June 16, 20233 yr 8 minutes ago, Jim85IROC said: I haven't made much progress on Rosco's car, but I did swap the cool white headlights for much better looking warm white lights. On the side I've also been working on an interior for the Kyosho General. I was lucky enough to find a really well made 3d model of a 69 Charger with a full interior. After some tweaks to the files, I was able to print the dash, door panels, seats and rear package tray. I printed the floor too, but quickly realized that I had to cut almost all of it away to fit over the chassis, so I wound up cutting the door panels and rear package tray so I could install a false floor that I made from a styrene sheet. After that I printed partial seats to work with the false floor. Overall I'm real happy with the interior, but after all of this I think when I get time I want to redo it with higher quality prints and a much lower floor for the front seat area. Here's the interior with the body off: I cut down a Traxxas body mount and installed it in the front chassis plate: At the rear I am sitting some tan painted washers right on top of the body post mounts. There are large holes in the package tray to fit over the body posts. The body itself holds the rear of the interior down. Next I need to cut out the windows on the orange car. I used the gray one as my guinea pig to practice on. I also want to design and print the roll bar for behind the front seats. Looks good
June 16, 20233 yr On 6/5/2023 at 8:24 PM, RC General Lee said: looks good, thats to bad for the minor car crash, but considering how many police cars get rolled and crashed in the tv show, it just adds some character This looks just fabulous! I love the way you've worked on the lights!
June 16, 20233 yr Author I just realized that the last picture that's supposed to show the rear mounts was a repeat of the front mount. I can't go back and edit it anymore, but anyway, here's the picture of how the rear interior mount is done with the painted washer at the bottom of the body post:
June 22, 20233 yr Author Well, Roscoe's car is done(ish)! I still need to paint and install Roscoe and I think I'm going to swap to the larger "sheriff" decals on the fenders and quarters, but otherwise, it's done! The windshield is thinner than I'd prefer, but it seems to look good. Hopefully it holds up. I don't love the large wheels and low profile tires, but the center caps help sell it. Down the road I may design wheels that use the VTA style tires. A nice pair!
June 23, 20233 yr Fantastic! You are a true artist and skilled craftsman! Thank you for sharing your work with us.
June 23, 20233 yr On 6/21/2023 at 10:07 PM, RC General Lee said: Looks good Looks Great! ( I wish I could do stuff like that!) * I'll just have to settle for drinking 'shine out on the back 40!!
June 25, 20233 yr On 6/23/2023 at 7:32 PM, Hobie Hartkins said: Looks Great! ( I wish I could do stuff like that!) * I'll just have to settle for drinking 'shine out on the back 40!! And I'll testify that you are very skilled at it. In fact, I'll even say that you are outstanding in your field! Edited June 25, 20233 yr by RogerDuke
June 25, 20233 yr I'll even say that you are outstanding in your field Yes and right now I'm looking for some of those little red buggies out in the field!
June 30, 20233 yr Author Got Rosco painted and installed! He ended up looking more like Enos than Rosco, but I don't really have any control over that. Since this was the first time I ever painted a driver figure, I'm pretty happy with how he came out.
July 1, 20233 yr Hmm, I think you might be right that he does resemble Enos but you still have a million times more talent than me so I don't have the right to be critical. He's still a work of art and so is the car. Thanks for posting the pictures.
July 1, 20233 yr 11 minutes ago, RogerDuke said: Hmm, I think you might be right that he does resemble Enos but you still have a million times more talent than me so I don't have the right to be critical. He's still a work of art and so is the car. Thanks for posting the pictures. +1 !! same here...I couldn't even approach that level of talent! It's amazing any way you look at it!
July 1, 20233 yr 21 hours ago, Hobie Hartkins said: +1 !! same here...I couldn't even approach that level of talent! It's amazing any way you look at it! But I bet Jim's XXX doesn't taste as good as yours. Making the Finest takes a high level of talent.
July 8, 20233 yr Author The video is up for Rosco's car and it includes a fun car chase at the beginning of the video!
July 8, 20233 yr 3 hours ago, Jim85IROC said: The video is up for Rosco's car and it includes a fun car chase at the beginning of the video! I've been a Dukes of Hazzard SuperFan for 44 years and can honestly say that the chase at the start of this video is one of the coolest things I have ever seen! I sure hope it gets a lot of exposure in places besides the HazzardNet and the stars of the show get to see it. Thank you so much for sharing it Jim. You are a true SuperFan.
July 8, 20233 yr Author 1 minute ago, RogerDuke said: I've been a Dukes of Hazzard SuperFan for 44 years and can honestly say that the chase at the start of this video is one of the coolest things I have ever seen! I sure hope it gets a lot of exposure in places besides the HazzardNet and the stars of the show get to see it. Thank you so much for sharing it Jim. You are a true SuperFan. Thanks Roger!
July 30, 20233 yr Author For those who are interested, I posted the car chase from the police video separately. I did some additional editing, color grading and I added music. I'm pretty happy with the result. https://youtu.be/wjxQXFVqKgQ
July 31, 20233 yr On 7/7/2023 at 11:28 PM, RogerDuke said: I've been a Dukes of Hazzard SuperFan for 44 years and can honestly say that the chase at the start of this video is one of the coolest things I have ever seen! I sure hope it gets a lot of exposure in places besides the HazzardNet and the stars of the show get to see it. Thank you so much for sharing it Jim. You are a true SuperFan. Let me repeat everything I wrote here and double it. This new video is absolutely incredible! Thank you so much.
November 21, 20232 yr Hello, Thanks for sharing all this amazing work. I was wondering if you know were I can get/buy a template file from which I can print my own decals for General Lee. It is almost impossible to find them in Europe, and the ones you can find are always flawed. Trying to get them sent from the USA becomes prohibitively expensive. So, the option is to use some green stuff sheets and print my own. Thanks, D
November 21, 20232 yr Author I'm not aware of any decal templates, but I'm very satisfied with the MCU Racing decals. They're from Canada and I have no idea how much it costs to ship to Europe, but I believe that MCI has plenty of vintage RC decal customers overseas.
November 22, 20232 yr No problem, as it was for someone in Europe, I figured the search engine might not figure out the error like it would for someone in Canada or even the USA
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