Chinacar

It's a real shame indeed, I always wanted to build a model of my friends '69 that got us to high school for 2 years. I thought about kit bashing your AMT kit with the Trumpeter '64, but I think it's a massive job. Anyway nice job on the stocker and I feel your pain on the replica of the real one!

Nice one. Sharp clean build.

Thanks Larry!

I'm a big fan of '70's custom vans. Last year I bought a box of scraps and inside was this Ford 4X4 glue bomb. It was a great opportunity to build one. I still need to make a pair of rear view mirrors, a whip antenna and I want to put a skid plate under the front bumper. It was a simple kit so I just disassembled it, cleaned it up repainted and reassembled it. The mural is printed on vinyl and oversprayed with an airbrush to blend it in, the sides are relatively flat so they blend in well and on radiuses pieces I used paint. The engine and interior are there but really nothing exciting. I weathered the exterior a bit because I imagine hell as being a bit dirty.

Thanks Dan!

So cool, brings back great memories. Nice clean build.

Nice clean build! I think that the stripes with this particular colour wouldn't have added to the overall look and that it looks great without them. Looks very California and suits the box art ?

Lovely build. The blackout of chrome gives it a modern feel, I really like.

Thank you TJ!

I painted these a few years ago acrylic on plywood...I found photos, the originals I'd given away to friends.

Save the Cobras! I look forward to your build. ?

Used AI to generate a few images of some muscle cars that never were...

These are great. I did the same thing, so much fun. Let me post them...

Got it. The wheel wells. I haven't opened the Revell kit. I'm pretty sure I may have a couple of those. One is the ESSEX Wire one. I look forward to building those when I get better.

Hi Phil, the engine compartment has a firewall but no side walls. I didn't add any details and painted everything as it came out of the box, so not much detailing to show.

Thanks Russ for your comments. The car is photographed outside on a high gloss plexiglass sheet. I guess it looks grey because it's reflecting the sky. It seems to work ok though.

Lighting it up has definitely taken it to the next level! Beautiful model.

True, wire wheel small engine dark blue, no wheel flares...

I think 3D printing will take the hobby to a higher level of realism, creating things that are unavailable and introduce an opportunity of building new skills for modellers. It mimics how real cars are built today with data rather than eyeballing, but let's not forget there are still shops that eyeball and that's ok too. Some people will go out and get 3D prints or may even buy a printer, so kudos to them for trying something a little different. The people that scratch build or stick with OOB kit building, kudos to them also for continuously contributing to a wonderful hobby. It's a great time in the hobby when we have such a valuable tool in our hands. The model manufacturers may be impacted and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't developed a plan to address this already. Hopefully they are figuring out how to access manufacture of cheap printers for customers or simplified software to create or a printing service offering different limited edition models every few weeks...I know if I was a model company executive that's what I would be doing. It's a great time in the hobby.

Thank you!

Thank you!

I hearby grant you permission...lol. Seriously, you are welcome to print them I'm the owner of the artwork. We used it to do t-shirts samples.

Very nice builds. Some of those photos look like the real car!

Thanks guys. In hindsight I should have open up the side vents and the small intake below the front grill. I saw a great tutorial on how to open grills. A drivers side mirror would have also added some realism.

This thread seems to be dead for a while, I did some tech drawings last year for work on photoshop and thought I'd share them...enjoy!