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I built this from the AMT kit. The wheels, tires and brakes are 3D printed. The hood is resin. I got the front seats, NOS tank, steering wheel and spoiler from my parts box. I had trouble getting the body to sit down over the chassis. I had to trim 2mm out of the firewall, inner fenders and core support. I watched some build videos and read some reviews. It seems like I'm the only one who had that problem.

Nice build! Just FYI the holes in the bumper are for the exhaust not tail lights.

Great job! I've built that kit, and you're not wrong about how terrible it is. Great save!

Here are a few of mine. I like Cadillacs, in case you couldn't tell.

I built this replica of Brian's R34 from Fast & Furious from a Tamiya Z-Tune kit. I modified the body by smoothing out the louvers in the hood, removing the lips on the rear wheel well openings, sanded down the vents in the front fenders and removed the skirts from the sides of the rear bumper. The wheels are from Aoshima and the paint is Bayside Blue from Automotivetouchup.com. I also made the license plate.

I built this box stock from an Aoshima kit. It's an old motorized toy turned model kit so it doesn't have a lot of chassis detail. The only thing that came chrome were the wheels, so the rest of the chrome was done with BMF or a Molotow pen. The paint is Bayside Blue over a silver base.

I built this mostly box stock from the Revell kit. I cut the top off and made the license plate. Tom Selleck is 6' 4" so I'm sure it was more comfortable for him to drive with the top off. This is an old kit and was kinda fiddly to build, but it came out well and the working pop up headlights are fun.

Thanks! It's not a flower car though.

I made this from the Revell Custom Cadillac. I thought it would be fun to make the coupe into a Mirage pick up. I made the bed floor, rear cab wall, tail gate and extended the bed sides with sheet plastic. The trim around the bed is 1mm half round. The wheels and tires are 4 fronts from Foose Eldorod kits.

I built this box stock from an Aoshima kit. It was an old motorized toy so it's curbside and doesn't have a lot of chassis detail. The paint is Bayside Blue, I was testing different base colors for the paint, this one has a black base.

I just finished the Revell Ford Lightning from The Fast And The Furious. It's box stock except for the license plate. The plate was never shown in the movie, so I grabbed a random California plate from my spares box. Now I have all 3 of Brian's rides from the first movie.

She's all done. Here's the under glass post

I built this from the Fujimi kit. It's basically box stock except for some repairs I had to make, the only modification I made was to fill in the holes for the license plate on the front bumper. The paint is Rustoleum color shift with Rustoleum clear. Here's the WIP thread.

Jimmy Flintstone already did the work for you, not a bad price either. https://jimmyflintstonestudios.com/NB166--2007-Charger-Magnum-Wagon_p_237.html

The kit came with window masks and the ones for the door windows made for great templates to make the new Windows. Here they are with the frit painted on and the masks removed. And here's a snark peak at the paint. More next time.

The quarter windows don't roll down on this car, so I would have to make those anyway and I figure it would be just as easy to make them and the door windows one piece.

Now that all the easy stuff is out of the way, I have to figure out what I'm going to do with this mess. I went ahead and glued it back together figuring I could at least use it as a template. While I was gluing it together I noticed that the rear window was intact. I'm going to try to cut the rear window out and use it and I figure it won't be too difficult to make side windows out of some flat clear stock, so I only need to figure out the windshield. I'd been working on a Cadillac XLR from Jimmy Flintstone and I remembered it came with 2 sets of vacuformed windows. I tried one of the windshields on the Skyline and it was almost perfect. I'm going to cut some windows and use the kit window masks and see how they come out. More next time.

Right?! I thought the damage was kind of suspicious to have just been caused in shipping. But I did get a refund, so whatever. ?‍♀️

I got the chassis assembled, it was pretty strait forward. I also got the interior finished. It was only 6 pieces and 2 decals. I did a little detail painting and made a 3rd brake light with some BMF and a red sharpie. I got all the body parts in primer, the paint I'm using requires a black base. More next time.

I'm about half way done scratch building the service bed.

Would have been down for this, but I already started mine.

Since my chassis repair worked out, I'm going to go ahead and build it up per the instructions. Even though there's not much detail in the chassis and the car sits so low it would be hard to see anyway, I couldn't help but do a little detail painting. I also painted the brakes and the springs to add some color. I went ahead and black washed the grill and exhaust tips while I was at it. The way the body attaches durring final assembly allowed me to install the bumpers and side skirts before paint, which makes things a little easier. More next time.

I was able to repair the chassis. The break was pretty clean and it wasn't bent or warped. I ran a bead of glue across the top where it wouldn't be seen. And used a couple of scrap pieces of plastic to give it some extra strength. The interior sits up off the chassis a little bit, so it still fits with the extra plastic. More next time.

Here's what I'm working with. Out of all the parts that were damaged, only 2 didn't have unbroken counterparts. There was an extra dash and interior tub. The base model bumpers were damaged, but the Nismo bumpers were fine. I wanted to use the Nismo bumpers anyway, so that was lucky. Now here's where I get unlucky. The chassis was broken in half. And the windows are smashed. I think I can salvage the chassis, but I'm not sure what I'm going to do about the windows.