built on a nascar chassis , built this model in 2003 for a customer . he owned the real car and races at tracks in Ohio in their hobby stock class . had to build from a photo he sent me , scrath built 180 headers and had to rebuild part of the cage to fit the body BMF on the chrome bars that he left on the car , I though those guys always took the bright work off the cars but he said he left it on
so I did it on the model , the guy asked for me to weather and add a muddy look to the finished model , jayson liked the finished model and I'v built him a couple more race cars but not all of them looked like this one
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Nicely done and a real sharp car to work from. I liked that they left the chrome spears on and as long as they lasted they kind of help make the car car look cool!
Great looking build!!
Lots of work on this one.....great job!
:) It sure is a mess, all right. 8) 8)
Awesome weathering. Looks totally real. Excellent job.
A ton of work on this little unit, really cool
I'm lovin this 55, Jim!!! The detail is so well done that I keep finding more detail the more I look!!! The mud work is purty cool as well. You have a really clean (lol) build style on this one for sure!!!😎👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🤗🏁
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!! :P :-*
Now THAT is a RACE CAR!
Great job, authentic and very realistic!
That is a awesome looking 55 chevy
Very cool! Love the weathering on the engine bay and the trunk.
I love weathered race cars, but in weathering "less if more" and in my opinion this model has a tad too much grime on it. The damage, and location of the applied grime,are great. It just a couple of clicks over the top for me.
Olderndirt
yup David I'v raced to both dry slick or so muddy you added 100lbs of mud just driving into turn 1 lol some think this model has a little to much weathering on it .... guess they never been to putnumville In. for a saturday night weekly show , all the cars looked like this after the heat races o well it is what it is and its all good to me !
Nice build Jim, I like it.
Bob
Well done man. He definitely got what he asked for. If the customer is happy, you should be happy......hey, looking at this, I think we are all happy!
Rett
Nice build and weathering job jim.