1:24 Custom Dub City Escalade on 30"s

I likes!!

Sweet ride gafotes! Very nice work on the hood. Those are huge subs too I can almost feel the SPL from them. Luckily your dubs don't have to worry about real potholes!

looks good to me

Cool mods.

Thanks guys :sm:

I didn't know Jada had scale 30' wheels

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Well actually they don't. They have 24"s and 26"s (they say on their packaging that they have 22"s and 24's but they didn't calculate well) for their 1:24 models.

The wheelse above are those knock-offs you can buy online (collectablediecast.com and ebay are good sources). They're meant to be used as 22"s (mebbe 21"s) in 1:18 scale but when you drop them onto a 1:24 vehicle (as above) they end up being close to 30"s. I don't think I can go any bigger than this without making this vehicle look like a monster truck.

The tilt hood looks great!

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Yeah this was my first hinge (inspired by a tutorial by Shakedown who can be found at Joes diecast). Its just a single piece of rod with hollow tubing worked in. The JB weld makes it look messy though so I may consider repainting that hood area to make it look a bit better. You may notice that large grooves were cut out of the engine block. This made it look pretty shabby since it stripped away the chrome so I repainted that. The engine block also lost a bit of mass because of the beefy wheels.

Nice job!