hi everybody I am doing some
construction here in my cave this afternoon and what I am building is
Eagle mosses multi part kit of the Ghostbusters ecto-1 and just to give you
an idea about how big this thing is this is a kit that you order you pay I
don't know 40 bucks a month for 24 months you pay a lot overtime but it's
like a subscription kit and each month you get some parts and when you're all
done you end up with an ecto one that's like this big seriously that's actual
size and folio it is a beautiful crazy detailed model I am currently working on
the engine and I'm playing around with some painting techniques to make the
engine look right I am weathering as I go this is
something I learned when I did the subscription kit of the Millennium
Falcon is if you don't weather as you go the job you have at the end is way too
big to do all at once yeah I have regrets so in order not to have regrets
about my ecto-1 I am weathering during assembly and I'm doing a basic
weathering like right now I'm doing the engine it's multiple parts and pieces
when I'm done with the engine let's see I am weathering some basic passes of the
components as they go together so I have some interesting parts separation and
then as I'm also going on playing around with other washers and rusts to kind of
tie it together and make the details pop in the end I wanted to feel like the old
engine of a Miller meteor and ecto-1 ambulance I don't want it to look like a
brand new out of the box machine I want it to look like a beat-up old piece of
kit that was well-loved so that's what I'm building I am currently on stage 8
which is the other half of the engine so here you can see the engine that I have
built so far I'm kind of happy with how the the head
the head cover head gasket cover looks there's the transmission now this isn't
a final paint job but you can see that I've done some separation between the
bell housing and the etc the other parts I will continue to call out little bits
and pieces as I see them just to make things pop ultimately I want this to
feel like I'm holding on to a real v12 engine so let's start with stage 8
please start with this part now I'm doing a basic grime pass on everything
using flow Quill's grime color I'm not doing the same density of grime pass but
if you ever looked underneath your car you've seen how how crappy it can look
so I'm doing that kind of crappy the underside of an uncared-for vehicle so
here we have a piece that a head gasket goes on – this is the right side of the
engine I am basically just going to do a kind of a wash and then get a little bit
of lacquer thinner on there so I can do a sort of a wash of grime and I'm not
being Precious about it I'm just giving it a full all over like this okay there
you go that's kind of what that looks like and then I'm going to take a lot of
that off no not that dab I'm gonna dab it and sort of wipe it until it feels
like a thing then I'm using a rub and buff with a toothbrush which is a great
way to kind of do a dry brush so take a look at this you'll see I'm gonna do
this kind of yeah and what the rub and buff does is it kicks the high spots it
kicks the high spots and makes them shine a little metallic and that's the
kind of extra detailing I want I'm not going to be again super Precious about
it I'm just going to sort of try to get some separation in there and then the
last thing I'm doing is a little bit of a black oil wash
so getting a nice wet brush with some black oil paint and I'm gonna get that
in here like there and then I'm using a big old bushy brush to kind of move that
around and if you look you'll see now it feels a lot more like an old bit of a
little bit of car engine mechanic so I want to get some rub and buff all over
this cylinder head because I'm figuring that they were replaced at some point so
I can do that with a little bit of lacquer thinner on the rub and buff and
actually paint it on you can actually yeah you can lay down rubbin buff and a
fairly nice dense coat this way a little bit of lacquer thinner and I'm gonna do
that and I think I might even break out my blow dryer just to get this one
setting quicker and the lacquer thinner flashes very fast I mean that's one of
the things that's great about lacquer thinner is it flashes quickly flashes
means it evaporates into the air and lets its paint dry quickly so here is my
rub and buff cylinder head in a minute I will I will actually it's yeah that's
the great thing about rubbing buff too is it's that's really quickly so and
then we'll get a little too little yeah that's great
and then let's get some more terpenoid on there and do some more black into the
corners and or big bushy water around yeah and you know in the real world
anytime there's a corner it's usually not cleaned very well into that corner
so that's the kind of real-world weathering you want to see and again I
can go back with the rub and buff and get a little more metallic look on it if
I want great I could get a little more oil on
there the other thing is to not over localize
your grime you have too much crime in one place or it's too even that's
definitely gonna like stand out mm-hmm so sometimes you want to wipe away a lot
of your grime sometimes not a lot okay that feels pretty good
nice a lot of these screws seem to me to be not pre threaded but actually just
sort of the the screwing of this group creates its own threads so just know
that I'm not sure this kit is one that can be repeatedly taken apart with
abandon you got to be a little bit kind of careful about that nice and so then
this connects up to this oh look at that God just oh okay come on come on you can
get going that's it I was a nice click that's what
I wanted to hear and those are DM screws d em yeah those are longer one and two
we put one D mm there and we put one DM in there and all the way down so now I've got this
terrific I've got this terrific whole engine block and you could see there's
some parts that aren't fully weathered so I'm going to get some grime in here
and I'm gonna do some sort of touching up try and make this thing feel a little
more contiguous so let's get some grime in there and again each time you feel
like you're not seeing all the detail that you want to see go ahead and hit
that place you think you should see more detail hit it with another color you
know add some black behind it it says it's a process not a there's not a
technique to learn it's more like a process to get used to yeah I like those
screws being popped out these these head gasket covers are terrific and I could
keep on covering these with silver and keep on buffing them down because that
just keeps on telling the story that they have been beat up over the years
this is starting to look like a a nice engine there all right so now let's get
some black going a black brush okay and I'm using this big bushy brush I'm
gonna move around the black but but it's very subtle so I go in with a little
black and then I hit it with the brush and I go in with this with the black and
then I hit it with a brush and it's just a process of like does it look good does
it still occur all right Q I'm going did that not work all right go back with
some silver and hit it again in each case I'm kind of like trying to
remove any uniformity that I see any artifacts that make it look like it was
painted by a person and again grime in the corners there's always grime in the
corners later on once I so these are all still first passes of weathering later
on I will come in here with some rust and some grease looking kind of paints
to to tie it together but for right now I'm pretty pleased with that
ya see that go back and dry brush the rub and buff on top of the grime and I
think you can see just how neatly varied that starts to load now the ignition
coil cap and that's this guy and for this guy I am gonna just hit it with
more of my rub and buff just to make it look a little more cool um
every time I'm weathering something every time including this one every time
I'm weathering something there's a point at which I'm like I'm an idiot
this isn't working just it never ever fails ok instert inserting the spark and
distributor cap plugs holy crap locate the spark plugs a Talon cert one into
each of the four holes and the right cylinder head just above the right
exhaust so these are all let's see 2 or 6 8 okay these look like the this medical tray of got is really great
for some of this stuff because I can put it down here and I know it's not going
to roll off the table so push for more together pushing a dipstick into the
engine block okay so let's see these go one two three four you know what I need
some needlenose pliers by the way here are the tweezers that
come with the kit there okay there okay go to your beauty supply store or go
onto Amazon and order a pair of mister tweezerman super razor sharp tweezers
take a look at those guys we will post a link mister tweezerman tweezers are
objectively the best for your tweezers all right let me use some small needle
nose pliers here two four six eight they're all still there
great I'm just gonna press fit into there too
there's gonna be a whole spark plug wire part of this which is gonna be really
fun okay those are that alright I've got
some local scarlet paint here look if this color totally craps the bed
and I don't like it that's fine however I am going to buy that this this is my
grandfather's all this is one of the few tools I have that I got from his
workshop so actually that's too that's too big a poke actually maybe these are
the pokes to or six-eight okay and then let's use my
needlenose to put these in here one this is great okay so I just use needle nose
pliers to pop a little hole in some foam board and that basically allows me to
use this as a little bit of a painting stand so I can get some color onto these
sparkplug caps distributor plug caps I just want to add some variance to the
engine so that it scales oh look they included nine of the sparkplug caps even
though you only need eight of them am I right about that two four six eight yes okay local scarlet here we come
I am NOT going to clean out a brush for this I'm going to use the same brush I
was using for the grime you don't really mind if I get a little bit of over color
you know so I'm just gonna make each of these a little bit red oh and then
figure F is there is a bit of tubing nice I can do this while I'm waiting for
these to dry and this tubing goes from yeah oh there are knowing because one is
in the center that's why all right so this threads on there damn that looks
gorgeous look at that that's some nice work they did and you know what I am also going to get
a little bit of red on the dipstick tops because sometimes they are do the same
over here and later on I'll grime them back down again so they don't stand out
so much but yeah it helps a little bit just to again every time you add a
little bit of the color variance your you're just adding a little bit of
storytelling you're just also adding a little bit of visual detail that draws
your eye and when you draw your eye and it feels like the same kind of I'm
looking to replicate an experience so when you open the hood of a car and you
look inside you have this experience of what that looks like I'm looking to
replicate that experience and it's not like you're like what part of the car is
that you're just looking at the totality of the thing and that's what I'm looking
for again it's so it's all a long way of saying you know it's not like a specific
way to do this I'm just kind of going through and I might screw this up I
might consider that these caps all being that color is not gonna work for me what
it might so what's nice is given how they're set up I can just pick up each
one and pop it in their arc yeah so then what's that pointing that way okay then
they won't be taking this guy and again I'm gonna do some dry brushing on that
so here's the before and there's the after see that just that little bit of
dry brushing adds all this great detail that goes through and an AP screw holds
it from the other side doesn't seem to have an alignment pin so it just holds
all this together I'm grab an AP what what just fell out oh you fall out
of my hand that's what I will say I have a whole bunch of rejas screwdrivers here
because I thought they'd be much better than the one they shipped the kit with
but this little screwdriver shockingly it fits all it fits their freaking parts
just perfectly alright this little guy I want to also get some dry brush on there
okay so now this is a good portion of the base of the carburetor base of the
carburetor blower and I'm going to give it a little bit of some weathering I'm
gonna give it a little bit of turpentine and some black just to kind of just to
give a little bit of variance and then I'm gonna use my big bushy weathering
spreader to move it around and I can even use my this cloth to pull it off a
bunch of stuff yeah and then I can go back with my ribbon
buff and hit the high spots and now I've added all this kind of great little
detail to this part I've gotten a lot of detail for not a huge amount of labor
and this guy lives he lives right there oh and I don't have
to worry about the alignment cuz I can see it okay so I want to get some more
dirt underneath that I think it should be dirtier and so I'm gonna add some all
around the base of the carburetor there because I want us to I wanted to pop and
I use my weathering spreader I want to put this on now yeah it's just a little
more poppy and I'm also gonna get a little more rubbing buff going mm-hmm and I'm gonna hit these high spots again cuz I want it to be I want to be a
little even brighter yeah there we go cool now when you pop on ya see that now
that looks really neat now that looks like a bang
now that actually looks like it separates out from the other bits that's
my goal this is a pretty pretty pretty good air filter yeah okay so now take
the frame part and this piece and assemble them with an EP screw there's
only one way this is really great here is a part and a piece and you can
try and put them together the wrong way I guess you can well oh it's bilaterally
symmetrical so it doesn't matter EP screw goes in there EEP F PEP there
we go in general they've done a tremendous
amount of excellent engineering idiot proofing the construction of this model
it's not that everything is super obvious you know don't fret if you're
finding it a little bit of a pain in the butt but now in my experience fuel
filters are kind of shiny so I may hit this with a little floor wax later okay
so that's the bottom and it's it's oh my gosh yeah so see how you like you lose
all that stuff it was all detail for models like this I really
like the Tamiya lacquers because they set quickly and they go on also they
drive that so I'm gonna make it glossy first and then I'm going to hit it with
a little bit of grime pops in and I'm gonna give that little dry brush to it
because you don't want it to feel left out ladies and germs all right so let's get
a little bit of okay I think this is looking gorgeous go over just move it
okay oh man this thing is starting to get
delicate so that gets the first screw is an EP there right and that moves right
yeah that's what that moves great okay so an EP there that's the one I want to
do first anyway does that not work oh it's there oh that's where it goes
amazing oh okay yeah and then the next one is an
FM over there but wait does that sit on top of it it
does alright so then this comes over here yes I was right about which one I
wanted to start with oh so much better okay once I get this and the other one
tightened this should be a fairly tight piece this is dreamy doing this work I'm
finding it very highly relaxing there are times I like designing stuff myself
a lot of the time I like designing stuff myself and then there are times I just
really dig following instructions seriously sometimes it's intoxicating okay assembling the oil filter okay
go it's that guy again we're gonna a little bit of detail scale there's a cap
cap cap that's just there let's crime it grime it yeah good nice and then on the backside
goes the other thing this is the last step of my goodness it might actually be
and a DP DP goes there oh I'll get that going the oil filter sits Oh yep so
that's a BP and that sits on that part of the oil filter that goes in there and
then this is the one that goes in there yes and then the next one or the last
one yeah DP here we go and then I'm gonna do a bit of rust pass on this just
to make it tie it together oh oh no I don't attach that plate a BP there oh
but we don't know what okay so this is a DP but I don't use it there okay ladies
and germs let's get some let's get some some rust on this puppy here I'm gonna
get some burnt sienna burnt umber a little raw umber and little bit of the
crime so now I'm just going through them kind
of tying it up sort of bringing some pieces together adding from rough in
places I don't think you'll get to see very much later on I'm just sort of
looking for anything that sort of stands out I could use a little more a little
more love all right ladies and gentlemen I think
that is a terrific stopping point and it is the stopping point because that
finishes out step number ten of the Eagle Moth ecto-1 I will now take my
camera and get you some close-ups you
