Tracks 

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Original Kit:
1980 Chevrolet Corvette
Made By:
Fundimensions
Scale:
1/25
 
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Cool Fact
When Tracks was announced as an upcoming Alternator, his color scheme was set to be yellow like the Binaltech release. However, casting the figure in yellow plastic proved to look terrible, and he was instead cast in blue. Takara followed up their Binaltech release with a second run of the figure in blue.

 

This is pretty much a simple repaint of an old promo kit. Only a few models of the 1980 Corvette exist, and this was a good one to use because the wheels were much closer to what the original Tracks had than most other '80 Corvette kits.

I started by disassembling as much of the kit as I could - the seats were too solidly glued in place to remove without destroying them. Everything else came apart pretty easily, and once I had all of the pieces lined up, they were painted the appropriate blue and white. I discovered that Testor's Dark blue, while not an exact match, was very, very close to Tracks' paint job (why they chose to release it in blue instead of it's original red color is still beyond me, though).

The final detail, once painting and assembly were finished, was the flame wings for the hood of the car. I tried using a simple printed sticker, but it was too stiff to lay flat across the Corvette's hood. Instead, I ended up making a decal of the flames, then applying it over a panel of Bare Metal cut to the appropriate shape. Not only did it work much better, it also looks more like the prototype with the chrome panel.

 

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