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  1. Jeff, This is looking sweet! Beautiful job on the scratch building.
  2. I started working on the head lights. I cut out the openings and filed down the area of the body in between. I'll attach a single piece of .015" clear sheet styrene over the both the headlight openings and the center section. Below I attached a picture from a Miami Vice episode showing what this area looks like without the clear cover. I also attached the picture from my post above showing what it will look like with the clear piece installed. I won't attach the clear styrene until after the body is painted. A couple of progress pictures are also posted showing the work so far on the head light area as well as a picture showing the hood extension progress so far. The rear of the hood looks a bit off, but that's just an illusion caused by the wide angle picture. It's all nice and even with the windshield.
  3. Don, Very nice work so far! That's a 'sharp' looking Lenco.
  4. Joseph, Excellent work so far! I hope you get back to these soon. Mike.
  5. daryl, This is a beautiful build and the whole diorama looks very impressive!
  6. Jeremy, thanks for the advice and the picture you posted. I'm tossing around a few ideas and hopefully will come up with something in a couple of days. Mike.
  7. I did a quick mockup today to make sure the chassis fit OK. I narrowed the chassis' front wheel wells by 2.5 mm on each side so it now fits nicely. Since Monogram made the Daytona body the correct width(to a real Ferrari) the body was actually 5 mm wider and there was a space on both sides of the chassis. It looked and fit terribly. Now that I narrowed the body it fits nice and snug to the chassis. The Corvette interior tub now fits really well too. I still have to lengthen the hood to meet the windshield. In the 2nd picture the front appears to be sitting slightly higher then the rear but it is just placed together for the pictures. When I hold the chassis tighter against the interior tub it sits nice and level. I also have to put a styrene spacer between the rear of the interior tub and the chassis since the chassis has nothing to attach to in the rear. The one thing I'm not crazy about is the profile of the tires. They are slightly too high but not too bad. If anyone has a spare set of 1/24 tires in a slightly lower profile then the Monogram tires please let me know. I don't think 1/25 scale tires will work with the kit's 1/24 scale wire wheels. Mike.
  8. Thanks everyone for all of your encouraging words! So far this is a fun project to work on. I'm still trying to decide if I should make the fixed headlights behind the acrylic glass covers or not. I have the head light parts but can't quite figure out how to make the clear covers. I'm thinking maybe attach clear styrene sheet over the headlights and just mask it off before painting the body. I'm sure there are any number of ways to do this. If anyone has any ideas on how to make and attach the clear headlight covers please let me know. Pictures are also welcome. Here is a picture showing the clear headlight covers.
  9. I'm attempting to build a model of the McBurnie 'Ferrari' Daytona Replica that was used on Miami Vice. I'm combining a Revell/Monogram 1/24 Miami Vice Daytona Spyder kit with a Revell/Monogram 1/24 '78 Corvette kit. The Miami Vice Daytona kit is actually based on the Monogram 1/24 '78 Corvette's chassis. When Revell(then Monogram) made the Miami Vice Daytona kit they got it half right. It has a C3 Corvette chassis and drive train but the 'wrong' body. Well the body isn't 100% wrong. Instead of taking measurements of the kit car(McBurnie) body, they instead took the measurements of an actual Ferrari 365 GTS/4 Daytona. The kit's body is actually correct to a real Ferrari(including the Ferrari windshield and frame) and correctly scaled in 1/24, only the wheel base was lengthened 4mm to match the Corvette kit's longer wheel base. The kit also included a 'correct' Ferrari Interior. These features always bothered me about this kit and kept it from looking like the replica Daytona car used on the TV show. The McBurnie(built by McBurnie Coachcraft) replica used on Miami Vice had a basically stock Corvette interior. The dash was slightly modified and the seats were re-upholstered in the pattern used in a real Ferrari but they are still Corvette seats and it incorporated the Corvette windshield as well. A C3 Corvette is similar in measurements to a Ferrari Daytona however a Corvette's wheel base is roughly 4.5 inches longer. The funny thing is the width of both a Ferrari Daytona and a C3 Corvette is basically the same when measured from the wheel opening lips(not the actual body). Now this is where it gets tricky. A C3 Corvette has a 'Coke' bottle shape so the width of the cowl/doors(actual width of the car) is about 5 inches narrower then a Ferrari Daytona. The Corvette's wheels actually stick out further then the actual body thus the fenders and quarter panels 'bubble' out to accommodate this and give it the 'Coke' bottle shape. It's a really nice feature of the Corvette and gives it it's unique appearance. Due to the 'Coke' bottle shape of the Corvette, the body of the McBurnie Daytona Replica is 5 inches narrower(since it's fenders and quarter panels don't 'bubble' out like a 'Vette's). What (Tom) McBurnie did to compensate for the narrower body(and wheels sticking out) was to flare the wheel openings' lips a bit. I think it actually gave the car a cool look. On to my build... I started by narrowing the Ferrari's body by 5 mm and attached the Corvette's windshield frame. On an actual Ferrari 365 Daytona the windshield frame is flush with the door skins. On the McBurnie replica Daytona the door skins are a couple of inches wider then the windshield frame. Instead of cutting the hood in the middle as I did with the body, I removed 2.5 mm from each side. I did it this way since the 2 hood scoops(indentations) are actually closer to the sides on the McBurnie replica then on an actual Ferrari. I'll be adding a piece of styrene to the rear of the hood to extend it to the windshield. I also added some 1.5 mm styrene strips to the sides of the Corvette interior tub as well to give the door panels a bit of width. I'll be adding the flared wheel openings too and most likely will extend the rear of the doors back. I did a lot of research for this build and learned a few things about the McBurnie replica and the C3 Corvette in the process. On the TV show Miami Vice, there were 2 cars used, both McBurnie Coachcraft replicas. The 'Beauty' or rather Camera car(Car 4) and the stunt car(Car 1). Car 1 and Car 4 are just numbers McBurnie gave these cars when they were built. I'll attempt to make this build resemble Car 4 since it was the car used for close ups but I'm not going for an exact build, but something close. Here are some pictures of the build so far: Here are some pictures of actual McBurnie Daytona replicas for comparison:
  10. That is just plain crazy to do all that and not be curious enough to take it down the quarter mile. It reminds me of the cars Rick Dobbertin built.
  11. WOW, Tom, This is incredible! You are nailing it. BTW, will you be making interior parts for this(seats, engine cover, dash, steering wheel and column...)?
  12. This is a great kit! Will you be building it with the sliding door on the side or convert it into the 2 doors?
  13. I measured the Monogram body again and it's closer to 180mm in length. So otherwise it's about right considering the wheel base is 4mm longer
  14. There were 2 cars used on the show. Both had the Corvette interiors that were slightly modified to resemble a Ferrari. I don't know for sure regarding the headlights, but I know that the 'beauty' or rather 'camera car' had the headlights behind glass. I'm not sure what the other car had.
  15. Thanks for double checking the length. Most of the 12mm difference in length between the Monogram and Fujimi bodies can be accounted for. The Monogram's wheel base is 4mm longer due to the Corvette being longer and the Fujimi's body comes up approximately 4.3mm short of what it should measure to match the 1:1 car. For the Monogram body, 4mm(added to the wheel base) + 4.3mm(this body is longer so this 4.3mm isn't missing) makes 8.3mm.
  16. The chassis in the MV Daytona kit is essentially the C3 chassis from the Monogram '78 Corvette. There's a gas tank where the spare tire cover is but it's the same chassis. Maybe Monogram wanted to make the Miami Vice Daytona like the kit car used on the show and used the Corvette Chassis. But realistically I'm sure Monogram just simply cheated and used the Corvette chassis since it's close enough and just stretched the Daytona body to fit. The funny thing is whatever reason Monogram had for doing it this way, they still missed the mark since their Daytona kit's body more closely resembles a real Ferrari then the McBurnie Coachcraft replica used on the show. They should have used the C3 'Vette's windshield/frame. BTW, Jeremy, can you double check the measurement of the length? I scaled the 1:1 Ferrari's length of 4425mm(to 1:24) and it comes to approximately 184mm. I don't think the bumpers add 15mm in length. Is the Fujimi Daytona's body 179mm?
  17. I just measured the Monogram doors at the waist/molding line and they are 46mm. It doesn't make sense that the Monogram 'Ferrari' Daytona body's wheel base is 4mm longer but the overall length is 13mm longer. But we are talking about Monogram here so it's not surprising.
  18. Jeremy, I appreciate you taking the time to get these measurements for me. I did take the measurements the same as you did. It looks like the Monogram Daytona's wheel base is approximately 104mm. It's starting to look as though Monogram stretched the body and left the width. Even the doors on the Monogram body look as though they are a bit longer. Though still hard to tell since I don't have the Fujimi kit to compare. Again, If anyone has both the Monogram and the Fujimi Daytona kits and can compare them(measurements, pictures...) I'm still interested.
  19. Jeremy, I just measured the Monogram body I have. I'm not sure if I am taking the measurements exactly as you did. The Monogram kit's body(minus bumpers) measures 74mm W x 182mm L. I measured the width to the ends of the quarter panel wheel well lips and the length from the tip of the nose to the end. I was thinking the whole body was enlarged( maybe to something like 1:22 or 1:23 scale) since a Corvette's wheels stick out a bit compared to it's body, due to it's Coke bottle shape. Maybe Monogram just stretched the Ferrari body to match the Corvette's longer wheel base??? I'm still curious how the Monogram body compares directly with the Fujimi body since they are both the same 1:24 scale. If anyone has both the Monogram and the Fujimi Daytona kits and can compare them(measurements, pictures...) I'm still curious. Mike.
  20. Does anyone have a Monogram/Revell Miami Vice Daytona Spyder and a Fujimi Ferrari 365 GTS4 Daytona Spider kit to compare the size of the bodies? Revell/Monogram used the 1/24 scale Corvette chassis to make the Miami Vice Daytona. The 'Ferarri' Daytona body they used is based on an actual Ferrari and not the kit car used on the TV show. However an actual Ferrari Daytona 365 is approximately 5 inches wider and 5 inches shorter then a Corvette. I believe Revell/Monogram may have enlarged the Daytona body to stretch the wheel base to fit the Corvette chassis. I'm thinking that maybe the Revell/Monogram 'Ferrari' Daytona body is actually slightly larger then the Fujimi Ferrari 365 Daytona Spider body. Anyone have these 2 kits for comparison?
  21. Rob, Nice Vans! I especially like the Mystical Dreamer Chevy. At first glance I thought it was real.
  22. Dominik, I was referring to the bodies of the MPC and AMT vans, how they look side by side. Which one is more accurate... I have to pick up an AMT Phantom one of these days and compare it to my Sunnrunner MPC van.
  23. NIke, Your van looks great! In fact it reminds me of a '76 Chevy van a friend had years ago. He had the same wheels but it was green metallic.
  24. Bob, I'm keeping it. It's a kit I built back when I was a kid and want to tear it down and re-build it.
  25. Josh, Real nice build! I like the color. BTW, what paint/color is it painted?
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