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well i got bored one day, and took apart my 1/18th size pontiac vibe gtr, and im gonna wet sand and paint the car to the same color as my vibe, and somehow paint the rims gold instead of the gunmetal ones it has now, so here's a pic of it taken apart hopefully i'll be done sometime next weekend

no waayyyy!...you can actually take those apart that well?....i was wondering if they made ones that you could actually take apart and customize....good luck in getting it to look the way you want it to!....now i begin my search for 1/18 model....lol

lol, ya i got my lil vibe at work(gm dealership) they come in yellow or the salsa color, but ya it's all comes apart

hahaha sweet, you should make a how to for that... j/k

Thats funny as hell seeing that model tore down. I guess I need to find one along with a can of stealth spray paint.

Hey, that interior isn't right at all! lol

Sounds cool! Should look great once you are done! I have done things like this too in the past by just scuffing the paint and re-spraying it. Why gold rims though? Your car does not have them.Try model paint if you still want the gold.

hey good project shayne

im doing gold rims cause thats my plan for my vibe, check my garage to see a few photoshops of it..

That is so freakin awesome!

well just an update..this project is going abit slow lol..pretty much taped off all the stuff i dont want blue.all i've gotta do now is tape off the inside so the inside windows dont get paint on them and then start the painting process..hopefully by end of this month i'll have it finished and put back together

lol I don't think I'd want to take mine apart lol

it's easy stuff man, probably held on by about 10 screws in total..the doors and trunk/hood all come off..trunk/hood is held on by 2 screws each with a plate over the actual latch..and each door is 1 screw..body is held in by a few screws aswell..and the plastic parts like the door panels and front wheels just pop out

I never would have thought of that! I need a project for when I'm bored at work LOL

Sweet!

well another update..finally got around to actually painting this...so here it is..these shots are of it primeredfirst coat(you can still see the lettering(vibe gt-r) in the door..2nd coat ready for clearclear coated, waiting to be dried then put back togetherpics will be posted once it's all back together

You may have too much time on your hands...You need some little tiny grafwerx overlays now.

looked better salsa...

lol honestly..it took me an hour to prime, paint, and clear that..not much time at all to be honest..

Quote, originally posted by keithvibe »looked better salsa... Salsa FTWIs it me or is there still a tint of red.Cool idea regardless.

nah no tint of red..just the reflections of stuff around it..i double checked before i did the clear to see if there was any seeing through..will get pics up tomorrow of it back together

Nice! Now I wonder if you can get GrafxWerks to make decals for it

Quote, originally posted by Herb »Nice! Now I wonder if you can get GrafxWerks to make decals for iti doubt it..besides it's gonna be like my vibe..no badges cept for the front on the bumper

well i put it back together and took off all the tape..my brain hurt trying to figure out exactly which screws went where..lol..but over all i like it..as i was taking off the tape..some of the paint did peel abit..at the bottom of the headlight and around the license plate on the back hatch..doesnt look as good as i was hoping but i did rush it..total of an hour to paint everything..but oh well..it's different and i enjoy it.

All in all, looks very nice! I'm tempted to get the GT-R model now too, but I don't have anything in the 1:18 scale models. The Binaltech/Alternators Transformers figures I have are all 1:24 scale and my little Vibe fits in just perfectly.

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awesome collectiong you got, where'd you get the vibe from? i've only seen the model i have and thats it

ebay. thats where i got mine.nice job i may have to buy another GT-r and do the same thing. herb nice alts! but wheres smokescreen and sliver streak heres my 1:18 GTR and 1:24 vibes.

awesome man..love the green one lol minus the stickers..and the blue one with the 22" dubs lol..sleek

Quote, originally posted by WaveAction »awesome collectiong you got, where'd you get the vibe from? i've only seen the model i have and thats itI got mine on eBay. It's made by Yat Ming. Not so common anymore though.Quote, originally posted by NascarXprt »ebay. thats where i got mine.herb nice alts! but wheres smokescreen and sliver streak Here they are plus a few more...

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