Jordan White

Just got one of the Monogram Grand National kits in a trade, and decided to turn it into a Regal T-Type. I know that a few others have made Regals with the kit, but other than maybe a couple, most have been made into donks or lowriders. I'm planning on building the kit essentially box stock, with only a different set of wheels and some underhood detailling. The wheels I'm using are 17" Lambo Diablo style wheels from Fujimi, and I'll be chroming the bumpers and painting the body in a gold metallic. It will also have the blackout trim package, and the camel interior (tan). Here's how the stance will be:

The only major visual difference over the years was the grille, so if you scratch build a grille for it, you can easily pass it off as a '71 or '72.

Likewise, had a great trade with BISMARCK! No issues at all.

Thanks so far!

Fujimi kit of the Suzuki Jimny. It was painted in a light metallic blue Duplicolor Perfect Match paint, wheels are from the AMT F150, tires from the AMT Ranger. I used a parts box spare tire, as well as spare decals on the sides.The only modification was removing the side windows.

Usually it's possible to remove the engine and transmission together, it mainly depends on how much room there is in the engine compartment, and whether any cross members are in the way. It would work in this case if the radiator was removed.

Did you read the first paragraph? They are the favorite option packages of the author.

Those tires were used in the 90's AMT Chevy C1500 and Ford F150 kits, and I was never a fan of them.

This is an older build that I had packed away because I was planning on doing a bit more to it, but I found it recently and decided to just put it on the shelf as it is. It is a rebuild using the AMT C1500 stepside kit, and converted to a 4WD using parts from the AMT 80's GMC kit. "Before" pic: "After" pics:

Normal shots will be fine, I'm mainly just curious to see what comes in the kit.

It appears the former thread on this subject was deleted for some reason. I had bumped it to ask if anyone who has the kit would be willing to post some pics of the contents, and the offer still stands.

Fabulous paint job, and one of the colors I had yet to see on the 1/12th kit! Have any pics of the car you're replicating?

Other than the 4wd wheels used on the 2wd version of the S10.

My go-to paint for satin black is the generic stuff from Home Depot that is only like a buck per can. While the price is cheap, it goes on well and dries evenly.

You need to go to their Shapeway page to order stuff, since that's who they have make it. http://www.shapeways.com/shops/tdrcatalog?sort=name&s=0

It's a good kit, what are your plans for it?

I can't say much on the authenticity of everything, but as far as I know it builds up well and since you got the older kit, it has the nice extra parts and tires with lettering on them! It does not have parts for the RS version though, so if that was your plan, you'd have to scratch build those parts.

I like to use the metallic silver Recollections brand markers from Micheals. Medium point seems to be the best balance between area and precision.

Yes I know it has been about a month since I started this post, but work has been busy lately and I've finally had time to post my progress. First up is the body itself. I filled the holes in the firewall where the kit hinges would go, since I'm going to try and make something closer to the 1:1 vehicle. I also filled in the gaps on the rear for the tailgate hinges, filled in the kit spare-carrier holes, shaved the rear sidemarkers (since the '85 had them on the taillights), and filled in a major sinkmark that followed all around the rear wheel arches. Additionally, I filled some holes in the floor, and added some material to the inside walls, since they seemed too thin compared to the 1:1. Next is the rollbar. I used part of the kit rollbar (which is meant to be a late 70's style converted to a full cage) and added a piece in the middle to get it to the correct width. I have it clamped to the body to figure out the rear supports. The chassis had the pockets filled in where the kit leaf springs would mount, and I attached the skidplate and fuel tank. The rear axle had the tubes replaced with styrene tubing, and I created the brake backing plates (will create some drums a bit later). Finally, I filled in some holes on the engine (starter mounting holes and a mounting nub on the oil pan) and painted it gloss black. The transmission will be painted silver. I also drilled holes in the valve covers for the oil fill cap and pcv hoses, along with reamed out the valleys for where the mounting bolts would be.

For a while now I've had a Revell 1/16 Jeep Golden Hawk CJ7 kit in my stash, and so I've finally decided what I want to do with it. The kit is meant to be a 1979 (based on the copyright date), but will be built into a 1985 version. There are really only minor differences between the years, with the main things being lack of rear sidemarker lenses (attached to the taillights on later models), different seats and a dash pad, and lack of V8 on the newer model. Besides not using the kit decals, I'm going to be scratchbuilding different bumpers, filling in the sunroof holes in the hardtop, making a factory-style spare tire carrier, giving it a bit of a suspension lift, 3D printing some different wheels, and giving it a different engine. The engine and transmission I'll be using is a Chevy TPI 350 and T10 4-speed out of one of the 1/16 Camaro kits, which will be connected to the stock transfer case and axles.

Is there going to be any optional themes or styles? Personally I think there's just too much white space with this new design.

The Lambo may be one of few that weren't, I don't have it to say for sure, but I can say that the Mercedes, Corvette, Mustang, and Trans Am definitely were.

Disagree. The engine is larger in order to facilitate an electric motor, and the rear differential or axle is larger in order to be able to house gears. Why else would the Corvette have a solid axle, if not to allow for metal axle shafts to pass through. Also, note the driveshafts which are all given actual u-joints. They may not have all been sold as motorized kits in the past, but they all were designed to be able to be motorized.

Here's the one I got that I used as reference

True, I forgot that they should be silver and not white. Also thank you for the engine clarification, I didn't have the instructions handy.