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Post by bsheeron on Feb 21, 2011 21:05:31 GMT -5
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Post by skibum on Feb 21, 2011 21:32:40 GMT -5
Wow!! Outstanding looking build. Extremely clean and well detailed. Very nice indeed.
Rob
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Post by 68chevy on Feb 21, 2011 22:48:22 GMT -5
great job nice car
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Post by zbuckster on Feb 22, 2011 0:37:45 GMT -5
Job well done.
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Post by Nacho Z on Feb 26, 2011 12:11:08 GMT -5
Very, very nice build. You have all of the details covered. I would love to hear about all of the work you put into this. How did you do the two stripes in the wheels? How about the decals? One thing...the driver's name doesn't ring a bell....  ;D |
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Post by smash on Feb 26, 2011 14:33:54 GMT -5
Very nice! Very Clean too. I am with Nacho..........Would like to know.
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Post by bsheeron on Feb 27, 2011 19:10:11 GMT -5
Thanks Guys, this was kind of a tribute car. The 22 decals, the THUNDERBIRD, and the ford decals were out of the Maxwell House model. The contingencies are left overs from a 1980's contingencies decal set by powerslide. The main and associate sponsors were printed from my laser printer using Testors decal paper. This is the second car I did using these "sponsors". The Main sponsor is my fathers company and the rest are either companies that I represented or who sponsored me when I was a kid racing Go-Karts. I spent a little time on this because it was actually for an online contest on a different site. As for the two stripes in the wheels they were drawn on the corners of the wheel with red and blue sharpie. As far as add on's that weren't in the kit I made the right side passenger window from clear sheet, the side skirts were sheet styrene. The oil tank that you see underneath is actually out of a monogram kit. I use them in the AMT kits because you can't see them in the monogram kit and they are in the wrong location anyway. I cut the hole that it sits in and used sheet styrene and putty to fill the gap. The front and rear springs were hand fabricated out of solder, the hoses and fittings were made from solder and wire insulation and painted to match the gray (sometimes it was orange) insulation that was sometimes used on steel braided lines in the late 90's.  The heat shield is aluminum foil. The battery cables running down the tunnel were extra and the roll bar padding is made from 10 ga. electrical insulation to mimic the adhesive style roll bar padding.  The gauges are painted flat black and then the paint over the numbers is scraped off. Red sharpie provides the red needles and Future floor polish provides the gauge lenses. The fuel Cell is full of the red 76 gasoline as can be seen in the clear fill hose and the clear overflow line--again provided by red sharpie. The windshield straps are silver tape. The metal overflow line and the fuel line shield are also added on this one as it the top radiator duct panel, with NASCAR required window and the access panel in the top of the dashboard. and probably a couple of other things as well--Can't remember it all. thanks for the nice comments all. Oh yeah the shocks were modified to match Penske Racing Shocks.  |
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Post by fireguy14 on Mar 21, 2011 9:09:13 GMT -5
Outstanding job!
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