Thought I’d dress up a few vehicles with whitewall ties. I think, IMHO, it’s a definite improvement. https://flic.kr/p/teXoqh
What are those, stickers? Upon seeing the thread title, I was wondering if you had used white Gel Pens with some sort of rudimentary lathe.
There is something to be said about modeling the modern era (well, two things - in general no whitewalls, nor big telescoping metal antennae on the fenders)
Sylvan scale models of auto’s and pick-up’s come with stick-on scale whitewalls. They are pre-cut, just peel and stick. They are all kits though (polyurethane resin) and not for the light hearted builder, but can be made into very fine Models. Have built about 40 of their truck/tractor/trailer kits that came out extremely well…but I modify all of them to roll with different add-on wheels/tires and axle’s, just started putting together some autos that will be going on a 50’s era car carrier:
Nice looking Models. Were they kits or RTR?
http://www.sylvanscalemodels.com/default.htm
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Ah, yes. Cars of the good old days, back when a car was considered well-equipped if it was equipped with radio, heater, and WSW tires. Cal Worthington and his “dog” Spot. Good times.
Andre
Does anybody remember “whitewall paint” that young, on a tight budget guys could use to convert your blackwalls to the more impressive to the girls whitewalls?
Joe
Didn’t care for the paint…but I used the ones that You put around the tire after You broke the bead on the wheel and reinflated the tire. I didn’t want to impress the girls…just Me![swg]
Take Care! [:D]
Frank
Now these are real one’s…not pretend.[swg]
Remember it? You can still get it. http://www.rangerpaint.com
Andre
Fascinating. The price hasn’t changed all that much.
Joe
Aha, I have encountered those “peel 'n stick” white-walls decades before, on a Alloy Forms 1956 T-Bird I assembled. I still have that model in my collection, as the body paint finish looks decent enough, but just now I looked closely at the wheels, and remembered those stickers did NOT want to stay stuck - whatever sort of stickum (it wasn’t CA) I eventually used on them kinda seeped out; don’t recall what it was, but sadly not my finest work.
Anyway, white-wall tires to me in my teenage years seemed a bit pointless, as by that time they were more or less just thin accent stripes, and the “collector” cars I saw on the streets were mostly 60s muscle cars, with no white-walls (or the thin stripes at most) - and one neighborhood guy with his black-wall tired model A. Didn’t even realize till the '90s that white-wall tires once really meant…white-wall tires.
The Cadillac convertibles are cheap, Model Power cars that look rather plain straight out of the box. I think the 55 Chevys are either Model Power or Malibu models. The 41-46 Chevy pickup truck is a Classic Metal Works which I painted the fenders black, added a sunviser and gave the grill a black wash to bring out the detail. The whitewall are stickers, as seen in the photo. It takes a steady hand, tweezers and some Optivisors to carefully place the stickers exactly right. If your off by just a little bit, they look bad, especially if you roll the car!
The whitewalls look great!
Dave
Never liked white walls on real cars always looked dirty. Or in the case of this forum weathered.