brodie_83

Wow...very interested in this! I saw your gallery and you do superb work!

Watching this! Kinda looking for ways to modify this kit myself...I want to do a '70 conversion.

I'm wondering if anybody makes these wheels in 1/10 or 1/12 scale?

Thanks for all the replies guys. I think I'm gonna go with the black ones pictured above and paint them with Duplicolor Chrome. They look like something that might come on a Mustang...and I think they'll look good. The first ones look a little too "tuner"ish to me.

Looking great so far! Love the dash detail. Very good work.

This is my favorite C3 Corvette of all time (the '78 pace car) and you're definitely doing this justice, even building box stock. Great work man!

Sweet man, very sweet. I contemplated on building a hot-air '85 GN out of an '87 kit and redoing the turbo on top of the intake manifold and such as it were in '85, but I have a few other projects I'd like to do first. I also want to make a T-Type out of the '87 GN kit as well. I already have the Vector wheels for it. I'll be watching this build. Good luck!

I'm wanting to build my 1/12 Shelby GT500 kit, but I really don't want to use the original wheels/tires. I was looking in the R/C world and found 2 that I liked: Now I just have to decide which ones would look best on the GT500. I'm thinking the 2nd ones (I'd probably paint them with Duplicolor Chrome to give the polished look rather than chrome). The theme is going to be K.I.T.T. from the most recent Knight Rider TV show, but revamped to the newer style GT500. I'll also be scratch-building a Super Snake hood with possibly some LED work in the scoop. Let me know what you all think. Thanks!

Are you going to add the cb radio? Just wondering. Great build man!

This build is outstanding! I also have this kit and want to build it either as a resto mod or a replica of the car in the movie "Blade". One question...and you may have answered this earlier in the thread...why didn't you clear the engine?

This looks to be a very interesting build. Great work so far!

I had plans of doing a KITT version, but I can't find wheels that are close enough, so I may have to re-think the kit and do something different. I kinda want to get the 1:16 General Lee and do a "The Fast and The Furious" '70 Charger, which I already found the wheels, and I'd have to scratch-build a front grille/bumper to make the '70.

This looks like a very cool build...I love the 70 Superbee!

I'm building a replica of my friend's SRT-4 and I can't find the right wheels. Anybody seen wheels similar to these?

I've been wanting to buy this kit, but now that I've seen a few builds, I don't really want to. Nascar-style junk FTL. You, however, have done wonders for this kit! The scratch-built engine bay, dash/console/seats/etc. is astounding! Great job! Glad to see someone is doing this kit justice with great scratch-building abilities!

I'm wanting a "KR" conversion to come out with the Alcoa wheels, hood and decals. I'd love to build a Knight Rider version of this car. Yeah I know, KITT was an earlier GT500KR, but KITT can morph into any shape he wants, so I would think he'd want to have the updated body

I'm in the process of planning the build of my 1:12 GT500 as well. Nice color!

Shaved, sanded and primed doors awaiting detail scribes/trim Mock-up door in interior bucket AMT Rally wheel in Revell tire

Alright, today I got up a little late because of Black Friday shopping (spent wayyyyy too much money on myself), but I ran up to the Hobbytown to get some half-round styrene rods to make the chrome accents on the door panels and got home to start working on it again. I got the glove box decals glued on. In the following pictures, they don't look that good, but from farther away and inside the car, they look great! All I did was print them out on regular white paper and put shipping tape on the front and back of the decals, so they glued up nice. I figured out that her gauge cluster in the 1:1 car is a sweeping gauge and not a multi-gauge unit, so I went back to my old GN kit and stole the gauge pod from the dash and looks very close to the El Camino's sweeping cluster. I also got the AMT '70.5 Camaro rally wheels in the mail today (thanks sstacey47!) and mocked them up in the chosen tires and they fit pretty decent. They're a tad bit small, but I'll glue them in good. So today hopefully I'll get the other door piece cut out and finish mocking up the doors and dash in the interior bucket and start painting/flocking it. I also have to get the engine/trans mounted in the V6 frame. The model will be permanently placed in a display case I bought, so I'm not going to worry about anything on the underside of the car (exhaust, engine/trans fitment, etc). Today's current progress pics: Decals on dash GN gauge cluster vs. El Camino cluster

Sanded down door accents and applied filler Sanded filler down and ready for primer Belt and accessories painted and installed

Test-fit the '79 Camaro rally wheels with the correct-size tires Painted dash with Rustoleum Gloss Regal Red Cleared with Krylon Crystal Clear Flat Clear Painted on flames on dice (not very easy at all)

Today I went to the Twin Cities with my girlfriend just to get the heck out of Duluth, so I stopped at a Hub Hobby store and picked up a few things like black fuzzy dice, dark red flocking, a 1/24 display case and a few Tamiya paints (white, flat black and flat base). I actually got alot done tonight. I painted/installed the belts/accessories (except for the rad. fan) on the engine, painted the dash, re-worked the interior door panels (took them from an '87 Buick GN kit), and painted the fuzzy dice with flames. Ken's Kustom Dice Detail Master dark red flocking Molded-in door panel with absolutely NO detail Door panel insert from an '87 Buick GN kit

Thanks! The HEI came with the '86 Monte Carlo. I thought it was a very cool piece myself!

I also went to the local vinyl decal maker and was working with him to do the decals for the car, since the decal kit I bought is junk. He scanned the original water-slide decal included in the kit and made a few adjustments in the colors. We couldn't get it perfectly correct, and it's a lot less detailed than the original decal, but it actually looks pretty good! He did a test print-out on white paper that he gave me, and we just have to get the "Royal Knight" logos right and then we'll print them on clear vinyl. And I found the tires I'm going to use. They are Good Year Radials that are newly issued and have no raised lettering, so I'll just get some decals from somewhere that say "BF Goodrich Radial T/A". They are the correct sidewall size and with a little bit of sanding/weathering, they'll look like BF's (no, I will not be using the Monte Carlo SS wheels).