Green wood Corvette
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Green wood Corvette
So After getting a nice rc500 i find myself joining the long line of people with fatter wallets than Me, looking for a nice body.
And as bondo is no short supply i decided to make my own body .
And the wife being outta town for a week means the hobby room has just gained 1000 square feet of room .
This is what i am looking for finished
And this is 10 hrs into the project 15lbs of bondo , a quart of resin and a roll of mesh tape.
And as bondo is no short supply i decided to make my own body .
And the wife being outta town for a week means the hobby room has just gained 1000 square feet of room .
This is what i am looking for finished
And this is 10 hrs into the project 15lbs of bondo , a quart of resin and a roll of mesh tape.
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Re: Green wood Corvette
.This is what i have so far for the rebuild
i could not resist and opened the new front bulkhead and did a dry run missing a white front arm but the black one is new ,
got a new K&B .40 to . bit big but hey this was a fast straight line car BITD
Paul
i could not resist and opened the new front bulkhead and did a dry run missing a white front arm but the black one is new ,
got a new K&B .40 to . bit big but hey this was a fast straight line car BITD
Paul
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Re: Green wood Corvette
ok so ill post updates this week i have to be done by friday so i can clean the house for her royalness
Paul
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Re: Green wood Corvette
ok so quick update 22 hrs into it got some nice gold filler today for the final shaping im hoping to get into primmer tonight
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Re: Green wood Corvette
ok so it gone from being a 1981 to a 1975 and with that wing gone its now starting to take back that old corvette lines again Tricky part is bringing the rear window back and changing the lines to a hard top ,the pic shows two reinforcing bars that i will mimic in the mold .Giving me a center window to cut out for the engine to keep cool.
so i cut a piece of lexan with the curve i needed and then built the edge up with 3mm glazzing tape so to give me some shaping room
so i cut a piece of lexan with the curve i needed and then built the edge up with 3mm glazzing tape so to give me some shaping room
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Re: Green wood Corvette
so after removing the rear wing we are getting somewhere i also put a hard top on it
i have added more material to the ass to round in a nice curve
the front end is going to be low!! i will have to rework the front as the model has three vent one off set .
i have added more material to the ass to round in a nice curve
the front end is going to be low!! i will have to rework the front as the model has three vent one off set .
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Re: Green wood Corvette
All the while looking at this thread and thinking "Strange Encounters of the 75 Greenwood Vette Kind". Paul, you were off the board for a short spell, were you abducted
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This is all very interesting!
This is all very interesting!
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Re: Green wood Corvette
I apologize in advance if that is your vette- but it looks like the end result of HRM's "vette hack"
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Re: Green wood Corvette
i was thinking it was brave to photo that in front of your houseCharlie don't surf wrote:I apologize in advance if that is your vette- but it looks like the end result of HRM's "vette hack"
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Re: Green wood Corvette
No not mine to much going on for me I like more of a sleeper plain jane this was from that movie corvette summer
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