Mopar rally wheel tutorial

[oldscool]

This may be old hat to some of you but I thought it may be useful to some of the modelers on this forum.

This is a technique for improving kit rally wheels. I am using a wheel from the Revell 71 GTX to demonstrate my method.

You want to begin by sanding the backside of the wheel with some fairly coarse sandpaper to speed the process. Here I am using the coarsest grit that comes in the Testors sanding film packs.

Sand until you begin to see the holes in the wheel from the rear and keep sanding until you can pop the center out of the trim ring. Be careful to keep the wheel flat on the sandpaper so that you don't sand more off of one side.

Now you can paint the center without worrying about getting paint on the trim ring.

Now glue the center to the wheel back being sure that it's centered.

This also gives you a realistic gap between the center and the inner edge of the trim ring as well as making the wheel slightly deeper looking.

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If you don't need the Mopar wheels you can use the trim rings on something else(if they will fit of course). If you need a shallower trim ring just sand the back down some more.

I hope this is useful to some of you.

gus

[Harry P.]

And while you're at it... paint the inner part matte silver and the center caps a dark metallic gray.

[oldscool]

And while you're at it... paint the inner part matte silver and the center caps a dark metallic gray.

Well yeah...that's what I meant by making them easier to paint. I was just using this wheel for demonstration.

Here's a finished one on my Revell Cuda convertible.

Please ignore the poor job I did on the fender gills.

gus

Edited March 24, 2011 by GrumpyGus

[Harry P.]

Sorry, Gus... I didn't see that part of your post. You got it, man...

[W117monte]

Very cool! Thanks for posting. Wonder if it will work on monogram 70 ss wheels?

[oldscool]

Depending on how the wheel is molded it should work as long as the sanding process doesn't destroy the wheel center.

gus

[Iron Fist]

Nice tutorial

[shucky]

Thanks Gus, simple and to the point. Nice!

[VW Dave]

Thanks big time for posting this tutorial, Gerald! I'm a big fan of Mopars with rally wheels, but never could make them look even halfway decent.....now I can.

[Danno]

Cool.

[Duntov]

Simple elegance....very nice!!!

Regards Bill (Duntov)

[Jon Cole]

Yeah! I rate this thread... 100% worthy! Thanks!

[Chuck Most]

Please ignore the poor job I did on the fender gills.

gus

Dude... you did it way better than I would have. That's one of the tiny little things keeping me from tearing into the several Monogram 'Cudas I have stashed away...

[diymirage]

Dude... you did it way better than I would have. That's one of the tiny little things keeping me from tearing into the several Monogram 'Cudas I have stashed away...

just send em to me...ill build em

[W117monte]

I just did this on my 70 chevelle wheels, and it works!!! this tip is awesome. never will i get paint on my trim rings again. good work.

Edited March 26, 2011 by W117monte

[diymirage]

a slight variation of this technique come in handy for those of us who love prostreet rides but dont care for the deep dish centerlines found in just about every prostreet kit

a quick search through the partsbox yielded these 5 spoke mags

a few minutes of even sanding removes the center and leaves you with a nice deep dish

which can them be placed on the 5 spoke

(i sanded the front of the 5 spoke to make for a nice clean mating) and tah-daaaaa

a nice set of deep dish five spoke mags that will fit the mickey thompson sportsman tires

[oldscool]

I would like to thank everyone for the compliments on my tutorial. I posted this after deciding to stop trying to be witty and just post something useful to the rest of the community. If I have inspired anyone or if this helps to make someones build better then I feel like I have contributed something good.

gus