2010 - Shelby GT500 - Eleanor-ish

[The Styrene Chemist]

Hello fellow modelbuilders,

A little while ago I've had the crazy idea to build the 3 modern day muscle cars in 3 weekends. Guess what, That's just not possible. At least not for me. But the idea kept my bugging. So today I started on the Shelby GT500.

In this movie you can what's Inside the boxes of the Shelby / Challenger and the Camaro

Inside the box : 3 modern day muscle cars

A little picture before I went to the paintbooth

And a few hours later, another picture.

body painted with tamiya silver

rims painted with Tamiya gunmetal

random pics

A few facts :

interieur painted with vallejo model air dark sea grey

engine painted in tamiya flat aluminium, the rest of the engine-parts : tamiya X1

suspension and chassis in revell aqua color flat black

total hours of airbrushing : 5,5

[The Styrene Chemist]

There's always activity in The Styrene Lab so we kept working on this beauty on 4 wheels.

I wish you an evening full of styrene-fun and see you next time,

The Styrene Chemist

[Scuderia]

Lookin' good! these kits do lend themselves to a quick simple build. nice job

[Olskoolrodder]

Very nice start,this is gunna be cool

[martinfan5]

I kind of want to do this now, looking really good , very nice so far , what color did you use for the body?

[Scuderia]

I kind of want to do this now, looking really good , very nice so far , what color did you use for the body?

Body was painted Tamiya Silver, he didn't state what shade though.

[martinfan5]

Body was painted Tamiya Silver, he didn't state what shade though.

Thanks Lawrence, I missed that part I guess

[Kaleb]

Looks great, just for a future note. Most of the newer mustangs have a coating on the subframe, and floor. To get the color I mixed yellow gold and brass and it comes out close.

[Johnny1973]

Looking real nice

[The Styrene Chemist]

Made some progress

Have fun out there...

See y'all next time with more styrene updates...

[horsepower]

Looks great, just for a future note. Most of the newer mustangs have a coating on the subframe, and floor. To get the color I mixed yellow gold and brass and it comes out close.

After crawling under one of the newer Mustangs on a local lot (they must've thought I was a bit off as we were buying a new Optima) I discovered there is no metallic in the "sealer" that Ford has on the Mustang floor pan, it is actually almost a perfect match to the K-2 urethane primer that some of use under a lacquer paint job, it is a yellowish orange sort of color, almost a real light Ochre (but not quite).

Also just FYI, those fuel tanks on the sides of the driveline are either a gray plastic, or a semi gloss black plastic depending on production dates.

Edited December 18, 2012 by horsepower

[Chas SCR]

By any chance did the trans on the motor look like this one?

[freakshow12]

the supercharger snout should be black as well.

[Olskoolrodder]

I'm loving it,chassis and drivetrain looking great!

[Platerpants]

nice work but i believe Eleanor had a custom body kit with side exhausts and custom grille lights. heres what your finished project should look like. Im not trying to sound mean i just want to put a little input in

good luck and great job so far

[The Styrene Chemist]

tnx for the comments,

@ Platerpants : It is not my intention to copy the eleanor entirely. The bodywork will still be stock shelby GT500. only the colors will be like the eleanor.

hereby also a new update :

have a wonderful new year's Eve.

[Aaronw]

I like the light grey stripes over the silver, nice effect.

[Platerpants]

very nice build

[Dirkpitt289]

Well done.

[crazyrichard]

looking good !!