TheBEAUMONTGURU

Sorry for the late response. They are the ones like on Steve's 64 Bonneville pictured above. That's what I was afraid of. Hard to find. I'd resin copy if I can just find one even.

Is there an easy way to find 64 pontiac full wheel covers without having to buy an expensive 60's anual kit? I dont need them to have the spinners in the center, either way is fine

absolutely incredible work here! most guys wont pick up on all the scratchbuilding you did on the chassis and rockers. And all the inner structures being so accurate to the real car, trunk braces, etc. just outstanding!!!!!

Oh wow, this is a cool project. i missed tuning in at the begining. Just curious what kit this cab is from? monogram 1/24th scale?? and is it the MPC deserter fleetside box 1/25th? if so, the different scales seem to align fairly well?

Sill lots of little details to finish. id like to add a Automatic Transmission dipstick tube and maybe a cowl tag. I used a better looking washer bottle and mounted it in the correct location, the kit one was down low in the fenderwell. Made the decals in photoshop.

Building a proper 325 HP automatic aircleaner, with proper heat riser ducting. I used a piece of solder and wrapped it with wire then painted it all black to look like corrugated hose. Getting more of the engine wiring and plumbing done here too

I just got my blazer kit. So here is my review of this kit. Pros: highly detailed parts Cons: more than 1/2 of the engine parts seem to be oversized to about 1:20th scale, along with the master cyl and engine bay parts, teh Carburetor is the worst, looks like 1/16 scale. Chuck Most is correct with the grill comment, a terrible piece with shallow grill depth. And the whole kit just seems to be a larger scale for some reason(maybe its just me). When i compare the back end to the old MPC fallguy kit, the proportions are bang on, but then the front end and all the components associated with the front seem to be a bigger scale. also, i know the american kit has a smaller decal sheet, but the quality of it is really bad and not crisp either. other revell kits have much nicer cleaner clearer decals, so why not these. I also lost count of the number of injection pin circles on the carpet and wheel tubs, good grief!! I certainly wont feel bad about cutting it up and using some of the detailed parts on an old MPC fallguy body, ohhh the posibilities!

Its gettin' there. Foil done and body polished. Black sucks to keep clean!!!

Canadian cars seem to have a more basic older style wiper motor, so i made one from scratch. The kit part is on the left.

This Revell kit is really nice but there are more than a few inaccurate things and headscratchers. I made my own proper 1969 alternator bracket. Thats a fireball Qjet. I scratchbuilt the fuel filter and line.

I was torn on how to detail the 3d printed taillights and trim, i was finding it impossible to BareMetalFoil all the individual chrome strips and then have gaps around the lenses. So i glued in the lenses, then filled the whole thing with one piece of foil and detail painted the lenses with tamiya clear red. Overall i think it looks way cleaner than what could have been. The rest of the 3D printed part is super nice and crisp. making foiling and painting easy. I also detailed the grills with proper shades of grey, silver, chrome and black. that 3D printing on the script is out-a-this-world!!

Awesome job on both of these. great decal work!

Thanks guys. The chassis blue was an old discontinued 30 year old Duplicolor automotive colormatch spraybomb(in the small cans) sorry i cant remember what #. I can see if i still have that can around. I bought a whole lot of them from a hardware store 20 yrs ago for 1 dollar each when they discontinued them.

These are the only WIP pics i took, total basket case to start with

Forgot to take many pics along the way, so this one goes straight into the done pile I salvaged an original built up, bought some Slixx decals, and researched the crapola out of the real car to get it as accurate as I could. Modified the windshield, and blower shrouding, made my own window frame decals, spoilers are acetate, some better parts pack slicks, lots of engine detailing, made my own Ed Pink and Plymouth decals for the valve covers. Scratch build the oil recovery system and rear tank, the list goes on and on.

Thanks, oldskool. same here, decals are not going to make a 20 dollar difference for me, i will stick with the cheaper kit as long as all the parts are the same new tooling.

I see my canadian hobby shop has the US version for 45 and the Euro version for 66. Can anyone tell me what the difference really is? i see one is listed as 1/24th and the other as 1/25th, is there really that much difference in the 2 versions? or is it just decals and instruction changes?

Thanks Joker, i think you nailed it on the drag dimensions. I never would have guessed that. Still after the lower left and lower right on ones on the side windows

In the window of a 55 chevy from the races in about 1970. I figured out some of them, but having trouble identifiying alot especially the oval shaped ones bottom right and the white square in the front bottom left corner also the one beside the lakewood one. any help appreciated

Spur-of-the-moment decision to make some NC8 option "Chambered exhaust system". A factory option. So i cut off the mufflers and made some chambered pipe and the rear resonators from some leftover round sprue. I heated it with a candle to get the proper S-curve, thats why there are soot marks. You will also see my resin TH400(thanks to member Nobling) now grafted onto the kit BB.

Nice! thanks for the pics guys. I was not aware that slixx made the decals for the monza(even tho its a different version than what i want to build). that must be an old decal set as it does not show up on the slixx website. they only have the firebird version.

Brian, no that picture is not a correct hood. looks like someone grafted on some GTO stuff. A beaumont always uses the same hood as a chevelle, either flat or with the BBC bulges. for all years of beaumont.

Im wanting to replicate this car using the revell monza kit Anyone got a better picture of the top of the car, hood and stripes. having trouble finding anything on gggoogle

Im going with some fireball F70-14s. with a hand painted whitwall. The hubcaps are fireball too, with my own custom made beaumont center decal

I got my full set of decals designed and printed now, so i was able to detail out the interior. I added seatbelts that i dyed to match, the buckles are made of .020x.125 strips. the dash is the Canuck3d one that is included with the beaumont conversion kit. The dash has awesome detail and is easy to paint. guages i printed on white paper and then topcoated with microscale krystalklear. I decided to add a rear speaker and a rear window defogger to the package tray. both detailed with decals for the grills.