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Wow this is looking really good. Cant wait to see more.

I really like your color choices Richard. I look forward to seeing this one finished in the under glass area.

I like what your doing with this. Nice work so far.

Looks good. Good color choice.

Update for today was to finish up the front brake assemblies and get the front suspension ready to run the front brake and fuel lines. So, though it may not seem like alot, It was sorta time consuming. To start with, I sanded the raised letters off of one side of each front tire, these will be replaced with the correct lettering decals later. Then I detail painted the front wheel backings so the brake rotors could be glued in place. Next the outer brake caliper halves were set into place. Next the back side of the rotors were glued into place. Next the rims were test fitted in place to make sure the outer caliper halves were going to clear them for rotation. Next the inner brake caliper halves were glued to the spindle uprights and one assembled tire was used to check them for clearance, appearance and function. Next a transition block was made out of a piece of evergreen plastic strip and holes drilled to accept brake lines, then painted and glued to it's frame location. And finally the base engine parts were assembled and the molded in engine block mechanical fuel pump was removed since this car uses a electrical fuel pump. I also removed the molded on oil filter from the oil pan, since I intend to use a aftermarket oil filter. The mocked up engine was set into place so I can use it to figure out clearances for the brake line that crosses over the frame. It will make sense when I start making and fitting the front brake lines. Anyways that's where things are for today. How much Im able to get done and post in the next day or so, is going to depend on how my wife's chemotherapy treatment goes in the morning.

Wagons, station wagons, suburban, suburban wagon, any of the four would be correctly named. The advertizing department for Chrysler mostly used the suburban designation, the corporate department heads just called em wagons. For production plant purposes they would even be called Fury-I II and III (depending on the production year) or Fury Custom- Fury Sport And just plan Fury(depending on the year) -with four door extended body after whatever name they decided to use on the production paper work at the time. Different states would title them different, for instance, as you said, NY would title them as suburbans, But Delaware, for instance, would title and plate them as a truck for some reason. But then Delaware plated any thing beyond a four door car as a truck back then. Don't know if they still do or not. Some states would even title or plate station wagons as vans back then.

Nice color choice. You've really done a good job with this so far.

Wow cool concept.

I like how this build is going for you. It's looking good. Look forward to seeing more.

Cool Idea

Looks great steven

Ok Guys, last update for today on the front brakes. The pics below show the parts that I made for both the inner and outer discs and rotors. The parts on the left are for the inner part of the disc brake that faces the suspension. The parts on the right are for the outer part of the disc brake that will show through the rim as you look at the side of the car. All the pics below are oriented that way. Just keep that in mind as you look at the pics. In this pic you can see the parts I made and then how they will be assembled to the wheels. The part on the left shows the back side of the rim. The part on the right shows the side that you see through the rim. The inner caliper will be cemented to the upright spindle once everything is painted and ready to be setup on the front suspension. I did have to grind the drum detail off the backside rim in order for the rotor to sit right. I also had to gently file the center hole on the backside rotor so the kit locking ring would slip through it. It doesnt go through it much just the very end of it, but it was a little tight and the rotor needs to turn freely with the wheel on the locking ring.

And here is how it will basically look when done. Like I said earlier, I may do a little more work to the caliper to make it look a little more detailed but you get the idea. And the backs will be almost the same process.

I've been wondering what to do for the front brakes on the Baldwin Motion Camaro. Most of what I know about them was that most came with front disc brakes. But AMT chose to make the front inner wheels look like drums just like the back. So I decided to see if I could come up with something to at least simulate disc brakes. This is what I came up with so far. Remember I havent worked out all the detail yet especially for the inner side of the brakes, but it would be close to the same idea. Let me know what you think. Here is my idea so far for the outer sides. I started with the material you see in this pic. 2 different size evergreen strips. Some Model Car Garage photo etched plan discs, and the original kit rim parts. I want the brakes to look like disc brakes but I want them to somewhat rotate with the wheels as well. I first cut 4 small little blocks to fit inside the backing rim. Then I cut 4 pieces off the flatter wider evergreen strip to make my caliper shapes out of. You can see the first one I shaped in this pic. Later I may improve it for detail. Next I cemented the 4 small blocks to the inside of the backing rim. The rotor ring will be cemented to these blocks later. You can also see I plan to use my first caliper as a pattern for the rest. I plan to make 4 of these all together. 2 for the outer wheel sides and 2 for the inner wheel sides. Next the kit supplied locking ring is slipped into place but NO GLUING HERE. It is just used at this point to center the MCG photo etched disc ring. In this pic the MCG ring is set into place. It isnt glued to the blocks yet, but will be after the backing rim is painted. Next the scratch made caliper is painted (this can be any color you want you caliper to be, I chose red so it would stand out in the pics.) and then attached to the kit supplied locking ring. This will allow the caliper to stay stationary when the locking ring is glued to the front spindles and allow the rotor to rotate through it when the wheels roll, once the rotor is glued to the inner rim. And this is how it will look with the locking ring slipped into place. I'll post one more pic of the outer rim setting over it in the post to follow, since we are only allowed 6 pics per post. Continued...............

Just wanted to add, that I wasnt trying to be picky or anything. Its just when i saw your title the first time. I actually thought I was popping into your post to look at a power wagon build. Which was what chrysler called their version of the chevy suburban. When I reaslized it was a station wagon, I was wondering why you called it what you did. The advertizing department was the ones that really called them suburbans, that and some dealers. But like I said, in the modeling world it doesnt really matter. It's still a good build and your's is one I intend to follow as you go. I like wagon builds of any kind, and especially a mopar one.

Aaaah ok I understand where you got that from now. I know for advertizing, the advertizing department would call them that. But they were never name badged that way. At least not when I worked for them. The guys around Chrysler Corporate just called them what they were. Station wagons lol.

Nice work so far Dan. I noticed you keep calling it a suburban, but Im pretty sure it would have been called a Plymouth Fury station wagon. I gew up back in the days when these were popular family grocery getters around town. The Ford galaxy wagons were another popular family car in those days. I love the old station wagons, and which the model companies would produce more of them. I like how your doing all the scratch building work to it. And I look forward to watching you build as you go along.

Thanks for all the comments guys, Just a small update for today guys. I have a honey do list to for the wife today, so I only did just a couple things on the Camaro to get the body ready for wet sanding and polishing. I masked off the body, which took forever it seems like, and air brush painted the front wheel wells with Tamiya semi-gloss black acrylic. I used acrylic so it wouldnt crack the body colored paint under it, since I used a testors based enamel for the body paint. I would have used Tamiya's semi-gloss black in the spray can, but it's Lacquer based and would have wrinkled the body colored paint under it. While I was at it, I also masked everything up again and painted the head liner with model masters medium flat green. Any was here are a few pics after the long process of unmasking it. I will hope to get the body wet sanded and polished in the next day or so, as well as some more work on the detail for the front suspension, and then hopefully start working on the engine. An no I didn't remove the push pin marks from the headliner area. They wont be seen very well once the interior is installed any way. If I would have opened the doors, I would have spent time filling and sanding them. I will detail out the dome light and visors before I assemble every thing though. More posts as I get things done.

Thanks Curt, its a fun kit to work on, there is a little clean up work on the body and some of the parts, but not as bad as some I have worked on. You'll like it.

Wow what a great idea.

I got the Mr. Norm's version and the Hemi version of this kit. I like em both and have plans to do one in the near future. You'll have to let me know your door hinge technique. I line opening doors and such, but sometimes struggle getting em to line up and open correctly. Model Car Garage makes a outstanding detail set for this kit. You should check it out if you haven't done so already.

Your cuda is really looking good. I'm one of the people who think Revell hit a home run with this kit. There may be a few little issues with the kit itself, but nothing that took away from the fun of building it.

Here is a few pics of the completed interior, I just got it assembled. Once it drys and before it goes into the car, it will get the few little dust bunnies cleaned up with my trusty dusting brush. Next thing to start work on is to finish up the front suspension detail and start assembling and detailing the engine.

Every thing for the interior is now prepped and ready for final assembly. Here is a few pics of everything lay-ed out to be assembled. I dressed up the passenger side front seat with a photo reduced hot rod mag, with a 70 Camaro on the cover, from a set of Professional Car detail parts, that you can find on E-Bay. I set everything aside to try for a little while, and later on this morning I will assemble the interior and take and post a few more pics after assembly. Sorry for the long posts, but I figure you all would want me to be as detailed as I can

Next up was to unmask the steering wheel since it was dry, then get the column ready. I painted the column tamiya semi-gloss black. Once it dried, I cut the turn signal stalk off the column and drilled a hole where is was cut from the column, with my pin vice. I then took the old turn signal stalk ,and used it as a measuring guide to cut a straight pin and inset it in the drilled out hole on the column. I then cut the knob off the old stalk and drilled the end of it out and inserted it over the new turn signal lever made out of the straight pin. Using the largest pin vice bit I had, I drilled a dimple hole to attach a ignition key lock on the opposite side of the turn signal stalk. This all got attached to the dash and then the steering wheel got attached to the column. In the pic below you can see the results. Sorry no in process pics, it would have taken way to long to try to do that kind of ultra fine work and stop in the middle to take pics. Also you can see how much the steering wheel rim dulled down once it dried. Next I painted and assembled the key fob and keys from the Model Car Garage Camaro detail set and inserted them onto the ignition lock I added to the column earlier. Yea I know... But I love detailing, so I figured Why Not! Here is a shot with the dash complete with the steering wheel and column detail done. This gets set aside for later assembly into the interior. Next I added the door side front seat belts. These were attached to each door panel floor area. And then set aside for the cement to dry. Continued on in next post.