Project "Gladys" - 1/10th version of my car.

[Minty Fresh]

Well, after some thought....I finally decided what I wanted to do with my TC3. I decided to make a scale version....of my real car. (which is named Gladys...hence the name of the project) I have a 98 Trans Am, and since HPI makes a T/A body, I figured it would be perfect.

Here's a pic of my car...for reference...

http://www.mintyfreshproductions.com/pics/RC/gladys2.jpg

First order of business....was wheels (and tires). I needed to find a set of wheels, that closely resembled mine, since I knew it would be impossible to find an exact match. I found that the IMEX Twin Star's were the closest match I could find. Except for a couple things...they look pretty darn close. I went for HPI X-Pattern Radial's for the tires.

The wheels/tires...

http://www.mintyfreshproductions.com/pics/RC/wheels1.jpg

Mounted...

http://www.mintyfreshproductions.com/pics/RC/wheels2.jpg

Got the body finished today. But I've still got a few things to do until it's complete. Including the Factory Team 200mm widing kit. (To get the stance a bit wider, to fit the body.) New rear body mounts.

And....I'm also getting a scale version of the vinyl graphics on the side of my car. Those will be getting here sometime next week.

So here's the new pics, of the body...

http://www.mintyfreshproductions.com/pics/RC/tc3ta1.jpg

http://www.mintyfreshproductions.com/pics/RC/tc3ta2.jpg

http://www.mintyfreshproductions.com/pics/RC/tc3ta3.jpg

[dyslexic]

sweet looking good

[Minty Fresh]

Thanks.

And also...if the images aren't showing up, my sites having a bit of trouble, will get them back up asap.

[Fringo]

What.... no scale girl??? :D

[Silent Scope]

I need some close up shots of the hood :p

[Aluma]

you know you can go to any decal shop and they'd make those green/flag graphics for the R/C car too....

[Minty Fresh]

you know you can go to any decal shop and they'd make those green/flag graphics for the R/C car too....

Not like this. (Unless I paid them a quite a bit...to recreate them) The ones on my car are custom made. I used to work for an auto graphics company; I designed them. The even have my company name in them "Minty Fresh Productions". So the place I used to work for, still has it on file, they're gonna make scale versions of it, and send them to me. :cool:

[Viper17]

That looks awsome. I can't wait to see the graphix on it. Nice find on those wheels too, almost a perfect match I think. I wish I still had my T/A body, it was black too and it had working head and tail lights along with working orange neon lights under it. My body got totaled in a crash. The body got ripped in three places and the car lost the front end and two wheels after hitting a telephone pole(skided off the road cause of little rocks at 40+mph) and cartwheeling down a huge hill :(.

[Mustang2]

Both t/a's are nice

[metalry101]

Very nice...although I've gotta say, the 1:1 looks better, mainly due to the hottie resting on the hood. Is that your gf/wife?

Anyways, nice job. I really really like the rims.

[Legend_Car]

ya if you gonna make an exact replica your gonna have to find a 1/10 scale tuner chick lol

[jwhert]

your rc is a ws6, your car isnt, now im gonna make a model of my car, white ws6, should be easy enough, i just gotta find wheels that resemble stock, i might get these hpi wheels that look like the ones i want in real life though

[FESTER2004]

minty-lookn sweet so far!nice job!