1992 Viper RT/10 project

clean looking build, I like what i see so far. Keep up the good work.

I encourage you to go out on a limb and try the wash on the tranny. It will look awesome just remember to keep your wash very thin and build it up slowly. There is a fine line between a wash to bring out detail and a dirty mess. I use acrylics for my washes, about a 5 to 1 mix and a touch of future or windex.

Good luck 

the doog wrote:

Looks great, Woody! A Black oil wash on that transmission would help to bring out some detail, if you think you would like to try it? I always loved this car--they say its a bear to drive though!

I've never really tried anything like that before. Wow, I need to get this model back out! I havent done anythign to it since April, not long after I went back to work!

A10wrthg wrote:

looks great but what i bet you didnt know was that the Dodge Viper was Designed by Carrol Shelby(Ford)

Yes, he did design it.....because he is AWESOME!!!! He also lead Ford to beat Ferarri with the GT40 while he was keeping his own project, the cobra, racing. He's my hero!

Looks great, Woody!

A Black oil wash on that transmission would help to bring out some detail, if you think you would like to try it?

I always loved this car--they say its a bear to drive though!

Looking good, glad you're back to work now.

I hear what you're saying on the dash detail! lol

I forget how small the interior is

Progress has been slow as I am back to work again, and when I get home I dont feel like doing much LOL But here is an idea of what the interior is looking like. The dash will most likely be black with white face gages. I'm going to try to detail the radio and climate controls a bit too, but damn they look small!

Thanks for looking!

Progress has been a bit slow the last couple days as I am preparing to go back to work from my layoff and I havent had a lot of time to put into the model. The interior is slowly coming along, but as of this moment the chassis is complete save for the rear suspension, which will be glued on today after the paint dries I hope. Thanks for looking!

Well, the brake discs and the calipers are all painted up, and thanks to one of the MANY techniques I am learning after finding this site, I was able to paint the raised "Viper" lettering on the calipers silver by using a pencil eraser dipping in silver paint, then touching the eraser to the caliper. AWESOME idea! I will be using it again when I paint the lettering on the body when its complete. Anyway, here's a picture. Sorry for the crappy quality. I think the super macro function on my camera was too good for its own good LOL. I think the brakes look MUCH better in person.

Thanks for looking!

Well, it's finally warm enough in Ohio to paint outside today! So I took advantage of the temperature to paint the chassis of my Viper. The drive train is pretty much complete, except for the rear differential cover. Until I can mask/putty off the body, I'll be working on painting the valve covers and the upper intake plenum. I've also started to paint the interior parts as well.

Thanks for looking!

Not a whole lot of progress to report on as its been too damn cold here in Ohio to go outside and paint! So I've been slowly working on the interior and the engine bay. The engine halves were painted in Model Masters Steel and the headers were painted in MM Gun Metal. Don't get me started on how much of a pain those headers were to paint. The mufflers under the car will most likely be painted either flat black with the rest of the chassis or MM Steel, and the side pipes will be flat black. Here's a couple pictures of the engine on the trees, and then dry mounted onto the unpainted chassis:

And here is a picture of what the finished engine will most likely resemble, except I will be painting Plum Crazy where the blue is painted here in the area of the dual electronic throttle control:

Thanks for looking!

Oh ok yeah- that sounds good. Sorry- wish I could help with the wires, I tend to work in 1/35 primarily and all I have is some speaker wire from Radio Shack, even then, it really looks better in 1/16

I'm sure one of the Auto pros will step in and tell you what they use.

Well, I'm going to mke a trip to WalMart and the hobby shop today to do a little shopping for my Viper project. Couple questions: Where does everyone get the small wires for the plug wires in the engine bays? They are obviously pretty small wires. Does the hobby shop or Wally World have something along those lines? Second: I'm now thinking of going with a custom color for this first Viper. The GTS will be the blue with white stripes, but now I'm kinda thinking crazy...Plum Crazy to be exact...about the RT/10. I know they never made the RT/10s in Plum Crazy, but do you think it would look bad? What color interior do you think if I go the Plum Crazy route? Tan? Gray? Black? Thanks for looking!