Hi all i thought i would post some pics of my AMT Christine build. it is going to end up on a dio of the film but before i start cutting and melting bits I am going to build it as it should be out of the box.
I should say firstly I am not impressed with the kit. It is supposed to be the plymouth fury of the film (yes we all know it was actually a Belvedere) but since this is actually supposed to be Christine i was not expecting to have to remove the Belvedere lettering that is embossed on the rear wings, so really this is not Christine it is just a reboxed Plymouth Belvedere also the amount of flash on the kit is trerrible for the price of the kit. as a comparrison i have included some photos of the sprues from the AMT model £29.99
and an Airfix model £9.99.
Now if Airfix can produce a Fairly cheap kit with practically no flash why cant AMT at nearly 3 times the price. anyway ive had my say and now am going to do my best to build it. hope you like it.
neat project! I made mine from the old Christine pro mod kit,Grafted in the quarters from a '57 chevy kit and used the 413 Max Wedge from the AMT '49 Merc kit.
well this is the kit built now to start on the dio any ideas how i am going to crumple the wings up.
I did think about cutting them off and trying to scratch build some bent up ones but not sure my skills are up to that, then i thought about taking a blow torch to her and bending her that way but there is a lot of plastic on the front there and i think that would be to risky to recover from should it all go wrong.
Hi guys I have never deliberately destroyed a model before so before I start on this one I want to be sure I’ve got it right, so I’ve drawn up a plan to make sure for one thing the base is big enough but also it gives me something to work from. So here is the plan
the bull Dozer I dont know weather I have put it far enough back I have put a Girder on the front of it as i think they must have done something like this to keep it out of the frame in close up shots from the back, can you guys think of something I have missed, I wont be doing anything to Christine till nearer the time she will go on the dio so she will be ok for quite a while.
Hi r13b20 I am intending to do a dio of the filming of the scene where moochie gets squished by Christine and yes, you are correct Arnie’s friend did crush Christine with a bulldozer but I am doing the filming of the scene and they used a bulldozer to push her into the loading bay, as in real life a car could not do that it would get so far (not very far at that) before the wheels would just start spinning.
Hi all I have made a start on the dio and it is going to be a long slog. I am making the walls of the loading bay out of foam board and I tried printing the bricks off but it is almost impossible to get the scale right and anyway it just doesn’t look right as there the mortar line is smooth, so I thought I would use foam board and draw the scale bricks on it as, if you press reasonably hard you can leave an impression which will hopefully look more like a mortar line. Well that’s a job I wish I hadn’t started(still hopefully it will be worth the effort) .
Incidentally we know the film is full of mistakes, like the bit I am doing where he could have quite easily got away by jumping on Christines bonnet and running over the top of her, well I have thought of another flaw it’s supposed to be a loading bay, usually an arctic can fit in a loading bay, but if Christine can’t fit in there that means even a van can’t, that makes it a pretty useless loading bay.
Here are some pics of the 1\24 scale wall with the mortar colour painted I know it looks orangy but trust me its not, dont know what happens with my camera sometimes.
was hoping that the last pic would show the bricks effect but it shows a lot better on the next one.
I think the effect will be better when i paint the bricks, this has taken me 2 days so far and i recon I will need at least 1 more to finish all the brickwork.
Very cool idea for the dio. The book ending was better than the movie, but that’s the way, huh? Bob
