Dragonhawk1066 Posted September 16, 2024 Author Posted September 16, 2024 On 9/14/2024 at 10:37 PM, Bills72sj said: Very nice build. I think your Accel Supercoil is feeling sad... Thanks Bill! Yeah, I thought that was kind of funny when I got them, lol.
Dragonhawk1066 Posted September 16, 2024 Author Posted September 16, 2024 On 9/14/2024 at 7:39 PM, mrm said: The shifter is a really nice addition to the interior and your colors suit the car very well. You don't mention anything about the bumpers, but I have to note that your front bumper really looks metal. I love that. And being a sucker for the obscure details, My favorite is the orange paint in the trim. That's a really cool touch. Thanks Michael! You really do notice the details, lol. The bumpers had to be sprayed over with Molotow Chrome to cover where the mold lines were on the sides of them. The actual car that this was kind of copied from had the orange in the trim and I thought it really set it off. Here's a couple of pics of the car.
mrm Posted September 17, 2024 Posted September 17, 2024 1 hour ago, Dragonhawk1066 said: Thanks Michael! You really do notice the details, lol. The bumpers had to be sprayed over with Molotow Chrome to cover where the mold lines were on the sides of them. The actual car that this was kind of copied from had the orange in the trim and I thought it really set it off. Here's a couple of pics of the car. Nice. Second picture does not open for me tho. I am a sucker for details, but the overall look of the car has to do it for me too. Your model is really cool. I don't understand when people make all this body work and then leave the car with no inner fenders in the engine bay for example. Or when they dump a bucket of aftermarket parts on an engine and then have crappy painted trim. I've seen a couple models at shows years ago, where everyone is raving about how the whole thing is scratch build and how many hours and how many machined parts and blah, blah... And with all this and a perfect paint the thing looked like BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, design wise and in real life would be undrivable.
Dragonhawk1066 Posted September 17, 2024 Author Posted September 17, 2024 21 hours ago, mrm said: I don't understand when people make all this body work and then leave the car with no inner fenders in the engine bay for example. Or when they dump a bucket of aftermarket parts on an engine and then have crappy painted trim. I've seen a couple models at shows years ago, where everyone is raving about how the whole thing is scratch build and how many hours and how many machined parts and blah, blah... And with all this and a perfect paint the thing looked like BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH, design wise and in real life would be undrivable. I definitely agree on those points. I do have to admit that on a couple of my more customized builds some things really wouldn't go over in real life. Tire rubs for starters, like on this one and the rear suspension really isn't very well structured. I try to point these things out in my videos, usually with the phrase "It's not really very purposeful in the real world, but in Styreneland if it fits it's good enough for me", lol.
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