How to Build and Detail Model Cars
How to Build and Detail Model Cars

Author: Terry Jessee

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781610609791

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This generously illustrated guide to assembling, detailing and customizing model cars presents ten chapters covering plastic model kits ranging from muscle cars and lowriders to race cars, hot rods and pickups. Each project addresses a different set of techniques representing skill levels that grow more advanced as the book progresses. From assembling and painting a muscle car right out of the box to building a hot rod complete with fuel lines and plug wires, as the reader finishes each project he or she develops an understanding of the skills necessary to utilize laser-etched parts, assemble hinged doors and hoods, apply metal foil for chrome finishes and execute custom paint and decal finishes. Step-by-step photos -- including 100 in color -- illustrate all of the skills and techniques described.

How to Build and Detail Model Cars
How to Build and Detail Model Cars

Author: Terry Jessee

Publisher: Motorbooks

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780760310212

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This generously illustrated guide to assembling, detailing and customizing model cars presents ten chapters covering plastic model kits ranging from muscle cars and lowriders to race cars, hot rods and pickups. Each project addresses a different set of techniques representing skill levels that grow more advanced as the book progresses. From assembling and painting a muscle car right out of the box to building a hot rod complete with fuel lines and plug wires, as the reader finishes each project he or she develops an understanding of the skills necessary to utilize laser-etched parts, assemble hinged doors and hoods, apply metal foil for chrome finishes and execute custom paint and decal finishes. Step-by-step photos -- including 100 in color -- illustrate all of the skills and techniques described.

How to Build Brick TV and Movie Cars
How to Build Brick TV and Movie Cars

Author: Peter Blackert

Publisher: Motorbooks

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0760365881

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Ford designer and LEGO master builder Peter Blackert provides step-by-step instruction for 15 fun builds for a range of levels featuring the most most famous rides from the big and small screens. LEGO is the world’s #1 toy company for good reason: Its ubiquitous sets are as fun for the young at heart as they are for kids. If you grew up building LEGO City and Spacesports and are still building, or have passed your old bricks on to your children, these car builds offer exciting new possibilities. Blackert—also the author of Motorbooks’ How to Build Brick Cars and How to Build Brick Airplanes—here uses his unique "common-chassis" platforms for scale-model cars to recreate 15 famous TV and movie vehicles from beginner to advanced builds, including: Knight Rider's KITT Firebird Herbie from The Love Bug Mad Max's Falcon Interceptor The Speed Racer Mach V Wayne's World Pacer Austin Powers' Shaguar And more Ready. Set. Build!

How to Build Altered Wheelbase Cars
How to Build Altered Wheelbase Cars

Author: Steve Magnante

Publisher: CarTech Inc

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1934709263

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In How to Build Altered Wheelbase Cars, renowned writer Steve Magnante first walks readers through the colorful history of the altered wheelbase period and then shows them how to perform these radical modifications themselves. Magnante's fun and colorful style makes for entertaining reading, and the coverage of floorpan mods, chassis alterations, and both front and rear suspension upgrades are covered in great detail on three different chassis types. After reading this book, the basic technical tenets of altering vehicle wheelbase will be understood and the almost mythical legend surrounding such cars will be fully realized. What were once considered "race only" modifications can now be civilized for street use, and Magnante carefully reviews all of the relevant points for optimal appearance, performance, and safety.

How to Build Brick Cars
How to Build Brick Cars

Author: Peter Blackert

Publisher: Motorbooks

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0760361231

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How to Build Brick Cars shows you how to build tons of contemporary and classic sports cars entirely out of the world's favorite building block. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, start your engines and bust out your bricks! How to Build Brick Cars is here for the inner creative person in us all. Featuring over a dozen fully realized builds of classic and contemporary sports cars, race cars, and muscle cars, How to Build Brick Cars features a range of levels to challenge both LEGO newbies and the veteran block-slingers far and wide. Readers will find detailed, full-color illustrations and step-by-step instructions for such classic and contemporary vehicles like: 1932 Ford V-8 Roadster Datsun 240Z 2016 Le Mans Ford racer Ferrari 250 GT California Jaguar E-Type coupe and convertible Ford F150 Raptor Bugatti Veyron Porsche 911 Featuring informative and historical text about each car and designed exclusively by Ford Motor Company vehicle designer Peter Blackert, How to Build Brick Cars will keep you busy from the flip of the first page to the end of the race track!

How to Build the Cars of the Fast and the Furious
How to Build the Cars of the Fast and the Furious

Author: Eddie Paul

Publisher: Motorbooks

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 9780760320778

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The trick parts and customizing magic used on the cars of "The Fast and The Furious comes to sport compact car enthusiasts in this Universal Studios--licensed how-to book. Authored by Eddie Paul, the man who built the cars for "The Fast and The Furious and "2 Fast 2 Furious, this technical book shows how to transform a sport compact car into one of the flashy custom cars in the film. The book is a step-by-step how-to book, with color photographs taking the reader through the process of installing components and customizing parts. The 25 projects in the book include installing body kits and wings, installing high-end stereo and computer equipment, nitrous oxide kits, exhaust systems, applying graphic kits, selecting wheels and tires, installing underbody lighting kits, and much more.

How to Build Creative Dioramas for Your Scale Auto Models
How to Build Creative Dioramas for Your Scale Auto Models

Author: Ken Hamilton

Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780890243404

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Learn how to use your imagination to design a scene and then bring that scene to life with this exciting book of step-by-step projects. Ideal for automotive modelers who want to present their car, truck, and motorcycle models in active, fun settings.