Sportin' a Hummer
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:17 pm
This is one of them Desert Tornado cars. I haven't even driven it yet, I just thought the body might look better with a little fixing up, but I guess I got a little carried away. 
So I took the turret off, shaved, filled in and smoothed the roof. I had sanded it very thin to get it flat, and the plastic warped when the paint hit it, so I cut a thin piece of plastic packaging and glued the to the top of the roof and smoothed it. I choppedout the back half the cab to make it a half cab. Filled in the back of the cab with a piece of plastic, and covered the bed with a piece of thin bnrushed aluminum from a floppy disk (thnak for that tip Betty
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Somewhere along this line, I started another baja Beetle body, but decided to have some fun with the Hummer body first. So I painted it in an off white. Masked my first line, sprayed the gold, masked the second line, and sprayed the blue.
I thought this was one of my best race paint schemes, I think the trick was the K.I.S.S. philosophy. So I went with the race scheme by fabricating bumpers and a roll bar from plastic coated paper clips, and scrounging together the remnants of this Tomy decal set. Made some number plates, clear coated, and I think even though I started with kind of a silly body it came together as a cool looking little racer.
So I took the turret off, shaved, filled in and smoothed the roof. I had sanded it very thin to get it flat, and the plastic warped when the paint hit it, so I cut a thin piece of plastic packaging and glued the to the top of the roof and smoothed it. I choppedout the back half the cab to make it a half cab. Filled in the back of the cab with a piece of plastic, and covered the bed with a piece of thin bnrushed aluminum from a floppy disk (thnak for that tip Betty
)Somewhere along this line, I started another baja Beetle body, but decided to have some fun with the Hummer body first. So I painted it in an off white. Masked my first line, sprayed the gold, masked the second line, and sprayed the blue.
I thought this was one of my best race paint schemes, I think the trick was the K.I.S.S. philosophy. So I went with the race scheme by fabricating bumpers and a roll bar from plastic coated paper clips, and scrounging together the remnants of this Tomy decal set. Made some number plates, clear coated, and I think even though I started with kind of a silly body it came together as a cool looking little racer.
so that makes us even for the aluminium tip 
