Packard Walsh's Corvette From " The Wraith"

[Rotorbolt73]

After about 5 months of working on this project, I finally have it finished. This is a model of the bad guy's Corvette from the movie " The Wraith". I have seen others start similar projects but no one I know of has ever completed a build of this movie car. So here is probably the first one ever done. I have the entire build details documented over in the workbench section. I built it from 4 different corvette kits. Enjoy.

[Rotorbolt73]

More pics of the interior, engine and chassis.

[Rotorbolt73]

some more pics of the body. A lot of work went into the various body mods.

[Rotorbolt73]

Final shot. Its not perfect but this was the best I could do in replicating this car.

[Daddyfink]

Wow! It came out great! Did you think about maybe having a resin caster dupe it?

[Maindrian Pace]

Wow. I saw that movie when it was released in the theater, I took my girlfriend. She hated it, it was "Too violent and stuff". I thought it was great, except for the hammy final scene. Amazingly, I never realized that the Corvette had Ecklers style front flares, but no rear flares, and I forgot about the C4 rear clip blended in. This model looks great and sits right, one of the better movie cars I've seen in scale. Excellent job.

-MJS

[spencer1984]

Awesome work as usual, that turned out great!

[Rotorbolt73]

Thanks guys. This was probably one of my most involved builds...Yes Jesse, At one point in the build when it was in final primer I actually did consider having a resin caster use this body as a master to make a mold so that a resin body could be made available.

I decided not to bother with all that and if anyone wanted to build one, I have at least shown them one way out of many possible methods to build it.

The build of one of these could be cut down to 3 kits if one wanted to build it in 1/25 rather than the 1/24th I built mine in. One way would be to use the MPC dragon vette kit itself as the basis with the AMT eckler kit providing the majority parts along with a MPC or AMT mid 80's vette kit for at least the tail and the BBS rims depending on the kit options..

Edited May 15, 2015 by Rotorbolt73

[cobraman]

You did a fine job on this replica.

[Jantrix]

Superior work. A great replica.

[gluebomb]

I can say I have always wanted to do the cars from this movie but never really had the balls to do it. That Corvette looks great I might just watch the movie again tonight. Great Job.

[Sidney Schwartz]

Never saw the movie but I sure like what you did with that model. Beautiful.

[BirdWatcher]

Awesome job! Love the rim and tire combo.

[Davewilly]

turned out great!

[RAMBENNA]

wow great job, looks awesome

[slusher]

Very impressive build Matt. You did an excellent job building this model. i enjoyed the build up very much...

[Zarana-X]

Looks fantastic! If I hadn't seen the work on the body mods, I'd have a hard time believing that was made from 4 different cars.

[Toast]

It's called attention to detail, and it is why this model is so cool!

I love that movie but your model can stand alone without the sentimental value of its big screen inspiration.

Very nice craftsmanship my friend!

[OldTimer50707]

That looks awesome.

[DumpyDan]

Holy moly, that is a beauty I swear you could drive it off the page. Excellent work!

[Petetrucker07]

Excellent work on this. I love the movie, granted it's cheesyness. Great build, very nice job replicating the the movie car.

[mikesanto70]

Wow that is almost EXACT....Packards mirrors were square and the wheels had some black mixed in with the red and a think black stripe in the yellow strip, but WOW what a job...how did you graft the 84' bumper intp the C3 body. Amazing job!!!!!! Packards was an automatic trans too!!  Not to nit pick...lol....

 

[vintagercr]

Great job!

[gtx6970]

Looking at it ..i thought the 1st picture was the actual car.

 

Well done.

Now if only we could get the wraith car itself

[Hubert Rollins]

Such a great build!!! I saw that movie again just a few months ago.... typical 80s cheese... LOVE IT!!!!