nickfzr61

Thank you. Not at all surprised by the comments about this kit. I get they can’t make exact models of the actual cars but come on. At least try and come close. I guess I’d go bankrupt if I ran a model car company. Either that or I’d be rich. Lol.

Beautiful work. Very realistic detailing.

Thanks guys. I’m very happy with the way it came out.

Thank you.

Forgot to mention I also added the upper struts on the wheelie bars, made aluminum panels for the drivers cockpit out of styrene and Alclad polished aluminum, and printed a set of funny car zoomies. Fuel tank is also from the parts box.

Finished up my Jungle Jim funny car. My intention was to build this kit out of box just to add a funny car to my collection. I had read the comments and saw builds of others here and on the web but I didn’t realize how bad this kit is until I had it in my hands and compared it the the reference pictures I found online. As most of you probably know it’s not very accurate. I modified the body by moving the front wheel openings forward. Then I cut off the front bumper ends and tucked them in to the body. Looking at pictures it seemed to me the Camaro body didn’t have a cutout on the hood for the supercharger so I filled it in. I think that was on the Vega body which would make sense since that body is probably shorter. Hard to really be sure with the limited number of pictures out there which is kind of surprising since this is such a historic car. The chassis was really bad. Very toy like and inaccurate. I found a free funny car chassis .stl file online and after manipulating it in Meshmixer I think I was able to print a decent chassis. Not an exact match to the 1:1 but definitely better than what came with the kit. Front wheels are from the kit and were modified. I thinned down the spokes and reduced the diameter of the hub which looked like something from a 4x4 truck. Front tires are from my parts box. For the rears I went in the opposite direction. I used the kits slicks and wheels from the parts box. They were sprayed Alclad polished aluminum then Alclad exhaust manifold. Body was primed with Tamiya Gray laquer primer and shot with Dupli-Color BCC0422 which is a Chrysler color then cleared with their 1K clear. Thanks for looking.

Another beautiful build Marcos. Very clean.

Sweet interior. Paint and wheels look great too.

PDF received. Thank you Lars!

What is real? Someone’s been watching The Matrix too much.

Close. How did the picture come out? Is that the video it created? Looks pretty cool. The thing I didn’t point out is the pictures below are what I uploaded and AI created the picture I posted. Looks like it combined pictures of other Challengers with mine to get that angle. Notice on my car the AI gas cap is changed and the Bumble Bee Stripe is missing. Wheels are a little different too. Not sure what it used to change the perspective of the model.

Phenomenal Lars. Looking forward to you posting the Benz. email sent.

Stumbled across this post while searching for Corvette kits and just thought it deserved to be brought back into view. I know it’s a very large scale kit but the execution and commitment to detail is deserving of a re-viewing.

Didn’t expect to find the banana police here too. Lol.

Thanks for the advice. I guess I’d have to take the pictures earlier in the day since these were taken on my deck with my iphone and natural light. I would like to learn how to use indoor lighting with filters and an actual camera with the proper lenses someday.

This is mine. I don’t know if it qualifies as my daily but since my wife uses the Volvo and my daughter uses the Equinox I guess it is. I work from home and go into the office one day a week so I’ll use one of the SUVs if it’s bad weather otherwise this is it.

Absolutely but its alot cheaper and easier to use compared to purchasing Photoshop and learning how to use it. Plus my kids got a kick out of it.

Check out this shot ChatGPT created of my Challenger with my Revell Hemi Cuda model. This is my actual car. Wild.

Had it in the shop making sure it’s good before taking it out for a run.

That came out great. Well worth the wait.

Well done. The extra touches you added really set it off. Very realistic.

Thanks for all the nice comments.

Sweet build. Nice and clean. Beautiful paint.

SHAZAM!

Cool build. I’d say you nailed it.