53 Stude lakes car

[slownlow]

I've been messing with girl forever. The inspiration is a band name from the 60s, "Quicksilver Messenger Service". The color was always planed to be silver but I've been hanging around with some guys on the dark side (military modelers) and thought it would look good with panel lines. So hours later with my trusty razor saw here's where we're at now. The panels have no rhyme or reason, I'm sure if this body was done with panels they would be quite different but who the h.... would build this body out of panels anyway. As I researched images of planes I noticed the panels were often slightly different colors for no apparent reason, different mills, different allloys,?.... So here it is after a couple different shades of Model Masters Aluminum nonbuffing Metalizer. I'll add more shades but keep the shade variation more subtle. 

[mod3l Lover]

    Now that's cool!  You could now use P-40 (maybe 1:48 scale) tiger

mouth and teeth decals on the side. Crazy eyeballs on the google

eyes looking bumps up front too!?!

   It is going to look cool whatever you do though!!

          David S.

[Slotto]

I've never seen anything like it. Very cool. Your panel lines are super straight.

[slownlow]

There's been a little more work done on the car. The initial shaded panels have been toned down, other panels shaded different hues, and smoke smudges added at the exhausts. All comments welcome.

[Jantrix]

Very unique. I like it. I'm with David though, she needs some graphics.

[GerN]

Imagination!  Love it!  How hard was it to fit the Viper?  Minimal graphics, please - don't hide the panels!

[slownlow]

I plan to run thin black and white D day stripes across the trunk area maybe some nose art on the front fenders and maybe some small bombs and swastikas. Fitting the Viper took some doing, New motor mounts, new drive shaft from 1/8" alum tube,bump back the firewall a tad, fabricate new tranny and drive shaft hump, and exhaust. The suspension is lowered with blocks spliced atrearsprings, and kit supplied kingpin position in front. The dashboard has been eliminated and 3 gauges hung from remaining arch, a tax added to steering column which is hung in a cradle from under side of dash arch.

[GerN]

Yup, a lot of work.

[MeatMan]

Definitely different, and looks like a lot of work.

Great job!!

[DumpyDan]

Wow man that looks good, very unique idea..............Well done, keep it going 

[misterNNL]

Great concept.I love the random panels with varying colors as well.Are you planning on this being a street car or race vehicle?If the latter is your choice the roll cage is going to need some serious addition of bracing.That may all be a moot point though considering the chopped top allows minimum views of the interior.I personally might use some aircraft fasteners where the body panels are joined and the hood and trunk access hatch lids meet their adjoining panels.

Thanks for daring to take a different direction with your project and for sharing it with us.

[slownlow]

Thanks for the comments. This is intended to be a lakes car destined for Nevada , El Mirage, or .... that's why I sanded down the tires to a smaller contact patch. In regards to the roll cage it's kit supplied and I'm not too concerned about reality with this project, more into the looks and feel of the car. Tom Woodruff what are you referring to as aircraft fasteners? Rivets or some kind of screw locking system or .....? It sounds interesting.

[slownlow]

Here's more progress. The panel seams got "rivets". It seems to add a lot to,the overall look and the tool I used is a seamstress marking wheel. The teeth are sharpened to leave a crisper mark

[misterNNL]

The aircraft fasteners word I used was possibly a poorly chosen term.I meant the Duetz(sp?) fastners sometimes used to secure hood and trunk panels in place where a flat edge tool like a screw driver was inserted into a slot in the center of the fastener and given a half turn to open the panel.I thought something like that might enhance the aircraft look even further.I seems to me those were round in shape and were flush mounted into the panels for streamlining.Possibly someone that has "strayed" into model aircraft can offer additional information.

[slownlow]

More progress. Painted the D Day racing stripe and think I'll extend it down on the front bumper. Also hung the door and it's working smooth.

[bisc63]

Dzus.

[shoopdog]

Very cool! Not sure about adding any bombs though.

[slownlow]

I'm thinking for nose art doing something with SNAFU'D STUDE and instead of swastikas denoting kills using blue ovals and bow ties. Also playing with the idea of a gun sticking out the headlight bulges. The Dzus fasteners would be cool. If I sharpen the inside my glue needle to make a small circle and a little scribe bisecting the circle it would look about right.

[Slotto]

Looks great. Love the stripe

[Del Austin]

Really cool build. You have to add "salt" to this one.

 

[misterNNL]

I'm liking the rivet edged panel look,Looking forward to seeing it finished.TFS(thanks for sharing).

[bisc63]

... If I sharpen the inside my glue needle to make a small circle and a little scribe bisecting the circle it would look about right.

File a bevel on the end of an old mechanical pencil or technical pen to male nice circles!