the software to do this myself. Very cool. Now I need to blow it up and get it on the wall in the garage.

 

All good, curbspeed-

SketchBook Pro 5.something- $100 bucks. Get it

 

I would love to see my car with a mild chop, a little lower, darker paint and cream wheels. I would be very grateful!

 

Would love to see my coupe Baby blue with some chrome smoothies and white walls or blue steelies with white walls going in for paint next week thanks a million

 

How about this?
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sweet if i had the extra cash i would but im strapped lol

 

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Two versions minus the graphics.
One with the blue steel wheels and one with chromies.

 

You can have one for free.
http://www.gimp.org/

 

Perfect..............thank you

 

Man you have the skills!! I would like you to do my f1 when back together.
This is one bad ride!!! Love the whites

 

Here's an idea I have had in the back of my mind for awhile now.

One of my favorite cars from the early fifties was the factory-custom Packard Caribbean. Packard needed a showy car to compete with offerings from rival Cadillac. Strapped for cash, Packard customized its Mayfair convertible into the glamorous Caribbean.

Their stylists removed the side chrome, opened up the wheel wells and trimmed the arches in chrome. Fill with wide-white tires and chrome wire wheels. Add a hood scoop, Continental spare, wind-split tail lights and leather interior. For power, drop in the 327" I-8 engine. And make just 750 of them.

I decided to try some of those styling ideas on the same-year Chevy: wheels, chrome arches, add the triangular chrome piece on the door, and extend the rear fenders.

You could add the hood scoop, wind-splits, and Connie kit, too, but I went easy this time.

I call it a 1953 Bel Caribe.


Bel Caribe 1953 by DaveTartaglia, on Flickr

 

Nice work, R&K!

 

Can someone please help me out with a sneak peek at wide white walls? Maybe, even a chrome bumper.
Thanks.

 

Close?- I really need to work on my "chrome" skills

 

Thanks, Sinister, I appreciate the encouragement.


Your "chrome" skills are pretty good, guy; making chrome is tough!

Hard enough to do in a digital program, but automotive-subject painters just wow me. I'm a very amateur wet-on-wet oil painter (you know - "happy little trees"). But it taught me to look at art with a new perspective, literally and figuratively.

Two years ago, I was in Phoenix, AZ to visit my family. We spent an afternoon at a roadside tent art faire. I spotted a huge painting of a car with gleaming chrome bumpers and wheels. I got eyeball-to-canvas for ten minutes trying to figure out just how he got that effect.

There was no silver or "chrome" paint - just white, blue red, black, purple and I don't what else - but damn - it was photo-realistic.

Another artist in the show came up behind me and said,
"Amazing isn't it? I can't figure out how he does it, either!"

 

Doing chrome isn't too hard, I've saved pictures with clear chrome views and enlarged them to get the breakdown in colors. The key is using sharp lines. This works pretty well in "rechroming" rusty bumpers. This bumper is an example. I didn't photoshop this but have used it as a reference.
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The process is similar with shiny paint. On Koolkemps car I "painted in" the reflections on the side.

 

A lot ofthe old brochures from way back when have some great illustrations in them with painted chrome. Good to study them. The problem is making it match on a car thats outside and reflecting trees and grass and who knows what!

 

I've tried copy/paste cuts and pieces, then filling in and blending. I've also just fully free-handed stuff, and I feel I can't get over the hump. I study how others pull it off, too. Keeping it simple and not over-coloring the tones so it doesn't look like I tried too hard, but then I'm over thinking the process. Thank goodness for the back button. I keep TONS of reference photos and apply what I need to if I can't do it freehand.

With the tools you're using, along with your oil painting skills (which I don't have, and need to work on, because Bob Ross rules!) you have brought out your own style- just like everyone else that contributes to this thread. I don't give a shit who is better than who, we can all learn something from each other, and get better in the process.

Keep on the concepts! Most of us will never be able to afford to build what we create, but at least the dreaming is free, right?