body moulding design
 

hi every one, exactly what the tittle says :thumbsup:

Anyone have any good idea's or contacts, looking for some body shell designs from the 80's :D or even earlier

You go to a race meeting these days, and its the run of the mill modern cars :yawn:.

To give you an idea, MK1 escorts, 6r4 metro, opel manta's, hillman imps, lancia stratos etc etc,the good old fashioned rally cars :thumbsup:, obvioulsy hoping some of you remeber these :p

What do you all think

Have a look at Kamtec, they've got some nice stuff.

What scale cars are they to go on?

I presume you are looking at touring car size shells. RCMart has by far the widest range of bodies available, take a look at the ABC Hobby bodies. http://www.rcmart.com/catalog/body-d...c-438_875.html
The ABC Hobby Skyline is amazing

Although they do have a much wider range in Mini size

Carson used to do a whole range of Audi Quattro, Opel Manta, Lancia Stratos rally cars and Ford Zakspeed Capri, BMW Group 5, etc bodies. Been out of production about 3 years now though.

For those who remember the old Frewer bodies for buggies (RS200, Metro 6R4, Sierra Cosworth) they are being made again by Historic R/C. Not cheap and they won't fit on modern buggy chassis and are way too wide for a tourer.

Ops my error in my old age ;)

Body scale is 5th scale,i've checked out rc & historic,some nice shells, i spose i could get some modeling clay and make a body, but then ineed a company with a big enough machine to do vacum forming :(.

Dont mind working with a company to get a shell made,or may be 1 day the manufacturer will come up with some more shell designs :thumbsup:, i live in hope.

We email manufacturers on their contact pages,it would be nice for a simple reply acknowledgement.

Oh well, looks like it might have to be germany then.

Yes, with 1/5th scale you are mainly stuck with what the car manufacturers put out. You might want to try contacting [email protected] Their website at www.fmb.at is down at the moment, but I've uploaded their product list here
http://www.thetechshed.co.uk/Karo-PRL.pdf
In 1/5 scale they list Alfa 155, BMMW M3 GTR, Merceds C200 and Opel Calibra.