So we had a snow day today... and since I really liked the way my Fairlane convertible came out, I decided to try another ragtop I've been meaning to do. I think Scott (noddaz) did one of these a while back, and I've had this in my head ever since...
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This one gave me a harder time than the Fairlane for a few reasons. First, the roof was harder to cut off since the C-pillars are much wider. Second was that I was trying to save the JL paint... so of course I slipped and put ugly knife scratches across the trunk lid and down the fender. Finally, I was working with a Weird Jack's interior that I had started working on for another project, and I ended up cutting too much off in the front (you can see through to the gearplate where the dash should be). I'm not real happy with the Gabriel Hijackers stance, but that's as low as I could get without hacking away at the underside of the interior (which I may do yet). It looks real cool running around the track, though...
I also finally finished this one:
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This started out as a Speedline basket case that I got with the roof ripped off. I painted it and adapted a windshield from a diecast to fit, but I had no interior. Because Speedlines already sit low, I couldn't use a WJ or Mustang interior unless I wanted to have the whole interior sticking up out of the car--they were just too thick. I know that usually the top of the driver figure's head ends up higher than the windshield, but I hate when it looks like he can rest his chin on it. So I ran it for a while with no interior... and finally today, looking at the finished GTO, I was motivated to come up with a solution for this one. The answer: the base of the interior is a sheet of plastic cut from a diecast blister, and the seats are card stock. The driver figure is from WJ, and he was kinda sanded on an angle so he'd lean back and look a little lower...
So now here are all my custom ragtop conversions:
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let's see yours! :thumbsup:
--rick
This one gave me a harder time than the Fairlane for a few reasons. First, the roof was harder to cut off since the C-pillars are much wider. Second was that I was trying to save the JL paint... so of course I slipped and put ugly knife scratches across the trunk lid and down the fender. Finally, I was working with a Weird Jack's interior that I had started working on for another project, and I ended up cutting too much off in the front (you can see through to the gearplate where the dash should be). I'm not real happy with the Gabriel Hijackers stance, but that's as low as I could get without hacking away at the underside of the interior (which I may do yet). It looks real cool running around the track, though...
I also finally finished this one:
This started out as a Speedline basket case that I got with the roof ripped off. I painted it and adapted a windshield from a diecast to fit, but I had no interior. Because Speedlines already sit low, I couldn't use a WJ or Mustang interior unless I wanted to have the whole interior sticking up out of the car--they were just too thick. I know that usually the top of the driver figure's head ends up higher than the windshield, but I hate when it looks like he can rest his chin on it. So I ran it for a while with no interior... and finally today, looking at the finished GTO, I was motivated to come up with a solution for this one. The answer: the base of the interior is a sheet of plastic cut from a diecast blister, and the seats are card stock. The driver figure is from WJ, and he was kinda sanded on an angle so he'd lean back and look a little lower...
So now here are all my custom ragtop conversions:
let's see yours! :thumbsup:
--rick
