crazyrichard

thnx guys ...i wanted to start a new dio this winter .. but its almost summer .. had so much fun building cars this winter ..my plan is to revamp my gassstation .. spice that up a bit .. like i now grew more and the base of the gassstation is cool but i feel i can now make it more realistic and add more ... would be nice to build on on that one

love that dock and roof !

eric this particulair modelkit of the charger is known to have that very very tight fit , lots of people broke their doorpanels in half or ....its just a very tight fit and it takes a certain way of wiggeling it in and patience ...and some luck .. i can tell you now other modelkits not dodge chargers are much easyer to assemble .. and yes the advise above was certainly great advise , that you shousl aways try to dryfit as much as possible ! so like fit before paint and always think about when stuff is in pastic and you fit it and it fits fine you might hae iddues fitting it after you sprayed it in primer and paint , the parts get thicker ... looking good paint looks great ! ps if you ever hve a question you want to ask in dutch you can always send me pm ....no problem

thnx guys !!! much apriciated thnx nd yes in a way it needed to be balanced , like the trans didnt look right in painted styrene , just kept looking a tad fake .. i just started using metal materials on car builds on my previous cobra build where i made a real alu dash and doorpanels etc .. and now on this one .. its just great to use it and some things just look way better indeed ... i hope to expand the use of metal materials in the futute .. i still want to start soldering ... just need to find and buy a good soldering station and a good how to on what material is best to use for melting and at what temperatures ... i believe i have a book lying around about soldering

yes thats what i ment if you would use more stirdy materials next time ! will look killer .. gain not saying this is bad glad you understood what i ment , again i see you have the vision

stunning !!

thnx ! today i decided to make the lugnuts black , all the chrome on chrome made it look unrealistic now it pops and you really see the lugnuts then made hip seat belts , looked at a lot of gasser pics and most had simple hip belts , also i cant put a 4-point harnas on these seats the back and headrest earea are not suited for that i actually cut a section out of some real ugly styrene harnasses i still had .. i really sanded them thinner and redid the catch / lock in the middel , made a rigde with a drilled hole and put in a chrome flat head needle pin so it realy has a push button in there

thnx tom ! the shop is and all machines is / are scratch build was a quite big project

aah a nother fellow dutchman , and a 68 charger always cool , i like the color , curious on how it looks with the black rims

since my charger gasser is almost done i send it to the shop for a tune ....lol

nice adding

nice idea's and i can see you have the vision .... i think and thats ment in such a good way , and the garage looks good and cool if you in the future would take like maybe 3 times the time you could really grow and make it even more detailed again ment very well

send it to the shop for a tune ...

schweeeet !!

haha we where posting at the same time , i put a update in thnx wayne !! and yes it does take patience and sometimes a lot of grrrrr's .. but in the end its just soo cool to do on the front brakes i forgot to glue in the brakelines and glued on the wheels .. then i needed too wiggle the wire in with tweezers and glue it .. that was grrrr hahaha in the end i kind of put in everything a real car has .... it takes time and effort but its def. worth sticking with it and doing all the details .. funny a while back .. few years i thought it was impossible to do such details in this scale hahaha.. and from now on i hope it can only get better and even more realistic

just desided to hack up 2 rims to use the centers for my rims ... drilled my rim center flat and roughly hacked out the new centers of the rims .. really flattened and made the flat surface of the new centers way thinner so they sit flush in the center of the rim looks great , for the front rims i will make a tiny cap for the center over the center hole also tckled the wear on sme spots with some chrome silver paint loose testfit of the doorpanels , i now have to try and decide if i c glue them on or need to find a nother way , this because the charger body is so tight to fit on .. i might hae to make the doorpanels fixed on the body the chrme cage reflects cool in the alu doorpanels

put in the flex. brake lines on the front brakes , made a steering rod and mounted that .. next time i want that more detailed .. think more about that in advance ...

i need to be patience bob if i really want a cool metallic paint and waight 2 weeks when i have time to go to the modelstore ... usually i can go on a saturday but lately it didnt have time to go on a saturday , i could have ordered online but i want to go to the store and browes all the cool stuff ans soak up the atmosphere .. its still so much fun to go trough a store .. looks and see .. online is so easy you can buy what you want when you want but i still like the feel of a store thnx a lot and randy there are a few guys here and you are one of them that inspire others .. also eery build you kind of grow and i'm just at the first step of the ladder on discovering that real materials like copper and brass and aluminium beats styrene it just shows when you use these parts .. now i still never bought materials i'm kind of like a miniature material hoarder every day i look for stuff i can use in moddeling and tbh i have fun using the odd materials .. i know i could build even better if i had a ton of fresh bought material .. i do want to ggo and buy some brass stuff in the future maybe in a few weeks ... but i also enjoy the use of as much scrap and found / odd materials as possible but coming from you its a great compliment i just alsmost finished everything but the body , added rear brakes and flexible brakelines , steering rod (made the middle section of steel) mounted the wheels .. only needs brakelines to the wheels in front and a steering rod from the front to the steering wheel (hole is already in the firewal) one thing went a tad bad .. the center on the rear wheels got a bit affected by superglue , thise rims and tyres weigh a lot so i needed them fixed quick otherwise they would sag and get weird camber .. now i painted the center circles black .. not real happy with that .. so i might add mini hub caps in the middle sections ... also not real visible by eye but i know its there the rims are red styrene with chrome and witth handeling some tiny ridges weared and show a tiny bit of red through the chrome .. now i mounted the rims so that sits up and isnt really visible .. again when i look normal i cant really see it real obvious when i looks very close i can find some small eareas where the red shows a bit mostly on the edges i learned a lot of new ways and tricks on this build ...so from now on all my builds need to be like this taking all the time in the world and making sure to hang in and make avery detail possible .. cant think of anything i really left out on this one ...

hmm looks great !!

awsome !! tasty !! insane job !! love it !!! the craftmenship and detail in this is stunning !!! paint > whow ..... real fan of your work !! can i talk about one small thing i keep thinking about ?? not ment offensive !! i feel when looking at the original thats more slanted forward .. this one backwards ..its not that i dislike it .. it kind of almost gives it a funky mixed look of a showrod vs gasser .. its also looking real wide in the front and narrow in the back again i really dont dislike the look but lookin at the original its got a more narrow track in front and wider in the back .. and sitting more level ....again just a thought i had not ment in a bad way

i almost hit report post on you randy ... i mean its not normal what you are doing ...making us crazy with this insanity of a build ...!! i mean the towtruckrod you did was out of this world but now your just stepping it up a few notches ... alright what i'm saying ... feed us more ...lots more because this stuff is inspiring !!!

stunning !

whell , added a decal , pins in the crossmember , and gave the whole metal case a good layer of high gloss clearr this really brought the metal to life and at the same time protects it from going dull /flat

thnx rob !

nice !!