TheBEAUMONTGURU

great builds! nice job on converting the 59 to a sedan. very will proportioned!

Wow there are some awesome WIP trucks you guys are building! here is my 1965 C10 project. converting from shortbed to longbed, and adding all the customCab trim and changed it over to a small rear window. I started a separate build thread on it.

very nice build. color reminds me of 1957/58 chevy sierra gold and honey beige. great combination!

someone on this site(i think?) was doing a resin conversion kit front end and taillights for a 69 beaumont. you might want to do some back-searching.

this pic was another day of work yesterday. Making all the side moldings from evergreen. I converted the cab to a small back window using sheet styrene and 1/2 round rod. and made the rear pillar mouldings About 2 hours just in re-scribing panel lines and body lines. Almost ready for a heavy coat of primer-then it can sit and shrink for a couple months. I also made box floor strips and drilled what seemed like 2 million small depressions to replicate carriage bolts(its all getting painted green so no need for super details

I lengthend the chassis under the cab beween the body mounts(this is the correct place that was different between a LONG and a SHORT. will have to add a slight amount to the rear bumper area, but that wont be too hard or noticeable. Main concern was getting the wheel base to match the frame and the box.

here is the hard part. taking 2 SHORTIES and making an 8 footer...............seamlessly. what a pain! the revell taillights suck so i used the back facias from the AMT 60. It will have a stock appearing wood box floor that will all be painted body color like they did at the factory. My real truck still had the green paint on the wood and the strips, so i dont have to get too fussy with wood graining and painting details.

I starting on another project i have always wanted to do. This is a replica of a real truck i owned 30 years ago. 1965 C10 Custom Cab 8foot fleetside with all the custom cab options, chrome grill and bumper, factory Powerglide automatic, radio, backup lights, tach dash, 283. I will be using 2 Revell 66 chevy SHORTBOX fleetside kits plus the amt 60 fleet and a bunch junk from the parts bins!

here is my real car that i built from the ground up a number of years ago. Before and after note the dent on the top of the front fender. I managed to salvage the original Danube blue paint.

Lots of filing, filling and shaping. the back end is starting to take shape, i made a new gate handle and added the window trim, i also had to rescribe most of the door and window trim lines as they are so shallow on this body. this show the comparison to the yellow original kit. Trust me, mine is way better shaped now!

the back end of this kit is so badly deformed and incorrectly proportioned i decided to sand off most of the back end and rebuild it from square stock. Here we see i have filled in the tailgate chrome so i can ad the ACADIAN emblems later. I have sanded off all the chevelle side trim and built my own profile with 2 sizes of evergreen. i also have to add the missing rear tailgate glass trim surround

Here i am shaping and fitting the resin cast grill. I made a separate bumper valence panel out of sheet styrene to fill the gap between the grill and bumper Speaking of bumpers. the AMT one is BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH so i took a z-16 one and cut off the bumperguards(this is a huge undertaking for anyone that tried it. each guard is hollow in back, so you basicly have to rebuild the entire bumper and chrome it) Quite an improvement over the original yellow 1965 mold.

this AMT wagon kit is so horribly bad im going to use the entire engine bay and chassis pan from the revell 66 wagon and 65 z-16 kits. I have cut out the rear section and am making it more correct for a station wagon floor and gas tank. The z-16 rad support is going to work great along with a leftover 66 wagon engine bay

I have scratch built a 65 beaumont grill based off of the revell Z16 kit. It also works in the AMT wagon with a bit of mods and filler. I cut up a z-16 grill, scratchbuilt all the center section with plastruct and evergreen, then resin cast multiple copies for future projects. I did the same process for a 1967 beaumont grill, to be discussed in another upcoming thread. i resin cast and modified a GTO dash from some other crappy kit. All beaumonts use a tempest/gto dashboard in canada.

I starting on a replica of my real car. starting to converting a very old, very poor quality AMT 65 chevelle wagon kit into a 1965 Acadian Beaumont Deluxe Station wagon. The scratch-building and kit bashing is going to get intense so stay tuned!

yes. 55 thru 62 canadian pontiacs got the 261 when a 6cyl engine was ordered.

I use Micoscale Krystal Clear. I've been using it for window glass and lenses for about 10 years with great success. i would be interested in hearing any negative comments about the stuff. So far i have not found any downside. Also how does it compare to Evergreen Canopy Glue? Ive never tried the evergreen, but interested in comments

Thanks guys. will have to check out the 3d stuff. I totally forgot about the 59 Elcamino, yes! thats the one, just have to make a horn ring

excellent work! love the details.

Anyone have a source for a steering wheel like this Its use on real cars 59,60,61 Chevy belair and biscayne, as well as CustomCab chevy trucks from about 60 thru 1966. 58 Belairs also have a similar one.

nice clean build. man, do those tires and wheels ever spruce-up this old kit!!! well done!

Here is my other Grumpy Jenkins model. I tried to recreate his Indy winner. Again lots of mods needed. This time i did the engine all black as he would have done. I scratch built the track bars, guages, shifter, and added a woodgrain wheel(he always seemed to use a factory woodgrain one). I used a slixx decal pack, some parts bin cragars and some blue streak tires, altered the stance quite a bit. made up some window decals, added some quarter glass. fully wired and plumbed the engine. fixed up the grill trim a bit. I left the SS emblem in the grill because it was too hard to make it invisible. I also scratch built some rear bumper pieces that were not with the kit. Paint is Duplicolor lacquer spraybomb, polished out.

OOOOOH. i hadnt thought of the suburban! will have to look into that, would perhaps save having to bodywork 2 box side joint seams. Thanks for the tip!