1/12th Scale 1969 Camaro Build

[4bangen]

I just can't bring myself to beat one up. I enjoy my show car shine!

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I on the other hand enjoy my beaters way more. I find myself still spending time looking at my rusty models, and my show cars end up in boxes. Thats why I love those jacked up resin coupe bodies you sent me so much. I still plan on doing something cool with them.

[black2002ls]

I just can't bring myself to beat one up. I enjoy my show car shine!

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[4bangen]

Wow dude sick work here.

Did you ever stop by Old Town Hobby Shoppe in lewisville? He is closing down, but used to have some badass models on display. A few of them were kits done as rust buckets..

Like these:

[black2002ls]

Thought I would bump this. I played around with the wheels, wanting to see how convincing plastic sleeves painted with aluminum would look. The texture kills it, unfortunately. I am going to get one printed with better quality plastic and paint and clear it and see how they turn out. ~$30 for sleeves vs $150-200 is much better.



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[black2002ls]

Wow dude sick work here.

Did you ever stop by Old Town Hobby Shoppe in lewisville? He is closing down, but used to have some badass models on display. A few of them were kits done as rust buckets..

Like these:

Never went by there. I'm way outside of the Metroplex in Greenville. We have a guy here on the board that had some stuff on display there IIRC. Did I send all of the files to you that you needed for my website? I can't remember if I sent them all or just one of them

[MustangPoser]

Wow dude sick work here.

Did you ever stop by Old Town Hobby Shoppe in lewisville? He is closing down, but used to have some badass models on display. A few of them were kits done as rust buckets..

Like these:

[Swamp Donkey]

Bad ass work, Russell. Crazy patience and skill! The last project I put 5 years in to ended up in a divorce.

[4bangen]

Great job, can't wait to see how it ends up.

[black2002ls]

It has been a good long while since I updated this. About 13 months. I got my desktop up and running and installed solidworks on it. I decided its time for me to do a couple of things, improve my knowledge and skills in solid works and see if I could get some new parts designed for this car. It is pretty rewarding to take styrene sheet and build a motor block or intake, etc. However, its tough to reach the level of detail and accuracy you can get through designing parts in solidworks and having them printed. So, tonight, I went through my reference files and found some images of an LS1 block with measurements. So, I started working on designing an LS1 block in 1/12th scale in solidworks. I am hoping someone out there can lend me a hand. I have some external dimensions, but I need some internal dimensions. Right now I'm to a point I need to know the thickness of the main caps, can anyone help me?

[black2002ls]

I got some brake components in yesterday. The rotor and half of a caliper. The caliper needs to be a bit smaller, however the rotor turned out really nice. I thought I had ordered a rotor hat but I guess I didn't. The rotors will be painted gunmetal, or flat black with a silver mist to simulate the carbon rotors from a ZR1 corvette. All I had available was gloss black, but it allows you to see the machined aluminum bolt heads that will be used to detail the brakes once I get a full set done and ready.

[black2002ls]

lol. I've been fighting with this thing for 5 years now or so. The rear suspension started coming apart tonight. I plan to re-build a lot of it. I've got some machined aluminum goodies that should be here tomorrow. Rod ends, and some more bolt heads. Hopefully the brake parts will ship out next week. I've still got to re-design the sleeves and get them re-printed. At that point, I MIGHT be able to get the rear suspension finished up, and get the front suspension sorted out and started.

[SSMAN]

Fuck, I am still having hell with my full scale build.

[black2002ls]

The new wheels showed up today. I'm VERY pleased with the way that the centers turned out. As for the sleeves, I made a slight error when I designed them, and they are WAY too small. This wheel center was printed in shapeways Frosted Ultra Detail material, and is very nice IMHO.

Here is what it looked like when it came out of the box, semi transparent



A coat of primer applied



Then how it looks under the car

[black2002ls]

I got front sleeves printed as well, however, I think I screwed up the dimensions. Instead of being scale 9" wide, they are closer to 4". My plan for the sleeves is to get them designed how I want them and either send the pieces or the files off to be machined

[black2002ls]

Well, I got a little package in the mail today. My prototype parts arrived from the 3D printer. It turns out that the mating ring for the wheel face wasn't printable in its current format so I will have to tweak it. The plastic I had these printed in prints very rough not near good enough for finished quality pieces. I have learned quite a bit so far from looking at these pieces. The most important: the wall thickness isn't as much as it appears on the screen! the sleeves are too thin IMHO. I am also on the fence about the overall look of the wheels. I feel like the spokes are too thin. I like the general design, I just feel that maybe the spokes could be a bit wider. As far as wheel size, this is what I've mentioned about scale correctness not always looking correct. These should be 20" wheels, though they still look a tad bit small.