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Death Race 2942 - F1 Spitfire - kitbash plane to car

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16 April 2017, 20:56
Thomas Bischoff
🙂
16 April 2017, 21:25
Rv
👍 front seat please !
I've got a similar project :
SdKfz-19D | Project by Hikaru (1:20)
16 April 2017, 21:36
Choppa Nutta
Yeah I like where your 190 is going 🙂
I really like this 109 racer, really got me thinking on this again as I was thinking an F1 Harrier 😄

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16 April 2017, 21:50
Choppa Nutta
This is a thread with a bunch more pics on this kitbash theme including some real life examples 🙂

genessis-models.webs..-8472057?trail=15#12
16 April 2017, 21:51
David Andrs
Watching with interest...
16 April 2017, 21:57
MoJo
the next cool project
16 April 2017, 22:11
Christian Bruer
Looking forward to this and thx for sharing the link, some incredible stuff over there 👍
17 April 2017, 11:37
Choppa Nutta
Thanks for your interest and encouragement chaps, I'll try not to disappoint 🙂
I'm just going where my mojo takes me, but you know what it is like when an idea gets stuck in your brain despite having other projects on the bench needing some lovin' 😄

Anyhow, a piccy of the five kits contributing to this Scratch'n'Bash plane to car

Yeah Christian some of those models are great and I just love the style of them, a nice S'n'B format 🙂
17 April 2017, 12:16
Choppa Nutta
Okey dokey, under starters orders ...... and we're off !
to the races ....... 😄
Death Race 2942 to be specific, my latest entry for the recently started Genessis Models "Post Apocalyptic GB" 🙂
needs a spear at the front I feel 😉
3 August 2017, 18:37
Augie
I will be watching to as this looks soo cool
3 August 2017, 18:49
Choppa Nutta
Ah cool 🙂
nice surprise to have you on board Augie 🙂
Rv is doing a similar thing with a 190, fancy doing one as well ? 🙂
3 August 2017, 18:53
Augie
Hehe you tempt me choppa, tho not sure I would do it justice
3 August 2017, 20:21
Choppa Nutta
ha, I think you would !
........... and until you try .... 😉 😄

as "scratch'n'bash" building goes this format is probably more straight forward than you might think,
check out this Hell Dog,

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WW2 planes with wide fuselages make it easier to fit any scale figure you like (almost)
I've had to trim rather a lot from the 1/35 driver to get it to fit a 1/48 skinny Spitfire fuselage, but would be a lot easier with a radial engined fuselage, saw the wings off and chuck some wheels on, add some creative painting and voila, one plane car !! 😄

check this link out for more ideas 🙂

genessis-models.webs..72057?pid=1295419126
3 August 2017, 21:05
Augie
Ooo some nice examples, I will think about it.. I might have some scrap kits I can use.
3 August 2017, 21:10
Choppa Nutta
Do you see what I mean about making it as simple or as complicated as you like ? 🙂
even the simple builds look very effective 🙂
an ideal theme to enter into the world of Scratch'n'Bash 🙂
Scrap kits are ideal because even if you balls it up you aint lost anything,
twould be great to see you give it a go though 🙂
3 August 2017, 21:14
Augie
I'll think about it 🙂 maybe once I have finished the monster I am on.
3 August 2017, 21:22
Choppa Nutta
.. But of course m'lady, all in due course naturally 🙂
btw, how many 1/24 spits have you made now ?
isn't this your third if I recall correctly ? 🙂
3 August 2017, 21:37
Derek Huggett
Choppa (& Augie) - (Sorry to interrupt) Yours is not a 'Triumph', is it? 😠 😉 (Right, back to as you were!)
3 August 2017, 21:48
Augie
lol, choppa, its my second. the previous was destroyed
3 August 2017, 21:51
Choppa Nutta
lol Derek 🙂
I drove one once ages ago, twas a fun car 🙂

sorry to here that Augie, was it Monsieur Schmitt's faults or was it that Focke called Wulf ? 😄 😄 😄
3 August 2017, 22:00
Choppa Nutta
.... here ? doh ! I meant hear, obviously 😄
4 August 2017, 09:23
Augie
🙂
4 August 2017, 17:37
Choppa Nutta
Introducing Ernst Schtoppenschtart, the Dick Dastardly of Death Race 2942 😄

also introducing vehicle no.2 based on a Revell Mustang 1/48, but a two wheeler concept this time 🙂
9 August 2017, 18:46
Choppa Nutta
Car no.2, the Mustang Spinner 2 wheeler
10 August 2017, 16:12
Stephan Ryll
nice idea Choppa 🙂 it will be hard to hold the balance with this racer - but to cool 👍
10 August 2017, 17:46
Choppa Nutta
Ah yeah, I had thought about that and I think how I'm going to do it is weight the wheels by flattening them where they touch the road and putting ballast in the correct end so it balances on the axles, then glue on the wheels at the right angle of "levitation" so to speak and should hold reasonably wheel.
Handily the prop end is like a separate cap and can be glued on when the car is balanced 🙂

I'm think it would drive like a Segway but with a massive prop on the back so it can drift but with loads of thrust still, good for doing 180 spins to fire on people behind you and other robot war style spinny attacks 😄
10 August 2017, 18:02
Hanno Kleinecke
Love the pumpkin helmet ! Ernst Schtoppenschtart rules !
10 August 2017, 19:50
Choppa Nutta
haha I forgot about the foody modelling connection 😄
Cheers Hanno, its pumpkin carving season soon and I thought it would be a nice segue to doing a carving connected to this build 🙂
No doubt I'll do a pumpkin helmet for me too haha 😄
10 August 2017, 20:11
Choppa Nutta
Concept no.3, The Gun Cat 🙂
17 August 2017, 23:04
Choppa Nutta
Alien death bike concept 🙂
19 August 2017, 18:20
ice
😮 Love it!
19 August 2017, 18:54
Choppa Nutta
Cheers Ice,
there's a number of vehicle concepts on the go here,
every time I have an idea I like to put them somewhere 🙂
19 August 2017, 18:58
Choppa Nutta
Cheers James 🙂
I reckon it's an idea that's got some legs on it 😄 😄 😄
Hopefully this will be a Team effort with a friend in September,
I'll do the building and he'll do the painting, hopefully 🙂
19 August 2017, 19:36
Choppa Nutta
A variation on the Alien Bike, the Alien Walker Bike 😄
Thought I'd try it red this time 🙂
19 August 2017, 21:02
Christian Bruer
Cool stuff, looking forward to your WIP of the ABC 👍
20 August 2017, 09:00
Mike Kryza
Crazy - I like this one... 👍
22 August 2017, 17:56
Glenn
WOW Choppa! There's always something interesting going on in side your head.... 🙂 or do the voices tell you to do it! 😮
22 August 2017, 18:20
Choppa Nutta
Cheers chaps, glad you like 🙂
22 August 2017, 19:06
Vincent Heemskerk
Very creative! (And really cool, as a bike enthousiast)
22 August 2017, 20:12
Bart Goesaert
wouldn't want to have a tailslip with one of those... beautiful ideas though...
23 August 2017, 06:55
Choppa Nutta
Cheers guys 🙂

Yeah Bart, you would definitely have to change your riding style 😉 😄
23 August 2017, 10:11
Choppa Nutta
Not much of an update but I got some much needs wheels now,
Thanks to Ted USA 🙂
24 September 2017, 01:12
Christian W
Awesome ideas!
23 October 2017, 09:32

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An F1 race car from an Airfix 1/48th Spitfire MkI using the wheels from a Fujimi 1/24 Ferrari F1 180 and some other kit bits 🙂
Probable colour scheme will be based on the Red Arrow scheme.

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