RockinRoller Posted July 1 Posted July 1 Hi there, this is not really a NASCAR... it is a look-alike moviecar from the 1981 movie "The Cannonball Run"... Remember Mel Tillis and Terry Bradshaw jumping the car in the pool... 😁 (Source - Google, IMDB, YouToube screenshot) As a big movie-car fan and especially a fan of THAT movie, I always wanted to build this! And I thought it would be an easy job buying a reissue Laguna NASCAR and a decal-set from "Mikes Decals"...but as ALWAYS it turned into a fight! But the Community build contest keep me keeping on! As you can see, the base kit was not really looking the way it should...wrong front, rear-panel, no taillights wrong bumper, crappy fit and a horrible chassis! nooo... don´t look good - try myself. You remember from above...: A friend 3D-printed me some nice taillights: Added headlights: I made the missing decals needed, by taking the shape of the body with masking tape, scan it and work on it with "corel draw" (so if someone needs them -> rockinroller@gmx.de): You see the set fro mike´s decals up/left, but it don´t fit the movie-car... Body was primed with Tamiya pink surface primer (especially for red paint), zero paints "Starsky & Hutch" Torino red..., Automotive clear-coat with hardener will follow. The whole kit-body is too low on the side walls and the whell openings are rounded out for Racecar-tyres... the movie car is a stock-model... so I had some difficulties to fit the decals in the right order above... you can see that over the front wheel-opening... "Good Year, NASCAR and Daytona - Talladega" should fit under that fender line... but you see, why all that stuff takes so long for me - because I care for that. Some clear-parts customizing... no fear for it: use wet sandpaper 600-800-1200-2000, the micro mesh 400, 6000,8000,12000 and Tamiya polish coarse, fine and finish... takes some time but worth the time! But this car gets some details, referring to the movie, that most people doesn´t recognize... like the trailer hitch (!), chewing tobacco, Budweiser Beer -> "The man does not live on bread alone..." look for it on YouTube... Mhh...M....M... More to come, Greetings from Berlin/Germany, Oliver 😄 8
dwc43 Posted July 1 Posted July 1 Great job so far. Yeah, that kit has the old MPC universal chassis. They stuck it under every NASCAR car they made back in the day. Only difference is the engine and the body. Salvino's seems to have better NASCAR replicas.
Shark Posted July 5 Posted July 5 I'm impressed with what you did with the windshield. The whole thing really, but what you did with that is something else 3
Mattilacken Posted July 10 Posted July 10 Great progress on a classic Chevy! Have wanted to make one as well but I have not gotten around to it yet. I am building an other one right now but with the earlier style bumper. Btw, if you want a Monogram NASCAR chassis to go underneath it ( more correct than what the kit gives) I know a place in EU that carry NOS kits. Otherwise any amt/ revell Chevrolet or olds cutlass will suit the bill chassis wise.
RockinRoller Posted 15 hours ago Author Posted 15 hours ago (edited) So.... many month an work flew in this long-time-planned project! Nothing worked as expected... and that is EXACTLY what I should have expected, because it is the usual way building a "not-so-out-of-box-model" trying to match a real object AND catch the feelings and memories from your childhood. (Remember the Airwolf Helicopter that was never black & white in real...) Even this car is a mix of of that - to satisfy a adult eye and the memories. Attention - spoiler-alert! I had "plenty" problems with paint, clear-coat bubbles..., decals reacting with clear-coat... ...and "plenty" of time to fix and repaint - 3 times! But I had I had "plenty" of beer... and "plenty" of food! Because (Don´t worry it is a link to YouTube-video showing "that" movie-scene!) -> "Man does not live on bread alone!" So I draw some beer-logos on Corel Draw and printed them out. Laying them around Ervergreen prifile that matches a vintage beercan best... fixed with superglue and painted tops with Molotow-Chrome pen. Later I put semi-gloss clear coat on it. The packageing was also drawn in Corel Draw and printed out. The snack-bag was designed by myself to match best - because hours(!) of searching for vintage US-snack brands from 1980 was leading to no result! I decided that pretzels (Over here in Germany called: Brezel(n) )interior. I took some aluminium tub and thin out the walls and give it the right shape by a little brute force... sand it with very fine sandpaper and create a clamp by aluminium-tape and a small piece of rod create a bolt-head. The interior was very basic, but I tried to find some stock-seats an a correct steering-wheel. For a little detail I spread some beercans and put a package of "RED MAN" Tabacco on the dash... you remeber: (Source: Google) (screenshot from movie) The one thing I decided not to replicate was the "agricultural hook" in the back... you can see it clearly in that scene: (screenshot from movie) AND ONE THING... A BIG QUESTION TO ALL OF YOU NASCAR HYSTORIANS: When you watch the name-plate... there is definitely a relation to A.J. Foyt who drives a Hawaiian Tropic Nascar... because I´m from Germany, some facts and jokes get lost in translation. So I always want to figure out, why that caracter was in that scene?! My idea here - A.J. Foyt loose a (maybe) winning position in a NASCAR race, the time the movie was made, by respectingthe rules of racing to not overtake while a crash or whatever was on the track... other drivers don´t gave a damn and Foyt looses his position, because of this "nerdy" behavior - and that could explain that caracter in the movie? 🤔 Any ideas, facts...? The movie is full of so called easter eggs. 😁 OK - no it is done: As with all my models I put them directly to a acrylic-case when they are dried! This time I added some background... I really would love the movie showed more of these two characters! Thank you for watching! Greetings, Oliver Berlin/Germany Edited 14 hours ago by RockinRoller 1
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