Daniel Suarez 2022 Camaro first cup win

[MarkJ]

Finished my first Nextgen Camaro and I really enjoyed it. 

It took 88.5 hours, roughly about 2 months. This was Daniels first cup win car. He pretty much dominated the field for Trackhouse Racing at Sears Point. I came up with a way to hold the body to the chassis without gluing it. I will post the process in the tips and tricks forum. It's a pretty easy deal and it's not visible, except when you remove the body.

[MarkJ]

I put the tip in the tips and tricks but it's about 10 posts down from the top and it's not in bold print.

[Dragline]

What a beautiful car.. You did a fantastic job on those decals and the chassis looks outstanding.

My question is... How large was that decal sheet? There must have been 2.

 

[MarkJ]

16 minutes ago, Dragline said:

What a beautiful car.. You did a fantastic job on those decals and the chassis looks outstanding.

My question is... How large was that decal sheet? There must have been 2.

 

Bob, actually there were three sheets. One was bigger than the other two. And they were excellent sheets. After I ordered the Elliot kit they made a Suarez kit but it wasnt the first win car.

[catpack68]

Very nice work Mark!?

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[TonyK]

A very good looking model!

[Merkur XR4Ti]

Absolutely stunning work!

[MarkJ]

1 hour ago, Merkur XR4Ti said:

Absolutely stunning work!

Thanks, Steve. I appreciate you weighing in on the wip while it was going on.

[MarkJ]

I forgot to mention I had to make a wiper blade for it and a 4-inch half clear half black rear spoiler.

[Old Coyote]

I never thought I'd see Mark Johnson building a contemporary NASCAR car. The shock is almost more than I can bear.

I followed your wip and was completely amazed with your build. However, I won't be joining you in one of these adventures. Way too much crazy stuff for my limited building abilities. I'll have to stick to the "old-timers" that I'm used to. 

Beautiful work sir, and I'm 100% impressed with both your idea and your execution. You are way above my head.

 

 

 

[MarkJ]

4 hours ago, Old Coyote said:

I never thought I'd see Mark Johnson building a contemporary NASCAR car. The shock is almost more than I can bear.

I followed your wip and was completely amazed with your build. However, I won't be joining you in one of these adventures. Way too much crazy stuff for my limited building abilities. I'll have to stick to the "old-timers" that I'm used to. 

Beautiful work sir, and I'm 100% impressed with both your idea and your execution. You are way above my head.

 

 

 

Thanks, John. They are not all that hard to build. You just have to make sure you put the parts in correctly. Some parts can be installed upside down, but if you do, then you cannot proceed because the next part has no place to go. I have to blame Trackhouse racing for giving me the incentive to build a couple of these. They came on the scene this year with two drivers that have really added a lot of excitement to the sport. I will eventually get back to the vintage cars after I get through with my next new one. Plus, they are kind of expensive.

[MarkJ]

Here is what the real car looked like.

[bbowser]

Well done!  I really enjoyed the WIP and intend to refer to it often on my next build.  Waiting for someone to do the Chastain Martinsville livery.

[MarkJ]

4 hours ago, bbowser said:

Well done!  I really enjoyed the WIP and intend to refer to it often on my next build.  Waiting for someone to do the Chastain Martinsville livery.

Thanks, Bruce. Make sure when you do the decals that you do all the big decals first. if there are any that border the grille opening, they will overlap the opening just a little bit so you have to put the grille decal on after you do those. I found that out the hard way.

[PappyD340]

Looks great!

[MarkJ]

More refs.

[MarkJ]

Forgot the front

[CRANMAN1]

Nice build im doing his Commscope car like ran at Roval. How did u make windsheild wiper?

[MarkJ]

Neil, I think I took some wip pictures of making it so I will post them here if I can find them.

[MarkJ]

I could not find the wip pictures, but I basically took thin strips of .010 styrene sheets and glued them together and then added a wiper insert right down the middle of the narrow box, added a mounting deal and thats about it.