Shows how to detail wheels and engines, and other skills to make your own stock cars the most realistic models ever.

Presents proven techniques for accurately building and detailing model cars. Photos show how to paint and finish realistic cars, and build engines, transmissions, suspensions, wheels, and interiors.

Car modelers love adding eye-catching realism to their projects, from a delicately wired engine to an exquisitely detailed dashboard. The tips and secrets shared in this book will appeal to all skill levels and apply to any car project -- from brake pads and upholstery to body trim and more! By Pat Covert. 8 1/4 x 10 1/4; 88 pgs.; 145 bandw and 39 color photos; softcover.

Gift local 1-11-2003 $15.95.

Very few hobbies offer more ways to gratify their devotees than car modeling. This book reveals the fundamentals of planning, preparation, building, painting and detailing.

This is the first book to show, step by step, how to kitbash or build-up various model truck and emergency vehicle kits into ultra-realistic models. Work trucks, ambulances, police cars, and small fire-fighting equipment are featured with precision and detailed, easy-to-follow directions.

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.