1/24 Camel Trophy 1989 - Amazon

Hello my friends,

I'm starting my new project, which will be a diorama of Amazon crossing, in Camel Trophy.

The kit i'm going to use is the well known Italeri kit:

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/3726/litas3697.jpg

In which i'm going to make a lot of changes in order to make it like the competing one.

The Italeri kit, is totally unsuitable for Camel Trophy, and so it had to be chopped off in many places. The interior will be reconstructed since it has not rear seats, and in the body, i had to rescribe the panel lines, and make the back doors. Also the grills were cut out since they were out of scale...

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Maybe i should leave the drivers door open...i'll see...

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/8499/img6372u.jpg

The new back doors were needed hinges, so i replicate them with the help of epoxy putty and hot plastic.

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/8461/img6379w.jpg

The rear door was also cut since i want to display the interior work and also it didnt fit right.

http://img847.imageshack.us/img847/6269/img6381l.jpg

The roof will be totally changed since it needs a hell of work in order to be correct:banghead:

That's all for now, thank you for your time :bigthumb:

A very cool and very exciting project. I'll be following along. This is something I'd like to build someday, but for now I'll have to settle for watching your build.

I like this project! What decals are you using?

Thank you guys for your kind words!

sam01contact: i'll use the ones from esci and if i dont find them i'll make my own:)

A small update since we go deeper to this project!

I made a new base for the chassis, since the original was very soft and it wouldnt tolerate the conversions. I used thick plastic glued with epoxy glue. This is only the basis and is not in its final stage:

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/3481/img6382y.jpg
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/3580/img6383a.jpg

Check if everything is aligned:

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1368/img6386e.jpg

Then i made new bases for the rear seats:

http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/92/img6387l.jpg
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and i have opened the drivers' door:

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Lastly, i slowly started to cut out parts of the roof, since it needs a lot of major changes:

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/5180/img6389y.jpg

That's all for today folks, hope you like it!

It's looking good so far - I love these sort of projects - something different and exciting - will be watching with interest, best of luck with it,
Cheers,
Paul

Great start to a unique project.
Good luck until the end...