dino246gt

Good morning modellers, I'm starting a new project, '64 Malibu! 1: It's a resin kit, repop of the AMT original, so I won't be using much, mostly kit bashed. Here is the front grille/bumper and what I've done to it. 2: Cut the bumper separate. 3: Drilled out the headlights. 4: Made divets in scrap styrene with the Dremel bit shown. After I washed the grille with Tamiya black panel line wash. 5: Foiled over the divetted scraps and installed them from behind. 6, 7:Parking lights are Tamiya acrylic "Clear Orange", of course, you already knew that. Cheers

Mike I won't be bringing this one out to any contests, just a shelf model. I DO have a few nicer new builds though for the NNLs! You know that flooding is quite likely now though, so we may not be able to drive to Minnie THIS year.

Wow that real one is beautiful, more deluxe than my build. Paint is AK, look back through the thread, I posted a picture of it. The black one was a parts car I bought, well, for parts! The paint on that is very nice indeed. I have NO PLANS for that one though. Starting a '64 Chevelle next. Thanks for watching and thanks for all the comments, I really enjoy sharing the build progress pics! Cheers.

Sure is looking cool!

WOW! Love some of those, so cool, I do love mock-ups..................... and then to see them finished, WOW!

I like it!

Good choice!

Nice choice to do it in black, looks great!

I was able to score a trunk emblem from Jerry G. Thanks Jerry! I also foiled the rear trunk hinges, so I think this little glue bomb has been rescued!

Here's how all that stuff looks installed: Remember I didn't have a kit, so a lot of this is made from scraps, and what the glue bomb had attached. Do NOT have the trunk chrome handle, but I think I can trade for one with Jerry G.

Farmer, your paint is still better!

I drilled out the old battery and added some simple detail to the heater motor. I glued photo-etch cable ends to a strip of .020 styrene then drilled and filed the styrene to follow the shape of the photo-etched parts. I added a center post, red wire and flat ground cable, then painted some .030 styrene rod with ends painted yellow for caps. Logo is just printed on a piece of plain paper. Here's the battery assembled and the heater motor. I also made up some "stuff" to put on the firewall, just scraps and sprue.

Great work on that Vette, thank you for sharing the build so far! Take us with you to the finish with pictures, please!

The bumpers were also in poor shape, as usual the wrap-around corners need sanding. I foiled all 4 sanded corners. Of course I got little wrinkles where I tried to wrap the foil, but I think it's less of a "flaw" than the huge mold lines from the kit. After I install them, I'll polish the foil with Novus 2 for a better shine.

The rims I had, well the fronts were damaged from sprue removal, so I'm using those as the rears, I can glue them with the damage up, hidden by the body. Won't matter that the fronts are in back and vise versa because I'm using hub caps, but I did have to switch the back halves of the rims. I sanded where the halves meet so the rims fit deeper into the tires, I like that look. I found some cool old Firestone tires in the parts box which I cleaned up and used. Drilled for valve stems, I use the same .030 ignition wire for these, a bit over size, but still cool to my eye, also did a black wash to highlight those 4 slots on the rims.

Very cool work on this! I also want to make a street machine of some sort from my '65 gasser kit. That real one sure looks cool, I'm sure yours will also! Cheers!

I got the glass, interior and chassis all glued together! I believe that's called the marriage. Now just the "honeymoon" left!!! I want to have this finished by the weekend.

I wanted rubber, not chrome around the windows, so I masked, AND airbrushed Tamiya acrylic rubber thinned 50/50. Then I brushed acrylics to the headliner and around the windows inside. (this is the car upside down looking in) I made a dome light with a '32 Ford kit's chrome mirror and a piece of the clear throw-away things. I reshaped the windshield for somewhat of a sunvisor look inside. (actually turned out pretty good once painted.

I'm diggin' this thread! Nice mods so far! I'm sure it'll be a real gas! er!!

Here's the usual airbrushing situation: One hour masking, One minute airbrushing! LOL

Yeah, I'm just trying to do a quick build from junk to replace the one I have in my display case. That one was painted by Wayne Farmer but he was never going to build it, so I bought it and built it, probably 25 years ago! He asked if he could buy it back from me now, so I'll need a replacement. I'll sell it back to him for what I paid for it un-built back then, can't remember but it wasn't much! Here's a picture of that one:

Cool, so far! I'm sure it'll be great, have fun with the conversion!

I'm sure it'll be fantastic!

Wow, that maroon looks fantastic!

Beautiful transmission mods, and the whole car looks so cool, great fun for you................AND for us, watching!