1:18 Replicarz '71 Penske Donohue Trans-Am Javelin sealed resin mods.

[vamach1]

Ah, race cars.  They rarely looked the same from race to race much less nowadays compared to fifty years ago.  Nice work.

[AAR Eagle]

The replacement wheels look much better as well as the tires;  but which NASCAR diecast maker was the tire source?  there were threee different makers, Ertl, Revell  and Action--I assume these are not Revell as they had sidewall engravings, so that leaves Ertl and Action Performance. 

 

Also what about the hood stripe- any solution for that in the works, the center stripe as a poor fade transition on the two models I have ?

https://www.snapfish.com/library/share?via=link&token=oRhcZEC1M-7mjaW2N7smVw/AUS/27951118413070/SNAPFISH

 

[swede70]

No trouble David and thanks for your interest and reply...

I picked up an Action Performance Chevrolet something or other at an area hobby shop as a trade-in for $14.95 and was doing nothing with it.  I think the model dated back to maybe 2000-2005, but I'm not sure given only scraps of such remain.  Indeed - no sidewall engravings are to be seen.  Be alert that I effectively fried my first tires when I opted to remove the sidewall lettering given it's pretty stout stuff, while it might be good to dilute 100% acetone down to come up with something less hot than what I employed.  Said sidewall letter seemed immovable for use of light duty nail polish remover, hence my first effort using something milder met with failure.  

I did have to boil water and immerse the wheels and tires within consistent with rendering the vinyl pliable enough to move.  Later when I fit the wheels to the tires I decided to economize a bit and simply reused my original tire decal application.  I took two bowls of water and added only enough to creep up to the top sidewall lest the water damage the decals, while know that enough heat spread through each tire to get the job done both front and rear.  The IndyCals sheet was really inexpensive at $3 for two sets/sides, with shipping maybe $1.   Happily I'm good to go for I ordered two sheets and will be ready when more Minilites arrive in maybe a month.  

The Legende Miniature Minilites received some outer edge reshaping, but I did nothing to turn them down to fit either the front or rear tires identified.  The unseen rear lip of the front wheels was added to make things look complete, while some structure was added to the back rear centers to accommodate the axles I'd fabricated.  The axle material settled upon was 2.5 mm brass wire, while nothing had to be carved out of the rearward axle recess on the resin chassis plate to ensure things sit evenly.  All in all, it's pretty easy... 

Yes - somewhat underwhelmed with how the fade out center stripe on the hood came through.  Even for having gathered a reasoned amount of research I wasn't familiar with the detail (i.e. the white to red fade), and yet I hovered over it upon delivery thinking that wow - this just isn't amazing even as it looks o.k. on low resolution web images. Earlier I was pondering the removal and replacement of the accessory decal 'stack' seen forward of either front wheel arch/housing, although I stopped given I didn't have equal or superior decals at the ready to replace what is seen.   This understood, I still made an inspection of the decal work consistent with mulling the possibilities, and I fear the decal work has a clear coat atop it rendering it immovable.  I'm still thinking about it and certainly the criticism is valid.  

As a low-risk project I might take a length of white decal stock and do a fade-to-red treatment atop it consistent with overlaying what Replicarz afforded us.  Should I fail, the effort stays off of the model, although maybe it'll work?  The rectangular shape would be no issue to cut, while the surface the decal image would rest upon is a flat as could be imagined.  If anyone looking on has ideas on how to attack something like this, please feel free to contribute.  Thanks...

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Thanks Rex for the interest and the image...

I suspect later this year I'll grab the '72 Geo. Follmer RWR release as you've captured above.  I'm glad I wouldn't really have to attack the front spoiler, while nice too that they mastered the smaller of section A-pillar fresh air duct given scratch building something like that takes nerve and application.  One of the new sets of Legende Miniature Minilites will be prepared for the '72-season winner, while I'll try to grab an Action Performance Ford-powered something or other consistent with grabbing suitable tires as well as all that might be taken from whatever iteration of a Cleveland Ford small block exists under the hood of such.  I have a bunch of Welly/ACME '69 to '71-season BOSS 302 Trans-Am topics that beg for powertrain implants, and while I have worked up maybe 80% of what I need to do this for copying select parts of other tools in resin, some further parts and assemblies still need to be fabricated and/or gathered before I'm ready.  Kind thanks...

Mike K./Swede70

Edited January 2, 2020 by swede70

[AAR Eagle]

The replacement wheels look much better as well as the tires;  but which NASCAR diecast maker was the tire source?  there were threee different makers, Ertl, Revell  and Action--I assume these are not Revell as they had sidewall engravings, so that leaves Ertl and Action Performance. 

 

Also what about the hood stripe- any solution for that in the works, the center stripe as a poor fade transition on the two models I have ?

https://www.snapfish.com/library/share?via=link&token=oRhcZEC1M-7mjaW2N7smVw/AUS/27951118413070/SNAPFISH

 

[AAR Eagle]

Your response is much appreciated, thank you Mike!   I removed the rear section of the hood stripe, there is no clear coat on top , a piece of scotch tape pulled most of it off [first I scored an Xacto line at the edge of the white portion].  I tried white vinyl tape but the color wasn't right and too flat of a finish.  I may try cutting a white decal strip as you already alluded to and try an air brush fade to to rad, but I don't have high hope for success. 

Maybe somebody like Indycals could do a better job for us???