Rusty Wallace MGD Thunderbird

[bogger44]

My second completion of the year.  I've wanted to build this car for a long time as I always rooted for Rusty back then, and this was my favorite livery as well.  It just made for a slick & tough looking racecar.  Kit is a Monogram Ricky Rudd issue, built strictly box stock with Powerslide decals.  Tamiya TS-14 Black and TS-34 Camel Yellow.  The build went fairly smooth with a few relatively minor fit issues, and the front wheels ended up with a little toe-in but I'll live with it.  That's really about it on this one.  Thanks for looking and any questions/comments.

 

[wrenchr]

Looks very good. Miss that era of Nascar. 

[Nacho Z]

I absolutely love this!! What a great looking model. This is one of the NASCAR models that I want to do some day. Just fantastic!

[bbowser]

Really nice, great paint and decal work!  My favorite Rusty livery as well.

[grodudulle77]

Awesome paint job, very clean work !! ??

[TransAmMike]

Other than the Davey Allison  black Havoline T-bird the black Rusty Bird is my favorite.  Great job Tony!!

[slusher]

Beautifully done , Tony!   Roast had one of the best looking cars back then!

[4mula1fan]

Beautiful job! Rusty was my driver because it ticked off all the Earnhardt fans around here. Lol

[sflam123]

Beautifully done!!  I followed Rusty from his ASA days and this is still one of my favorite race cars.  Great job!!

[CRANMAN1]

Very cool build!!!

[Pierre Rivard]

Wow!

Mastering black like you do is something we rarely see.

Perfect!

[chris coller]

Thats purdy right there 

[bogger44]

Thanks so much guys!  I loved this era of NASCAR too, can't really get into the current racing.

12 hours ago, Pierre Rivard said:

Wow!

Mastering black like you do is something we rarely see.

Perfect!

Thanks Pierre.  Yeah black is always a hard color to work with.  Thankfully Tamiya paint always polishes out so nice, one of their great qualities.  Trust me though, it's not perfect and has a few blemishes here and there LOL.  I am really happy with it though.

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[catpack68]

Super clean work and I love the stance?

[Toast]

Rusty's MGD cars were one of the best looking on the track back in those days. Your build really does it justice. That black finish is flawless!

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[Darbo]

Far out, that is so clean, great build 

[vamach1]

Great model.  I saw this one on Saturday.

[bogger44]

Thanks all!  

12 hours ago, vamach1 said:

Great model.  I saw this one on Saturday.

 

Very cool, you do a ride along?  

[vamach1]

6 minutes ago, bogger44 said:

Thanks all!  

Very cool, you do a ride along?  

I rode along and drove one of the cars for 12 laps.  The #2 car was sidelined but they had plenty of others.

[bogger44]

Sweet!  I did a ride along in Vegas way back in '98.  Those are a lot of fun, even more so driving one I'm sure.

[steveracer]

Tony, your model looks great, and the photography outside works great to your advantage.  Plus you tracked the highlights perfectly with the lower eye level photos.

 

Thanks for sharing.

[iBorg]

That is such a smooth looking build. The paint looks amazing.

 

[bogger44]

Thanks again for the comments, sorry about the late reply!