TheBEAUMONTGURU

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.

Epic!!

Got some color on the interior, body is in primer. the little test sample is my test of the body color Chateau Slate. interior is GM bright blue for 1966.

got some black paint on the body, gotta let it dry and then lots of polishing. This color combo was available, but im very doubtful there were ordered from the factory Starlight black with Medium Green interior. Thats why im doing it!!!!

slow going, but i got a bit further along with the interior. Had to mix a bunch of tamiya and MrHobby greens and yellows with a bit of pearl, and then mix a bunch more greens and yellows, but i finally came up with a color that is pretty close to the original interior color. I made some cloth pattern seat decals and the green stripes are decals too

cool, thanks guys. id be happy with the monte one. i will keep an eye out for that kit and the other ones listed in the other thread.

Is there a good version of a TH400 automatic in any kits out there?

Thank you so much to everyone who commented. It really means a lot to me. I must have built this kit 3 times when i was a little kid, Glidden has been my favorite driver for sure, managed to get his autograph a couple times at the Brainerd events. Its funny, i'm not a ford guy at all, but when i was a little kid, Glidden was my idol for some reason. I'm so happy to finally build a "good" version that doesn't look like it was built by a 10 year old! i have both his chief cars in the works as well. stay tuned!

i found a coupe crappy WIP pics with some parts along with a funny car i was working on at the same time, doesnt show too much but you can see some of the mods between the more stock kit engine and my welded valve covers and seat mods.

As usual i forget to take pictures of WIP, so this one goes straight into the done pile. Lots of work to modify the original kit to more accurately represent Bob Gliddens T-bird. I added the extra cage around the driver, cut off the head rests that said Don Hardy, since this car is a Jerry Haas prep'd unit. I built the valve covers from sheet plastic to make them look like welded aluminum and split the 1150 dominators in 1/2 as his IHRA prepped car was equiped. Made a few missing decals, sanded down the tires really good, painted with duplicolor autostore paint, no clear, just polishing. I used an original issue of the kit, but used the decals from the reissue from a few years back. all wired and plumbed, used 11/0 seed beads for the fittings, reconfigured all the oil tanks and lines, added an electric fan, made new rad hoses, and generally changed alot of the engine bay to better represent the real car. Scratch built some of the MSD parts, wired the MSD 7AL box in the interior, made a window net from fiberglass window screen and seatbelt ribbon.

Thanks Steve. That makes sense, i had one of those as an incomplete parts kit a few years ago.

got this panel in my parts bin, has some really nice handles moulded on both sides. anyone know what kit??

Its based on the other kits as Mark stated, its an old tooling from the 70's. the body fits terrible and you have to cut and fit the rear areas quite a bit, the engine is very simplistic compared to other dragrace kits, you might consider swapping in a Revell funnycar hemi instead, make sure you test fit and modify all the panels before you paint. it also has a rubber seat and fan that you may or may not like.

Thanks guys, i will check into those

Steve, you and i think alike on this for sure. i have the same painting technic. i just stand in the middle of my garage and turn my coathanger stand everywhich way til i have complete coverage. I even hang my coat hanger and model car upsidedown to prevent dust from falling onto the surface, and to reduce solvent popping.

The revell 66 chevy truck grill is crappy as everyone knows. is there a source for a better 64-66 grill that fits in the revell body? Also, the MPC 1978 dodge truck kit, does anyone make an earlier mid 70's grill? If not, im sure there would be a market to sell them on here.

Ha! ya im using the same one as you steve, made up about 4 of them over 30 years ago, i wonder if that was from a low buck tech tips scale auto magazine article in the 90's?

Here we see my Canso pattern door panels coming along, scratch built armrests and some window cranks and handles swapped over from some parts bin stuff. I will use a decal for the heat-pressed patterning in the panels. I also made a decal for the insturment cluster, complete with the correct clock delete panel with Acadian mapleleaf. steering wheel got finger grooves carved into it and the colunm got some better detail by carving a few grooves in the right places.

Lots of things going on in this build. To answer the L79 question: nope. This ones getting a 6 cyl with a 3-on-the-tree hence a console delete with buckets(wierd but available new). Hey why not, us thrifty canadians were notorious for ordering top line cars with ZERO options! The trumpeter nova 6 cyl is resin cast, and mated to a Revell 64 impala Powerglide, but i will replace it with a 3 speed.

Moving on to the interior complete redo. Here are my newly built door panels. All to match the 300 Deluxe pattern(beaumont SD396 that is) i made some cranks from round stock and small strips, had to add the extra crank for the vent windows on the 2dr post. original armrests glued back on. the steering column is made from scratch, i had to make a shift handle and shift indicator, because this guy is going to be a 396/325 HP with TH400 Automatic. Made a new wider brake pedal too. And i had to add the round steering wheel emblem for the Mapleleaf. Also note the Astrovents on the GTO/beaumont dash, those need to be filled in, because the sedan should not have astroventilation, its got wing windows!!

The rearend 3D printed part fits good, i used CA bob smith glue(i hope thats OK?) never really worked with 3D stuff to this extent. A bit of filing and fitting, but its nice!!!

getting a little further along. i never like to use big chunks of 3D printed material mated up to styrene, and i didnt really like the fit of the 3d printed part to my hood, so i ended up spending about 5 hours making a new frontend out of evergreen and getting the 2 grill sections to fit in my homemade frontend. The grille detail on the Canuck parts is totally awesome!! and the grills are already opened up, incredible detail.

This is awesome!!! i just went and made a lifetime supply. Only thing was i didnt have 030 halfround so i used 040, and my 080 round is a bit bigger, so my caps are a bit on the larger size. gotta find some smaller stuff, but everyone seems to be out of stock of plastruct and evergreen these days.

The door panels are another story, cant use the Malibu ones, so i sanded it all off and made the 300-deluxe version, nothing too fancy, but it gets the job done

The interior will be a bench seat, and should have a base-model interior pattern (like a chevelle 300 deluxe). Ive taken a Mobius 61 pontiac bench, sanded it down, narrowed the sides, and added thin strips to make the correct pattern, the stock rear seat was also sanded smooth and rebuilt. I needed to replicate the headrests so i glued up some scrap strips and carved out the shape from a square block.