brodie_83

I for one am awaiting more BIG scale builds (1:12 and maybe 1:8). Gotta love the big boys!

I saw this car on the forum and was wondering if anyone can tell me where these wheels came from. They look like they'd be a great candidate for replacing the "too small" wheels from the Fast and Furious Supra (from first film). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

Wow...I'm not a fan of the F40 much at all, but the quality of the build is worth watching. Great work!

I wouldn't mind the letters if the "Goodyear" wasn't so big and fat on the rear tires. The letters are comin' off. And I haven't really had time lately to work on this, so hopefully I can get back at it soon.

Nope, sorry. Not any updates. I have put aside this build for another build...I get bored too quickly with builds and need to jump back and forth to keep myself interested.

Dang Steve...amazing work!

Eh, not a big deal. I would honestly like to shave the tires of all the letters...but don't really know how to do such a thing. Got any tips?

Today's update: I bought an airbrush at a garage sale today that was barely used for a great price, so I'm going to go to Hobbytown and order some Alclad chrome and give it a shot, once I get used to the airbrush. I also got my wheels/tires in the mail today from Casey and they are fantastic! This is all he sent me His tires with the front/rear wheel set-up His front tires with my General Lee rear tires

Has anyone used the SpazStix in the aresol cans? If not, I'll have to get the airbrush stuff.

A few more pics for the night...just a mock-up of the intake and the valve covers on the engine. Can't wait!

Thanks guys! Well I found a guy that will spray Alclad on the supercharger and a few other parts for me. It's great when you can find help like that. I took a few pics tonight of what I got done yesterday. I don't really work on models much during the week, so be patient. Various engine/trans pics Sanded the fins off the top of the scoop and molded the top/bottom together with the butterflies installed All parts de-chromed and ready for paint! Hope to have more updates soon! Thanks for looking!

I have put together a lot of the engine, but I'd rather not take pictures of it before the glue dries because I have to pick it up. The other parts that are stopping me from going further on this are currently being soaked it Dawn Power Dissolver to get rid of the layer of stuff that is under the chrome so I can get it down to bare plastic. One thing I'm worried about is the texture that the Duplicolor Chrome is spraying out...it's rather orange-peely and I don't like it. I really want the supercharger and the scoop to be completely smooth, not bumpy and orange-peel look. I might have to see if I can get the parts prepped and have someone with Alcalad spray some for me and I'd pay them. I'll post that in a different section. Hope to have a few more pics up before I go to bed tonight.

Well I watched the videos some more and it looks like the heads are bare aluminum and the block is black, so I removed the heads from the block, primed them and painted them with flat aluminum engine paint, as well as primed/painted the transmission with the same flat aluminum, and primed/painted the block with gloss black. I also went ahead and painted the lower intake manifold with Duplicolor "Chrome" paint for the polished look. It's getting there. I don't have a lot of pics yet, because most of the parts are still drying in the dehydrator. Here's a few pics of the progress so far: The block before I removed the heads to paint them separately Parts being stripped in Castrol Super Clean (now being stripped more in Dawn Power Dissolver) Heads finished with flat aluminum More to come later!

Hello all! I'm taking a little break with my 1/12 Shelby GT500 while parts arrive, and just to get started on something fresh and one that requires a challenge for me. I bought an MPC 1/16 scale 1969 Charger "General Lee" kit a few months back and I wasn't sure which way I wanted the kit to go...because I was certain I was NOT going to build the General Lee version. Then I started thinking..."I always wanted to build a larger scale replica of the original '70 Charger from 'The Fast and the Furious', so why not try some scratch-building and convert the '69 to a '70?", so that's where I'm taking this particular kit. I traded someone the Hemi engine with complete accessories from this kit for the supercharged Hemi from the Street Charger, which shares many parts with the Dukes kit. So far I have put the block and heads on, and currently stripping most of the chrome parts. I am not making a screen-accurate version, because I found a much better version of the car...the ORIGINAL car with the working supercharged Hemi that is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I couldn't find pictures of it, but I found a lot of detailed videos of the car, so I took screen shots of the video and made them into jpegs so I can build this accurately as possible. Here is the owner's YouTube page with lots of videos of the car: http://www.youtube.com/user/TrabantMuseum?feature=watch I'll post up progress as the car comes along. Thanks for looking!

I swear I found something somewhere that a person made a single carb set-up to fit the 1/12 Camaro 302 instead of the crossfire double carb setup. If so, I'm interested in one.

I bought a 1/12 1969 Camaro kit on eBay last week and the only thing the guy said was that the roof was cracked...which I thought "big deal, I can fix that"...guess again. The body is warped/twisted and not sure how I can go about fixing it. I really want to build this kit, but this factor is worrying me. Does anybody have a fix for this? I'd post pictures, but my Photobucket is being stupid.

I'm thinkin' the LS in the 'Vette and the 427 in the Camaro. That will save me some money too.

I don't really want to buy both cars new engines...that's alot of money. I'd like to use the 427 for something...

I'm trying to figure out which route I want to go with my '67 Vette and '69 Camaro, both in 1/12 scale. I have a few themes I'm looking at.. '67 Corvette: Grand Sport (blue with white stripe and red fender stripes) or Penske (blue with yellow wheels and yellow exhaust). '69 Camaro: Grand Sport (same as above) or Indy 500 pace car (white with orange stripes). Both will be modified with bigger wheels/tires and a lower stance. Now I don't know which way I want to go engine-wise on these. I talked to TDR and they said they could shrink the 454 set from an 1/8 scale to 1/12 scale for a reasonable price and I can choose from 2 materials. I also found an Ertl "Corvette Engine Set" with 3-1/12 scale engines...one being an LS1. Now I was thinking either getting the Corvette engine set and modifying the LS1 to fit in one of the kits and use the 427 from the '67 Vette kit in the other, and the same thing with the TDR 454. I just don't know which car I'd want to have the 427 and which one to have the LS1 or 454? Decisions, decisions...

Oh, I'm an idiot...it says it below your avatar. LoL cool, another MN guy!

This is why I hate Photobucket...sorry guys, gonna have to wait till the end of the month.

Wow Steve, you are really good at scratch-building stuff! Keep it comin'...it's looking great!

Sorry for not uploading the pics of the one seat lastnight...I was way too tired. Again, I really love the black with the red inserts...I just need to keep them painted and not flock the inserts. It was something I wanted to try, but ended up looking like garbage. Here's the pics: And with the flocking...ick!

Yeah it does come with opening doors. I wish they'd make an accurate kit of the SRT-8 Charger instead of the one that is tool'd like a DUB diecast.

Wow, that's an awesome replica job! Very accurate build...great job!