R. Thorne

I like it. Great idea.

Masked off and sanded and polished with the infini 4000 sponge stick for some ts14 Tamiya black.

Something like this?

This build was gonna be a replica of my friend Thomas Arnett’s car, but, lack of wheels and the unusual paint trim waylaid those plans. This build represents a Stocker from about 2008 era. Paint was Tamiya TS10 French blue (applied 3 times due to operator clumsiness) and TS30 silver leaf. Details of my screw up are in the WIP section. By the way, I still only used 1 can of the TS10 paint. It was a fun build and many new and different things were tried out. Maybe now I can finish the 56 and 57 Chevies.

Finish line reached (at least for now). More pics in the under glass section. Pics won’t post, try later.

Some more stuff put on and some more errors magnified by the camera. Boy, that panel between the tailights is awful. Part of it is glue, but most of it comes from the paint job. Don’t know how I never noticed it before. Also, one of the upper control arms walked away, I forgot the steering box, and, of course, with the different water pump, the lower hose won’t fit. Getting close to a wrap on this one.

At the risk of going off topic and beating it to death, one of my future builds.

Got the interior in with the help of my great little shim/spreader tool that allowed me to go in from the end of the interior tub and pry out the body to clear the side windows. The windows always seem to catch on the interior tub on most of my builds. You change one thing, then expect other problems to surface. Anyway, got the body on also.

Sorry, I meant ts14. I edited my post.

I like the ts14.

As I missed a couple of spots from the trunk to the back window, I tried mixing some gray with a drop or two black Tamiya panel line accent colors. The pictures don’t really show the difference very well, but I like it better than black on this color of car. Can’t change it on this car because the black base overwhelms the gray. Think I will order some dark gray on my next order.

If I’m not mistaken, Herb describes why that happened in the documentary.

Thanks, Elliot. I do my best to be truthful and show what works for me, anyway. I am almost always experimenting with different methods . Oftentimes, the pictures reveal faults that I did not notice. Thanks, Keef, I took the easy way out and tried a new product for the divider. It looks promising for future chrome side trim, also. Got the lettering done.

Side windows cut out of .005” clear styrene and installed. Next job is to put lettering and numbers on them.

Installed windshield and rear window. I am liking the e6000 stuff more and more for it’s tackiness, strength, and ease of installation because of it’s thickness.

Letters and numbers installed on windshield and back glass. Undecided whether I will make side windows. A pic of the stuff i needed (Coke and remote not absolutely necessary).

Installed hood decals, dipped windshield and back window in the new “future “ and let it dry overnight covered from dust.

Couldn’t decide whether to Bring out door and trunk gaps, then looked at the hood on the model. One side had a gap and it was black and looked realistic (isn’t that what this is all about?). I admit the gaps look a little wide on the doors. Also, glued grill on with some e6000. Just saw I missed the gap between rear glass and the trunk.

Back on the Camaro. Installed taillights, chrome pen on the parking lights before installing the lenses, and making driveshaft loop.

Some front end pics after installing the bumper and grill. In retrospect, I should probably not have handled the grill so soon, as some scuff type marks are shown in the pictures. Also, the grill protrudes too far, I think, due to too thick a backing. Live and learn. Gonna hold on this one for a while until I decide how to do the lettering (hand painting, home made or aftermarket individual decals, etc.). I have some coming from Bedlamcreations that may work ok. Anyway, back to work on the 69 Camaro stocker.

Looks sorta like a Boss 429, not 427 sohc.

Thanks, Ace, you are too kind. Decided to try and do some final trim clean up work on the Hasegawa chrome trim with the new (to me) short scalpel with a #11 type blade. I muffed it up pretty good when I first put the trim on. A big part of the problem was not being able to differentiate between the black shiny paint and the bright chrome trim and I was using a saw type blade which had a tendency to dig in too much. In retrospect, a lot of the problem was due to the light over the work bench glaring. Today, it was cloudy, and I worked in my son’s bedroom with only the ceiling light on. I was able to trim it up pretty good. I tried to show some before and after pictures.

Finally got back to this one with some interior assembly, installed Sun type tach, master cylinder, wiper motor, and battery. No, the radiator is not staying on the seat. Just holding the steering wheel in place until the glue sets up. Should have used ca glue like I did everything else.

Trimmed the grill mounting brackets and gave it a quick Revell Chrome spray. First time using this high dollar stuff and I am impressed. No primer, just styrene.