plasticprime Posted July 10, 2023 Posted July 10, 2023 This was intended to be a homage to a similar car a friend of mine (Lynn) once owned, but a variety of missteps resulted in what you see now…similar to the vehicle in question, but substantially different, too. It’s mostly stock except for a plethora of aftermarket decals and the shifter and rear slicks, which came from the spares box. I raised the rear end with styrene shims to better accommodate the larger slicks. The paint is all Tamiya lacquers and acrylics – TS44 Brilliant Blue for the engine, TS-42 Light Gun Metal for the exhaust headers and pipes, TS-6 Flat Black for some of the body/hood and interior, and TS-8 Italian Red for the main body and parts of the interior. Tamiya acrylics were brush painted for details. When we went crusin’, we had Boston, Van Halen, and Deep Purple cranked up on the old 8-track, thus the LPs on the back seat deck. I wasn’t about to attempt scratch building scale 8-tracks, so I figured LPs would get the point across, and even then, I had to manipulate some of the artwork to make it “readable” at 1/25 scale. Funny thing about this car – the real one, that is – it attracted tickets as if they were magnetized and it was the world’s largest - and loudest - magnet. 7
Mittagskind Posted July 10, 2023 Posted July 10, 2023 28 minutes ago, plasticprime said: This was intended to be a homage to a similar car a friend of mine (Lynn) once owned, but a variety of missteps resulted in what you see now…similar to the vehicle in question, but substantially different, too. It’s mostly stock except for a plethora of aftermarket decals and the shifter and rear slicks, which came from the spares box. I raised the rear end with styrene shims to better accommodate the larger slicks. The paint is all Tamiya lacquers and acrylics – TS44 Brilliant Blue for the engine, TS-42 Light Gun Metal for the exhaust headers and pipes, TS-6 Flat Black for some of the body/hood and interior, and TS-8 Italian Red for the main body and parts of the interior. Tamiya acrylics were brush painted for details. When we went crusin’, we had Boston, Van Halen, and Deep Purple cranked up on the old 8-track, thus the LPs on the back seat deck. I wasn’t about to attempt scratch building scale 8-tracks, so I figured LPs would get the point across, and even then, I had to manipulate some of the artwork to make it “readable” at 1/25 scale. Funny thing about this car – the real one, that is – it attracted tickets as if they were magnetized and it was the world’s largest - and loudest - magnet. This looks very good, and a nice picture collage did you create. 1
karbuildr Posted July 10, 2023 Posted July 10, 2023 Great work, I like the back story too, very well done. 1
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