ive been thing about a few kitbashes and the all revolve around the idea of taking a altinator e.g. smoke screen then taking a model kit on the same scale with a car thats very close e.g. toyota altizza (lexus IS) and swoping / grafting the body panels on the TF. so has anyone done it? what do you think of it?

 

ps. ive done stuff like this on RC cars and i think ive got a way of getting round the door shapes and windows

 

pss do any people know haw to take the wheels of

 

for a test i wasgoing to take the cusco advan subaru JGTC car and put the flared arches bumbers and uber GT on smoke screen then i was going to go with somthing harder like an evo8 FQ330 or altizza/IS300

I had thought about doing this to several car models, but after taking apart Alt Smokescreen, there is a lot of pivots, hinges & mount points that are part of the paneling itself (some of which are attached by pop rivets, i.e. they have to be drilled out), which ends up making this method a true pain in the butt.

 

However, you can cut the model body to match Smokescreen's (or anyone's) transformation, and BUILD the aforementioned pivots, hinges, and mount points that underly all the paneling (using polystyrene sheets), and this will get you at least to having the external parts together, and then you could use spare Alt parts for the robot limbs, appendages, etc.

 

At least this is what I have thought up for a gameplan. I haven't had time to sit down & crack one out, and I'm sure it will take a ridiculous amout of time & design, but at least it will be a true kitbash.

well my fist idea of changing him to the JGTC car form the rally car only mean i have to change the body kit seeing as its the same car all i would need to do its sort out his arm transformation with larger front arches

oohhh....nice choice of car :thumb the JGTC round's gonna be held this weekend in my country (Malaysia)...too bad i can't go this year since i've got an exam :tfmad really would luv to see the NSX-Rs :clap (besides taking photos with the GT Queens :tftongue )

the main problem is going to be removing the wheels with out doing damige to the hubs/joints it could all go wrong even if im out by a few milimeters if i chose to bore out the rivits. hopfully the logos will come with the model kit

 

all i need is to find a model kit hopefuly HLJ will have one and give him a name so far if have...

 

shift lock

accele off

counter steer

boost master

slip steam

turbine

down force

 

also could some one tell me what scale they are on

Turbine's mine, you can't have him :tftounge

 

Other names I made up for race cars you might like:

 

-Pitstop (My favorite :D )

-Rev

-SpeedBump

-StickShift

-TurnPike

 

And to answer your other question, they are 1/24 scale models.

 

-Turbine

thanks turbine. ok i wont use your name nor will i ever use a name like skid mark :P

 

i still need TRU to drop the price from £20 :(

I found some at a discount store for 12.86 but by the time I ship it to you it would be about 20...

well i would need to base it of Silver steak as hes RHD

Do you have pics of the work in progress?