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Pics of my in-progress car model if anyone's interested...

geno

geno

Lifer
I snagged this off of eBay over a year ago and worked for a while on it, then I put it away for a while. Well, now that I've moved back up to school, I brought it with me so I could work on it if I was bored. Well, messing with my new camera, I figured I'd post up some pics of it. It's a '88 Dodge Daytona (the closest related car to mine I could find, no one makes a model of my car unfortunately).

First pic is the motor in my hands. I'm going to put on some sparkplug wires and some other things for detail. There's not too much to do since I'm shooting for realism (all the parts on the real motor are pretty much black): Pic It came out a little blurry 😱 This one is the back of the motor, showing off the turbo Back

The second pic is just of some parts I have done so far, Here. The body is sanded down and ready for another coat of paint (altho it looks really good in the pic!😀) It's tough to illustrate all of the work I've put into it, but every part that I've worked on has had all of the flashing filed/cut off. Parts with multiple pieces (such as the seats) have had the seams sanded down so you can't even tell the part has multiple pieces, it's pretty cool 😀 All parts that need it are getting painted the way they should be (I have numerous "real life" examples in case I need to check the accuracy of a color) 😀 LMK what ya think
 
Ahhh!!! a Daytona! Kill it kill it!

Just kidding 🙂 Looks pretty damn good so far.
 
Looknig good so far 🙂

They're really hard to photograph aren't they? There's a pic of my last one here. I started on an older mustang, and it's coming out nice so far, but going really slow. I have about 10 coats of ford blue paint on the engine.
 
Look at the size of that bananna, it's as big as a car! 😀

Seriously, geno, it's looking cool so far 🙂

notfred, you mustang model looks nice too 🙂
 
notfred - yeah, it's tough getting *good* focus on the little things... but the pics didn't come out terrible at least. I remember seeing that pic of the Cobra model before, looks cool - got any pics of under the hood or interior? As for going slow, I know what you mean. That exhaust you saw on my desk got painted once, but I didn't like the amount of flashing I left on the piping, so I scraped it down, and the paint on the body has been done 2 times already, but I didn't like the way it came out - I'm looking into an airbrush setup so I can get a killer finish on the body 🙂

Thanks for the compliments too guys 🙂
 
looks good! 🙂

I can always just head out to the garage, no biggie if some paint gets on the walls/floor out there 😉
 
Looks like they used the wrong style of rims. Look more like eggshell instead of crab rims.

Got a set of crabs on the turbo caravan 😉
 
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