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Oh Yeah!!! Absolutely beautiful!!! The engine has some very nice detail in it, and that finish.....so smooth!

Color choice is perfect! Looks great so far.

Awsome! That just has a great "look" to it. I like the silver/red color combo, and that air cleaner came out great. Like glass!

Great job Nick! You're right. Dodge should definetly offer a deep blue for this car. It looks great! Nice job on the guitar too. 8)

Not that's clean!!! Nice job!

Dragon did a series of race cars sometime in the 90's, one of those being a very rare First Union sponsored BMW. I've only seen one photo of this kit built up in a contest mag, and I've never seen it listed on any of the sites. Come to think of it, I think I've only seen one of those elusive BMW kits, in another livery, listed on Ebay a few years ago.

Hopefully he'll bring some of these to NNL East. If he does, I'll be buying them!

Wow. That was one extensive restoration job! You really pulled it off nicely. Great job! 8)

I'll be there

Now this is one big reason this site is just so cool. I get to see a master builder put together a masterpiece! Your attention to detail is second to none.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I just took a quick look at some RC websites, and there seems to be a couple that look almost perfect. With just a little modification, they'll look the part.

That is sweet!!!

Fantastic! That is so cleanly built! Perfect color choice, perfect wheel choice, perfect interior color choice.....I love this build!

Gary, that looks to be a great start. The subject is interesting too. What scale is that kit?

NICE!!!! That is one awesome wheelstander Tim! Reminds me of the old days at the drag strip my uncle used to own in NY state. Awesome build! 8)

Wow! Thanks for all the input! I've decided from reading all the posts that most of you are right. The Magnum wheels do fill the opening much better, but I also like the class of the 9 spoke wheels much better. So what I'm going to do is use the 9 spoke wheels for now, and when Revell releases thier 300 kit, I'll see if those rims are hopefully the larger ones from the SRT-8, and I can go with those. Thanks againguys. It really does mean a lot to read the positive comments!

Nice paint on the Magnum. That color is wicked!

Oh man, I looooove those wheels tucked in there like that! What a great project!

This is one I just HAD to do after seeing Jairus' picture in the last MCM. The body was not a simple cut straight down conversion, although after looking at it for a while, it did turn out to be an extremely easy conversion. I started with a 45 degree-ish cut starting at the base of the A-pillars going down to about the 10 o'clock position of the wheel openings on both bodies. They lined up so close, I almost didn't need any filler at all. The melted pastic that oozed out from he glue was almost enough. I'm not kidding. By making the cut this way, the belt line and wheel opening lined up perfectly! Surprised me, I can tell you that. After a little filler, some sanding and a few coats of Tamiya White Primer, it was ready for paint. The Magnum has a very aggressive look to it, and I wanted to keep some of that, but add a lot of the 300's class. I toyed with the idea of replacing the tail lamps with the 300's, but after cutting out the 300's taillight section and mocking it up on this body, I found it did not flow with the design, so I kept the Magnum's. I did, however, decide to add a lot of the 300's class to the interior. So I robbed the steering wheel, front seats, and rear seat from the 300. The Magnum has fabric molded seats. No way, no how. I want fine Corinthian leather! The sterring wheel and front seat dropped in like they came with the Magnum kit, but the rear seat was a totally different story. This is where you really see how much wider the 300 kit is from the Magnum. Luckily, there are no opening doors, so I was able to hack and grind away at the rear seat until it fit and still looked good. I took of about 80% of the bottom vertical surface, and almost all of the sides. Thank God for Dremel! Being this is a wagon, I needed to make use of the Magnum's rear seat back. So some cutting and grinding was needed for this too. I know it doesn't look that good here, but a mock up of the interior showed that all those nasty looking areas will be covered up by other panels once in place, so this ugly thing actually is all the work it needed. The interior was shot with some Duplicolor GM Cream that I picked up at the parts store. Cream = Class I just need to do some more masking and lots of detail painting and decals to finish up the interior. While I was at it, I shot the inside of the body too. Finally I got it painted. I used a bottle of Cobra Colors Ferrari Grigio Alloy Metallic, which is just the color I was after for this. I also mocked it up with the 2 sets of wheels that I'm considering, both factory rims. I'm leaning towards the 9 spoke Chrysler wheels as I think the 5 spoke wheels look to "Dodge" for this project. Like I said, I'm going after "agressive class" here, and I think the body is already very agressive, and the wheels just add to that. The 9 spoke wheels definetly give it a touch of class, I only wish that AMT had made them bigger. What do you guys think, 5 or 9 spoke wheels?

Yeah!!! That's sinister! Make the windows real dark, and you've got pure evil with a V8 :twisted: :twisted:

Hey guys! I have a 1/8 Monogram 1985 Corvette that I have been putting off building for quite a few years. Problem is, I want to build a model of my car, but the wheels are all wrong. I need a set of '95 ZR-1 wheels like this: Does anyone know how I would go about making a set of these? My scratchbuilding skills are somewhat limited, but I'm willing to give anything a try. I just need some ideas as to where to start, what to use, etc... Thanks! 8)

This one is about 2 years old, but it is my favorite build so far. Not because of the subject, mostly because I just like the look of this car. I have not been a huge nascar fan since The Intimidator died, but I still love the cars. I like the ultra-cool paint jobs, and the low-slung and slick look of the bodies. That will change with the coming of the Car Of Tomorrow :roll: Anywho, this is a Revell Pro-Finish Taurus stripped and repainted with Tamiya Camel Yellow. Slixx decals, and 2-part DuPont urethane clear top it off. The tire detailing and stick pins I used for spoiler rivits are ideas I got from David Thibodeau, one of the finest nascar modelers around. On to the pics:

Nice build!!! Like Steve said, inaccuracies or not, it's still a very cool, and very clean build!

Great work Nick! I love the choice of wheels. Sets off this body style nicely. Interior looks great too! Very clean.

Very, very cool! 8) 8) Looks just like one my friend had a few years back, only his wasn't a convertible, but it was the same color, or at least extremely close. And he had a set of Crager S/S wheels on his too! Seeing your model just brought back a flood of memories. Awesome work. Keep it up!!!