Wanderlust Evo Time Attack.

[Shelby 427 1965]

Well I wasn't going to post a WIP of this car but I thought hey why not. I've been working at it on and off for the past few months and it's finally getting near completion.

This is inspired by (not an exact replica of) a car from Forza 5, which I use quite a lot. A lot of people know about my love of Sophie Ellis-Bextor, so I've been putting Wanderlust logos on a lot of things, frankly because I think it's a cool logo.

Inspiration shots:

Progress pics coming up.

Edited June 24, 2015 by Shelby 427 1965

[Shelby 427 1965]

First off, was doing the camo. I've never tried doing anything like this in my life so it was a fun and challenging experience. Getting the pattern just right took me about 12 hours or so in total - Everything hand painted with no masking.

I like Evos...

A couple hours was then spent lowering the suspension in a solid manner for racing look, along with taking wheels from the part box (from a Toyota of some description I think) and doing custom white letter tyres.

Eventually the camo was finished, lights were put on and trims were painted.

[Shelby 427 1965]

Next was interior work - I used a roll cage from a Tamiya Subaru Impreza (the road car I posted in Under Glass recently..), and plumbed and wired the interior. Dash was sourced from a Tamiya Evo rally car, along with various little rally/race parts from the parts box. I then set to work on a custom spoiler, and doing the writing on the side - the most difficult part yet. There are no decals for the logos or anything so I set about doing it myself with a brush and a toothpick.

[Shelby 427 1965]

And this is where I am today - slowly but surely getting there Spoiler was custom made.

[bobthehobbyguy]

Nice work. Great job on the camouflage.

[cobraman]

Nice looking car, very nice looking woman. : )

[Roadrunner]

Looks like you did a great job on the camouflage, especially since it's hand painted.

[BirdWatcher]

Fantastic job on the Cammo, and hand lettering!

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Usually hand-lettering looks shoddy and rushed... this, on the other hand... it's got a very artsy look to it, kinda like an effected picture.

[superbike-shaun]

AWESOME subject I just recently put the time attack /import on my to start building list cause dey so cool! Superbike-shaun

[hvymtl]

Wow ,great job on the cammo. Reminded me of Tokyo extreme racer (ps2 game) there was a whole crew of Evo,s that were cammo in that game . Pretty cool can't wait to see this one finished

Michael