camaro69

This is a really nice and clean build. ?

Thank you guys. This means a lot to me.

Yeah, that´s it. And the build goes on... Next was to find some suitable wheels. Found some 19inch Fujimi Sportec Mono 10. As I said this kit has lots of room for improvement so I decided to make the front wheels steerable with a rotating steering wheel. A simple mechanism like usually used at toy cars did the job. Meanwhile the dash was painted and detailed too. Next was cutting the sidemarker lights out of the body and building a simple antenna. New sidemarker bezels were made out of evergreen U-profile closed with 0.01" stripes. Added a small piece of 0.025" round as the lightbulb. Front... Rear... Sidemarker lenses were made ot of production flags (clear red and orange) from an Aoshima Skyline kit. Here still hidden by tape... For a long time I wasn´t sure about the color scheme. After hours of thinking about it I decided to go with white rims. They are only coated with Tamiya white primer. Then the color scheme was in my head. This one will get a nearly standard look. It will become red metallic (with a candy look) and a black top. Because I wanted something special I designed stripes on my own. The front stripe includes the japanese characters which mean ACURA and the stripe on the top got a red point to simulate the japanese flag. Here´s the design printed on paper and hold in place by masking tape to get a feel for the look. Any comments and critism welcome as always. Next update will come soon. Rico

Sorry guys, I have to quit my entry for this year because of missing spare time and wanting myself to much detail for this build. Hope that I can take part next year again. I appreciate all the good modelers who build a model here and definitely will vote for my favorite. Thanks you all for your inspiring work. Model on, Rico

Thanks. It´s the original Chevrolet Bright Yellow out of a rattle can.

Hello fellow modellers, started this one some weeks ago but hadn´t the time to start the build thread. But here it goes. Will post more progress pictures soon. It´s the "good" old Revell Snapkit once declared as 1/24 scale in the US once as 1/25 scale in Germany. After I did some measuring I can say it´s 1/24 scale. A really nice kit with lots of room for improvement. Initial situation... A lot of seams that have to go and a clear part with side windows made out of armored glass? After some hours of sanding down the seams and graving the panel lines it got the first coat of grey tamiya primer. Side windows were cut out. That´s it for today. Rico

Hey guys, would like to share my Bumblebee inspired Camaro Concept with you. Built this one during my summer holidays. It´s a really nice kit although it´s a snaptite. There´s always some potential for improvement so I did the 3rd brake light included in the rear window and added mirror foil behind the tail lights. The rest of this one is build right out of the box excepting the coloring. Front grille decal is still missing but will come. Here the pics... Hope you´ll like it. Feel free to leave a comment or critism. Happy modelling to everyone. Rico

Also wrote them. I can´t await a rerelease.

To me the angle of the engine looks quite good. That's why I think rotating the lower half of the intake should solve the problem mostly..

Great build, Kurt... Just a thought. But maybe you only have to cut the intake headers in the middle and rotate the lower half for 180 degrees so the mounts to the engine become the same angle. Maybe this requires adding some material to the center section of the headers but I think that´s an easy fix. As I said only a thought. Rico

You did an amazing job again. Hope you can help me with mine once I have the time to start with it.

I´m mostly a silent reader on here but your builds are always really enjoying and inspireing to me. Keep up the great work.

Here´s what I made out of this. Sure not 100% accurate but I like it as it is especially because it´s so small on this car in 1/25...?

Hey guys, thank you all for your help. I think this is a disc brake with caliper nearly on top. I will go with this and try to replicate it. The first pic showes it well enough for me. Rico

Sorry Steve, no updates yet. Everytime I think I would get some more time for the hobby my workload becomes more and more. I definitely will finish it and it´s meant to be cast after all the corrections but it´s a hard and long way to go. I Will keep all of you updated... Rico

Haven´t changed my mind on the car but on the kit I´ll use as a base so count me in with my try to create a ´77 Chevy Nova 4 door Pro Touring. Body and most other parts will come from the MPC ´79 Nova Street Machine. Some parts like the bumpers will come from the ´76 AMT... I also will 3d print a new grille and some original style rims with a larger diameter to get the Pro Touring look. Here´s is the base... (a testprint of the new grille can be seen on pic 3 already ?) Happy modeling to everybody who participates and a special thanks to Anthony and Mike to make this CBR possible again. Rico

I know about this one. Seems to be as nice as the Crown Victoria I have already from him but at the moment I don´t have the bucks to buy it. I have the chance to get a 1979 MPC kit from a friend so I will try to do the same conversion Dwayne did for the resin kit. Selfmade man...?

Got my project for the next run in the mail today. AMT Street Machines ´76 Chevy Nova Plan is to convert it into a ´77 4door (because of my year of birth). Maybe as a Pro Touring as well because of the street machine parts. Interior should become mostly stock eventually with modern seats.

Great work on the Supra, Anton! I think it´s as fast as you built it!? Bill and Anthony: Thank you for the positive feedback.

#25. camaro69 - Monte Carlo Nascar disguised as a 2003 Chevrolet Impala. Here´s my entry. It was the second time I started to participate the CBR and the 1st time I finished. The title doesn´t say everything. I used the Revell Chevrolet Impala Police Car body on top of the AMT Western Auto Monte Carlo Nascar chassis. Paint is BMW Hockenheim silver. What I´ve done... Bodywork / exterior: closed the holes for the light bar, changed the front bumper using a lot of different evergreen stripes and acrylic modeling paste followed by a lot of sanding, cutted out the hood and trunk lid (did the water rails in the trunk out of evergreen), closed the triangle windows behind the back doors and splitted the back door windows using different evergreen and modeling paste again, added air takeouts to the rear bumper, cutted out the back door windows, reworked the b-pillar on the kits glass part, added a rear wing from Revell´s 2005 Ford Mustang GT500 and windshield wipers from the 1999 Mustang Cobra, used self designed 3d-printed wheels with Aoshima tires and Fujimi disc brakes, added side windows in different positions out of blister plastic, added decals from the Nascar and some selfmade too (f.e. the license plates and my avatar logo), weathered the chassis. Engine / fuelsystem / suspension: wired the distributor and the MSD-Ignition boxes, added a selfmade ignition coil, plumbed the oil system in the engine bay and the fuel system in the trunk using Top Studio fittings and braided line (secured the oil plumbing to the roll cage parts using 0,28mm wire) added a selfdesigned and selfprinted oil tank, made the rear supension work with real springs and selfmade shock absorbers, made new front wheel carriers, selfmade a stock exhaust system, added an Optima battery selfmade out of evergreen and wired it too. Interior: changed the roll cage to make it mostly unseen from the side (added some evergreen rounds to complete it and evergreen pipes as pads), casted front seats and steering wheel from the Jada Toys Camaro concept and mounted the seats on to selfmade railings, selfmade shifter and parking brake lever, selfmade navigation with the "Finish Line (Portofino Inn)" on the screen ?, fitted the interior tub to the Nascar chassis. I think that´s it. There are some minor issues or maybe things I can do better next time but for the first finished model after many many years I´m pleased with how it turned out. Still a little bit dirty but I like it. Hope you´ll like it too. Rico

Hi Michael, I let them print by order so if you want some of them please let me know the dimensions you need and I will prepare them. Rico

Anton and Anthony: Thanks for the kind words. I´m really happy how the Impala turned out after the lot of difficulties. The hardest part was to assemble the chassis to the body. @Mattilacken: Nice progress on the Supra. Model on. I like to see this finished.

Hey Anton, nice color on the Supra!!! And here´s my Impala - I call it finished now. First of all some pics of the things that were left to do... Parking brake... Navigation... (used the kits mounting hole for the laptop in the dash) Rear view mirror... street legal exhaust system (front parts out of styrene, the rest is 3d printed on my Anycubic)... Oil piping... Fuel lines and license plate... And now a little overview... Hope you´ll like it, Rico

Yes Sir, the RR tailpanel is on the list.

Hey guys, first of all nice progress here. @disconovaman Your Ford looks killer. Like a real sleeper... ? @Mattilacken Wish you get your Supra done till deadline... Here´s my next update from the work of the last two days. Worked on finishing the interior with the self casted seats and steering wheel 3d printed shift lever housing, the knob is made out of a needle with a white plastic head. The Impala also became a working rear suspension... VID_20211025_105914.mp4 brakes... and windshield wipers. The inner panels were disassembled and the dashboard rised again to get the engine in place. Once the engine sits in place all can be reassembled again. That´s it for today. Still a lot more to do. Model on, Rico