Dirt is purposely left in all the door cracks.
Its painted in flat colours
The seatbelts are always arranged ‘just so’
The wife and kids ride on the top wearing flak jackets and ballistic helmets, sitting in ‘natural’ poses
There’s an M-16 rifle propped up somewhere
Its the only car in the shopping centre car park with more jerry cans, shovels, camo nets, crates of combat rations and spare parts than shopping.
Its never quite finished
The windows are 4 inches thick and not quite optically correct
The road repair kit consists of superglue and tweezers.
Vinyl interiour is preferred to leather
All knobs, buttons and controls are made out of brass
-You’re next… -
It has chocks under the wheels and red “Remove before driving” tags
Slightly OT, but I once saw a gentleman driving around in an old VW Beetle, painted in camo, with scale 50cal outriggers painted on the sides. Strange people in this world…
Sign in the back window stating “Graphics by Aeromaster”
Dry Brushed to accentuate the highlights !
HEY,
The tires have to be glued on.
There are no door handels.
The body is always cut up and distorted.
The car is just a tangel of miscelanneous parts from a number of cars.
Your Turn.
Randy
Hey Michaelvk, you been lookin’ at my landrover?LoL …Greg
4 people are standing around debating whether the shade of paint used is correct.
The bumper stickers are starting to silver.
Gip Winecoff
There’s Celluclay all over the tires.
Gip Winecoff
styrene
August 19, 2003, 10:50am
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And a mold-parting line down the left front fender.
Gip Winecoff
How he sanded the tread off the tires to get rid of the mold parting line.
The PE and resin aftermarket details cost mo
re than the car.
He keeps asking whether he should use buffing metalic, Alclad or baree metal foil on the bumpers.
He scrapes the chrome off ON PURPOSE!
Only three wheels are touching the ground.
Ray
It was 4 cm overscale, but he/she’s corrected it by sawing the centre section out , adding plasticard tabs for structural integrity, reassembled it and blended out the resulting mess with 150 lbs of filler.
Beers,
Rob M.
erush
August 19, 2003, 2:05pm
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When the car is “washed” it ain’t with soap and water!!!
Eric
His driveway is a scenic diorama with digitally enhanced backdrop.
He uses an artist’s airbrush to do touch up on the paint.
DJ
Yours? You haven’t seen mine yet… As it were…
After a few years of use it starts to fall to pieces because the glue loses its adhesion
The bonnet (hood) and boot (trunk) are molded into the bodywork
The wife has the smaller scale version