Kit: Monogram 1969 Dodge Charger
Chargers are badass. ‘Nuff said, I made this one in a color scheme I found on the Internet (pics from a car show). I’m usually not a vinyl top fan but the white/blue combo looked great. The Monogram kit is excellent and very detailed.
I don’t like the stock rims on most muscle cars, they’re all kind of alike and I don’t like it at all. I had these rims leftover from a Ford pickup model that didn’t pan out some time ago, and I thought they looked great. I found some slightly larger tires for drag racing, and now it looks sufficiently cool. Usually you have to do some horrible adaption to get different wheels on a model, but this time it worked out easily.
The kit features turnable steering, which worked ok until I tried putting it in a display case with tie-downs, and it broke one of the upper brackets. It took me a while to get around to repairing it, which I did with some stryene and a lot of swearing. I had also read (and then noticed) that the kit’s rear axle is too far back. I agreed and while it was broken I broke it some more, then put the axle where it belonged so now the rear wheels are in the wheel well correctly.
I added some paint details and the insulation under the hood.
The only big modification is the trunk opening. I put a spare tire and the fuel tank tube and some sandpaper made for the trunk liner.
The underside of a trunk lid of any car is hard as hell to find a picture of, but after some time on the Internet I found one.
Nice shot of the interior. I don’t know if I’d want a white interior in real life though.
Nicely molded dashboard and interior parts make it easier to paint and detail.
Who doesn’t love a wide rear end… stripe.
This was the first kit I used car touch-up spraypaint on and it looks
amazing. The only problem is it doesn’t take enamel paint on top of it
very well. But it’s not a toy so that’s ok.