El Ranchito gets paint.....

Here's what I did today, if anyone's interested. fresh paint, with my first attempt at scallops. Doesn't show too good in the pictures, but the scallops are silver with a HOK oriental blue fade.

 

here's the hood...

 

Nice scallops!

Paint looks almost wet...

 

Not wet, but still sticky! I wish I had a better camera, the fade on the scallops is pretty cool...

 

Loooookinggg goooood

 

very nice! did you do the fade with an airbrush?

 

Nice job, man!

 

The original plan was to do the fade with the airbrush, but last time I used it, I must not have gotten it clean enough, the needle was stuck. I wound up doing the fade with a 50's vintage Sears siphon feed gun, with the fan turned all the way down. How's that for traditional?

 

Pretty close to trad...