Bob,
Love the Snoopy and Red baron cars. :thumbsup::thumbsup:

HOOTER's aren't bad either....:tongue: :lol: :D

WOW that is sweet!!!!!!! Nice job Wes and you lucky lucky slothead Bob!!! I have always been a fan of Hooters!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Beautiful Hooter's Panel Wes! Bob Tindle and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth would be envious of that "Orange Crate!"

Great looking dogfight! :thumbsup::thumbsup: rr

Thank you Bob...lucky dog...zilla!!! That's a cool looking orange box!!! Nice work Wes...RM
P.S. Bob is having too much fun with these Indy cars, there may need to be a 100 limit imposed!!!

WTG Robert.... and Wes:thumbsup::thumbsup:... nice crate!!

I've got a couple Indy dogs on the grill myself...Should have 'em ready to serve this weekend. nd

All on the bench....maybe another 3 weeks before I get time to post so thought i should lol...

Cool Hot Rods Coach!!! I like the cut down Woodies truck. I need more trucks!!! Please use the same camera, as you did with the first 2 pics, lol, I need to see the details!!! ... RM

Cool Hot Rods Coach!!! I like the cut down Woodies truck. I need more trucks!!! Please use the same camera, as you did with the first 2 pics, lol, I need to see the details!!! ... RM

Believe it or not thats our high end Nikon Digital.. i will take more pics withthe kodak later as it seems to do close up work WAY better.. But the Nikon does have some advantage....

Wow, nice batch of pick 'em up trucks Coach!!! That blue chop top is super sweet!! Nice job!!:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Cool Hot Rods Coach!!! I like the cut down Woodies truck. I need more trucks!!! Please use the same camera, as you did with the first 2 pics, lol, I need to see the details!!! ... RM

with the kodak.. the Willies is a bad Dawg, I have the gold inlayed on the doors just have to touch up and even them out. Do the Steel bed cover and insert the windscreen..

The Blue one needs some more gold laid around the radiator, windshield installed. this is one of those A's from ebay with the way off posts, I cut the old posts out and used my own..

That's a sweet little herd of truck you have there, Coach! You can drive a different one each day of the work week! Ya need two more for the wekend.

Good thing this Hutt is all thumbs cause it makes this score possible... :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Funny dat Coach,

You and I are on a truck kick of late.

Love the aggressive stance on the Willys pick up! Hopefully it will get me off my butt and motivate me to finish the one I started a year ago er so.

Good stuff old man.

All on the bench....maybe another 3 weeks before I get time to post so thought i should lol...

awesome trucks man!! and turn on the macros on your camera for close up looks!

Wes

Coachy has Lots-O-Trucks...hurry lets all jump him and take them from him. Who is with me? Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah nice ones Coach.

That Red one (first pic, far right) with the red rims realy has me hipnotized....Sweet! They are all Neat-0 builds. yeah that Woody is the Cats Meoooooooooooow...

Bob...Texas is the land of trucks...zilla

Some new ones. One from BadDawg and the other is a recycled LifeLike. Enjoy.....:)

rr

Both look great RR!! You do a fade on the Zippo car or is that just the camera playing tricks?? I like the way that looks!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Woah, that Zippo car is like playing tunes in my head man. Like Come on Baby Light My Fire and Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire are riffing through my brain man. Like it's the Alice Cooper live cover version of Jimmy's song, man.

Hey man, when I'm like in the hospital ya know for like for back surgeries yah know and they like put me like on the morphine drip yah know like Jim and Jimmy and Janice all like come visit me man. Yah man it's like really cool man! Jim and Jimmy look like pretty good but Janice still hasn't taken a bath ya know man.

I like forgot to wear like my aluminum foil hat man! :drunk::hat::freak::dude::tongue:

rr,

The yellow one reminds me of the AFX Ryder trucks with that black and red stripe job. That is a good thing! Gotta love that body style...old school baby. :thumbsup:

Zip away in this Life Like dream Zippo ride. Nice use of a LifeLike body!

Bob...I bet Randy is Yellow-us of those...zilla

Sweet Rides OFD.. Love the Jag, and darn nice save on the LL.. but now i have a urge to go for a smoke...?? hmmmmmm


Dave

rr,

The yellow one reminds me of the AFX Ryder trucks with that black and red stripe job. That is a good thing! Gotta love that body style...old school baby. :thumbsup:

Zip away in this Life Like dream Zippo ride. Nice use of a LifeLike body!

Bob...I bet Randy is Yellow-us of those...zilla

You know me too well Bob...yea, I likes em!!!...zilla. The Ryder Roadster would look good on the back on an AFX Ryder hauler, just thinking to myself. Nothing wrong with recycling!!! I likes that Zippo car :thumbsup::thumbsup: Red and black looks great on that yellow. Great work RR!!! RM

Both look great RR!! You do a fade on the Zippo car or is that just the camera playing tricks?? I like the way that looks!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:


SCM,
Fade all the way. rr

Magic Eight Ball sees a bad dawg jag in my future. Is that on an AFX/Xtrac style chassis?

Thanx fer sharing OFD!

Magic Eight Ball sees a bad dawg jag in my future. Is that on an AFX/Xtrac style chassis?

Thanx fer sharing OFD!

Sitting on an old scholl AFX MT. :) rr

Keep on truckin Coachie... Looking awesome, although the romantic lighting yer using leads me to believe you have other things on yer mind over there! ;)

OFD.... WTG (as usual). :thumbsup::thumbsup:.... Diggin the D-Type. nd

A couple of my recently finished customs:

Dirty baja bug:

This one was a JL chrome blue one, stripped down I chopped out the sunroof glass as well as the side windows, removed the rally lites for a smoother look and I chopped off and smoothed down where the 'bucket' that held the spare tire was. The tire is still in place, but that washtub just looked stupid to me. Its complete with mud spray and AW dirty tire chassis.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/grungerockjeeper/dirtybug.jpg

Necessary Roughness CJ-5:

Crappy movie, but I always liked the well worn Jeep that Scott Bakula drove in it. The primer, faded paint and rusty bumpers give a certain character that really looks good on old Jeep. I used actual screen shots to recreate his ride. The top is from a Maisto GPW army jeep, the wheels are white rear rims from an aurora G+ all around, to simulate the white spokes on the real thing. Couldnt find anything to fabricate a towbar yoke from, so I just adapted up a winch and pushbar from an AFX gmc truck.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/grungerockjeeper/necessaryroughness.jpg

Now I wannna play in the mud!!! Nice job on both!!! Awesome!!:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

That's one dirty bug!!! I like the winch on the jeep, wouldn't mind taking that one to the woods myself!!! Looking good for trying to look bad :thumbsup::thumbsup: RM

The dirty baja looks like it was made to be like that. Great job!

A couple of my recently finished customs:

Dirty baja bug:

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/grungerockjeeper/dirtybug.jpg

Necessary Roughness CJ-5:

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/grungerockjeeper/necessaryroughness.jpg

Jeeps and Baja bugs...love them! Nice ones here grungerockjeepe. Dirty and rusty. Gotta like that look if you are a real car guy. Sometimes down and dirty is the way to go.

I am kinda bumbed out as a couple of years ago, while sitting in a new jeep at the local New Car Expo, discovered 6' 4" is to tall to drive a jeep comfortably with the top up. Oh dang...:cry:

Bob...have a Baja Bug almost finished...zilla

Thanks for the props, guys. They were fun builds.

Bob, what kinda Jeep were you looking at? Im 6'1" and my Wrangler is one of the only vehicles I have plenty of headroom in. I mean theres a good 4-5 inches to go between my head ( and my hair is spiked up 2-3 inches higher ) and the softop. Now, if you were looking at the classic Cherokees, then I can totally see that. My spikes scraped the headliner in my sisters XJ.

Now I wannna play in the mud!!! Nice job on both!!! Awesome!!:thumbsup::thumbsup:



Like I said...

Now I wanna play in the mud!!!




After poking around in my boxes o' bodies looking for stuff I need to clear out to secure funds for casting resin, epoxy, and sillycone I happened to find a body that I just couldn't bring myself to use. The wheel wells are just too big for my taste. I'm also not too tickled with the way it lines up axle-wise on an AW chassis. Then I happened to look at my nifty 6X chassis with my new Bob Beer's supplied truck wheels sitting on my keyboard and I added 2 + 2 and came up with 4 X 4. :lol: So with that in mind, I bring you...




The 4X4 Camaro






http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp251/slotcarman12078/67bceedd.jpg


http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp251/slotcarman12078/217f2418.jpg


http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp251/slotcarman12078/c501b3b3.jpg

Please note, no wheelwells were harmed in this modification.. :tongue: She was kinda slippy slidey (I just WD-40'd the track yesterday) but after a couple sweet magnets supplied by our own T Jet Racer, she really hangs on the track great. Please note: I really don't mind the AFX/Xtrac chassis version of the Dash camaro, but the T Jet version is errrrmm.. well, you know..

They are all great looking mud toys!:thumbsup:

Ujoe, what does the camaro look like if ya get the bod a bit closer to the wheels?

I would have had to pick the black one for this project.... Well, Joe, the front would need a lil trim job at the back of the wheel well if I dropped it much more than 1/16th. The back can stand to come down about 1/8 inch. I plan on a little post extension trim after the glue fully dries.

grungerockjeepe

I was sitting in a Brand New 2007 Jeep, Jeep...the style like your slot jeep. I tried to get in and my forehead was rubbing on the roll bar...Maybe the seats were adjusted all the way up? I keep my hair buzzed so...............??

I'm not a Circus freak with short legs or anything like that either...LOL

Ujoe,

That Camaro would look great in a Florida Mud bog race....oh yeah!

Bob...and Noah loaded all the Camaros on the Ark 4 by 4...zilla

grungerockjeepe

I was sitting in a Brand New 2007 Jeep, Jeep...the style like your slot jeep. I tried to get in and my forehead was rubbing on the roll bar...Maybe the seats were adjusted all the way up? I keep my hair buzzed so...............??

I'm not a Circus freak with short legs or anything like that either...LOL

Ujoe,

That Camaro would look great in a Florida Mud bog race....oh yeah!

Bob...and Noah loaded all the Camaros on the Ark 4 by 4...zilla


You were looking at an '07, huh? Thats the new JK bodystyle when they intro'd the 4-door. I dont have a slot jeep anything like that, actually. THe closest die-cast that could be resin casted at this point would be the Matchbox Jeep Rescue concept.

Take a look at '97-'06 models, thats the TJ bodystyle. They have an extended length model called the Unlimited, but unlike the new ones, its still a 2-door. Think of it as a modernized, full roof Scrambler. The headroom on the older Jeeps is a lot better than on the newer ones. After test driving the '07-up models I was less than impressed both in the interior and in what was under the hood. Even my 4.0 I-6 which is painfully lacking with 33's and a lead foot is FAR more gutsy than that minivan V-6 in the new ones. Yes, that engine actually IS out of the caravans and voyagers.

grunger,

Well that makes sence to me...I ended up getting a Honda Element. I love the Element but, someday I may end up in a jeep and will then have to consider buying a nicer used one? Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Thanks for the info...Jeeps Rock! I have built one Hooters Jeep in slot car form & need to do up one of my AFX Jeeps some day.

Bob...I have small jeeps at least...zilla

Well Ghost Ridder slipped into Nebraska today. He wanted to go surfing so, I made him a board and stuck it under his arm for him to hang onto.

From the Creator of my Favorite Hobby Talk thread, Ed (Sethndaddy), this light blue Ghost Rider Rod showed up Monday! I love the Ghost Rider and hope you are O.K. with the changes that were made to your very cool light blue with dark blue Iron Cross Ghost Rider Rod.

Yep this is the same car that Ed uses now for his Avitar. I was just so overwhelmed to get this sweet Ghost Rider roadster that my hand started dipping into the paint, just like a color by Numbers painting.

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc339/1970peaches/aablownn1.jpg

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc339/1970peaches/aablownn2.jpg

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc339/1970peaches/aablownn3.jpg

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc339/1970peaches/aablownn4.jpg

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc339/1970peaches/aablownn5.jpg

Ghost Rider just gave me the Penance stare but, luckily for me my soul is clean and it had no affect on me so we just finished cleaning the garage and shared some ice cream.

Bob...ho scale Ghost rider is a lot smaller than me so, I got more ice cream than him...zilla (Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!)

You don't want to follow this car to close or you might just get a world of heert from those rear mounted spikes. This needs some decals now. :)

wwhoooaaahhhh!! thats frickin awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek::eek:

Wes

Totally awesome mod of a mod Mr. Bob...The reBuilder...Zilla!!!! Hope Ghost Rider was able to keep his pilot light lit with the ice cream!! :lol: I finally snagged a hot rod for tinkering with, along with my 4th real dune buggy in a decent priced pair from the bay. I've said it before, but it's worth repeating.. Seeing it in macrovision and holding the actual sized body at the same time brings things back in perspective, and really makes you appreciate the excellent detail work being done on something that scale!!! Nice job Ed...Father of Seth...Daddy!!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup: And Nice remod B...Z!!!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

fantastic Ghost Rider!.....urrrmmmm....Driver?
Beware, all of you evil doers!
The car is cool! :thumbsup:

All my freinds love the Ghost Rider
Ghost Rider, take me little higher

Sorry, saw a few clips from the band WAR on youtube today.
Cool band... Low Rider, Cisco Kid and Spill the Wine with Eric Burden.
Didn't they do Jungle Boogie too?

Anyway, VERY cool car Bob... you have quite an imagination!
Kind of reminds me of the Greatful Dead meets the Heat Miser inside the Thunderdome.

Nice, bob! Ill have to get you to teach me your rusting technique. Mine is NOWHERE near that good.

NICE MUDDERS :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Nice, bob! Ill have to get you to teach me your rusting technique. Mine is NOWHERE near that good.

Well first find a paint brush you don't care about. Then I used Testors Leather (dark brown) for the base coat. Take your brush with some brown on it and poke, poke, poke the whole body till it is covered. If you want paint build up like rust in a certain spots just keep coming back to that area and poke, poke, Poke some more brown on.

Now for your light brown or tan to off set the solid brown you have at this point. Take your brush and dip it in tan or light brown and then whipe off most of the paint in a paper towel. This is "dry brushing" Now test this first on something else to see if you have enough or to little paint...you just want a little paint to come off in this poke, poke, poke-ing. Don't worry if you mess up and get to much in a certain area because, you can always come back with the brown and reverse this with some more "dry brushing"

O.K after you get the thing rusted the way you want grab some Flat Black and "dry brush" it in for shadowing.

You can keep doing this untill you get it the way you want...don't give up. I was thinking of dry brushing the pipes with some white to give it the white pipes rusted look...I just don't know yet. After a few decals go down it may start to talk to me and answer that question for me.

The surfboard was scratched up with an exacto knife to give it that old look along with that old 60s & 70s Kitchen green look. Flat Black with Zinc Cromate yellow was applied over the black for the yucky green.

I can't say enough on how Ed put this together and inspired me to rust it out. This is going to be one fun runner man! Going to let this sit for a bit and think about it before adding any last skulls and decals to the mix on this build.

Bob...The Ghost Rider driver is the part that makes this all work (Thanks Ed!!!!!)...Bob

..."I can handle it... Lord knows I deserve it... Why won't Bob ever consider MY feelings for a change?.... sheeesh".

:lol: nd

..."I can handle it... Lord knows I deserve it... Why won't Bob ever consider MY feelings for a change?.... sheeesh".

:lol: nd

Nuther,

RALMAO...hahahahha man that is funny. :lol: Slickster III will be posted up on this thread very soon & yes it will be for the Ghost Rider. See I am not completly thoughtless and non-caring. lol

If I have learned one thing from Hobby Talk it is that this Roadster needed to be lowered. Cut the post and trimmed a little of the inside side of the front seat (for gear clearance). Now the only part of the chassis you see has been rusted brown.

Before:

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc339/1970peaches/aablownn1.jpg

After:

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc339/1970peaches/aablown6.jpg

Well lowering also causes some problems with the rear tires hitting the chassis so, I took some Buds T-Jet skinney white walls, took out the white insert & put that side towards the rear of the AJs Double flanged rim to fix this problem while, at the same time allowing me to use my Buds clear goldish fire like tires.

Or you can just trim the chassis with an Ex-Acto hobby knife. Kids ask your parents to help with this! A sharp Ex-Acto knife is like a surgical instrament...Ouch and oh dang! :cry:

http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc339/1970peaches/aablown7.jpg

This roadster handles great with those front fatties. The chrome was removed off of them to give the white nylon rear match. I love driving this car!!! I started by just putting some small skulls inside of the blue Iron Crosses Ed had on this originaly light blue body...then I just went crazy. :freak:

Bob...Thanks again Ed...zilla

..."I can handle it... Lord knows I deserve it... Why won't Bob ever consider MY feelings for a change?.... sheeesh".

:lol: nd

Ah yes GR deserves it, but will he be able to maintain that shiney paint job???

http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp251/slotcarman12078/06822697.jpg

The first time he gets into trouble the slickster would be a flaming fireball and all that paint will be burned off in a heartbeat. It'll end up looking crispy like the hot rod.. Hmmmm.. I wonder if I were to cast up a clear sled and paint it with nothing but candy red, yellow and orange flames, how many flashing leds I could squeeze inside the body???? :rolleyes:

I wonder if I were to cast up a clear sled and paint it with nothing but candy red, yellow and orange flames, how many flashing leds I could squeeze inside the body???? :rolleyes:


SCM,
Go for it! Especially if you could get some sort of blinking circuitry going to give the flickering effect of fire. :thumbsup:


Did up another one of the LL Stockers.
:) rr

rr,

The paint fade on those bodies is incredible. ZIPPO just gives me a ZIP...ZIP image in my brain so, I am going to assume these babies fly....Woooooooosh!

Bob...would like to see the after pic. in a month...zilla

P.S. I bet you drive these like a rental car.....screeeatch! :thumbsup::thumbsup: