Opening doors complete!

[seanmnew]

So I wasn't happy with the body that came with my wraith kit, so decided on the poison spyder body, but when it came I really wasn't feeling the blue. Tried goo gone, tried Dot 4, nothing really worked like I wanted.

I just ended up busting out the fine grit sand paper and used about 8 hours of my day sanding and sanding the inside. Once I test fitted the body I wasn't a real fan of the solid 1 piece like I thought I would be, so it hit me! Opening doors with scale hinges! (Used aircraft hinges from LHS painted black.

The doors/roof are done with spray can bed liner to give that "fabric" look of soft half doors and bikini top.

I put in a longer screw backwards into the body mount on the tops of the door that the scale door handle screws onto to keep the door closed. It's amazing, I'm not as creative as most but this mod has me very satisfied.

[allanon1965]

now that is very cool! I am already thinking up revision 2 of this mod lol

[seanmnew]

What would you change?

[BallnM3]

Are you screwing the handle on and off to close/open?

[Death Dealer]

I would use neodymium magnets for a cleaner look

[seanmnew]

I am using the handle to screw it shut yes.

Where would you use the magnets? I guess I can see what you mean but I'm digging the door handle

[doublej]

That's hot.
Nice addition!!

[BallnM3]

use the handle, but shoe goo magnets on door/chassis I think he means.

Wonder if could use buttons.

[allanon1965]

I have a couple short pins that snap thru the door panel, that would be hidden by the outer door handle. It would give the effect of a clicking latch when closed and opened, my hood is done this way on my 1.9 wraith...

but as I said earlier....its a cool mod!!!!!

[burgerboy78]

That trucks amazing!

[vegas1973]

Very nice job.

[ZippoMan]

Looks good but body color would have been cooler. Oh well still a nice mod!!

[seanmnew]

Originally Posted by ZippoMan

Looks good but body color would have been cooler. Oh well still a nice mod!!

I originally had it body color, but decided to do the spray on bed liner to give the look and feel of the fabric soft doors. Plus it also matches the bikini top.

I'm also a fan of my first test run of painting, was going for a much brighter orange and just used black to back it up and darken it a hair. Though my thin layer of orange and painting the black on thick have it that burnt look and by complete accident I'm in love with the coloring. The original orange paint was the same color as the tow ropes and recovery boards

[90Finder]

Came out great, nice job making it look scale.

[lostonthetrails]

Sweet man, looks great!


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[seanmnew]

Thanks all! Still a ways to go with what I have planned, have barely even had a chance to get it outside seeing as how everywhere up here in Minnesota we are under 3-4ft of snow in most places!

[Sh0rtBus]

Great looking rig man. May have steal that idea good the doors from you.

[savagebeast]

SICK!!! I'm with you on the orange, one of my favorite colors. And love the jeeps, check out my wraith on this forum savagebeast dmg koh 7.

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[seanmnew]

It took me about 6-8 hours of sanding in pieces, the front grill and rear upper corners are by far the hardest. But 320 grit sand paper was perfect and knew it would do the trick!

[joejantzon]

Very cool mod!