Not a ship?
What about this one?
(Sorry.... far from getting finished...)
A 1/16 Revell '87 Pontiac Trans Am GTA:
Hard to get these days. I got this from a friend who purchased it from an ebay-seller. The kit was already started and I had to dismantle most of it...
Here can be found very good information about those cars I myself had one of them, a 92 GTA, RPO 80U. Pretty rare if you know what it means... had an accident and the front bumper emblem is the only thing I still can call my own...
Ok, the kit:
Rims were already glued together but as I wanted to look 'through' the 'Diamont Spokes' I had to separate the inner from the outer part...
Taking off material from the backside of the outer part. The dust on my hand could come quite handy for weathering ship models.... hehehe...
Almost done. The spokes are already visible and soon the holes were punched out...
Before/Aft snap. (Well... it's more Aft/Before)...Looks good to me...
Before/Aft snap of the inner part of the rim...
Before/Aft snap of rims...
All four after treatment (one was already painted by one of the previous owners...)
Taillight Lense, a 'clear' part in the kit.
Painted the black 'framework' from the inside with a Rotring pen (thanks JB!), then overpainted everything with clear Tamiya red. The 'bulwark' (let's keep the nautical terms...) painted with Revell #99 (aluminium) with the little areas where the reversing lights will be located left black in order to make them appear darker.
My attempt to rescue the front bumper. What you see is now one single part, like on the actual car. The kit had it in two parts, with the lower one (with the fog lights) running 'around the corner', forming the so-called ground effects. This resulted in seams where there shouldn't be some and which couldn't be filled with putty. On the other hand, seams of the actual car weren't present on the kit. Solution: Nip & Tuck. Unfortunately, the material of the front bumper was as thick as a Bismarck armour-plate and I managed it to break the lower part in half while trying to remove it. It's covered by the yellow Tamiya tape...
The improved front bumper. The thin white stripe is an Evergreen rod which covers the seam of the upper and lower part of the bumper. The actual car has a kind of 'knuckle' there and I think it's a neat solution for the model as well.
As one of the T-Tops had a scratch that couldn't be fixed, I decided to built a hardtop version. The kit has a manual gear box (plus clutch pedal) which makes it a GTA with the 305cui engine and not the 350, which was never available with manual transmission in the 3rd Gen F-Body.
Lots of putty on the roof...
... and more of it... (in 1/16, the roof is almost as big as a cigarette box...)
Parts of the suspension and the exhaust system dismantled... needs rebuilding and repainting...
The car will be painted in the rare "Dark Russet Metallic" (RPO 68U) and I still have to make the decision if it will feature the '87 Porsche-style paddle mirrors or the 'normal' aerodynamic ones...
Ok, that's it for the moment... further updates not in the near future as I'm pretty busy with other things and projects...
Bis dann denn ~ Olaf