Completed: '99 Revell Lightning converted to Buddy's '02 Lightning

[tigeraid]

Finally got this pig done. Converting the grille was hell; I posted about it in the main forum a while ago but I figure I'll show it again. Still have some minor touchup to do on the body, and the badges, but otherwise pretty much done.

Had to turn this grille:



Into this grille:



A few progress pics on that:









Aaaand the finished product (with bigs n littles on drag wheels):

[freakray]

Excellent job with the grille conversion, must've taken a world of patience but the product is excellent!

[BJ3113]

yes looks very nice

[Dean23]

Good job. that grille must have took a good chunk of time....welll worth the work though. keep up the good work

[quadzero]

nice to see a truck like this here. that grill woulda drove me crazy if i had tackled it. very nice work under the hood. very realistic.

[MidMazar]

thats a nice truck, paint the exhaust pipe holes black, other than that its super clean and nice job on the grill.

[tigeraid]

Ya, I still have some touching up to do, thanks for reminding me :P

[blubaja]

Looks great man!! Lovely color. Hope your friend likes it.

[chyknees]

nicely done lightning. Paint the middle of the tips or drill it out to give it the real tip look. Which kit did you get the slicks/rims from?

[tigeraid]

Originally Posted by chyknees

nicely done lightning. Paint the middle of the tips or drill it out to give it the real tip look. Which kit did you get the slicks/rims from?

I have a pile of extra wheels and tires. The wheels off the top of my head are from an AMT Barracuda kit, and the tires could be from anything with a set of "cheater" slicks.