I did the decal work on the doors (with chins) and the roof, attached the sniffer (pointing forwards this time) and the roof rack. Nothing different from the Wrecto-1 except for the chrome work.
I did a little extra something to the dash this time. The round gauge and clock decals lost all the details when they were shrunk to size, but I did manage to get the speedometer to be readable.
I also added the clutter to the top of the dash
The next step will be to wrestle with the blue hose and attach the ladder. Then I can start to chrome the tail fins.
The “can” is styrene tube cut short and filled with epoxy putty. The “box” is just a random item from my parts box that was about the right shape and had “buttons” on the front. Quite a lucky find, actually.
great work capt. Hey did you paint the car with krylon fusion spray paint for plastic? Thats what I did and I want to do the blue tape method but worried it will pull the paint.
Also love the chrome work looks sweet. You gonna put the caddy emblom on the front end?
Thanks! No, I used Rust-Oleum white primer, 2 coats of gloss white and a top coat of clear. The blue tape is made to go on top of a painted surface as it has low tack adheasive and won’t permanently bond to the surface for a couple of days. Besides, isn’t that fancy Krylon paint suppose to fuse with the plastic at the molecular level? It shouldn’t come up. What are you planning to do to your Ecto?
Im working on it. I used the fusion krylon spray and it came out very nice. Also tried the blue painter tape and it worked. I will post some pics of it on my ecto thread soon.
This is awesome stuff Cap! How many ecto bodies do you have left? Ever thought about modding two ecto’s together to make a “stretch” like the real one? If anyone can do it I think you can
Really starting to look like something now. I popped in the dashboard and the doors.
I wresteled the 1/4" loom into submission and nailed it into place (really, that white loop holding it down on the roof is a 4 penny finishing nail bent to fit).
I’ve got 2 carcasses, 1 set of origional doors but no fins left.
I don’t know how stretching would look because the windows get progressively taller from front to back. Stretching it would make a flat spot. I’ll have to photo shop a pic to tell better. Cool idea, though.
The origional rack and ladder are made of square styrene rods. I knew I was going to do this at least 2 more times, so I made molds. The set on Wrecto-2 are resin copies.
Haven’t been in the mood to play with blue tape on the fins, yet, so I made a siren for the roof instead.
I took a large LED I had kicking around and pulled off the leads. I made the “face grill” out of epoxy ribbon putty and glued the whole thing onto a styrene tube.
I gave it a coat of flat black to see how it looks. I’ll be making a mold of it before I chrome it and put it on the roof rack of Wrecto-2.
Bah! What was Kenner thinking when they designed the Ecto toy!?! They should of known that 20+ years later that they would be making larger, movie figures!!!
Wait a minute…I recall someone making a better painted Firehouse from a Transformer forum…that wasn’t you was it?
