Any Model-Car builders here?

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I was just wondering if anybody else here was a model car builder?

I started out building lowriders (before they were *cool*), and HotRods.

*Engine swaps
*Making convertables
*Making t-tops
*Wheel swaps
*Open trunks with homemade speaker boxes
*Trucks with hydrolic beds
*Trucks with beds full of bandbass speaker boxes and amps
*Stereio systems with EQ's
*Lowriders with trunks open to show homemade hydro pumps and batteries
*Hydrolic switches in the dash
*Cars in the 3-wheel with the wheels matching
*Velvet interiors
*Shaving tires to be low-profile

*Oh, and the paintjobs. The most perfect painjobs you'll see.


......oh, I could go on and on and on.




Any other modelcar builders out there?



I've just recently (within the past 1.5yrs gotten into the Import model cars and notices the **** from Japan costs like 4x what the stuff I used to buy :( but the left hand drive Integ's and Skylines are ALMOST worth it. :) :( )
 
I gotta questionabout either air-brushing, or "mixxing pain paintcans".

How do you get the darkish-metalic peach color that Diablo's get?
 
I built them for a while a while back but I don't seem to find the time any more. I have some I picked up from the internet that were no longer in production but I will probably keep them in the box. They are worth more like that.
Sorry I can't help with the paint question.
 
I do. Here's a sample of a Ferrari I made..

Don't mind the Playmobil dolls, I got a little bored. :P
 

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I collect and mod Maisto 1/18scale cars. Got about 24 of them, although I have many that are totally broken that even Erector set won't fix. :)
 
I used to build plastic models of all kinds through middle school and even into high school a bit. I was pretty good at it though not great, and I really enjoyed it.

My friend's father used to build and race real dirt track cars (Sportsman and Modified class) and we scratch built several tube-frame Modified cars, kit-bashing from regular kits, and using plastic tube stock, square stock and sheet stock. We even fabricated working coil-over suspensions using ballpoint-pen springs.
 
My Maisto collection consists of an S2000, S-class, XKR convertable, Woody, Mini(new one), Panel Cruiser, New Beetle, CL sport, GTO, Mustang Mach 3, Corvette Convertable, Carrera, ML320, old Beetle, ZR-1, Viper Coupe, Old Jag sedan, Mustang GT, old Caddy Eldorado, and a Porsche 356 speedster.

Then I have a Gate Miata, Kyosho Lotus Europa, and several others...
 
ohh and those listed are just the ones that are working. I have about 6-7 that aren't...
 
I'm looking to get into F1 model building - I feel I need a 'crafty' type hobby, so I may as well combine it with a life-long obsession!
 
Originally posted by neon_duke
I used to build plastic models of all kinds through middle school and even into high school a bit. I was pretty good at it though not great, and I really enjoyed it.

My friend's father used to build and race real dirt track cars (Sportsman and Modified class) and we scratch built several tube-frame Modified cars, kit-bashing from regular kits, and using plastic tube stock, square stock and sheet stock. We even fabricated working coil-over suspensions using ballpoint-pen springs.
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Yea, I've build matching matching tube-frame Integras (one US, one JDM) than came out GREAT.

The onlytime I uses working suspensions (also using ballpoint pen springs) was with a '62 anda '59 Impala.

There uses to be a nice hobby shop that had every can of paint I needed (I rarely use airbrush). I'm looking for a metallic peach color (the color you see on a few Diablos).
 
I still kinda of build them but I usally spend all my hobby time on my R/C car. But I will throw a cheap Revell together every once in a great while.
 
I've got about a dozen cars that are only 1/2 build because there's so many things I want to do with them, but can't decide what to do and what mods to make. I've got like 3 shoe boxes full of spare parts, but I can never make the decision on what to do with what. :mad: :(

Right now I'm working on a FUJUMI Integra Type R and am moulding a small scoop for the intake, small scoop for the hood (over the driver seat, and scoops for the rear brakes. It's got louvers to vent heat, and I fabricated a big turbo using a couple horns from old Musclecar models.

UGGGHHHHHHGGGGRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr I guess that qualify's me as a perfectionist. :mad:
 
Originally posted by MazKid
I collect and mod Maisto 1/18scale cars. Got about 24 of them, although I have many that are totally broken that even Erector set won't fix. :)
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I also do the same. I have about 30 of them. Some are the new line (more detail). A few are beat to hell. I use them for crash scenes. I have burnt the crappy ones and made dents and $h!t. It looks cool :D
 
Tomarrow I'm picking up a Civic Hatchback and a Ford F150 Lightning.

The Civic will be a tube-frame dragster. One racing seat. No rear hach-deck, no dash (usining a drag dash from a '58 Chevy...straight bar with only a hole for speedo and tach) Complete rollbar's. A BIG turbo (made using horns from older hot rod doner models), Innercooler, innercooler piping. Exhaust exiting infront of the left right tire. Moulded hood scoop feeding to the intake/turbo. Flared fenders to fit the BIG Hoosier drag tires up front. And a Nitrous bottle in the hatch, complete with piping to the throttle body. I'm thinking some sort of an orange/red-grapefruit color.


The F150 will just be lowered, with an supercharged engine swap. Probably a hood scoop from a mustang. Metalic gold/pink paint. And best of all, the bed will be full of WORKING speakers installed in simulated Bandbass Sub boxes.



OOOOohhhhhh Boy, I can't wait. :D :D :D :D
 
I post pics of the cars above, plus the JDM Integra Type R (which should be a metalic peach (like the Lambo Diablo color).



This thread wasn't to brag or anything like that. I was just looking for others who share the same intrest/hobby, since I can't find any GOOD forums for Model-Car building. All the thoughts and ideas come into my head about what I want to do with this car, or that car, and I need to write'em down somewhere. And since I can't read my chicken scratches on paper, I post'em here.





BTW......anyone have any *CHEAP* websites for JDM/Japanese/Fujumi model cars? I'm getting tired of paying $45 for these things.
 
I'm not much into "stock" cars. (cars that you buildl to look to resemble the real car), I'm more into hybrids. Like building/moulding hood scoops, BIG single turbos, twine smaller turbos, and tube-frame drag cars. As well as truck/tahao/suburban' filled with real working speakers..
 
Originally posted by Option2
Thanks for the site, it's very usefull. ;)
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If you are talking to me, no probs. I just used the little booklet that came with my model (the picture I linked to above) to get to that site.
 
The last model I built was a 1956 Ford Custom Truck (the actual truck in real life was a custom, not the model I was making). And I did a pretty crappy job on it mainly because it was too small and the peices didnt set in the proper positions, plus I accidently picked up lacquer paint which is a bastard to work with and get a good result.
 
LOL GT3BB, yea I've done that stuff. I had a Mercedes A-class, lil van like thingy. I took the back seat out and piled a bunch of heavy crap in it and did IIHS Off-set Crashtests with it using one of the metal and concrete posts downstairs that holds the upstairs up. I was suprised at the strength, under the hood (and engine thingy) there's 2 support members that go from the firewall to the front bumper, and through about 10 of these crashes(on the same side) all that happened was that the driver's side member bent down like a mm. I woulda done more tests, but by the 10th one, the bouncing in the air after hitting the post took it's toll on my modded suspension system(with Maistos, the rear suspension usually consists of an axle(plastic, just attaches both wheels together), and that is covered by a plastic peice that goes from the bottom of the car, over the axle, and connects at the bottom of the back area/trunk. I find that optimum suspension travel and smoothness come from removing this cover and just having the axle held on by the 2 screws that go into the spring posts. If it's the independant rear suspension, well, then it's a lot of work to get it smooth and correct sitting camber) and broke the wheels off the axle with the part that the wheels snap into broken off inside where it's impossible to get it out, unless you drill through the front and get it out, or drill through the back and screw up the yellowish plastic part that the piece snaps into. So I was kinda pissed that it broke, and the car was breaking in other places, so I decided to torch it. Went into my sand box, got 2 bricks, and bridged the A-Class over the gap. Got a match thingy, lit a match, put it on the drivers seat, and ignighted it all with some WD-40. Steering wheel on fire, seat on fire, it was awsome. Let it go for a while then it burned out. Surprisingly not much damage, only a destroyed steering wheel, seat, dash, shifter, and a tad of the floor. Luckly I removed the parts from it that I could use on other cars, like springs, the front wheels, rear seat, and some other stuff.

I was pyro back then...I don't do that now cause I like the cars I get and I want to keep them looking pretty good.

There's also a Citroen 2CV that I zoomed down the driveway...somehow it had correcting steering, if it started to drift it steered itself to correct it. then ride quality was awsome, I ramped it and it just landed and kept going. Eventually the wheel hub wore out and mid-run wheel loss became a problem. Then I tried to cut the wheel cover off(the drivers side one) and I did it, but it looked like hell because it's hard to cut a rounded shape with a file. So I uhh...burned it. Same method as with the A-class, except I tried a bomb with it, a small cardboard box full of WD-40, taped shut with a peice of string. I lit the string, but it lit the cloth seats on fire and the only sence of a bomb was when the box burned up the fire went up a bit. melted the whole roof though.
That must have been an expirimental car for Miasto, it had 4 wheel independant suspension with a sort of horizontal suspension peices using a single wire spring for all 4, and it had cloth seats, and that damn roof thingy. Kinda cool.

There's also my Mustang GT which now looks like it rolled down a cliff. :D
 
Dude, it's a perminate sand box, and this was several years ago. Now it's covered with weeds and stuff.

I don't play in it, come on man.
 

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