I started building the rear flaps. I thought I had more pics of this part but I can't seem to find them. After drawing the pattern on a piece of styrene and cutting it out, I glued on the pivot point for the shock. I wanted the shocks to actually work like shocks! So I used brass tubing for the inset piece and used a hollowed out bic pen body, cut down to size, for the larger part. The brass tube slides in perfectly! The cool part is, the piece that I used to connect the shock to the flap was actually the tip of one of those correction tape dispensers. You know the plastics ones that are clear and you just slide it along your paper where the mistake is and it leaves a strip of white? Yep...that. It comes apart in 2 halves and has a peg attatched to one side. So i drilled a hole through the brass tubing and slid it in. I then glued the 2 halves together and viola! I then just added other detail around it and made it look machine like.
In the pics below you can also see that I began painting the back. I used the rogue 2 model again as a guide and gave the rear a black base coat. I then added rust and scrapes and other weathering.