Progress: Wide body Shelby Series 1

[Howielong]

Well im starting a new project. I saw a while ago some one was making a wide body shelby series 1. So i found mine and i decided to do a wide body on it. This is going to be my first putty model. I practice with it and seems easy enough. Im going to put the putty on soon. But these pics are what i have so far. Any comments are welcomed.


Parts of the frame are painted.

[Howielong]

Small putty added. From the front fenders to the back fenders. Going to work more when it is dry. Nothing to big. Just to add some width on it. Sorry for the bad pics. Lighting isn't all that great. Going to put the rear bumper on and work on that.

[rx7king]

sounds like a cool idea

[GvEman]

Nice=) but put the lower peace on the body on before you do anymore. Because it makes it alot easier.

damn.... must finich my one now... I am still moding on the hood damn!:P i have alot of shool stuf to do... so i cant work on mine...but i hope i can on the summer holiday...

[Toughbeard]

looks good

[Howielong]

Originally Posted by GvEman

Nice=) but put the lower peace on the body on before you do anymore. Because it makes it alot easier.

damn.... must finich my one now... I am still moding on the hood damn!:P i have alot of shool stuf to do... so i cant work on mine...but i hope i can on the summer holiday...

Thanks every one so far. Do you mean the rear bumper. If so it is all ready on. I might have to make it bigger. Looks to small. I don't know what to do with the front end and the rear end yet.

[mike@af]

Sounds good Steve.

[Howielong]

Yep mike. Got some of the frame but together. Motor will be mounted soon and same with the suspension. I need ideas for the front and rear bumpers. Any good sites with pics of moded shelby's

[GvEman]

Originally Posted by Howielong

Yep mike. Got some of the frame but together. Motor will be mounted soon and same with the suspension. I need ideas for the front and rear bumpers. Any good sites with pics of moded shelby's

there is no moded shelbys that is the prob. the first one i have seen that is'nt originla in the body is my model....
now when i looks at my i loves it... i did't earlier. but i think the shelby hould looks fine with a bigger oval airintake in the front... just to make it look more hungry...

[Howielong]

Originally Posted by GvEman

there is no moded shelbys that is the prob. the first one i have seen that is'nt originla in the body is my model....
now when i looks at my i loves it... i did't earlier. but i think the shelby hould looks fine with a bigger oval airintake in the front... just to make it look more hungry...

Man that sucks. But if you make the opening larger the air duct will not line up.

Maybe i'll just make the fog lights go away and make the lip bigger. I'm still thinking.

[MR2_Lancer]

what putty are you using? i still need to get putty and work on my first putty project too. lol...but yours is lookin great. nic estart man and good luck. ill be watching this one.

[Howielong]

The putty i'm using is Tamiya epoxy putty smooth surface. The stuff in the blue box. Thanks for the thanks. Going to put putty on the front soon. Taking out the turning lights and maybe the fog lights.

[Howielong]

Well got new pics of the putty so far. Just learned i could turn off the flash. You can see the work alot more. Shows the work on the front bumper to the rear end. Need more work on the rear bumper but the exhaust is in the middle. One pic of the frame at the momment. Sorry for the blurry pics. I need ideas for interior painting.

[mike@af]

Needs a lot of sanding yet...there are a lot of wide Shelby's going on lately

[Howielong]

Originally Posted by GTmike400

Needs a lot of sanding yet...there are a lot of wide Shelby's going on lately

I havn't got to the sanding part yet. And i think this is the second one so far.