With my recent confidence-building success, I should just order one and get cracking. There' a Pegasus Nautilus kit in my stash and I've had an eye on VoodooFX's lighting kit for some time now. As it goes, this was a good experience for me so there will be more lighted models in the future. I did consider doing more lighting effects but as this was my first attempt at such a thing, I wanted to keep it simple and give myself a reasonable chance of completing the build in one lifetime. Knowing the precise nature and quality of the work that you do, your compliment means a lot to me. I'd be proud to have that on my shelf too I know its a tad too late there but maybe if you ever decide to give it another go, there's an item of potential use - or for anyone else for that matterĪnyways David, I really love what you've done to this iconic movie-mobile. Did you consider getting a lighting kit for the light bar? The interior lighting is perfect - its not too bright and in the right colour - 2 things a lot of people get wrong.
I had been watching it come together in the shadows of your WIP and I am sorry I didn't comment more. There have been only a handful of builds lately that have had me in genuine awe of their work and this is one of them. Wow David! That came out beautifully!!! The effort that went into the detailing of this is more than admirable.
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As always, thanks for looking and feel free to post any comments or questions you may have. I'll point those out later in another photo. I also wired the little silver box on the side and painted dials on the SCUBA tanks on the other side. I seriously had to research it to learn what was supposed to go there. well, I couldn't actually tell what it was. The thing that Polar Lights put there was. I built a fan assembly for the HVAC unit. I borrowed the transparent radar dome and heat sink on the back from the AMT kit as well as some of the warning label decals.
Polar Lights simplified much of the equipment and though it still provided a decent representation, I felt that more needed to be done. The roof rack is a quintessential feature of this car. A bit of that equipment can be seen in this photo. I fabricated some ghostbusting equipment for the mostly empty cargo area. That's all for now, I'll have more later.Īs always, thanks for taking the time to look and please feel free to comment. The antenna provided in the kit was between 2mm and 3mm thick making it almost 2" to 3" thick in scale. That makes me wonder if there are allowances in the mold for the louvers to be cast into the body. This was also true of the one on the rear door. Strangely enough, sanding the area to prep it for mounting the louvers revealed what seemed to be marks in the plastic where the louvers should be positioned. I used Evergreen Styrene N-Scale clapboard siding. One of the features I added are the louvered vents on the hood and rear door. I've made an effort to address most of these items in the hope of building it into a model that's more true to the one as seen in the movie. All the main features are there, just a less detailed version of them. This kit is a rather simplified version of the famous car from the movie. Polar Lights Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Snap-Kit. So rather than wait and dump them on you all at once, I'll release them in blocks of four or five over the next couple of days. There are a number of photos and I'm still working on writing the captions for them. For those who may be interested, there's a build thread. Not that it's a bad kit, it actually does what it does quite well. I just felt that the iconic Ecto-1 deserved more than Polar Lights gave it in this kit. But I ended up jumping down the rabbit hole on this one. I thought, "Just a simple snap-together kit, should be no problem, right?". I started this one back in October of 2021 with the intent of it being my final build for the year.
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