1/8 Camaro IROC-Z

[Plastic_Passion]

Can't wait to see what you do with this. I have 5 of these 1/8 scales now. I just picked up a mint condition 82 z body and related parts. I have a partially smashed 85 iroc. Im tempted to kit bash an earlier z with the iroc parts however I feel conflicted about it because the 82 is quite rare. I've been trying with the idea of claying and casting both the 82 z and the 85 iroc as I have two of them. Revell should really re-release both kits. The did it with the 79 ta. 

[avidinha]

I got the front bumper painted and I wanted to get the lights mounted to it, all 8 of them. I wasn't able to get the turn signal lenses off so I had to mask them off and paint with them installed. The fog light lenses had a lot of glue on them, but I was able to sand them smooth and put some clear coat on them to make them look a bit better.

The headlights were a little more troublesome. The headlight buckets had been modified. The bulbs had been drilled out and the mounting post had been removed and glued into the bracket. They should look more like the fog light also pictured. Seems like the previous owner might have been trying to install LEDs like SpikeSchumacher was saying.

The first thing I needed to do was replace the missing lenses. I made some clear lenses from an old food container for an H4 conversion look.

Then I made some "bulbs" out of some round stock I painted with a chrome marker then went over with a blue sharpie for an H.I.D. look.

The back of the bulbs are now the new mounting points.

I mounted the bracket first, then the lights so I could make sure they weren't crooked.

The 1/25 was much easier.

More next time.

 

[avidinha]

I got the interiors done. That's when I ran into the next surprise missing part, the shifter. Luckily the shifter knob was there so I just made the new shifter out of some round stock. I thought it was interesting that the 1/8 is an automatic and the 1/25 has a standard transmission. Both kits came with gauge decals that are pretty nice.

The 1/25 kit had posts that go from the chassis through the floor pan that the seats attach to, which I thought was clever. 

And here they are side by side.

I got the frit painted on the Windows. The 1/8 was super easy, it had nice crisp separation lines. The lines on the 1/25 were kinds vague, so I had to wing it, but I think it turned out okay.

I got the paint jobs done. I had to buff out a couple runs from the 1/8, I'm just not used to painting something that big.

Here are the decal sheets, the 1/25 has so many options, it's almost as big as the 1/8.

Now that I've gotten the major sub assemblies and the windows done, I can get the chassis mounted to the bodies and get to work on the suspension.

More next time.