Topic: Clonehead's non Star Wars customs

[Clonehead]

I thought that I should start a thread where I could show you yarders some pics of the non-SW plastic and die-cast model kits that I have put together over the years.
  I'll start off with this, an AMT 1/25th scale 67 Chevell pro-street that I built several years ago.
I have made several light modifications to the body including, shaving off the door handles, badges, and body trim. I also added a rolled rear pan from another kit. I painted the body with an airbrush and used some bare metal foil to dress up the remaining body trim around the windows. The front licence plate got a photo-etched plate frame.
I added an aftermarket tach with a photo-etched bezel and a set of etched keys to the dash. Under the car, I added braided brake lines, turned aluminum fittings, and photo-etched discs to the rear brakes. I ran a braided fuel line from the fuel tank to the fuel pump, and I wired the starter. Under the hood, I wired the battery, ran heater hoses,scratchbuilt and wired a coil,wired and fabbed a bracket for the alternator,fabbed and mounted fuel lines with aluminum fittings from the fuel pump to the two carberators, fabbed a throttle return spring and cable for the carbs, added two turned aluminum air cleaners, ran spark plug wires from the distributer to the block with scratchbuilt sparkplug boots, fabbed and mounted nickle hose clamps on the radiator hoses, and ran a pair of guage wires from the block to the firewall.

[Clonehead]

Now some shots of the fun stuff.

[Clonehead]

Today, I took some pics of a 1/24th scale motor that came from a Monogram 39 Chevy kit.
  It's a Chevy 327 that got dressed up with sparkplug wires and boots that have 3 photoetched wire looms on each side that are to small to see. I scratchbuilt a dipstick for the oil pan. I scratchbuilt a fuel log and fuel lines with fittings to the carberators. I ran an aftermarket braided fuel line with an aluminum fitting from the fuel pump to the fuel log. I modded a suspension piece to become the alternators bracket. I fabbed two throttle return springs and mounted them to the carbs using two photo-etched throttle return arms. And I used two photo-etched speaker grills to serve as filters in the velocity stacks.
  The plan was to mount this motor in another kit but it hasn't happened, yet.

[Clonehead]

Seems like I am getting too close on these shots and their turning out a bit fuzzy. here is another.

[Tamer]

Yet again the detail is amazing. Good idear for a thread too!

[Clonehead]

Thanks buddy!  I figured that I have enough SW customs to post about for one thread and I didn't want to muddy it up with this stuff.

[Clonehead]

I shot some pics today of a Tamya 1/35 th scale Bradely fighting vehicle from desert storm that I built some years ago. The figures are from Dragon and got some extra straps for their weapons and accessories made from typing paper strips as well as a camo scheme that is pretty close to the available BDUs of the era. I think these shots need some more light. I will have to take some in the sunlight in the future.

[Clonehead]

4 more pics of these......

[clonetrooper360]

great figs , they look like they can match against the clones !

[Clonehead]

great figs , they look like they can match against the clones !

Thanks, Alex! I haven't worked on any military models in a long time. I do have a huge stack of unbuilt kits, though.

[Clonehead]

Here are a few shots of another military model kit that I built years ago.
  This is the Tamya 1/35th scale WW2 German Flakpanzer 4 Whirblewind. A varient of the Panzer 4 chassis used primarily for anti-aircraft.  The kit was built box stock except for a few additions. I drilled out the gun-barrels, added the crosshairs to the gunsite, dented up the front and rear fenders, and added some track lengths to serve as extra armor to the cab and the tank's body.

[Clonehead]

One more shot of this one.

[clonetrooper360]

omg its exactly what i need to repel clone airstrikes!!!! are they  playable?

[Clonehead]

This one does have a rotating turret and a gun carrage and sight assembly that raises and lowers.
  What do you have against those poor clones, Alex?

[clonetrooper360]

nothing , im clone too    i just like to keep thing s balanced in the force , all these vehicles and giant army builder only for clones but nothing for droids , i need enemies to fight the clones not invisible beings