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Haha last Christmas... Here's another shot of the cab, gotta hit a all the small spots/creases.

Should have the cab all finished up tomorrow. Hopefully the little guy can come by this weekend and we can get the rest of the little things painted up and done. Then onto his shelf. I'll probably be starting a build of my own that'll be fully rusted out with holes and such, just not sure what kit yet.

This one I probably won't do any rusted through areas. I usually do that before paint on other kits. Paint on the body is done. Sky blue with rusty primer dusted over it. Right now I am weathering it and giving it the correct colors and shades of rust using oil pastels.

Man, great build! Really makes me wish I didn't turn my kit into a beater. Pro street trucks are one of my favorite thing in both 1:25 and 1:1.

Thank you! I put the dents in it, I just took a lighter and held it a few inches from the body until the area I wanted to dent got soft. After it had softened up a bit I used random tools/parts and used them to dent or crease the body. Very easy to do, I've done it with candles too, actually prefer candles over lighter.

Thanks a lot! I'd have to say it is the most fun I've had building a kit. Helping the little guy and seeing what he can do is way more gratifying than any plastic car I can put on my shelf.

Having a little fun on this build. I bought my 10 year old brother a couple models for Christmas and told him we can build together, so we started this Revell '55 Ford F-100 Street Rod together. It's his 1st time building so we're taking our time and teaching him how to paint/glue/read instructions. Anyways, model is being built box stock, but he wanted it to look "old". Everything besides the body looks new and shiny, body is rusty and dented. He painted the truck sky blue and I misted it with Rustoleum rusty metal primer (red stuff). This helps give a base rust coat. So far he has done excellent. Paints way better than I did at 10. Here's a shot of the cab with some weathering work in progress. Chasis: 1st engine my little bro painted/built. Used Testors acrylic and had really good results. He used black acrylic on the suspension too.

Couldn't agree more. For as long as I can remember I've been in love with plain. Jane sleepers. A 4 door would be really cool too. I gotta get working on my conversions now!

The roof off a 65 is closer to the sedan roof of the 67 300s, but not exact. I had the same thought at 1st, but decided to keep the 65 roof on the car and convert that instead.

That is awesome, Roger! I haven't worked on any of my 300 conversions yet today, but might start up here soon. Love the way yours is turning out though. What did you from the El Camino?

Plowboy, post up some pics if you wouldn't mind. I'd love to see how yours is going!

65s getting there. Hopefully I can get the rear window figured out and onto the posts. I'll jump back to the 67 tonight and get it going.

Getting the rear quarter windows reshaped for the sedan body. They are a little bigger than the SS windows and are more rounded than straight angles. 1:1: Before reshaping: After reshaping:

Yep, Chevy used the same roof as the 4 doors, but the 4 doors had shorter doors and rear quarters than the 2 door sedans. Of course Chevy had to be difficult. I know one of the Revell 64 GTO kits you can build it as a post car or without.

Yeah the problem with 300s is they used the same roof as 4 door cars, the roof height on 1:1s between 300s and Malibus 1/4" or so different, back or the roof/window is different, so before I cut anything I'll mess around with some more ideas and see what I come up with. I agree though, a phantom body style would look really cool too...hmm I have been looking at those more and more as this conversion goes on.

I wouldn't say I am going to abandon the 67 build completely, just trying to figure out a game plan for the roof on it. So far with the 65 the conversion to a 300 looks like it'll go a little smoother.

I think I'm going another direction with this build...after a little more research I found that the entire roof is different on 300s than Malibu/SS cars. Through my research I stumbled across a few 65 300s, this is where my wheels started turning...at first I thought, "well maybe I can get a 65, cut the roof and through it on the 67." So a little while later I ended up at Michael's and they happened to have 3 65 Chevelle kits, so I bought one of those and will be building a 65 Chevelle 300 pro street sleeper. Pics to follow.

That's looking good man! I opened up my Viper kit last night after reading your post, not the same kit you have, but a fun little engine to build nonetheless!

Yeah, slowly, but surely lol. I'll get it though.

Haha yep thats what I was thinking too. I'm in between projects so when I get tired of my other build I'll go back to this.

Thanks for all the input again. I took a break on this thing yesterday and went back at it this morning, I think it is finally taking shape of where I need it to be. I did take some off the C pillar nearest the top of the back glass, it's close but not perfect yet.

Great input guys...I went ahead and brought the top edge of the rear window back some. Basically I just removed the existing window frame and smoothed from there. 1:1 Where I'm at right now...

I have the same kit, just collecting dust. I was thinking of using the Viper engine and putting it into a 70s Mopar...hmmm

Haha yeah the back windows definitely do need a lot of work to get right. The rear window seems to be the biggest pain. Hopefully I can figure out what I want to do with that so I can get this going.

Don't mind the paint, it's not staying. And somehow I managed to lose the truck for my 300 project, so I had an old 66 Malibu I was able to swap the trunk from. Side by side comparison of SS rear window and soon to be 300 rear window. Gotta figure out this deck filler and framing around the window. Flying buttress removed. Slow progress but it's getting there.