1/10 Jada R/C '06 Concept Camaro Slammer

[Casey]

This started out as a well-used 1/10 scale Jada Big TIme Muscle R/C car which I decided to build as a slammer with working lights. I parted out a few large scale R/C cars, so I had all the lights and figured I would give this model a little extra something, since all there is to look at is the body.

This was the starting point:

I spent several hours sanding, filling and priming (repeat!) the front and rear bumpers covers due to lots of sink marks , and had to strip all the paint and get down to bare plastic, as the existing paint did react well to lacquer based primer. Eventually, I got the three body pieces primed with Duplicolor grey primer (which seems to have been discontinued, leaving only the darker "Hot Rod Primer), sanded, and re-primed with Duplicolor white primer, like so:

After allowing the white primer to dry for 24 hours, I sanded it and sprayed the body parts with two coats of Duplicolor GM Arctic White as a base coat, followed by another 24 hour drying period. Next I applied three coats of Testors Inca Gold One Coat Lacquer, and allowed that to dry, then clear coated everything with Duplicolor clear acrylic lacquer. Fortunately, it was hot and sunny today, so all three pieces are curing in the sun as I type this.

There were two problem areas where I failed to remove all the original paint, but I will try to fix that once I get to the polishing stage. I really like Testor's Inca gold and wanted to see how it looked over a gloss white base, so I was very pleased with the results:

I started working on he wheels I plan to use, combining an R/C wheel with a 1/8 resin outer wheel I made, so I assembled both pieces ad set it in place to see how it looks:

I think they'll work just fine.

[jeffs396]

Very cool so far Casey!

That's gonna take up ALOT of shelf space