Making Of: Mercedes AMG G55 - Coolest car ever? you decide.

[bigfrit]

Hi there!


You haven't been seeing much of me lately, partly due to the lack of digicam, partly due to the lack of modeling on the whole.

Let me at least show you then what I ve been upto these last weeks.

It has been described as a labour of love by some, others saw in it an ultimate blingcar, while a midget described it as the coolest car ever.


Top Gear review.


So what exactly is this stuff I m trying to make?
Basically I wanna start with this kit:



to make this car...

The fast, very fast

Mercedes AMG G55
(which means, a 5.5 litre engine, V8 Compressed, to produce 500 HP)








Needing a trucky to pull my racing trailer (still in the works), I looked through my boxes and decided, hey this might be cool!

So I just took this car , in the hope it won't look like crap once finished and also hoping to gain some EXP points, so I could finally LEVEL-UP

Before showing the car how it looks now, i d figure I d tease you all with some in between progress shots. These shots were taken at random moments... everything was being worked on at once. When I mean everything, I mean...

The roof needed altering,
Sun roof install
Wide arches needed to be made
Air intake on the front hood needed modifying
Windows needed altering (made bigger)
Molded badges and things removing
rear side needed complete smoothing
Sideskirts and stepping up thingy to be made
Sides needed sharpening and some panellines needed adding
Front side needs lots of change
Scratching grille
Scratching bumpers
Scratching front piece.

And prolly some other stuff I forgot about...

Not a simple 5-minute conversion, eh

Stop babbling, on with the pics














I m bored with talking, I d rather answer any questions or whatever you might have!

Oh, and don't worry, I have a bigass update for you all tomorrow!

Oli

[Jay!]

Awesome project!!

I live next to a Mercedes Service Center, and I see G-wagens come through sometimes... Let me know if you need detail pics!

[bigfrit]

's Ok, mister Fubaz, I got the references covered, thanks for the offer, tho!


Here's a mini-in-between update, because I know somebody who loves fuzzy pictures.





BTW, I m still looking for some rim as a base to make this one





Oh yeah, btw, I redid the grille stacking styrene instead of using brass tubing, it looks more realistic...

Otherwise, the roof has been finished, i got a roof of a mercedes S600 to go on it.

Otherwise I did smoothing overall and am working full on on the front.



Oli

[quadzero]

Cool rig and cool project. I really like how you tackled the grill.

[blubaja]

I was thinking of things to do with that kit too. Your idea is a killer one. How about using some of the Maisto stock wheels from an S or M class to start with? Seems to be coming right along so far! Keep up the awsome progress!

[2.2 Straight six]

You can get the 5.5-litre V8 from the old Tamiya SL kits. if you want to drop one in.

looks sweet. there's one of these down the road from me.

[deltableh]

Wow... this is incredible.

[Plasticmodeler702]

That is amazing. What color are you going to paint it? Did you draw those pics on the paper using Cadd? Keep up the wonderful work!

[Hash_man]

Sounds like a great build, I love the G55 good luck with this, looks like you're off to a really good start

[willimo]

Wow, Oli. You're always making something cool, and there's always a lot to it. I can't wait to see this come together!

[sportracer02]

Hi,

great idea, I´m looking forward for more progress

[erb]

This is going to be amazing.

[Samurai75007]

Nice start on the AMG Gwagon, have you seen the BRABUS V12?

[joelwideqvist]

Very cool project. I'll follow your way through this for sure!
/Joel

[bigfrit]

I m sorry, I wasn't able to take more blurry pictures

Oli