This model is a reenvisioning of the SC Mustang GT as a GT350.
While it looks somewhat similar to the SC Mustang GT due to a few shared treatments and pieces, the entire car has been reconsidered and rebuilt from the ground up. To start with, I wanted the shaping and proportions of the car to be a little truer to the original, so I began building the car 1 plate lower than the SC original which essentially undid everything the original design relied on :) A few details provided quick progress in improving the accuracy of the silhouette such as how PROTOTYP approached the rear windscreen in his city scale build by using slopes to create a curve that descends to meet the rear deck. Additionally, I felt that the broad strokes of the SC face and rear end could be improved upon with an adjustment to the shaping to really drive home the aggressiveness of a GT350.
After auditioning members of a large group of blue 1x2 curve / hood slopes, I found some that created enough clutch to hold the blue cheese wedges in place that help express the sides of the trapezoidal grille area and butt up against the headlights. As a display model, they sit snugly and help create the right shape, I can’t say how well they’d hold up to play :) In addition to the grille mod, I used trans black wedges and 1x1 plates to give the headlights a more dimensionally accurate feel. Out back I wanted a slightly more aggressive feeling. I wanted the diffuser to look more accurate with the body color overlay and tweaked that accordingly.
Overall, with this model I wanted to explore some more subtle detailing moves by utilizing portions of left over stickers that would help to leverage the potential of a given piece to express a little something more. The headlights were an obvious place to start, I built them from trans black and applied only the DRL portion of the original headlight sticker to them. I used left-over black sticker area to darken the interior of the blue 1x2 panel corner tiles which brings more dimension and depth to the front intakes and the rear diffuser.
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