viperspeed333

Does anyone know where I can find a really pimped out, old school body. I also wanna get some of those golden, old school spoke rims. I think that would be a really cool setup.

TikiKustoms

I know bolink makes a '64 Impala. Not the most detail, but still kind of cool. Not sure where to get the gold rims though. I think RC Car Action had an article a couple years back on making a low rider using servos as hydraulics so you might want to check their website to see if they have any articles on it. I think that car also those gold wheels too. Good luck and hope you find it.
Drew

HPIRS4-3SS

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im gonna do that same thing....when i get some money.....

towerhobbies.com search for Pegasus.....theres the gold wire rims and silver.....also the '64 impala body....its all made by Pegasus so you shouldnt have a hard time findinging them

otterball21

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bolink has crappy detail.. They don't have a lexan film outside.. god.. I had two nice bolink bodies.. and I messed up both of them.. I had the old Mustang and the old Comaro body. The comaro body didn't come out too bad.. the mustang body came out ok.. but argh! fustrating sometimes..

studysession

How is this....

viperspeed333

I thought that the products made by Pegasus was made for scale model cars, and not for RC cars, but I will check on that....Thanks...Studysession, awesome job with your bodies and nice paint job, although I sorta agree that the detail on the body itself is rather low. Nevertheless, these types of bodies will certainly serve their purpose for what Im trying to do...Thanks a lot

studysession

Thanks - It does lack some detail. but looks cool. It is awful driving the big mercury style bodies. When you go around a corner, it will spin. Nothing truely holding it down, like the car bodies with lower center of gravity and have a wing.

viperspeed333

Well, apparently Bolink is going out of business...They no longer make the Chevy Impala Body....However, i found that parma has a good selection on their site with plenty of old school Bodies...HPIRS4-3SS, yea...i like the rims Pegasus has...thanks

otterball21

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here is my old school body.. I got these rims cause they are the most closest matched with ss cragar rims..This is the Bolink body that I painted.

studysession

That is very nice.

69 GTO

Luv that camaro and the classic black/flames never go's out of style!

I just got the parma 57' chevy...its a 3 pc body and the detail is AWSOME! do wish they would put a film over the body though[:@]

viperspeed333

Wow, both you guys did really nice jobs with the painting...i just got the '61 chevy impala body...if it comes with no film over the body, whats the best way to mask it without ruining the shinyness of the final product?

Tigger N. Bennie

Nice paint. No film? Can't you make your own by covering it with plastic cling-wrap and then sealing it with a hair dryer?

69 GTO

I put plastic wrap over it and then put some making tape around the edges.....but i never thought of puttin a little heat to it,thats not a bad idea!Might be worth a try.

viperspeed333

i think i had tried that 3 or 4 years ago and the results werent good...I used to work at a hobby shop for a summer job, and i would seal boxes using that method, but the plastic we used was much thicker, so there was enough of it to expand and assume different shapes. Plastic wrap might be to thin to use a blow dryer with, but its definitely worth a shot...

fastfred

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Go get 3M Blue masking tape.

Its removable. If you're at a good hardware/paint store they might even have a few other 3M tapes with varying levels of adhesion.

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otterball21

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I took the bag it came in.. and taped it to the body on the other side.. took me a while, was so ugly.. and I couldn't find out what the body looked like until I was completely done....

studysession

Some bodies that do not have the film over them. Like the Parma bodies... I use liquid mask to cover the outside.

GALAXY

3M makes that blue tape with plastic on one side for masking large areas..its called Painters Pre taped Masking Film