Earnhardt Monte Carlo

[Scottnkat]

This is the Monogram Earnhardt Monte Carlo. I had planned on just building this straight without any extra effort, but then I realized that the kit body curved down under and the actual car had slab sides. I cut off the sides of the car and used sheet styrene to make the car sides instead. This also meant that I couldn't use the kit stripe decals, so that part was painted. It turned out to be good after all because the decals were bad and would not lay down at all. I ended up having to use a hairdryer, MicroSol, and a toothpick to get them to lay down temporarily, then covered it all in Future to seal the decals in. As it is, I decided to give up on a few of the decals and just call it good. Also, the kit was missing the chrome sprue, so everything else was made from scratch or through spare parts. As such, it's far from beautiful, but it's done.









Here's the engine bay - nothing fancy, but it works



and a final pic

[slusher]

Very nice build Scott.

[TooOld]

Looks good to me Scott ! Nice work on the sides and the paint .

I've never seen chrome on one of Earnhardt's cars !

[bbowser]

Looks good! The black cars are hard to pull off IMO, yours is up to the task.

[Truck parts]

Great job on the build

[DynoMight]

Great job on the paint, never realized that the kit had the curved sides but the actual car had slab sides..

[Maxicoop]

awesome lookin' build !!!!!!!!!!

[de3freak]

... Greetings ... :

Nice work there.