I may not be able to draw but I can do this....

HotWings

I'm not an artistic type person, I don't think anyways. I do like to try and create things that I need though. I had an idea one night while standing in my garage with some friends drinkin' a few beers, shootin' the s**t. I wanted a different set of wirelooms for my car, a one off, something NOBODY has. A set of Flame Wirelooms! One of my buddies said he could get me some scrap aluminum to work with. In this first pic you can see the stock I used and the finished piece.

This pic is just the finshed product.

I have a 4 part video that I did of the whole process, if you have any interest in doing it yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Ratfink62

The other medium I work in is plastic. I love to detail engines for my models. Here's the engine I put together for a 57 Chev drag car I built.

Engine for a 1964 GTO. 389 Tri-power

This is a model I built for a museum display for a friend of my family's. He died during the Battle of Britain, Oct 17 1940. The nose art and serial number I made on a Word doc and printed on decal paper. The Call letters on the plane were done with a wet stencil. I designed them on Word, printed, cut out, soaked with water, then laid down on fuselage and sprayed with as little air pressure as possible to get the paint to come out my airbursh. The aging is done with pastel chalks.

Pete
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MotorCityThreads · Joined: 08 Mar 2008 Posts: 216 Location: Tulsa,OK

Holy Cow! I say you are an artist, those looms are bad to the bone.

HotWings · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:12 am Post subject:

Here's the 64 GTO the above engine is in.

I was and still am a huge fan of Dale Earnhardt.

Here's a 69 Charger I bulit for a friend. It's a model of her brother's car.

Pete
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rkellerjr · Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 278 Location: Yorktown, VA

Cool pic on that charger Pete. Nice work.
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1975 TA - http://www.78ta.com/gallery2/main.php/v/rkellerjr/
Video: http://www.zenonline.com/~rkeller/Videos/75showcar.wmv

HotWings · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:55 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys!
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Nate · Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 433 Location: Owensboro, KY

Extremely beautiful work. You can tell that you place your heart and soul in everything that you do by the look of things! Keep up the great work! Very Happy

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Mark Haynes · Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 28 Location: Warner Robins, GA

Those model's are way cool....I love the detail you put into them. I guess being a kid who grew up in the 70's...model building was a huge boyhood thing to do. On the rare chance I build a model these days the smell of testor's glue takes me back to 1979........... Laughing

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My Latest Painting: "Back in '69"
See My Automotive Art at: www.MarkHaynesArt.com

HotWings · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:41 am Post subject:

I stopped using Testors glue.....too many flashbacks Wink

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