Salvinos JR 2023

[martinfan5]

Sneak peak at one of the Toyota kits, the black is going to be all decal?

Salvino's also showed off the new dash/switch panel's

Edited February 28, 2023 by martinfan5

[niteowl7710]

The entire Truex Jr. car is a wrap, not sure what color they're going to mold it in yet, but to quote Rick - "There's not even a 32nd of an inch on that car that isn't a decal".

Edited March 1, 2023 by niteowl7710

[Merkur XR4Ti]

I'd think you'd have to paint the car gloss black first. Or the car will come molded in black. Then the decals will go over that. There's enough black on it where I suspect that's the way they would go.

I'm going to build Bubba's Kansas winner with the first Toyota I get so it's not as much of an issue for me, but I can see how those Truex decals can be intimidating.

[TerryH]

Guessing this is likely going to be an actual wrap similar to the Petty car instead of waterslides? ?‍♂️

[Merkur XR4Ti]

I think they'll be waterslides. IIRC they've switched to Cartograf printing so the quality of the decals will be unsurpassed. With plenty of Microsol and heat they'll likely lay down just fine. Jay Savarese has done some amazing work with complex decals and uses that method.

[niteowl7710]

5 hours ago, Merkur XR4Ti said:

I'd think you'd have to paint the car gloss black first. Or the car will come molded in black. Then the decals will go over that. There's enough black on it where I suspect that's the way they would go.

I'm going to build Bubba's Kansas winner with the first Toyota I get so it's not as much of an issue for me, but I can see how those Truex decals can be intimidating.

It probably will be molded in black, but it was stated again last night on their live stream that the entire car is covered in decals top to bottom and side to side. There will be no part (allegedly) that isn't covered by the wrap.

I also don't expect them to really follow up on the vinyl wrap idea anytime soon.

[martinfan5]

Nice shots of the Camry body

[Merkur XR4Ti]

I chatted with a producer of 3D printed resin bodies and he said he could print up 2022 hoods for the Camry when it is released, so it will hopefully be easy enough to backdate.

[niteowl7710]

Jay Savarese is building all of SJR's "promotional" (eg used for their advertising and inclusion as built examples on NASCAR's website, Fanatics, etc), he has one of the test shot bodies, shot it in primer and mounted it to the chassis.

[Merkur XR4Ti]

That body looks really excellent in primer. I'm very impressed. Salvino's also fixed the roof rail on the driver's side.

 

I believe Jay is using one of his built chassis to display these bodies, Salvino's has said the Camry kits will have a full dash pad included in the kit.

[niteowl7710]

12 hours ago, Merkur XR4Ti said:

That body looks really excellent in primer. I'm very impressed. Salvino's also fixed the roof rail on the driver's side.

 

I believe Jay is using one of his built chassis to display these bodies, Salvino's has said the Camry kits will have a full dash pad included in the kit.

The roof rail is being remedied on the Camaro, but it's there on the Ford and obviously the Camry. The three bodies have three different body tools. They didn't just slap different front and rear inserts into the Camaro as both the Ford & Toyota have completely different body side style lines as well.

[Merkur XR4Ti]

11 hours ago, niteowl7710 said:

The roof rail is being remedied on the Camaro, but it's there on the Ford and obviously the Camry. The three bodies have three different body tools. They didn't just slap different front and rear inserts into the Camaro as both the Ford & Toyota have completely different body side style lines as well.

Of course, I didn't mean to imply that they did. The bodies are all new.

[martinfan5]

Adding an illustration to what James said, the gray is what will be different between Toyota/Ford/Chevy bodies( red is common between all makes)

Edited March 11, 2023 by martinfan5

[TonyK]

On 2/26/2023 at 10:53 PM, niteowl7710 said:

All 2023 Kits going forward (starting with the Blaney Mustang) will now have a dashboard and electronics box included in the kits. 

Looking at my Ryan Blaney kit I'm not seeing the dashboard. I seem to recall an electronics box in a previous build I did of the Camaro. Maybe I'm just old and dumb but looking at the instruction sheet and the parts trees I don't see anything new jumping out at me.

[randman]

5 hours ago, TonyK said:

Looking at my Ryan Blaney kit I'm not seeing the dashboard. I seem to recall an electronics box in a previous build I did of the Camaro. Maybe I'm just old and dumb but looking at the instruction sheet and the parts trees I don't see anything new jumping out at me.

The dash and electronics should be on the tree with the hood, small spoiler, and snorkel (air intake) components.  It doesn't look like they made it to the instruction sheet though.

[martinfan5]

5 hours ago, TonyK said:

Looking at my Ryan Blaney kit I'm not seeing the dashboard. I seem to recall an electronics box in a previous build I did of the Camaro. Maybe I'm just old and dumb but looking at the instruction sheet and the parts trees I don't see anything new jumping out at me.

The dash is on the parts tree with the hood

[TonyK]

Thanks guys. I'll look closer now that you've guided me toward it. Now I'll just have to be smart enough to attach them in the right place but guessing someone will have pictures of a completed model before I get that far.