#9 Powerpuff Girls/Cartoon Network Taurus

[Albert Moore]

This is Revell's 1/24th scale 1998 Ford Taurus kit w/ Wetworks decals. My daughter was heavily into the Powerpuff Girls at the time, which provided the inspiration to build this. The model was built mostly OOB, but a few mods were made. Evergreen rod was used to update the roll cage to 1998 specs. A piece of aluminum tubing was inserted into the left-rear corner of the TV panel for the fuel overflow pipe. Sheet styrene was added to extend the front airdam, and to add side skirts. A cold air box was added under the hood (per 1997 rules) plus, one-sided flat exhaust pipes were used instead of the outdated dual tubular type that came with the kit. New quarter windows were made from sheet acetate, then decal strips applied to represent bracing. All suspension points were modified to lower the stance and to bring the wheels under the body. Detail Master hood pins were added as final touch. The finish is Model Master Hot Magenta, while the roll cage is MM Canadian Voodoo Gray. The headlight decals, grilles, dzus fasteners, brake-duct vents, and wheel markings are from a Slixx Stock Car Goodies sheet.

Cheers,

Albert

Edited November 1, 2009 by Albert Moore

[dencon]

That is SWEET, Albert!

I forgot about that car. I should built this car too. Same story. My daughter was so into the PPGs. Her room was all made out with PPG stuff. We use to watch that cartoon together all of the time. So I got these decale to build this model for her and never got around to doing it. Well those days are gone but i still have the decals and a Taurus kit.

I only saw a really bad model of this car built, so I never was much up to building it, but this is the first one that looks nice and I do not think that car looked to bad. I never saw the real one. I stopped watching NASCAR at that time and have no idea about that time in NASCAR.

Could you show the things you did to "Update" that Taurus chassis. Like I said before. I was not keeping up with NASCAR at that time and have no idea what to do to that model kit to corrected for the year that, that car ran.

You did some nice work with that car.

Matt

[voljeepx]

I remember feeling bad for Jerry Nadeau for having to drive a pink car at the time! Looks good and superb decal work!