"Eleanor" fender flares and ground effects

[Jantrix]

Has anyone done a tutorial on the body mods for the 67 Eleanor Mustang? Any help would be appreciated.

[CAL]

I have done it, I didn't do a how to do it though.

It was a lot of work.

[dwc43]

You could just buy one you know. $36 resin in both 24 and 25.

http://www.tdrcatalog.com/servlet/the-Car-Bodies-cln-Miss-%22E%22/Categories

[Jantrix]

You could just buy one you know. $36 resin in both 24 and 25.

http://www.tdrcatalog.com/servlet/the-Car-Bodies-cln-Miss-%22E%

I really just want to add fender flares and ground effects to another build, not build an actuual Eleanor. Thanks though, I'm sure someone else will appreciate the link.

Edited January 26, 2010 by Jantrix

[dwc43]

I really just want to add fender flares and ground effects to another build, not build an actuual Eleanor. Thanks though, I'm sure someone else will appreciate the link.

Ahhh, that makes sense.

I'm sure someone will want that link for sure. I know some time back before the site changed there was several looking for a car like this. One sold for way over 100 and then they stopped making them for some reason. I had that link too and IIRC it was over seas and that added to the cost.

[Peter Lombardo]

About a year ago I did my version of the Eleanor Mustang GT500. I have enclosed the link here to where the early work on the car was posted. Click here----- http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17200 I did not do a tutorial for the fender flairs, but you can see how I did them.

There are many ways to accomplish this, but I took the easy route. I super glued a thin (.015mm) piece of styrene to the inside radius of the wheel opening having it “stick†out of the wheel opening about ¼ of an inch.

Once dry, I added bondo putty to the area on the finder side of the styrene. Then I sanded it all down to the flair size that I wanted. If you look carefully you can see the thin strip of plastic and the putty on the wheel wells. It is pretty easy and it will work on must any build.

[Jantrix]

Thanks Pete. Good stuff.