1/12th Scale 1969 Camaro Build

[Shaggin Wagon]

The gold looks great with that color!

[black2002ls]

I agree on the gold, I love the metallic charcoal color and dark greys, but that gold looks kick ass

I wasn't sure about it until I had it in the wheel well. There is enough gold tone in the paint that really compliment the wheels!

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[shumpertdavid]

I agree on the gold, I love the metallic charcoal color and dark greys, but that gold looks kick ass

[black2002ls]

I got one of the rear wheels cleaned up. I will probay have to go back and clean them up a bit more, but I HAD to see what one of the rears looked like. I also sprayed the center Alclad pale gold. I'm digging it.







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[black2002ls]

I got one of the wheel sleeves cleaned up and pai ted tonight, and...I ain't mad at it!! I was hoping for a bit different color on the wheel sleeve. It came out more chrome, but I definitely don't hate it! I need to get the rears done to really see how I feel about it. More wheel will be showing out back. The wheel center I used is an old test print from shapeways with a quick shot of gunmetal. I am undecided on the wheel center color. My top 3 choices are gunmetal (the spokes and hoop are too thin to really show any metal flake in the gunmetal), magnesium (a dark gray color), or pale gold.



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[black2002ls]

What do you guys think of the brakes? They are essentially scale replicas of the 09-13 ZR1 brakes, rotors and calipers. With the current size and design, the caliper interferes with the wheel center. The easiest solution is to re-design the rotor hat to give me the clearance I need, essentially moving the brake assembly back towards the rear end. Of course, my concern with that is the overall look of it. Do they look too big in the opening?

The idea/thought behind the car is a street driven autocross machine, think Bad Penny, if you are familiar with it.

Refresher photo

[black2002ls]

Send it! Never hurts to try

I just sent some stuff over. They are the most detailed parts that I have designed, I'm curious if your printer is able to print them!

I got the first coat of filler primer on the sleeves last night. Hopefully I can go through the first round of sanding and re-spraying tonight. I've got some bright aluminum lacquer from Alclad that I'm hoping gives me a nice aluminum look.

I need to pick up a desktop drill press and an X Y table so that I can make some modifications to the wheel centers to accommodate the hubs and lug nuts, as well as machine down the heads on the 00-90 bolts.

[Ruffdaddy]

I can send you the brake files if you want to mess around with them and see how they print. The caliper itself, I don't think will work well with your machine, just due to the amount of clean up it would need to get it smooth with the detail involved. The rotors however, you may be able to print.



You and me both! I've got several contest builds that I'm working on for March. This one just needs too much work to be a candidate for the contest this year. The more I get to working on it, the more I'm leaning towards a full detail of the chassis and engine bay.

Send it! Never hurts to try

[black2002ls]

Do junkyard cars have a place in these contests you go to? would be fun to try and finish one of my old junkers for a show or something, I've got a cuda that looks pretty real.

Honestly, I don't recall. It would lend itself best to the diorama category, though I don't see why it wouldn't fit in a normal class.

Here is a link to the facebook page for the Showdown. https://www.facebook.com/events/366696117208433/

It is put on by the Metroplex Car Modellers Association

http://www.themcma.net/Home_Page.html

There are a few other shows in the area, but I have found most of them to be IPMS shows that are heavily geared towards the armor/aviation type stuff. I'm looking at hitting up a couple of shows in surrounding states if my schedule will allow it.

[4bangen]

Do junkyard cars have a place in these contests you go to? would be fun to try and finish one of my old junkers for a show or something, I've got a cuda that looks pretty real.

[black2002ls]

Looks great man and glad to play a tiny tiny role in an awesome project. If you need anything else let me know...I hate to see the printer sitting idle!

I can send you the brake files if you want to mess around with them and see how they print. The caliper itself, I don't think will work well with your machine, just due to the amount of clean up it would need to get it smooth with the detail involved. The rotors however, you may be able to print.

glad to see this one back on the bench. can't wait to see the progress again.

You and me both! I've got several contest builds that I'm working on for March. This one just needs too much work to be a candidate for the contest this year. The more I get to working on it, the more I'm leaning towards a full detail of the chassis and engine bay.

[4bangen]

glad to see this one back on the bench. can't wait to see the progress again.

[Ruffdaddy]

Looks great man and glad to play a tiny tiny role in an awesome project. If you need anything else let me know...I hate to see the printer sitting idle!

[black2002ls]

I may have to edit this when i get to a computer, however, here we go.

This is the culmination of almost 10 years of heartache, frustration, and just gwtting flat pissed off.

This car has been in progress for 10 years or more. When I started it, there was no real direction. Many failed attempts at scratch building parts. Ideas and visions that seemed impossible to achieve. Then, somewhere along the way, I decide this will be modelled after bad penny. Mainly because of my color choice. In the midst of it all, the wheels became the bane of my existence. Not being able to design exactly what I wanted. My Solidworks skills were self taught and mininal at best.

Along comes life and I didn't have time to mess with it. I no longer had solidworks, etc. I send my wheels out for some machined sleeves by a reputable vendor, which turned into a nightmare and some unusable aluminum rings.

Fast forward to about a month ago. Ruffdaddy agreed to help me out with the wheels. It was simple to him yet it would have taken me a month to relearn soldiworks and figure it out. Test prints, emails, dimensions, and more. Finally, we got where I was trying to go.

Today, a box arrived with the revisions. Were they going to fit? Was I in for more frustration and putting this thing back in a drawer to be forgotten again?

NOPE! I damn near cried when the rear wheels came out almost perfect. This is the first time this thing has sat on tires!







These are the front brakes, which are now too big. However, I can scale them at shapeways and reprint.



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[Craizie]

I bet you have the softest hands in the game!