And a shell I did for my friend (& team mate) I'm rather chuffed that this image has been used on the Corally UK website front page
And for a bit of vintage Associated, here's my RC12L (Graphite version) -that I painted back in the early 90s
Heres also a couple of touring car shells I painted that depict the 1-1 race cars that raced in the British Touring Car Series here in the uk in the mid 90s - the yellow & blue Renault is signed by the two drivers that drove the real thing.
This is the Alfa 156 Bodyshell I was running on my Tourer before the White one at the top.... suffice to say it is now wrecked
This one I did for a guy at our club - the main design is a sticker that comes ready on the shell - I just added the black shadowing, lights & the main silver colouring.
A Clod Buster - my first attempt to paint an ABS shell, came out ok I think I actually found the truck at my local recycling facilty & paid £2 for it..... though much more has been spent on it to get it to where it is now!
This is a shell I painted for a friend - its a Mk1 Ford Cortina in the classic Lotus colours
Interestingly it came in two halves - presumably to enable the overhanging features in the shell to be moulded on a one peice mould?
I love the Cortina! I knew a guy that had one of those in High School. At the time I thought it was funky and weird but my tastes have changed. Those are pretty rare in the US.
RedScampi wrote:I love the Cortina! I knew a guy that had one of those in High School. At the time I thought it was funky and weird but my tastes have changed. Those are pretty rare in the US.
Yes, I bet Cortina's/Consuls are rare in the States..... my freind has a twin cam converted Ford Anglia (Harry Potter car) I know a few of those were officially imported to the States.
Here's yet another TC shell I did for a mate.... the combination of colours was inspired by a RC10 shell I saw on here
That Cortina looks great,who makes the body?I want one.My mate has an original Lotus Cortina race car so Im sure he would want one,we have had a couple as daily drivers for my wife,one was a consol that had the factory plastic on the rear seat and we also had a Anglia.I love the old small Fords.Another car Ive allways wanted to own is a Ford Pinto.We never had them in Australia.I wonder if manufacturers did an RC body for one of those?
The company that make them is called RetroRacing - the shells are Eu39 which sounds quite a lot - but you do get some stickers & a set of Hex fitment minilite wheels.
The shells themselves are rather nicely moulded with overspray film - but I must admit that the lexan on this particular shell was very thin around the back - this was underneath the cut-line but with a bit of handling during spraying it split - which did spread up just up into the rear valance, which was a bit annoying
I finished a couple of shells off this weekend... one was another TC shell like the White/Red/Black Corally in the pictures above for the same friend. The second shell was this MrLexan JRX2, painted in the Pro-formance box art scheme - I just need a complete JRX2 to sit it on!
Oh - & these are the current shells on my racers, sprayed up just before Christmas.
made some inprovements to the lightbox and set it up again today. going to be using it alot for work related stuff here real soon and dont want it falling down on me. ;)
anyway, since i had it all set up i took some pics of a couple recent finished...
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hoopty, the sassy is big-time. I'm on my way, I'm making it. Yeah, that was Peter Gabriel. Yeah, my next build will resemble yours. Cool wing too!
Got my first RC10 way back when they first came out and the only addition to it was a D&D graphite chassis. Still have that buggy today (will post pics of it separately), but recently the bug hit me to start collecting vintage buggies (I already...
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Nice scores, I saw them on flea bay but they were too rich for my blood. It's crazy how much they are bringing now, wish I still had all the ones I raced back in the days.
Absolutely agree it's crazy how much they are now fetching. Building up a...
A couple of things recently found...amazing how expensive these parts were 20 years ago...well, not the antenna nuts of course but the Tecna stuff! Wow...
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ehhh, Edinger labels are played out... :wink: :lol:
I was supriced when I saw in what condition the car was when I got it.
Very few scratches in the bottom of the chassis.
The trans is in superb condition but the stock bearring most go of and in goes the ballbearrings.
I gave 50euros (aprox 65usd)...
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I started to collect cars from the very early -90 so I have had lots of cars but some of them have I sold away. as the best times I think I had over 150 cars, now maybe 50-60 cars.
Jerzi
Sorry for not having pictures during the rebuild/restore, but with the help of my friend JK Racing, I have been able to get this far!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
First, RC10 Worlds car:
Chassis has been powder coated, all fresh new arms. I know there...
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Thanks. I love the hunt just hate waiting for the right parts.
I am fortunate to have a great bunch of guys around town that share the same passion as I . We have been getting together on a rather informal basis now for over a year , some of us longer . BITD racing was present in Toronto , but no where near the...
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Nice Tecnacraft Ultima & Javelin! If only I'd known back then what I know now, I would've bought a Javelin.