The Creative Explorer

I finished seatbelting the interior, it does needs some tweaking, but it is basically done For the baby I added some static-cling zoo-animals, as seen on 70's and 80's cars. (at least over here in Europe, they were a big hit) It needs to be known that this is no soccer-mom's car, so Daddy put his mark on it. Note also the Baby on board to the right of it.

I flocked some parts of the hood, to give it that sound-proofing material look The steering column got detailed by a metal pin, replacing the molded signal-beam The shocks were also modified, by cutting it in 3 pieces, replacing the middle piece by a piece of tubing and add some wires for springs. The white part is the original 'middle'-piece

Like so.. Because Daddy also get's the car to the strip, he needed a roll-cage, but it couldn't be too big for his daily driver. So I made this one by widened it 1cm in width, and sand it smooth I handpainted the tires to give it a bit more beefier look And finished the gastank, which is basically done, it just needs some wires for the gas-gauge.

Thanks guys for the nice comments! Appreciated! @Walt, well.. it usually takes me longer, but the nationals are on the 23rd and I want to take it with me. ;-) And work continued, even though the major parts were done, it is time-consuming in finishing a build. I put some BMF on the sidepanels, here is a before and after shot: The finished and seatbelted babyseat I scratched a seatbelt-clicker... That I put on the rear-couch and will hold the baby-seat in place...

I don't think you can call it a investment, basically it is all money down the drain. With an investment, there should be a profit noticable. Sure, some kits make a few more bucks, but add it all up and it is one big loss.... But whocares? It is a hobby and they are ment to cost money, and like someone said before, divide it by the hours one spend on it and it ain't thát spendy.

Hey Nick, good to see ya back! GReetz Erik

metal axles

And the headliner is finished, it is two-tone, a bit hard to see in this picture But better in this one.

A better view with this picture. the engine got his place on the chassis, it still needs detailling, but that will come later. I also started on the rear-axle

Thanks all for the nice comments. It is appreciated. But if you see something where I messed up, please let me know too. @tony, Todd and Rodney; Correct! It will be a babyseat and installed on the rear-seat. Work progressed and I am working mostly on the mechanical parts. I worked a bit more on the engine, added pulley's and some PE After installing the exhaust's, I thought it would be a nice touch to add some heat-shields, I made them from aluminium A dryfit with the interior, The gearbox is too high and the engine sits too high on the front-mounts, 2 issues that needs to be adressed.

Good to hear! goodluck

This is a '66 instead of the wanted '67, but I think the scheme (not the roof part) is usuable for you in your colorchoices. I would go for blue on bottom and white on top.

Ouch on the price though....

Dealership? especially on such a young car they have all the info

Almost done with BMF And finally done. Finally! The rear-seat will be installed and also used. The smaller gas-tank And a little addition for on the rear-seat, anyone a idea what this end up being? Another addition And I worked a little bit more on the back-end.

The engine so far And the lower part of the dash Still working on the BMF, it really worked against me on this project. I added a little extra BMF on the roof, made it to resemble the Chevy-logo a little. The chassis that I will be using for this project. Since the wheeltubs will be visible, I painted them too.

Due to the prostreet character, I wanted a race gastank in the boot, I made it from styrene sheet. here is the template I made Cut it out... And glued it together. I made it a little too big, so I will shorten it a little I also modified the springs of the hood. I removed the molded in springs and replaced it with real springs And the first picture of the colors of the car. I am working here on the BMF.

A mouthfull, but it is what it is. When looking through my stash for a nice build that I can complete before the nationals, I ended up with the Chevelle Wagon. I had idea's that were mild custom, but then my eye landed upon a started '67 Chevelle ProStreet kit and I was wondering if it would be doable to combine those 2 kits. Remarkably, it fits without too much hassle. Idea's popped up my mind and soon I had a theme for the project; Daddy's ride. The Chevelle will be build both ProStreet chassis/engine wise and Custom on the body/interior. I will finish this project with some items that makes it clear, this is daddy's ride. The colors were imagined quite quickly, I wanted red/red. I used Rosso Ferrari en Rubino Micalizzato, Both Ferrari OEM colors. First reaction of my wife; Those 2 colors don't go together, you can't do that. But most of you know, I do have my way around colors and I thought it would work out. So I went ahead and used those colors and also used it for the interior theme. The box-art And here I started with making my own Outlaw-hood. I found a few resin hoods, but I didn't like the look of those, so I decided to make my own. I cut out the original SS 'intakes', maybe I can use it for a future project. And glued the outlaw part on the hood. Time to sand and sand and sand

I shoot a lot with Vallejo and Auto-Air (By Createx) I use vallejo for parts (motor, interior, chassis etc...) and Auto-Air for the custom paintjob of body's. For straight and simple paintjobs, I tend now for Zero Paint. Even though it is not acrylic and quite nasty, it is way superior to acrylics.

If you look a little bit better on that page, one can see this:

I just found out that I didn't receive notifications either. Because of that, I replied a few months late on some personal messages (sorry about that). After doing some searching, there is a notification menu in the User Control Panel where you can set the settings you want for receiving notifications. So, go to the UCP, get your settings right and you should be ok.

If you want, I could shoot some better pictures, since these are quite bad. I should have some screenshots of the movie too somewhere, need to dig those up.

I am not so much of a diorama builder as I am a car-builder. The cards did turn out pretty good, but the diorama doesn't look up to par.

May I suggest you use maskign tape from Tamiya in the future? The tape you are using now is well known for bleeding and leaves a big(ger) transition between colors. If you use modelling masking tape, the chance of bleeding are much slimmer and the paintjob looks sharper.

One can build a whole factory to build that car for that money