Adam Baker
Active member
Here's my entry for the Pro Racing campaign.
Dale Earnhardt Jr's 2001 Chevy Monte Carlo, run in the July 2001 Pepsi 400, to commemorate the 2001 Major League Baseball All Star Game.
Dale Jr. ran a total of 5 baseball related cars, for 5 consecutive years, commemorating either the All Star Game, or the World Series. I don't know about other people, but I always refer to these cars as the Budball cars. I have the decals to do all 5 cars, and I decided to go ahead & start on this car.
As mentioned, this car was run in the 2001 Pepsi 400, which was the first Daytona race following the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr. Dale Earnhardt Jr. put on a dominating performance in this race, leading 116 laps before going on to winning the race. It was a very emotional race, to say the least.
Kit being used is the Revell 2000 Jeff Gordon Monte Carlo, and the decals are from Powerslide Decals.
I haven't decided yet how much detail I'm going to add to this build. At the very least the nose will be corrected to reflect the right nose. B/c the car was run at Daytona, it had a downforce style nose, not the intermediate nose that is molded on the body. I've got a cast resin replacement nose I might use, but I don't really like its condition, so I may attempt to modify the stock nose, but I haven't decided.
I've completed at least a dozen other Nascar models, and I've been wanting to start pushing the envelope of my skills on these builds, so I'm thinking about adding detail to the engine, and working on adding the various missing roll cage bars, but that will probably be decided as I progress through the build.
I'll get the official start image posted Friday afternoon.
*edit*
Here's the time stamped start shot
Dale Earnhardt Jr's 2001 Chevy Monte Carlo, run in the July 2001 Pepsi 400, to commemorate the 2001 Major League Baseball All Star Game.
Dale Jr. ran a total of 5 baseball related cars, for 5 consecutive years, commemorating either the All Star Game, or the World Series. I don't know about other people, but I always refer to these cars as the Budball cars. I have the decals to do all 5 cars, and I decided to go ahead & start on this car.
As mentioned, this car was run in the 2001 Pepsi 400, which was the first Daytona race following the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr. Dale Earnhardt Jr. put on a dominating performance in this race, leading 116 laps before going on to winning the race. It was a very emotional race, to say the least.
Kit being used is the Revell 2000 Jeff Gordon Monte Carlo, and the decals are from Powerslide Decals.
I haven't decided yet how much detail I'm going to add to this build. At the very least the nose will be corrected to reflect the right nose. B/c the car was run at Daytona, it had a downforce style nose, not the intermediate nose that is molded on the body. I've got a cast resin replacement nose I might use, but I don't really like its condition, so I may attempt to modify the stock nose, but I haven't decided.
I've completed at least a dozen other Nascar models, and I've been wanting to start pushing the envelope of my skills on these builds, so I'm thinking about adding detail to the engine, and working on adding the various missing roll cage bars, but that will probably be decided as I progress through the build.
I'll get the official start image posted Friday afternoon.
*edit*
Here's the time stamped start shot
...fabulous!
