What a real 4WD should look like
 

Never did this before and its actually harder than it looks. I know I could of added more but then again I didnt want to crowd it up. The only decal's are the chevrolet, the k5 blazer and the lower grill. I really hope you guys like this one.
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Wow, thats just amazing. If you mount that onto a scale crawler, it will be perfect. :yes: Awesome job as always.

Nice.I think I used to drive that exact one. :D Great job.

Another one that would never see the light of day... :great:

Edit: 3 way tie for first post. lol

Looks awesome! That would look great on a scaler.

Dude, that is freaking amazing. I want one. Just got to find what bodies will fit the Summit. Danged that exo-cage, gotta mess everything up.

It's funny how a rustbucket can look so good! I have to admit this is one of my favorites. The details are just amazing!

Amazing...

Dude your work is insane- the only other body I've ever seen that impressed me like yours was a handlaid fiberglass body a guy did on RCGroups. But this is my problem with having a nice body at all on an RC- it never lasts- this is like taking a canvas that Rembrandt JUST painted and running it over with a tractor. I sincerely hope none of your bodies end up on a running vehicle :lol:

That is some serious talent you have :surprised:

awesome!!!

Actually all my bodies end up on running RC and alot of the monster trucks I do end up racing. I kind of have a way of keeping the paint intact and keeping the paint to last. I cant stop the damage that may occure on the outside, but guys I have painted for 2 years ago are still racing the shells I did for them then.

Looks good, now take a scuff pad to the outside to get rid of the shine! Nobody waxes a rusty 1:1 truck...

Messing wit ya, I paint full sized stuff for a living, and can appreciate your attention to detail. God knows I have spent many an hour obsessing about the smallest detail on a shelby cobra, or the silver layout on a new lexus. You must enjoy doing this, it really shows.

I have to say...this is one of my faves.

great work as always.

Unreal detail - Another beauty!

Wow, just wow..

Dude... that's just.. wow!

Very cool.
 

Nice work as usual. I was just sharing this one with my wife and she even said how much it looks like a real 1:1 vehicle. If you did not know that it was an R/C it could probably fool a lot of people. Great job dude.

Fantastic detail!! You've got some real talent. Very very nice job.

Great work again! I'm with linc on the scuff pad to remove the shine. rust buckets don't shine :P

Any of you that think people dont wax a rusty truck have never been to Montana....

GREAT job! I think there are two details missing - a couple dead birds in the grill, and the creased hood - that style of Chev/GMC always had a crease across the hood right where the hinges ended. The springs in the hinge were too stiff, so over time, the hood ended up bent.

Carcas.
 

S dear carcas wold look pretty real as well. Like he hit a dear on the way home from work in the wee hours of the morning.

And blood splattered across the windshield..........

Nice attention to detail, definitely one of your finest yet. You could probably sell that on rccrawler.com for a small fortune.

Have you ever thought of painting one of the styrene/plastic tamiya bodies? With your skill and attention to detail I don't think it would be a tough transition.

Ain't that the truth :lol:

If it's going to be a shelf queen you could add the deer, but you'll need to crush up the front a bit and others that see it might think you're a sadist :whistle:

Looks awesome though, what do you plan to put it on (for show)?

I think all of these are commisions ;-)

With that work Norm you must be queued for months :)

My teenage daughter would say, "that is beastly" and you have some "mad skills".

Actually the pivots on the hinges would sieze, causing the bent hoods. Another reason that I dislike the GMC product from the good old days, that and the distributor at the back of the engine, whose dumb idea was that?

Scale roadkill, I love it!

I would like to see Norm paint a styrene body. I think it would look killer!

as for the blood splattered windshield, he could also jam a scale bicycle under the truck...

Heres what I got to say :surprised:

You havent visited nothingtoxic.com recently have you?... (some of these kinda websites have given me nightmares).

Serious attention to detail going on in that latest shell, Im sure the new owner will love it. :yes:

Thanks guys, really I appreciate it and I kinda wish this was for me but its for one of my race team guys for his CR-01. Like i said this was my first shell like this and it took awhile to make sure the rush would look right. i agree on roughing up the shell but then again i have a hard time wanting to do that. I can easily do better but sometimes like I say, too much is way too much. I copied the rusted look from a real 1:1 truck i found on the internet and added the cracks and window myself along with the bad tint job which is just an adhesive tint from a paperstreetplastics on ebay. As far as the dents go Im going to try it on another truck. I just didnt feel like removing the over spray film and risking a bad heat up and then I would be eating a shell. and as for the styrene and plastic jobbies. I wont do them! Im good at the lexan thing and would rather stick to what I know rather then burn my time up on something unfamiliar. But a friend of mine Nick Rummy is sending me the same shell to do for him and well try something a little different and try and go a step further this time. Ohh and yeah I am pretty booked up with jobs, I dont mind taking them if people are willing to book a job and wait but sometimes I get people asking me for paintwork and they never like my prices or the time until I finish. I pride myself on releasing a good product that will last a long time, not a cheap product that results in bad mouthing my work. So I am off to paint another shell here which shold be released in the next few days. stay tuned to the Canadien berzerker a.k.a. Wolverine

No offense, but I'll never be buying a shell from you. You said you pride yourself on making a good product that will last a long time, but the way I drive, the second part won't ever happen. It would be a shame to wreck something that nice within 10 seconds of plugging the battery in. :lol:

Although, if I ever make a shelf queen, I'll look you up.

Painting styrene shells isnt so bad- its just like painting a lexan shell, only on the outside! The beauty (as I found) is that if you cock-up, you can just go over the mistake, and start again- 300 grit sandpaper removes all sins...

I kinda prefer painting the outside really, as its much the same as normal painting- do the background first, then onto the details and highlights; working in reverse order like when doing lexan shells is very alien to me. :neutral:

I'm not the only one then. I much prefer painting outside to inside, it is much easier for me to mask and get no bleed through outside as well. I lack the manual dexterity to do complex internal masking and end up destroying the masks. :whistle:

Gotta love the one or two tone paint jobs that I can do.

I'll be honest, I suck at painting bodies, just plain suck (I sense and out of context quote coming). I can get one or two tones and that's about it.

I may commission the OP for a body once I find out what shells they are going to release for the Summit. They'd better put out a scale looking body for it too, or, or, or, I don't know, but something.

It'll be my shelf body.

One of my favorites so far team3six. Nice work.

I have said it before, and I'll say it again....To me it is kind of an honor to the body to take it out and beat it up. Even on a nice paint job. That is what they were made for, and once mine are thrashed, they make great garage wall decor. I think team3six should be honored to have one of his nice works used hard. Maybe he can tell us what he thinks, but if I were him, I would feel great to see one that I worked hard on, used and bashed hard. That I way I knew someone enjoyed it. I will be ordering one at some point, and will use it with pride. No shelf queens for me.

f'in beautiful.

Yeah, I am a one tone guy myself for lexan bodies, and even though I own an airbrush... I still use tamiya spray paint. I tried some of the automotive basecoat that I use at the shop... It did not stick very well, but i should have used some bulldog adhesion promoter before I shot the color on it. I am also not too fond of taping the inside of the body, but I am good with a rozor blade so the masking is not too bad. I need some more practice that is for sure. If only rtr bodies were twice as thick, that would be perfect for me!