Hunter 1977 Dodge Monaco

The chassis is a battery powered self propelled unit and I will not be using that feature.  I opted to fill in all the holes for switches and electrical componants with sheet styrene and fill the short rear axle with styrene tube.  

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Cool Mike.  I have the Monaco CHP kit in stash.  Living in San Diego it would be cool to do that Sherrifs car.

That would look cool, John!  A patrol car can be any color combination except for the LAPD which should remain black and white.  But that is just my humble opinion.

I got the wheels and tires assembled, but I'll have to trim the rear wire axle since it is too long.  I made a backer for the front bench seat and I detailed a lot of the chrome with a black wash by Tamiya and the parking lights where detailed by using an orange Sharpie.

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Either I screwed up or the instructions are wrong.  I had the wrong wheels in the wrong places on this build and I don't remember if I ran into this issue with the Plymouth Fury that I built a couple of years ago.  I put the wrong wheels on the front spindles which put the wrong wheels on the rear axle plus I needed to add a spacer to the rear axle for proper spacing.  This entire operation took me about 1 1/4 hours to assemble, take apart and re-assemble this mess.  Along the way, I broke the tie rod which I fixed with a piece of styrene that was on the bench. 

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I washed the body and the interior and radio in prep for primer and paint.  

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I have painted my '77 Monaco with Tamiya TS-43 Racing Green.  Another coat or two should darked the color some more.  I also painted the interior bucket with Tamiya AS-15 Tan.  Now to detail the dash and interior and paint up the radio.

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Spent some time polishing the Monaco today with NuFinish Scratch Doctor.  The results were stupendious!  The paint is so shiny that you could read the Scratch Doctor label!

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That is an awesome shine!

TJS

Thanks Tom!  I wish all my paint jobs came out like this!

Great paint work! Looking forward to seeing the finished work of art.

Jim 

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Thanks Jim!  Plenty more to do.  Paint and assemble the interior, Bare Metal Foil, final assembly.  Yep!  Plenty more to do!

I have completed the interior.  I added the front grille and headlights and I painted the center grille divider.

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I have finished Hunter's 1977 Dodge Monaco.  It is painted with Tamiya TS-43 Racing Green with a Tamiya AS-15 Tan interior, a 2 way radio and an red emergency light.  I would like to thank all those who have taken the time to view and to comment on my WIP.

I know nothing about cars, but I sure enjoy your WIP’s. The stories are fun, and the modeling excellent. Thanks for sharing. 

                                         knox

 cool Mike.  That is an eye catching green!

Very nice build Mike! I'm gonna have to remember how you got that georgeous shine on that car.

Jim 

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Thank you knox, John and Jim!  

Jim, a big part of that shine can be attributed to the Tamiya TS-43 Racing Green paint.  The rest is all prep!

Looks awesome, and just as i remember it from the show.

if you're a fan of Hunter, you could also do Dee Dee's 84 Dodge

Thank you Octane Orange!  I had thought about building Dee Dee McCall's Daytona, but I really have no interest in building it and I also don't have the kit.