1/25 Atlantis Jungle Jim Camaro Funny Car

[nickfzr61]

Finished up my Jungle Jim funny car. My intention was to build this kit out of box just to add a funny car to my collection. I had read the comments and saw builds of others here and on the web but I didn’t realize how bad this kit is until I had it in my hands and compared it the the reference pictures I found online. As most of you probably know it’s not very accurate. I modified the body by moving the front wheel openings forward. Then I cut off the front bumper ends and tucked them in to the body. Looking at pictures it seemed to me the Camaro body didn’t have a cutout on the hood for the supercharger so I filled it in. I think that was on the Vega body which would make sense since that body is probably shorter. Hard to really be sure with the limited number of pictures out there which is kind of surprising since this is such a historic car. The chassis was really bad. Very toy like and inaccurate. I found a free funny car chassis .stl file online and after manipulating it in Meshmixer I think I was able to print a decent chassis. Not an exact match to the 1:1 but definitely better than what came with the kit. Front wheels are from the kit and were modified. I thinned down the spokes and reduced the diameter of the hub which looked like something from a 4x4 truck. Front tires are from my parts box. For the rears I went in the opposite direction. I used the kits slicks and wheels from the parts box. They were sprayed Alclad polished aluminum then Alclad exhaust manifold. Body was primed with Tamiya Gray laquer primer and shot with Dupli-Color BCC0422 which is a Chrysler color then cleared with their 1K clear. 

Thanks for looking. 
 

Edited August 10 by nickfzr61

[Mopar2]

You put alot work into her.And it shows...Great build,and detail...

[nickfzr61]

Forgot to mention I also added the upper struts on the wheelie bars, made aluminum panels for the drivers cockpit out of styrene and Alclad polished aluminum, and printed a set of funny car  zoomies. Fuel tank is also from the parts box. 

Edited August 8 by nickfzr61

[nickfzr61]

2 minutes ago, Mopar2 said:

You put alot work into her.And it shows...Great build,and detail...

Thank you. 

[bytownshaker]

You did an awesome job with this terrible kit!!

[Nitro330]

Great job Nick!  This is a really crappy kit and you did an awesome job with it.  

[bondo bill]

nice work

[ChrisR]

Nice.

[nickfzr61]

20 hours ago, bytownshaker said:

You did an awesome job with this terrible kit!!

 

19 hours ago, Nitro330 said:

Great job Nick!  This is a really crappy kit and you did an awesome job with it.  

 

16 hours ago, bondo bill said:

nice work

 

7 hours ago, ChrisR said:

Nice.

Thanks guys. I’m very happy with the way it came out. 

[dmthamade]

A terrible kit, but you did a fine build with it!! I did buy the kit when getting back into cars, what a disappointment!!! Scrapped the kit used the decals on a Moebius Nova Gasser kit as a whatif. Expensive decal sheet...

 

Don

[Dragline]

A silk purse from a sow's ear my friend.

 

Well played...

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[nickfzr61]

On 8/9/2025 at 4:11 PM, dmthamade said:

A terrible kit, but you did a fine build with it!! I did buy the kit when getting back into cars, what a disappointment!!! Scrapped the kit used the decals on a Moebius Nova Gasser kit as a whatif. Expensive decal sheet...

 

Don

 

17 hours ago, Dragline said:

A silk purse from a sow's ear my friend.

 

Well played...

 

10 hours ago, PappyD340 said:

Very nice!

Thank you. Not at all surprised by the comments about this kit. I get they can’t make exact models of the actual cars but come on. At least try and come close. I guess I’d go bankrupt if I ran a model car company. Either that or I’d be rich. Lol. 

Edited Sunday at 10:00 PM by nickfzr61

[gtx6970]

I like it . Well done sir

 

Its a shame the screwed the pooch on the roof line with that kit 

[nickfzr61]

6 hours ago, gtx6970 said:

I like it . Well done sir

 

Its a shame the screwed the pooch on the roof line with that kit 

Thank you. 
 

Yes the A pillar is just another aspect of this kit that’s off. I think the real car is closer to a stock Camaro A pillar. I was thinking about correcting that but I figured no one would notice. So much for that. 🤣
 

[iBorg]

Moving the front wheels really helped a BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH kit. I totally agree with dumping the chassis. Not sure what can be done with that piece. I would bet this is the most common kit for people to open with great expectations and then put it back in the the box and saying, nope.