HYPER MINIS

I was pretty happy with it. It's a little rough, but nothing a little work, and some fresh paint can't fix.

The great thing about styrene, you can always add the mud.

Well fellas I got my body and wheels in the mail today. To my surprise they are actually in better shape than I was expecting. The downside was that a previous owner had applied what were described as "repro" decals. Well in all actuality they were the decal sheet printed onto plain white paper, and then CA'd to the body. Yes I said CA. Don't ask why lol, cause I can't figure it out either lol. So here are a few pics of how the body looked when I pulled it out of the box.






As a bonus the seller sent me the old school poster of the Blackfoot advertisement, which I thought was pretty cool. I didn't take pics of it or anything, just thought I'd share that I got a freebie. Now it was time to take the body apart, and begin the process of removing all these pieces of paper that were decorating it. None of the edges were glued, so a lot of it came off clean, but where it stuck, it was hard as a rock, and even 60 grit paper was having a difficult time getting it all off. Here are a couple pics of how it looked at this point.




Then after about 3 hours of sanding, sanding, and sanding, I finally had it to the point where I was ready to prime it so I could more easily see the remaining imperfections. Here's how it sits right now.

Haha, printed right off the computer did they? That's classic, just not the classic you were looking for. Looks like the elbow grease payed off though, it's awesome. I might be biased though, I'm a flat black fan. Slap it on the CC scaler to see what it looks like.

I like flat black too, but this bad boy is getting 3 coats of gloss black chrome, and then 3 coats of clear over top of it. I'll drop it on the CC for a pic and see what it looks like, but I'm scared I'll like it, and end up wanting another one lol.

You could always get a newer blackfoot body if you wanted to go the hardbody route on the CC. Then if it gets busted up its not destroying something irreplaceable.

Yeah I thought about getting the Blackfoot extreme body set for it, but I think I'd rather run the Brat body. Once I get my wheels and tires, and the rest of the accessories I want for it, I'm gonna grab the Brat body set, and get to working on it.

My project made the front page. Check it out. http://www.rccars.com/

I always liked the Brat body as well. Was tempted to run it instead of my K5 body I'm building. It would probably look better with the independant suspesion chassis I'm using.

Small update today fellas. My dust cover and driver showed up, and I slapped the body back together for a quick pic. Might start painting the driver here in a bit. Still waiting on some body work before I can start painting it.

Got rained out of work today, and was sitting here bored, so I got to looking at the Blackfoot, and decided to go ahead and do a little work on it. I got the base coat of paint on the driver. Still have to fill some gaps, and do some shading and highlighting, but he's getting there. I also decided I didn't care for the pink (faded to more of a red) wheels, so I decided to paint them white. They look much better IMO. I also went one step further and painted the lettering on the tires. What do you guys think?

Looking better everytime you update.

nice work Max. lools good to me just how she sits.lol can't wait to see that fully finished and up on the shelf.lol Nice addition to the fleet there captain.l8r,w.

Thanks guys. It's getting closer. I'll finish up the driver this evening probably, and the more I look at it the more I'm leaning towards leaving it flat black. I still have a couple holes to fill in the body, and a few imperfections I want to fix, but after that I might hit it with the flat one more time, and call it good. The front grille will be here this week, and I just fabbed up some front and rear glass for it since it's gonna be a bit of a pain to find original glass, and even when I do find it, it's never cheap. So for the time being it's just gonna get some home made windows lol. Other than that stuff I'll just need to get the little details like the door handles, brake/tail lights, side markers, and window trim painted, and I think it will look pretty good.

Since I've been having a hard time scoring window glass for what I'm currently willing to pay, I decided to fab up my own for the time being out of some scrap lexan. Here are a few pics. I kinda want to do another set because after 3 coats of Pactra tint they turned out darker than I would have liked, but I thought after 2 coats they weren't quite dark enough. If I make another set I'll stop at 2 coats on the next ones lol.

I love the way it looks in the back window.

Yeah it does kinda hide it, but there's no place else on this body to put one right now, so it had to go there.

Couple small updates on the BF. I got the grille last week, and got some painting done on it and insalled it last night. I also repaired most of the bad imperfections on the body, and touched them up. I have a couple more holes to fix, and then the right front fender to do a repair on. Once those are done and touched up it will be finished for the time being. At least until I have the funds to score a decal sheet, and the original glass.