Sportin' a Hummer

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » 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.

chrome · Post by **chrome** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:21 pm

I swear, I had that same idea today.

I think I'm going to do mine up to look as much like a H2 SUT as possible. Glad to see it can be done. I thought it could. Now only if my skills are enough.

Later,
Chrome...

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 7:33 pm

If you got something like a razor saw, it's a really easy chop.

Here's what I started with.

sg219 · Post by **sg219** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:34 pm

Cool as shit.

Do you have any plans for the chassis?

HACHI-RYOKU · Post by **HACHI-RYOKU** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 8:36 pm

Damb Crazy, where do you come up with this shit?! I'm still trying to get ground effects down smooth. Nice work. I'm seething with jelousy.

micro_man · Post by **micro_man** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:53 pm

bad ass man . i cant wait for a vid of it off roading like the bug , that was sweet .

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:16 pm

sg219 wrote:Do you have any plans for the chassis?

Just gonna stick some FETs in there, these cars wake up with FETs. I'm gonna see if a spare MotorWorks motor I have happens to be faster. Other than that, nah, no plans.

Damb Crazy, where do you come up with this shit?!

When I look at certain cars I get pictures in my head. When that happens, I have to make it a reality, I don't how, I figure that out later, but I just start doing it, and I can't do anything else until I'm done.

It started as the artic camo'ed one. If you notice both my other offroad bits have a blue and white theme, so my inspiration may have just been as simple as that. I'm not actually shure what triggers it.

betty.k · Post by **betty.k** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 2:56 am

plastic coated paperclips. goddamn it! why didn't i think of that!

so that makes us even for the aluminium tip

i love the body and bumper shit. my only critisism is the wheels. i feel it needs to have same size wheels all 'round. and the rear ones are too big with that wheelbase. so i suggest using the front wheels all 'round and maybe widen the wheelbase by about 1 - 2mm.

that's just me, if it works well as is why screw with it! kickass ride man

TallduDe · Post by **TallduDe** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:36 am

I love those hummers and that one is the best 1 ive seen so far!

its good looks like a baja racer

kvik369 · Post by **kvik369** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 6:30 am

All I can say is sweet - and you've given me ideas for those bodies

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:06 am

Thanks guys.

Yeah, Betty, I agree about the wheels, but since the tires are kinda hard, I don't really think they're worth the effort. Besides since the body is shrunk to bit proportions, I think it kinda works, because bits just have little wheels in the front.

Finks · Post by **Finks** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:38 am

Damn CD, best normal sized Hummer I have ever seen bro. Love that you stayed w/ the CD off road team paint job as well. Big thumbs up you long haired freek!

DarkTari · Post by **DarkTari** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 10:49 am

Damn Great Job Dave!

I had those same 2, boxed and ready to send to you. I see you found
them already ! Cool!
Those are the 2 that I thought you'd want and also the ones I picked for
myself so you can understand my surprise when I saw your Pics

Hey!, Wait a minute...Damn that is my pic LOL

Too Funny!

NEVERMIND !

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:08 am

Nice work, Dave. Kinda reminds me of a sprint car from the Robocop future. I can imagine that in a big sideways drift with ripped pieces of sheet metal flapping all over the place.

hue35 · Post by **hue35** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 11:48 am

SuperFly wrote:I can imagine that in a big sideways drift with ripped pieces of sheet metal flapping all over the place.

Exactly, and in slow motion... suspension all pumpin' like a motherfucker.

Nice truck, cd... I'd love to see a shot of the new hummer along side these beauties...