Rotorbolt73 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotorbolt73 Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 More pics of the interior, engine and chassis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotorbolt73 Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 some more pics of the body. A lot of work went into the various body mods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotorbolt73 Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 Final shot. Its not perfect but this was the best I could do in replicating this car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddyfink Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Wow! It came out great! Did you think about maybe having a resin caster dupe it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maindrian Pace Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spencer1984 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Awesome work as usual, that turned out great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotorbolt73 Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobraman Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 You did a fine job on this replica. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jantrix Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Superior work. A great replica. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gluebomb Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidney Schwartz Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Never saw the movie but I sure like what you did with that model. Beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdWatcher Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Awesome job! Love the rim and tire combo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davewilly Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 turned out great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMBENNA Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 wow great job, looks awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Very impressive build Matt. You did an excellent job building this model. i enjoyed the build up very much... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarana-X Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toast Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldTimer50707 Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 That looks awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DumpyDan Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Holy moly, that is a beauty I swear you could drive it off the page. Excellent work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petetrucker07 Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Excellent work on this. I love the movie, granted it's cheesyness. Great build, very nice job replicating the the movie car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesanto70 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 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.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintagercr Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtx6970 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Looking at it ..i thought the 1st picture was the actual car. Well done.Now if only we could get the wraith car itself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Rollins Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Such a great build!!! I saw that movie again just a few months ago.... typical 80s cheese... LOVE IT!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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