Ive had some free time since I didn’t go to Summer college classes. I decided to build the 1A out the die-cast Ecto I bought. This is what I have accomplished so far. The roof rack is built entirely out of styrene as are the sign boards. Not bad for the first time working with the stuff.
Roof rack with the LED sign
Close up of LED sign
Light bars and Arrow stick
Parts
The roof rack will be sprayed black later tonight. Then I will start construction of the junk that goes inside. After that, all the lights will be put on. Any constructive criticism?
great so far..im also looking foward to seeing the progress of this…just a little curious thought…is it just me or do the LED boards seem just a little bit too big…of course it may just be because im used to looking at the smaller ecto-1a model though…again great work
and another thing…honestly im not trying to be a pain here but the front of the roof rack where it goes over the front light bars…shouldnt it go down first then back up over the light bar…i dont know if tha tmakes any sense…if someone here has a pic of the rack from the model they could post it to show what im talking about…but otherwise it still looks great…and i dont think the scroll bars went under the tnak if thats what you mean…i think it went right up to the tank…out further than it
In a way it’s taking it back to one of the production models where it could be blatently seen it started off as an Ecto-1A replica, complete with raised rear lightbar and LED scroll boards.
Some really nice work with the styrofoam roof rack, you should be proud of the results.
Are the directional arrows and clear lightbars from another scaled car?
Off topic… what on earth happened to that Police Car? Why the bullet holes?
i dont recall ever seeing those production models…all i do know is that i wish they had made the car more accurate…you would figure they could atleast have done that right
The light bars and arrowstick are all 1/18 scale. I bought everything from http://www.Policecarmodels.com. The police car is another project. It is actually a practice car for any project I work on. I test things out on that before I start hacking into the final. I’m working on the police car from Live Free or Die Hard. I’ll post some pictures of that one when it’s done.
I’ll be happy to answer questions to the best of my ability. I’ll post pictures of the painted roof Rack tomorrow.
Yeah, it seemed kinda lazy to make such a huge mistake like that and then to have those errors that stayed with the model… like the satellite dish that was left over from the Ecto-1A ‘identity crisis’.
The above image even features completely blue lightbars (like they’d been modified from completely clear ones as seen on the ‘1A’ model which lacked the silver ‘siren’ sections as seen on the ones on Ecto-1).
Anyway, it’s coming along nicely, Mufasa. There the possibility of you doing a more film accurate 1:21 Ecto-1 in the future?
oooohhh..i see now..man thats crazy…i wish i would get to work on a GB toy line one day or something like that…at least i could make sure its accurate haha…
yeah man it is looking really good…how are you gonna do the painting on the car…like the caution stripes and all…you gonna actually paint those on or use decals
I’ve thought about it but, it all depends on my class schedule this semester.
I have a scan of the stickers from the AMT Ecto 1A model that some one posted here. I plan to blow those up in photoshop and print them out on decal paper.
I already made one to, i think the result is cool. I uilt most of the element by my own with wood and any kind of stuff with the shape i needed. I respected all detail of the real 1A. Only the lights i used are the same as the Ecto1, yours look cooler. im impatient to see your final works.
