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Wheels came in today.. gonna paint them an off white, they should look nice with weathered paint on the van..

I knew they were great for vinyl cutting for stickers or cutting stencils but I’ve come to realized that it’s a “tool” with endless possibilities.. I take a blue print or side and top views of what I want, figure out the 1:1 scale measurements and scale those down to 1:25 scale in an app on my phone and click make it. It won’t cut completely through the plastic but it will score it so the piece can be popped out with little clean up… I’m building a chassis now for this kit and we’ll see where that takes me..

Added a little more trim/body lines to the side and tossed in a bomber seat I made years ago and put wheel tubs in the back.. thinking of going with a weathered paint job with bigger style wheels

Started adding the outside details.. just have to figure out a chassis and motor wise what I’m going to do.

Floor and start of the dash is in.. this thing has been so much fun, everything is going together like a puzzle.

This is just coming together so easy. Back floor is in and the beginnings of the front are starting..

Oh yeah just some curves but mostly a lot of straight angles.

So it all started with me seeing a mail truck and using a cricut cutting machine to cut the side outline into some plastic sheet.. once done I realized it was gonna be pretty difficult with what I had but while looking through photos of mail trucks I came across pictures of the studebaker zip van and thought they looked pretty cool.. back to the cricut machine and I cut the outline to the zip van out.. this one’s gonna be ALOT more fun to build and less of a headache.. Anyone wondering I use for sale signs and plastic sheets and just stack it if I need thicker pieces.. it’s hard to get styrene sheets where I live and a forsale sign is a dollar.. lol

Soo the mail truck was.. turning into a lot of work and while looking through mail truck photos one van kept coming up.. a Studebaker zip van.. so off to the cricut to cut new sheets and this one seems like it’s gonna be more fun then headache to build..

You’re right! It wasn’t fun and I ended up messing up a couple sheets so I ended up going a different direction..

Thank you sir! I need a little more inspiration

While cruising around my local store I came acrossed a hot wheel mail truck and instantly thought, if I put plastic sheet in a cricut machine and cutout the blueprint of a mail truck I could build it… so I found the measurements and scaled them to 1/25 and here I am so far.. there’s LOTS of work to do but it’s kinda going in a cool direction.. not sure if it’s gonna be slammed or maybe turned into a drag car?

If you have someone with a cricut cutting machine, i realized they can be use to cut custom vinyl letters for the sides of your race/drag cars..

For the guys who have a wife/girlfriend/significant other who has a cricut cutting machine, you can print your own vinyl decals with whatever font you’d like. I want that old school gold leaf lettering look so gold vinyl seems like it gonna do the trick. I’m naming the car sparkle party (paint to come) I’ll outline it with black and boom..,

well the old Vega got a pro charger added to the motor which may get the motor moved back into the firewall a bit.. front suspension is starting to come together, four link is being built for the rear and hopefully this thing will run into some paint soon.. this Vega was the inspiration for all this, just lower and meaner but paint wise I’m looking at a green/gold metal flake party…