2004 Holden Adventra LX8 - Mrs Bodgy's

[bodgybro]

Since i am selling the Holden Adventra my wife used to drive, I decided to make her a model of it to remember it. (coz I can)

The design seemed simple enough.... famous last words?
I made all the pieces I thought would need to be strong, strong.... oh how wrong I was.
This was the worst support removal I have ever had. the body printed almost paper thin, even tho i made it 1mm thick as like all my others.
For some reason, the shape was just a PITA for support removal.. so, if at first you don't succeed (and it's not skydiving), redesign, reprint.

1st design VS redesign













I will make this with interchangeable wheels as it's had stock wheels and VE GTS wheels.

[B61 MACK]

That's sad to see, hope the next one turns out.

[bodgybro]

That's sad to see, hope the next one turns out.

ummmm the next one did turn out Al lol
These pic are of the first... broken with supports still attached, second, redesigned... supports removed, nice n clean
I posted comparison pics. first (broken) and second (redesigned)

[B61 MACK]

Sorry did not notice that there was two my gooof

[bodgybro]

Got some colour on it.
Used the genuine colour as I got it matched to repaint some of the real parts.
I did notice I forgot the roof cargo area and roof racks so they will be made as add on pieces.
Next is doing all the black trim.

[B61 MACK]

Nice colour on it.

[sandboarder]

Looking good, pretty lucky you already have the matching paint

[bodgybro]

Looking good, pretty lucky you already have the matching paint

No luck involved
Once I decided I would repaint parts of the 1:1, I started on the model design with the intent of using some of the colour matched paint

[bodgybro]

So i was painting the black parts and doing the badges when i noticed... I F'd up badly.... I totally did the front wrong. not only did I do the VZ bonnet when it is in fact a VY (even tho the papers say VY, it comes up as VZ on almost everything else). I also did the fog lights in the black bumper but when painting, thought that looked odd.. so I checked pics.. !
Redraw!!
So I added the roof cargo area and racks to this version and print. NOW I am happy with it lol.
Time to start the prep and paint again.

[B61 MACK]

Blue one look's cool, So now you have two of them