AMT 1\25 Christine build

neat project! I made mine from the old Christine pro mod kit,Grafted in the quarters from a '57 chevy kit and used the 413 Max Wedge from the AMT '49 Merc kit.   

Love the paint job classic colour scheme great shine love altering models from the box so really love the great job you've done there

thanks!

I have one in the stash.Can't wait to get to it.I'll be watching this.

further progress so far

don't know what happened to pics there

sorry sorted

A little update

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I knew it was a reboxed Belvedere, as that was what it was before they got the "Christine" license.

fyi, you can get a photoetch kit from MCG to replace the Fury badges, etc.

http://www.modelcargarage.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=351&idcategory=11

thanks for that info .

well this is the kit built now to start on the dio any ideas how i am going to crumple the wings up.

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I did think about cutting them off and trying to scratch build some bent up ones but not sure my skills are up to that, then i thought about taking a blow torch to her and bending her that way but there is a lot of plastic on the front there and i think that would be to risky to recover from should it all go wrong.

Hi guys I have never deliberately destroyed a model before so before I start on this one I want to be sure I've got it right, so I've drawn up a plan to make sure for one thing the base is big enough but also it gives me something to work from. So here is the plan

the bull Dozer I dont know weather I have put it far enough back I have put a Girder on the front of it as i think they must have done something like this to keep it out of the frame in close up shots from the back, can you guys think of something I have missed, I wont be doing anything to Christine till nearer the time she will go on the dio so she will be ok for quite a while.

Didn't Arnie's friend drive over Christine with the 'dozer? I haven't watched the movie in a long time. Nice build by the way. Bob

Hi r13b20 I am intending to do a dio of the filming of the scene where moochie gets squished by Christine and yes, you are correct Arnie's friend did crush Christine with a bulldozer but  I am doing the filming of the scene and they used a bulldozer to push her into the loading bay, as in real life a car could not do that it would get so far (not very far at that) before the wheels would just start spinning.

They probably did it with cables (harder to see).

the panels shown being "restored by magic" was a combination of rubber panels and reverse film.

i've previously seen someone had done a diorama of the final showdown, complete with AMT D8H Dozer.

Sometimes I get cornfused. :) Very cool idea for the dio. The book ending was better than the movie, but that's the way, huh? Bob

Hi all I have made a start on the dio and it is going to be a long slog. I am making the walls of the loading bay out of foam board and I tried printing the bricks off but it is almost impossible to get the scale right and anyway it just doesn't look right as there the mortar line is smooth, so I thought I would use foam board and draw the scale bricks on it as, if you press reasonably hard you can leave an impression which will hopefully look more like a mortar line. Well that's a job I wish I hadn't started(still hopefully it will be worth the effort) .

Incidentally we know the film is full of mistakes, like the bit I am doing where he could have quite easily got away by jumping on Christines bonnet and running over the top of her, well I have thought of another flaw it's supposed to be a loading bay, usually an arctic can fit in a loading bay, but if Christine can't fit in there that means even a van can't, that makes it a pretty useless loading bay.

Here are some pics of the 1\24 scale wall with the mortar colour painted I know it looks orangy but trust me its not, dont know what happens with my camera sometimes.

was hoping that the last pic would show the bricks effect but it shows a lot better on the next one.

I think the effect will be better when i paint the bricks, this has taken me 2 days so far and i recon I will need at least 1 more to finish all the brickwork.