Zoom Zoom Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 The first time I saw one of these cars I knew I had to build a model of it. Having built a couple of the new Charger police cars, I piggybacked the build of this much-simpler model of the local Dekalb County Magnum police cruiser. I started with Revell's 1/24 scale ultra-blinged out "Uptown" Magnum R/T, as it was not an SRT8. I glued the scissor doors in place, made some door handles, filled in the moonroof, used the front push bar, wheels/tires from a diecast Charger police kit, and one of the lightbars from the new plastic Charger police car. It's metallic black and silver, decals were printed by me on a friend's Alps and a color laser printer. I have to redo the red decals on the windows as I printed them on the laser and they're far too translucent. I still have to add police goodies to the interior, lay out/print a license plate, and add front/rear strobe lights and some antennae. Very fun, relatively simple curbside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Great job Bob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemodeler Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Bob, real nice job on that cruiser. You mentioned that you had to build this when you first saw it....was that in your rear view mirror?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom Hearse Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Nice job on the Magnum Bob! Now if I could finish mine sometime... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wontonkiller Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 simple clean... nice work ... Love the stay back on the windows lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepperdrumstix Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Fine job Bob. That looks fast sitting there, catch any crook in almost anything. My lady friend has one of these with a Hemi and it is fast, but uses lots of gas. A good trade off? Hers is white but man that black looks good on this vehicle, especially with the silver top and hood. I wonder what modifications they do to these for Police service like they used to modify the older Police cars with "heavy duty" or Police duty parts. Sure looks real. Another excellent build Bob. Patrick M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Very nice, Bob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent G Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 I like! Wish I had one of these back in the day. G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Cole Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Fantastic job, Bob! The build and the decals are perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharr7226 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 I saw this build in person yesterday and it's amazing. Bob, the warning on the windows shows up better in the pictures. Maybe, the lighting in the room wasn't good enough to show it clearly. The transparent effect of the window warnings is very cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom Zoom Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Thanks for the replies! I saw this build in person yesterday and it's amazing. Bob, the warning on the windows shows up better in the pictures. Maybe, the lighting in the room wasn't good enough to show it clearly. The transparent effect of the window warnings is very cool. Thanks; the problem w/the letters is they should not be translucent at all. In fact they should be solid red w/a thin white outline, but I'd be happy w/just solid bright red. What's on the model now is rushed for the Anniston show, I'll peel those off the windows when I print out some better decals. Hopefully I'll have this thing finished before the show up in SC next month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Schmidt Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Looks the part of a Police car to me. It has that front end squat our Chargers have ( told thats from the weight of that bar on the front ) the Wheels look right decals even look great. What is the difference I'm not seein from the SRT and this kit ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imatt88 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Sweet!!! Are the rims aftermarket? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Most Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 If the central Michigan cops had these instead of Impalas, I might actually welcome being stopped by the po-po. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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