Samiches

Beautiful model. Good luck in the contest!

He has made a nice how-to video on youtube. Here is a link to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvIhmbbtmE4

I'm a bit late to the party, but man is this one cool build. Thank you for posting this as a WIP and sharing your techniques with us!

I made a bit of progress this week and should be onto the interior soon. Comments and/or questions are appreciated and welcomed. Thanks for looking!

The paint was black petroleum 2x cover with either rustoleum 2x clear or krylon acrylic clear. I've had good results clearing with same combo before. Maybe I missed the within 1 hour or clear after 48 hours window. Oh well, it's all been stripped off now. It was just a weird surprise. Also, the paint didn't do that on the lower half of the vehicle.

I paint the lines slowly with very little paint on a fine brush.

I was thinking all chrome as in all shiny and no steel or aluminum treatment like the Rally 1 wheels. Glad my misinformation was cleared up.

I had to look up the chassis to see what was frame and what is molded into the chassis. I thought the rear wheel wells might of had inserts so I made sure to give them full paint coverage. I don't think that is the case in real life. Thanks for looking!

The clear coat fail was an unpleasant surprise. Its been soaking in the purple pond for a good week. I'll have to wait a little bit for a nice day to try and paint it once again. On the upside, the engine is coming out nicely. I tried to use the distributor points molded in the kit, but I had no luck with the 90 degree boots. I ended up cutting them off and drilling them out. I then used Spencer1984's method for making 90 degree boots which worked out nicely.

I painted the body and a few other parts last summer and let it dry for about a week before I put it away in my build pile. I usually paint several models in advance during the summer so I have something to build in the winter. I opened up the box last week to discover the following:

Good luck with the Vette! I too know what it is like to have issues with a black paint job. I think you will find this kit fun to build. The particular wheels you show that have the knock offs are all chrome. There is a video on youtube by ARS-TV that shows an "all original 1964 gto". The wheels are all chrome. The video might be a good source for detailing your GTO.

Nice work on the kit. Those decals can be a pain in the butt sometimes.

Thanks all! The Bahama Blue paint from Dupli color is one of my favorites. The build may have only taken about a week, but I put probably a good 25-30 work hrs into a kit that only has 50+ parts.

Thanks Scalper and Cobraman. I had a hot wheels toy of this car when I was a little kid and it was by far my favorite. While looking for pontiac models on eBay, I found this kit and had to buy it.

This was a fun build that took a little over a week to complete.

That white paint job came out super clean. Well done!

Very cool!

Excellent work as always Spencer!

The lettering is hand painted. I used acrylic paint. It took 2-3 coats for each letter. I just barely put paint on the brush. Using acrylic made it easy for me to correct my mistakes.

I tried making the actual foam part myself, but I couldn't get perfectly machined holes. What did you use?

Cool car, who makes the kit?

Thanks for all the nice comments! I had a lot of fun building this goat and have several more GTOs with bodies painted waiting in line for me to build them.

I used un-faceted rhinestones.

Unfortunately, the only extra 1/24 scale wheels I have in my small collection are from the '67 GTO, which are the same rally wheel, but with poorer detail.

I love GTOs, and the 1970 model year is one of the tops. It is too bad that Round 2 hasn't retooled this kit, or better yet, Revell hasn't come out with one of their own. Comparing by the quality of the '64,'66, and '68/69 GTO kits that revell has put out it would most certainly be better than the aged molds that Round 2 is using. For this build I used the '70 body, interior, and firewall. The chassis,engine and small details to the interior and firewall (arm rests, brake cylinder, and wiper motor) are from revell's 69 GTO kit. I used a donor glue bomb that I had from my childhood. I ended up scratch building the spoiler chopping a couple of the incorrect spoilers that came with the '70 kit and oddly came with the '67 gto kit. I then cut a scale license plate in half to make the spoiler pillars. Finally, I used one of those fake plastic credit cards that comes in the mail for the spoiler ends. I had to cut the chassis short by about 1/4" since it is from a 1/24 scale model and the '70 is 1/25. I also drilled out the headlights since I hate kits that have them molded into the bumper. The interior is carpeted (a first for me) and the decals are from Kieth Marks. Thanks for looking!