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Jimmy Hervatin (@kustomsbyjimmy)
Shared some updates on his Keith Weesner inspired Pick-Up
“Well I made huge progress on the Keith Weesner inspired painting of Lit-up this past week! A long process to get here. I knew the layout would either make it or break it on this truck. So it had to be as close as I could get it! So in the beginning of January I started the tape layout. I worked on the layout for about 5 weeks then it was the dead of winter, too damn cold to paint. So I worked on other things for the truck and left it together till two weeks ago.
So back to the taping process. I spent a week or so taping things out looking at the magazine and I just really wasn’t pleased. So I gave it some thought. And I positioned a ladder to get as close to the angle of the painting. I thought if I took a picture with my cell phone and then hold it up to the magazine and enlarge it in the area that I was working on, it would really show how close I really was. It worked great. I must have gone up and down 250 to 300 times, take a picture delete repeat.
I was using the 1/4” blue tape to represent the white pinstripe so then it still took a lot of time because I would do a panel and then I would get almost done with that panel and I could see that spacing got kinda off and then I would want to move things and then it would cause me to start all over. You have to remember I am going off a painting not a picture of an actual F1 truck. So I had to give and take in areas.
Then I outlined the blue tape with orange tape to the side that would be blue when it was done. Then I removed the blue tape and I made a drop down stencil to replicate the other side. I would start at the bottom of the stencil and I would trim the stencil to the pencil line.
I feel it’s very very close but I guess we will let you be the judge on judgement day. I’ll continue posting the paint process in the next couple of days.
Enjoy the beauty of Customizing
Adrian Smith from
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The car is now back to its owner here in the Netherlands for the next steps.
Enjoy the beauty of Customizing
The car is now back to its owner here in the Netherlands for the next steps.
Watch out bicycles!!!!
Just looking at the beautiful Weesner inspired truck….looks like the screen is leant back on the illustration. Kind of sticks out that it isn’t on the actual truck.
Kind of sticks out that it isn’t on the actual truck.
Come on man, it’s a drawing. I’m not going to debate the pros and cons of leaning the A pillars etc. and the effect it would have, but making in real life what someone’s hand created in an illustration – with all the artistic license involved –Â are two very different things.
There will always be somebody find fault with others work. Usually when it something this good.
And as I’ve already said, I’m not “finding fault”. It’s an awesome truck.
But go ahead and make it personal, if it makes you feel better.
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Amazing dedication to trad customs with all three cars shown here , has trad customs finally broken thru with one fantastic build after another , there is hope , this makes me very happy .
The truck is just on another level , making the real thing out of Kieth Weesner artwork that clearly did not make it as a rendering really brightens my friday evening , looking forward to seeing this truck finished , love it !
Wolf
The level of work and detail on both the caddy and the truck are off the hook. Casting your own chopped wind wing frames in bronze? Next level stuff. Jimmy’s truck? Unreal…especially when you consider that Jimmy has done EVERY single thing on it….body work upholstery, paint, the whole thing by one guy in one shop….and building cars isn’t even his business. Nuts!
I’ve seen the F1 Truck in bare metal a while back. I literally spent several hours and walking back to look again. The metal work has no equal. It appears all the peices are brand new factory sheet metal. Of Course they are not. I imagne every panel has been touched and reworked. But WOW.
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