Billy Kingsley Posted June 9, 2009 Posted June 9, 2009 (edited) Here's a build that has been kicking around forever! I joined the NASCAR modeling forum in July 04, and this decal sheet was purchased from one of the members there. This was probably one of the first 5 sets of decals I bought after I joined...and I did the body up not long after. And then the poor thing has just taken a beating! There are more scrapes and dings on this paint job then any other model I have finished! It's a good thing the kit was molded in white because I took it down to bare plastic in several places to get the bigger marks off. I also had to practically redraw the numbers with Sharpie because a lot of them had gotten knocked off! This was first experience with inkjet decals, too. This was a one-race deal, in promotion of Speed Racer joining the Speed Network programming. By time I actually got Speed in 2006 it was off the air again. I have not been able to find a reference photo of the real car, all I had was the drawing on Jayski. I like to use real photos but I didn't have that leeway, I hope it is right. In retrospect I should not have done the air dam with Sharpie. It worked great with the 1/64 version I did of the basic unsponsored car, not so great on a larger scale. I don't even know if it WAS blue, but I know the basic unsponsored car had that, so I used some artistic license. Also, I lost the baggie with the axles, so this is the first model where I glued the front wheels to the spindles to get the stance I wanted. I like that, and I may do it more in the future. I had a rear axle in my parts box that I used. I had glued the wheels to the axle casing (the plastic part) but I thought they were too far into the body so I pulled them off. It would be kind of cool to build the Mach 5 and the Bobby Labonte CoT and have a Speed Racer trifecta, hmm....this is definitly one that looks better from a distance, that is for sure! Edited June 9, 2009 by Billy Kingsley
ricky12 Posted June 18, 2009 Posted June 18, 2009 billy you find some great build subjects and they turn out great all of them!!!!!!!!
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