How many hours would you say that you've put into this now? Just from looking at it, it look's like you've put a lot of work into it!

I honestly don’t know because in the past when I was working on it I would get so caught up in school and stuff that I would sometimes go for weeks without getting work done. That dragged on for about 2 years. But these days I work on it for about 2 to 3 hours a day everyday so I would say if I hadn’t been so busy the last 2 years I would probably be done now.

All in all I’d say 100’s of hours I put into this. And 100's more I have to go (*ray)

But I really think I'm going to get it finished this year. By 2009 we should all be speeding around GTA in this ECTO-1.

Whilst the door leading into the rear portion of the cabin on the driver's side has a handle on the outside, I don't know if it has one on the inside or even opens with all the computer stuff and interior custom work they did for Ecto-1.

I believe the modifications they made to the mirror in the cabin may have made it bigger, but I'm having a difficult time finding reference from this machine.

Yes I know all about the handles on the rear cabin door. The reason I don’t have them on the car right now is because I only have the right side of the car being made and because the handles on the cabin door are on the left side I haven’t got around to putting them on yet.

I always make a copy of the right side and mirror it over to the left side when taking update pictures but really the car is still cut in half down the center.

When I do make the left side I’ll then add in all the parts that go on the left side. Like the cabin door handles and the steering wheel.

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I really need someone to take a model ECTO-1 and take a picture of the bottom of the car and send it to me. I need reference because I got to make the cars underbody and need to know where all the stuff goes.

I want a picture from a good model ECTO-1 that will have the underbody of the car close to the real thing.

Hmm…as far as I know, Kenner did some pretty good work with the underbody of the toy ECTO-1.

Failing that, you could always try the Polar Lights model…good luck finding one, though.

Hope your project turns out all right!

BigMac
Yes I know all about the handles on the rear cabin door. The reason I don’t have them on the car right now is because I only have the right side of the car being made and because the handles on the cabin door are on the left side I haven’t got around to putting them on yet.

You misunderstand, I wasn't complaining about their absence, but more that I wasn't sure if that door on the driver side even opened anymore and might not have an internal handle.

Oh, sorry. I thought you meant the very back door, like the one that opens up for the proton packs to come out from.

Yeah in this reference picture I found it looks like that door still opens and has all the handles and stuff on the inside.

Well, I sit corrected.

I figured the door got permanently closed when they built the computer console that occupies that chunk of the rear cabin.


Carry on!

I lost around three hours of work today when Zmodeler had some sort of program error and closed out before I could even save all the work I had done. Thank god the program does an auto save every 20 minutes. I never really needed to use the auto save file before but today it really came in handy. The only thing is the program kept crashing repeatedly and I got stuck doing the same thing over and over again before I finally got it to not crash out.

I get really mad when I lose hard work. I was so mad today that I felt sick and lightheaded when it closed out on me.