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Managed to make some progress over the long weekend & a good stint at the bench last night, Looking pretty good for completing on time. Yes the rocker covers are suppose to be different colours. Made up some seatbelts at work Also printed some other stuff too. Made up the gauge cluster with some silver vinyl & brushed metal vinyl (car wrapping film) Made up a template for the steering wheel & cut it out & pieced it together. & the 2 together & Had some fun with my new Chrome marker Hoping to get some assembly done tonight. Ash

Great work, looks awesome!!

Very VERY Cool!!

Getting stuck into some paint detailing. & the Chassis is ready for weathering Gonna get some painting done this long Easter weekend & assemble. Happy Easter everyone!

Thats so cool! Great Work!

Aoshima have done it to me again! After waiting years for them to do the LB GTR I gave up & brought the Eightyone LB transkit ($75USD) & The Tamiya Kit ($66us) to make what I wanted, glad I finished it last year, although now I can go & buy the Aoshima for 30% of the cost & do another one....

Great Work!!! You Love them, but man you Love them so much more when theyre away! Always good to get time on your own doing your own thing, anywhere in the house!

Nice!!!

BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH nice work!! Ive been wanting to get that transkit, how was it?

Wow thats awesome!!! Great Work!!

Yeah you fullas have certainly changed me! Next one might have some Pixie dust in it....

Yip What Mecklm said, its the solenoid for the motor that moves the butterfly to open the side pipes. Part of it will be painted slightly different to the rest of the system but I wanted to have it glued to the system before paint. Heres a pic of the beast from below, mines certainly not that close, the mufflers should be further forward & theres been a few omissions to make building it easier, plus I only had the molded exhaust system to work with. Got a wee bit of painting done over the weekend but nothing photo worthy. 4 day Easter weekend coming up tho, so fingers crossed the weather stays fine! Ash

Hey Guys Started this one eariler this year, its for the VCG Resins Facebook group build. Needs to be completed by 28th April so wanted to make a build thread to keep me going on it. Heres the car im wanting to replicate - Brian Scotto's 72 Nova (hes the creative director of Hoonigan, the guy behind Ken Blocks amazing videos etc) I love the roughness of it & the way it looks. Matte Black & NASCAR-esq wheels, it just looks like a tough car (although mine will be a less dented, more cleaned up version...) Im not going for a 100% accurate, but something pretty close. Heres the kit I started with. Revells COPO Nova I started off by sanding off the side mouldings which from what I can tell is pretty much the only difference between 69 & 72... Correct me if im wrong. I also cut, bent & added to the kit bonnet, to make the bonnet bulge. Painted Gloss black with custom White decals & then Alclad Matte Clear coat (pics before clearcoat) I stupidly painted the engine Red as per the instructions only to check my ref pics to see its black... This is the start of the new exhaust system Finally finished the exhaust off last night, now it just needs paint Also bend up the roll cage. the 1:1 floor is covered in Boommat sound deadning mat, so I printed a sticker & applied to the interior floor I'm using Eightyones 16" diamond wheels, as theyre the closest I can find. was pretty unimpressed with these ones, theyre more oval than circular! But i also ordrerd another set of new wheels & the molding is mind blowing (theyve come along way!) & this is where shes at, hoping to get a fair bit of painting done this weekend & hope to make the deadline Have a good weekend! Ash

Nice!! Love the front grill!

Great work! Love the colour you've used. I really like the new lights (esp the rear) & spoiler, but i cannot get used to that awful front bumper, why did Toyota take what was already a good looking car & ugly it up so it matched the Camry....

Love it! Looks Awesome!!! Although I reckon it looked super mean with a Matte finish!!! Cant wait to see more!

Terrible News, I'm new here so didn't really know him, but there seems to be lots of praise for skills & work on the forum. Perhaps a gallery of some of his builds would be a good idea, or a "final run" in your magazine. ( a similar thing was done recently in another model car magazine....) Could be a good idea to email his family members a link to this thread, i'm sure they'd be happy to know he influenced so many people, all over the world.

Looks great Nice work!!!

Bugger! Hope you manage to find the missing Headlight. I had similar issues when completing my Challenger, the general engineering of the kit seems to be off. Its werid how the windscreen goes in & gets sandwiches between the dash & wiper panel. Good luck hope it works out

Great work, looks awesome!

BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH thats cool!!! Great Work!

Cheers Guys!

Hey Guys This one is #70 for me, Started life as a Revell Dodge Challenger (the good kit, not that average one they released with Foose wheels) I snapped up one of C1 Models Liberty Walk resin bodykits when they were first released, & added a front lip & sideskirts with side exit pipes. Started researching it & I came across Jeff Dunhams Ultraviolet Challenger he built for SEMA, Instaly loved it. So applied the scheme to my Challenger. Paint is Zero Paints Dodge Plum Crazy & I used a Interference Violet powder in the clearcoat, The Matte Black is Plasticoat Matte Black from the local hardware shop, which actually worked really well. 20" wheels are from Aoshima painted Matte & Gloss black. Everything else is pretty much box stock, I want to replace the bonnet with one of Clearly Scales Bonnets (but currently dont ship to New Zealand) but all in good time. Overall pretty happy with it, aside from the windows that I tinted with Tamiya Smoke, it completely destroyed the clear plastic, never had it happen to me before, didnt do it to any of the other 3 revell kit windows I tinted the same day... But overall pretty enjoyable build, think I'll be getting C1 Models CDC widebody Challenger body kit too!

Hey guys Recently completed my Revell ZR1 corvette, built bascially box stock. This was one of my "bucket list" models, So quite happy its done. Was a pretty good kit, slightly undersized wheels which I may swap out with the new Plamoz ZR1 wheels, but looks pretty good with the wheels in black. Painted the body Ferrari Bicanco Fuji (Pearl White) & Ferrari Datyona Metallic Black, clearcoated with Alclads Matte Clearcoat. I also used scale motorsport CF for the roof. Overall pretty happy with it, the seat decals where useless & had to scrape them off & my setting solution left marks on the CF which kinda sucked. Let me know what you think, cheers Ash Ash

OK So finally got my computer / Photobucket issues sorted. Here are some pics of my progress! Once I'd sorted the driving lights I moved on to fitting the over fenders, this required a fair amount of work with the Dremel & sanding the inside of the fenders too. Thankfully Ive already built a Rocket Bunny 86, so I knew how it should look & where the fenders should sit. However 81's resin bodykit isnt quite as good as the Aoshima Plastic ones... but managed to make it work. So this is what Ive ended up with, pretty happy with it so far, just need to finish off the front lights & fit the spoiler. Loving the others builds here guys! Ash