Herein place they groovy car whiffs!
Allow em to commence to strat:
32 Sedan Rat Rod (http://www.briansmodelcars.com/galleries/gallery/4410)
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.briansmodelcars.com%2Fuploads%2Fgalleries%2F4410-4.jpg&hash=cecd469105a8c8562064027a54bfe1640da0f5de)
More from Brian's Model Cars later - my Mac doesn't seem to like the navigation menus...
Mark S. Gustavson's Custom Clinic (http://www.customclinic.com/index.html)
Mark S. Gustavson's Pegasus (http://www.customclinic.com/Small_Scale/Work_MSG/Pegasus/pegasus.html)
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.customclinic.com%2FSmall_Scale%2FWork_MSG%2FPegasus%2FOVERALL2.jpg&hash=3b5b90ee93c6ec3900cf9f6daf13f12a3a54694a)
First annual custom model photo contest:
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.customclinic.com%2FSmall_Scale%2FPhotoCon%2Ffirst%2Fpc1photos%2Fpcon1_2.jpg&hash=0d740f0a61b9c4bf478f75ce91fc94aa6bae0660)
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Second annual model photo contest:
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.customclinic.com%2FSmall_Scale%2FPhotoCon%2Fsecond%2Fpc2photos%2Fpcon2_1.jpg&hash=6cf8099e4811912e08ae390d73f2c4387efd4e10)
Works of Juha Airio: (http://www.customclinic.com/Small_Scale/Work_Juha/work_juha.html)
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More from the BMC galleries:
Fully lit street version of Speed Racer's Mach 5
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.briansmodelcars.com%2Fuploads%2Fgalleries%2F4374-2.jpg&hash=19331e64a2124550afbddcc2cd501cd040afadd2)
The Munster's coach... in pink! (For Radish - could be the official state limo if he gets elected!)
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.briansmodelcars.com%2Fuploads%2Fgalleries%2F3997-2.jpg&hash=4348eb632a71ac2094a8a3fb27cc5b7cece84387)
This one always gives me a giggle for some reason - International Harvester Scout II rod!
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.briansmodelcars.com%2Fuploads%2Fgalleries%2F3973-5.jpg&hash=15bddc89040a638b5f420cee1a4d8e9c8c6450cc)
And now from the pen of Brad Leisure (who has a page at the end of Scale Auto for showing off custom ideas - at least he did last I checked anyway) He actually did a few pure what if designs for pop culture icon cars - a MOnkee Mobile based on a Barracuda rather than a GTO, and a Green Hornet Imperial I think it was... I have the mags somewhere.
Modernised original Corvette sorta thing
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradleisure.com%2Fimages%2Fcorvetteroadster.jpg&hash=1f9b59fb084b3a6147ada8684ea1112efd27c5ba)
Full size working what-if golf carts were petrol tankers...
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradleisure.com%2Fimages%2Fgolfcar%2Fwesternfreightliner.jpg&hash=91c948ccc43114650e8384988f3792a0b8c732da)
Chrysler Turbine car as a muscle machine - there's a model of the turbine car, but I can't remember who made it. This scheme just has to be done!
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradleisure.com%2F440turbine.jpg&hash=3e6b9725deba98be34554241a84f0f6da6a6af06)
What If the Batmobile was based on a Corvette concept, not the LIncoln Futura?
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradleisure.com%2Fimages%2Fbatvette.jpg&hash=a4268aaab1afb256310b0aec37159e50c46e00c4)
What if the Ala Kart was a Tub?
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradleisure.com%2Fimages%2Falakart.jpg&hash=19b2789f2c78f271f1c16f4db32bbe9d9fea80c9)
What if people built beach buggies these days? Would they use the new beetle?
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradleisure.com%2Fimages%2Fvwbeachbuggycut.jpg&hash=6d766342934c879d49448d4c35e7764bbd4f9e15)
More on his site. (http://www.bradleisure.com/)
Quote from: puddingwrestler on May 25, 2010, 12:53:53 AM
This one always gives me a giggle for some reason - International Harvester Scout II rod!
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.briansmodelcars.com%2Fuploads%2Fgalleries%2F3973-5.jpg&hash=15bddc89040a638b5f420cee1a4d8e9c8c6450cc)
thats Reds......i watched the wip of that elsewhere.......he actually had it sprayed up in a friends bodyshop cos he knoew they were doing those colours on a real car
Found this some time ago, a guy called Terry Jessee reviewed a resin Cavalier 1/24 Holden Torana. Since it was from the same era as the Mad Max Ford Falcons, he decided to do it in MFP colours:
http://www.madmaxmovies.com/merchandise/Models/Vehicles/AussieCarKits/index.html (http://www.madmaxmovies.com/merchandise/Models/Vehicles/AussieCarKits/index.html)
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi72.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fi176%2FMossie105%2FGeneral%2FMadMaxMFPHoldenTonara01.jpg&hash=4581a383bca40a70ed99869d378c4f9f23751927)
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I've thought of doing my own Mad Max max conversion using a Tamiya Zakspeed Capri, but the kit's like rocking horse poo-poo these days.
Quote from: puddingwrestler on May 25, 2010, 12:53:53 AM
Chrysler Turbine car as a muscle machine - there's a model of the turbine car, but I can't remember who made it. This scheme just has to be done!
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bradleisure.com%2F440turbine.jpg&hash=3e6b9725deba98be34554241a84f0f6da6a6af06)
I think the Chrysler Turbine was kitted by Jo-Han, they were always suckers for something weird.
I must post some piccies of my car models, including the Merlin powered Chevy van....... -_-
Found this guy awhile back. Click "Home" at the bottom and check the other categories; does planes and armor and some other stuff all whiffs!
http://www.gregplummer.com/cars/cars.html (http://www.gregplummer.com/cars/cars.html)
Given the availability of Beetle and bike kits, you could always do a Beach B'stard:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/beach_bstard/pool/
You can get a pre-built Zundapp KS570 in 1/24, would work well with the Beetle given it's linked history.
http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/685_1_105367175.html (http://www.anticsonline.co.uk/685_1_105367175.html)
I think Tamiya do a KS750 kit in 1/35th too. How about Beach B'starding it with a Kubelwagen? ;D
Yeah! Hollywood version of D-Day, with a maverick German Officer leading the defence of Normandy in a pimped-out Kubel B'stard, metallic version of camouflage, Nazi party music blasting from speakers, gleefully mowing down US troops on Omaha beach. When things go t!ts up for the Germans, Tom Cruise walks up, says the line 'lifes a beach' then shoots him through the head! :wacko:
Or something like that.... :lol:
Model Expo 2008 featured a hot pink camo scheme souped up Kubelwagen with V8 I believe in the back, and a similarly style Schwimmwagen - think they were by the same guy who make the V8 engines hot pink hotrod style ME109 that was there as well...
well.............this is one i did last year............what if the Dukes of Hazard had bought a monster truck ;D
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi46.tinypic.com%2F29z1lag.jpg&hash=b66bea7797c109bc444321dbdf3c860e884f14cc)
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Anyone tried building a family guy version of the general lee?
supercars.net can be worth a look - they have a concept car gallery but I find myself drawn magnetically to the galleries of concourse d'elegance photos...
Then I start to wish I had more money and a garage.
Or maybe just a garage and enought ot buy a nice clean Triumph Mayflower...
Nash Metropolitan... snow mobile!
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Foldcarandtruckpictures.com%2FMet%2FMetSnowmobile-d.jpg&hash=740c352b52ef4d146afac8ee2b20d4407eb682c2)
Real world, but still fascinatingly whiff-ish: Kaiser Industries Argentina!
After the Kaiser corp. went bust in the US, they moved to Argentina and kept on building the same line of cars. With very interesting results when the Argentinian market demanded things like hearses and utes!
http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/Argentina/ (http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/Argentina/)
Quote from: beowulf on May 26, 2010, 03:44:27 PM
well.............this is one i did last year............what if the Dukes of Hazard had bought a monster truck ;D
Very nice, but I have hard time picturing Bo and Luke in a Japanese truck (the Chevy Luv was an Isuzu KB). ;)
Quote from: puddingwrestler on May 27, 2010, 03:36:44 PM
Real world, but still fascinatingly whiff-ish: Kaiser Industries Argentina!
After the Kaiser corp. went bust in the US, they moved to Argentina and kept on building the same line of cars. With very interesting results when the Argentinian market demanded things like hearses and utes!
http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/Argentina/ (http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/Argentina/)
Have to say I rather like the lines of the Carabela - :thumbsup:
The stock Carabella sedans are actually exactly the same styling as the last Kaiser's made in the US. Kaiser Chief I think they were called.
Kaiser's problem was that they had bitching styling, but no V8 engines available...
And this was the era when even economy cars used a V8.
I took some piccies of my car Whiffs tonight, but can't find the Merlin engined Chevy van sadly. It was badly damaged some years ago and I filed it for repair, but can't remember WHERE I filed it. :banghead:
The three cars below were built in the '70s, the Super Bug in '72, the GeeTO Tiger in '74 and the All American Rail in '76, rather obviously in the latter's case. (It was the BiCentennial Year, remember?)
The Super Bug used a Revell 22jr chassis with an Airfix Bond Bug body shell, mated to an IMC SOHC Ford 427 engine. The trick is the body is 1/32 scale and the rest 1/24th.... -_-
The GeeTO Tiger was an AMT 'Barracuda' funny car nose, itself a Whiff, mated to the back of a cut and shut AMT Pontiac GTO. The chassis was a scratchbuilt rear end mated to the front of a nameless Revell rail chassis, with the GTO engine mounted in the rear.
The All American Rail consisted of two Revell rear engined rails joined together with both their engines connected. The body is wholly vacformed over a balsa master (which amazingly I still have!) apart from the very tip of the nose. The rear part of the body had to be formed in four parts and joined together, NO fun! Most of the titles on the AAR were hand painted, I'm darned if I could do that now, and anyway I'd make my own decals for it.
All three cars won the Custom Car and Hot Rod class at the IPMS UK Nationals in their respective years, as did the missing '73 model, an RW rear engined rail and the Merlin engined van in '75. After doing that 5 years on the trot I gave up, as there was too much 'halo factor' going on, and there were other models miles better than mine that should have won.
2nd batch of piccies.
They're great kit! I'm especially liking the Super Bug! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Quote from: puddingwrestler on May 26, 2010, 03:26:58 PM
Model Expo 2008 featured a hot pink camo scheme souped up Kubelwagen with V8 I believe in the back, and a similarly style Schwimmwagen - think they were by the same guy who make the V8 engines hot pink hotrod style ME109 that was there as well...
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi286.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fll97%2FDaFROGtypeX%2Fmodel%2520expo%252008%2Fth_DSCF0693.jpg&hash=6314aab13bb036979655cd087922bb938a1a3905) (http://s286.photobucket.com/albums/ll97/DaFROGtypeX/model%20expo%2008/?action=view¤t=DSCF0693.jpg)
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I love that cars...especially VW Beetle and General Lee monster truck!
Cars aren't my modeling "groove", though I have made my share over the years.
What has always surprised me over the years is that car guys seem to have full "permission" from their peers to cut, chop, decorate, customize, etc. *CARS* and are lauded for it, but aircraft or ship guys seem to have the JMN gene and have stoutly resisted recognizing the "legitimacy" of these whiffs.
Rant aside, I like seeing custom car models. Keep it up.
Sorry not a Wif - but I want one of these! :wub:
Quote from: sequoiaranger on June 05, 2010, 08:55:17 AM
Cars aren't my modeling "groove", though I have made my share over the years.
What has always surprised me over the years is that car guys seem to have full "permission" from their peers to cut, chop, decorate, customize, etc. *CARS* and are lauded for it, but aircraft or ship guys seem to have the JMN gene and have stoutly resisted recognizing the "legitimacy" of these whiffs.
Rant aside, I like seeing custom car models. Keep it up.
That is because it is done in reality. Most car modelers (especially me) get into it because they lvoe the idea of customized cars but either cannot afford them,. or are to young to drive. Also, some of the things you can afford to do with a model would run into six or seven figures in reality...
Real world car culture is divided into those who like cars pure and exactly as they left the factory (the Concourse Crowd) and those who can't help but try to improve something, often performance, but sometimes looks, classiness, comfort etc (the Customizers).
Customizers are further divided by what they customize and how. This can be very confusing to those outside of the culture. For instance, anything built after 1948 cannot be a Hotrod when using the hard line definition of hot rod. There are JMN-like hot rodders who will fight to the death about this definition!
Also, the exact meaning of 'custom' depends on how it is spelled. With a 'k' is different from with a 'c'...
It's all rather confusing really.
But it's an accepted part of the culture, so the modelling side accepts it as well. In fact, things are free-er on the modelling side. No one will say 'You cut up a perfectly good model of a Dusenberg SJ? That'd make me cry!' but they would say 'You cut up a perfectly good Dusenberg SJ? You've made me cry!' if you used the real thing. People do to models what they cannot do to real cars, and other people respect them fro doing it.
fresh from this years model expo:
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Quote from: puddingwrestler on June 05, 2010, 03:43:03 PM
Customizers are further divided by what they customize and how. This can be very confusing to those outside of the culture. For instance, anything built after 1948 cannot be a Hotrod when using the hard line definition of hot rod. There are JMN-like hot rodders who will fight to the death about this definition!
Also, the exact meaning of 'custom' depends on how it is spelled. With a 'k' is different from with a 'c'...
It's all rather confusing really.
Uh huh - try starting a discussion around a bike rally camp fire about the difference between a Lowrider, a Chopper, a Bobber and a Streetfighter. Then walk away quickly while a) sanity and a b) peace still prevail..... :rolleyes:
in a far distant future ...
where vehicles still need to be tested, comes ...
the cloned & improved descendant of the Stig.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rg-b/4412408932/in/pool-855956@N24
Not very TV friendly, that guy turns invisible.
Behold it's awesome magesty! I found this in the Fotiki account of a french chap over on Model Cars Magazine Forum. It was at NNL East 2010.
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages12.fotki.com%2Fv532%2Fphotos%2F8%2F1218048%2F8672330%2FNNLEAST201028-vi.jpg&hash=386327448fb2009a375de9eced2fb348b33632c7)
Full coverage here. (http://public.fotki.com/Zelkam/expositions/nnl-east-2010-usa-/)
Here are a few interesting bits and bobs I picked up looking through a car modeler's Fotki account. Mostly at contest pics, but also at RW car show stuff.
From the skilled pen of Jairus Watson: Chrysler 300C Propellor Car!
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Not sure who built this, but it's a sort of VW Combi Rommel's Rod...
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages26.fotki.com%2Fv960%2Fphotos%2F3%2F1313223%2F8133505%2FIMG_2488-vi.jpg&hash=e73ed1c058e561938ff8f62ff0020fc81fc7b98c)
Dodge Deora on tracks...
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And I just like this thing. Can anyone ID the grille? It makes me think Hudson, but I could be wrong.
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And there's this thing, called the 'Golden Sub' - I think it was some sort of racer or speed record attempt car, but it looks kinda cool.
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages50.fotki.com%2Fv1525%2Fphotos%2F1%2F1313223%2F6897333%2F000_0033-vi.jpg&hash=a7680b4d8f3cf3dcc4daa8a4bd80d6eb37228e63)
There's a whole lot of pics of it. (http://public.fotki.com/dcfletcher/automotive/unique/goldensub/)
Quote from: raafif on June 18, 2010, 05:23:59 PM
in a far distant future ...
where vehicles still need to be tested, comes ...
the cloned & improved descendant of the Stig.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rg-b/4412408932/in/pool-855956@N24
Make sure you look at the rest of the album. A lot of neat ideas in there worth
steal borrowing.
The Golden Sub of 1917 was a Barney Oldfield racing car designed and built by Harry Miller.
The inline four with semi-desmodromic overhead valve-train was also designed by Miller.
The car was quickly nicknamed the 'Golden Egg'.
The car had a successful career that also launched Miller into the front ranks of period constructors.
I found a pic of the 1:1 version of that brown rod in an old copy of Australian Street Rodding (or atleast something very similar) and I was right, the grille comes from a Hudson Terraplane.