PeterLepold

Great work at the engine, it is looking real. The door and trunk is a very good idea, I will do the same with a '77 Monte Carlo (I will build another one, perhaps to a Station wagon). Greetings from Germany Peter

Hi The '77 Monte Convertible is nearly finished. Some details I have to do to finish it. Here are some pictures of the car: Before the convertible top was painted. Interior is white, black and anthrazit with wooden parts (steering wheel, parts on the dashboard). Now the convertible top is painted in white, all chrome trim added with Bare Metal Foil. The front view. SS454, a hot and powerfull engine in an elegant car. Interior again. What a beautiful line. The line looks still much better with the Convertible than with the Coupe. Greetings from Germany Peter

Hi Here is another one I build last time. It is build from a Ertl DieCast Bank. I removed the ugly yellow/green colour and painted it new in black. New chrome trim on its sides, new wheels and tires, new windshild wipers, additional fog lights, new exhaust pipes and some more in the interior I build. Greetings from Germany Peter

Hi Thanks for the comments. You'll find it here: That ain't no car, that's a racing machine....! It is finished since July last year. Cheers Peter BTW: Perhaps I'll build another '77 MC (for me it is the most beautiful car of the Montes). Perhaps a four door Station Wagon. I have so many ideas in me brain, sometimes too much ideas...!!!

Hi buddys I'm back...! The Handball season of my youth-team is over and I have more time for model building. BTW: My youth-team (and I as the coach) are champions of the season 2006/2007...! Now to the new project I'm build. A good friend and me thought about it, how could have looked the '77 Monte Carlo as a convertible. “How could have looked†for the reason, because Chevy never build a convertible of the Monte Carlo series. And the '77 is the most beautiful Monte Carlo, Chevrolet placed ever on its wheels. So I sawed off the roof of the Revell Lowrider kit….! Now pictures of it. I put some additional chrom trim on its sides and some plastic sheet around of the coaming. The interior I detailed with: - new gauges and chrom trim around the gauges - carpet flocking - belts - sarter lock with key - additional chrom trim - steering wheel from the '70 Monte Carlo and some more. The convertible cover I build scratch from plastic sheet. I'll paint it in black and white like the '70s Chevelles 454 with the stripes on the hood and trunk. Greetings from Germany Peter

Hi A question about "who can help me". I need the "The Directory of model car kits" - written by Bill Coulter and Bob Shelton. It is sold at Model Round Up (here: http://www.modelroundup.com/arii20001.html). But I must pay with credit card. I have however no credit card, I pay all the “foreign businesses†with Paypal. My question: Who could buy me the book at Model Round Up and I transfers the money with Paypal to that, which bought it? A condition is, you has also Paypal. Naturally I would pay all the shipping costs, also the shipping from you to Germany, no question. If someone could make the favour for me, that would be fine. Please contact me via e-mail: mcp-administration@onlinehome.de Greetings from Germany Peter

I build it, I build it...! Go here: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forum/viewtopi...highlight=#6303 and you'll see how many things you have to do on that model. The only one good model car kit from Trumpeter is the '63 Nova HT. But now I'm build some other cars, a 1997 Reynard Target CART (driven by Alex Zanardi) and Dale Earnhardts 1999 Bristol cage rattler Monte Carlo. Best wishes from Germany Peter

Hi Thanks to all for the kind of words and the praise, I'm proud of it. Now the model is finished and here you'll see the pics: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forum/viewtopi...p?p=20192#20192 Greetings Peter BTW: This is not a nice car, the '78 MC. The best Monte Carlo was the '77 model, a very great car. I love this '77 design of the Monte Carlo, but the '78 model is the first of some boring cars from this decade. But European and Asian cars from this decade didn't looking better.

Hi Now the model is finally finished. This was the beginning..... : Now the pics (first without the boat) The hood doesn't fits good, I don't know why...! Engine...! The connection car/trailer...! The whole things. It is not good to make photos of the whole things, it is very long. The Interior. And so soon I will not build a Trumpeter kit ...no no no...! Cheers from Germany Peter

Hello to all I'm sorry that I was not present here the last time. Now the '78 Monte Carlo is finished. Her some pics. First some pics of the last progress: Finished (without hood). I'm add some water skis on the trunk. Here you'll see a little of the vinyl structure. Flashlights are not correct at the kit, first look at the original car. Trumpeter made a chrome prop between the front and the side flasher . Here are the completely finished car (without trailer/boat). I have to make pics of it (of all, boat and car) when the weather is more better. We have very heavy snow and it is not good to make good pics with the lighting conditions at the moment. Cheers from Germany Peter

Hi hope this is the correct board to ask for pictures from the 1941 Plymouth Convertible. I want to build the AMT '41 Coupe to a Convertible and I need some pics where i have to cut away the roof and all the other things. Anybody can help me?? Thanks and greetings from Germany Peter

Hi there Here I have a small update, but it is not the MC, it is an update on the boat. The MC needs some time again for drying the filler, a lot of points on the hood and trunk I have to fill and sand. The boat is nearly finished, some smaller detail works I have to do. I will build a windshild scratch and I will put a name on it - perhaps I will named it "Monte Carlo"..! All the "wooden" is painted, first I painted with airbrush a base color (dark brwon) and than I painted the wooden structure with drybrushing and detail painting with different brushes and different brown colors. It needs a lot of time, but i think it is looking nearly like real wooden. At the "hood" I put a photo eatched part with the signature "SS 454"...! The rear view (with the real US-flag :wink: ). The “ornament†on the sides, on the back and at the hood are decals from the Revell '70 Custom Van. The top side of the boat was chromium-plated with BMF aluminum. Now the trailer..! The small tail lamps and the “rubbers†were supplemented on the rails, because the bottom of the boat would not to be scratched when the loading and unloading! The rims are Monte Carlo rims of the MPC Monte Carlo! Painted in aluminium. Greetings Peter

Hi Someone ask me here if I have some Dale Earnhardt models in progress. Yes, I have, two models (1999 Bristol "cage rattler" and the 1988 first black Monte Carlo). But here I'll show you the last Dale Earnhardt model I build, it is not a #3, it is the famous #2 car he drove in 1979 and 1980. Build from Revells 1977 Monte Carlo Lowrider (the first issue), I started with it in 2002 and finished it this year (I had lost long time the desire to it). First two old pics of progress (I have no more pictures from all the things I have did on it): I build a part of the roll cage new, chassis is a 1983 T-Bird chassis from Monogram. If you want to build that, take the chassis of Monogram. It is in scale 1/24, but it has the advantage that the long wheel base is present by the scale. With a chassis in 1/25 you must extend the wheel base. The interior: Rear spoiler I build from plastic sheet, bumpers I changed a lot of things (remove the rubber around the bumpers, thrill holes and and and). And here pics of the finished and "raced" car: Thanks for looking. Greetings from Germany

Hi Very interesting model. A very good friend build this at the moment to a Stock version. He build new fenders, new bumpers, new this and new that....! He want to have an original Stock Henry J. , and I will make some pictures of process to show you what he did at the meantime. It is a very great work he did. Greetings from Germany Peter

Hi I'm born in that year: If you know in which year the car was build, you know how "old" I am...(the boy in the car is my son)! Greetings from Germany Peter

Hi Somebody have problems to chromium-plating small parts like lettering, emblems, ornaments, door handles, door locks and so on. Most people paint it with silver color, but this is not looking good and you never can get a realistic look with silver color paint. Here is a small but effective trick how to do this. You need Bare Metal Foil, a sharp hobby knife (X-Acto as example), tweezers, cotton bud and toothpick. I'll show you the trick on the "PLYMOUTH" lettering of a '70 Superbird. The original car with its lettering "PLYMOUTH" on the rear sheet: First step is, put Bare Metal Foil onto the lettering and cut out the Bare Metal Foil as scarcely as possible around the individual letters. use tooth pick and cotton bud to smooth the foil and above all the edges of the foil. Second step, you prime the parts/body as usual. But now begins the trick. The primer covered the lettering including the Bare Metal Foil. So that the signature becomes again visible, the letters are polished. So long, until all letters are again visible. Please do not use sanding paper or other thing for sanding, this will destroy the Bare Metal Foil. I'm use German polish named "UNIPOL", a very great polish to make these things great. Third and last step, paint the body/parts as usual. After it is painted, polish again the lettering to make the lettering visible. Hope this was understandable and helps you to give lettering a realistic look. Here are another example at which I did the same trick. 1966 Park Lane, emblemes and all lettering I did with the same trick. Greetings from Germany Peter

Another post about the Bonneville. Here you'll see the finished chassis and underside of the engine/transmission. Here the trunk interior. I build the trunk interior from plastic sheet and flocked it with black flocking. I'm sorry, no more assembly pictures exist. Another mistake Trumpeter did. In assembly level 11 Trumpeter means, the upper radiator hose (part A37) is to glue into the hole (red arrow), thats wrong. The radiator hose have to glue into the hose connector right beside it (green arrow). Here is a picture of an original engine from the '60 Bonneville. You see where the upper radiator hose is very clearly attached; where it belongs. As per Trumpeter the upper radiator hose is there where at the original engine the orangene hose sits. This hose is missing however in the kit. Exactly the same as the hose, which you'll see under the thick radiator hose (its connection is right behind the beltdrive to see). These two hoses must be made by yourself. At the model the corrected places at those the hoses to be attached. All water hoses are made of cable sleeves. In order to hold the hoses in their bends/form, a somewhat thicker copper wire is pushed in, so that the hose does not back-bend itself. Joke at the edge: How does one get all-finest filling- and sanding works??? You engages one of these "boys"….! The fly had left itself for the investigation of my works at the model…! A small joke at the edge of the many “annoyancesâ€â€¦! The fly had be actually quite a while at the model. The kit is equipped with functional steering element (long part left), which I do not want to have however because it looks to me like a toy. Thus the “steering bar†is now trashh and by a real steering gear to see (right) from the spare part crate is replaced. The brake booster is however really nothing (likewise left), that also by good parts from the spare part crate is replaced (all AMT parts). Here now the last, somewhat more complex correction follows. The hood ornamentation is completely beside it, first of all too briefly, secondly too broadly. The hood is also too long (by the roof correction), I shortened it in the back over approx. 3 milimeters. From an old AMT Promo is made a casting correct ornamentation. To see in the picture: A: Hood with the wrong ornamentation B: AMT Promomodel of the Bonneville with the correct ornamentation C: Silicone casting form D: Resin casting correct ornamentation To the direct comparison the casting correct ornamentation to Trumpeter part! The last financial investment in the Bonneville kit. I removed all of the bad signatures like "Bonneville" and "Pontiac" because these are too filigran, I bought me a “Model Car Garage†photo eatched set for the Bonneville. The last pic shows the new chrome plated parts (above). The lower bumper is the original chrome from Trumpeter, very bad, it is more aluminium than bright chrome plated. I let the parts chromed new in a company here in Germany again. At last some pics of the finished model. If you have any more question, ask me, I will help. Greetings from Germany (still hot and sunny) Peter

Good morning First i will say "THANK YOU ALL" for the welcome and the friendly comments about the thread. I'm glad this want to help you build the Trumpeter Bonneville. Fact is, if the model is cleanly built and you corrects it above all correctly, then you have at the end a very beautiful car. The original '60 Bonneville is a very beautiful car, I love this design. Thank you, Gregg, for this offer. I appreciate it very much and I'm pleased about it. Only one problem I have: After a computer crash last year I lost the most large size pictures of the assembly. I know, that you need large size pictures for a clear print in the magazines (I write lot of articles for a German model magazin). Perhaps you can use smaller size pictures. Please contact me at mcp-administration@onlinehome.de for more if you want. Greetings from very hot and sunny Germany 8) Peter

Hi Some people asked whether I would publish an article here about the '60 Bonneville. Okay, I do it. It is difficult for me to write everything understandably in English language but I hope I am understandable enough. This model I build nearly two years ago, and I need a half of a year to build it correct. Now we start with one of the models, which needs very much work to be over correct. If you want to have the model in such a way (see picture), then many works you have to do. Much fun :wink: . First something about the major thing: the wrong roof. The roof is too short, the c-pillar is wrong and the sheet metal between the rear window and the trunk is too long because the roof is too short. Here you'll see a pic with a lot of numbers and lines, thats all the mistakes on that kit. 1. Front upper roof edge too curved (straight must run) 2. A-pillar is too straight (must diagonally to the rear run) 3. Lateral pieces of the windshield trim (trim pulls itself completely around) is missing. 4. Waves, dents in the roof 5. Eggs-arc-shaped from A to C-pillar (edge must candle straight run) 6. Lower back window trim is missing completely 7. C-pillar makes a too strong momentum (nearly straight must run) 8. „B-pillar“ is not a pillar, it is the window trim and on the model too thickly 9.0 Sheetmetal between trunk and rear window 3 milimeters too thickly 9.1 thereby roof approx. 2 milimeters and more too briefly 10. Rising momentum starting from door edge to the rear is missing completely 11. Chrome trim is aluminium in the kit and not bright chrome 12. Signatures to filigran, danger when painting to be course-washed 13. Fins too briefly and too down 14. Hood motorhauben-Sicke too broadly 15. Hood motorhauben-Sicke too briefly (“signature to nearly must run at rear edge from „Bonneville) 16. Signature to filigran danger when painting to be course-washed 17. Radiator grille middle, horizontal prop in the center is missing 18. Decals are limited to only one armature decal, no license plate or dash decals 19. Door handles, rear view mirrors, windshield wipers and some further interior parts not chromed, it is white plastic 20. In the opening trunk the interior is missing ...and much more what I found during the assembly of the Bonneville. What you need to corrected the roof is a '59 or a '60 Impala of Revell. Why? Easy to explain...! The '59 and '60 Hard Top Coupes of GM used the same roof. Here a comparison of the roofs of the '59 Impala (on the left) '60 Bonneville (on the right) I cut out both roofs. First pic of the Impala roof. After that I cut out the wrong Bonneville roof (and now it is trash). First adjustment of the Impala roof on the Bonneville body. Putty work with “Micro Balloons†as stabilizing underground and hobby putty for fine work. Here a comparison between the old and new roof process, considers also the longer discharge of the C-column. A clear difference. It continues to go in the “error analysisâ€. Under the change of the roof I got a fright as it for hood adjustment came; I did not think first I correctly measured. But the hood is definitely too long. Trumpeter arranged the roof too briefly and became by the correction with the Impala roof thereby automatically the hood “longerâ€. Presented to the comparison Trumpeter hood on the original '60 Bonneville Promo. It goes more clearly really not more. The hood is approx. for 3 milimeters too long (with the kit and with the Promo). A further mistake emerged. The upper edges of the rear wheel arches are too narrow, something around a millimeter. At the Promo the correctly arranged wheel arches. Who thinks now that is small stuff, which I'll said that it concerns here extremely mistakes, on a $35 (and more) kit high-praised by the model press, which did not even earn so far 50% of the praise, but much blame acts completely. Here a picture of an original vehicle at that becomes clear, how the edge of the wheel arch must be “thickâ€. So that the very thin wheel arch edge at the model is correct, a 0.8 millimeter of Sheetstreifen is bonded, which becomes filled and sanded. That is no error however an additionally unnecessary work for us model builders. Along the outside “fins†rather deep lines run in the plastic what to be must closed. The two “borders†on the front fenders I had to compose of plastic sheet stripes, first of all was her at the model not particularly well and secondly was lost through many putties and sanding at the A-pillars. In the front grille from a plastic sheet stripe I build the missing prop in the center. Pontiac had always interrupted the "noses" in these years in the center, why Trumpeter did not reconstruct this, that is me a mystery (like so much at the kit)…! The next unpleasant surprise are the seats. The backrests are too high around approx. 3 milimeters, look over the door upper edges rather away. The upper edge of the backrests locked so rather flat with the door upper edge. In the foreground the Promo model, behind you sees the Trumpeter (white backrest) as far to its seat over the door edge looks. Unfortunately I forget to maked a picture in the original state, but I show the sawing cut here like one best the seat shorten nevertheless. Simply between seat-face and seat-back separate and then at the lower part of the seat-back 3 milimeters material remove. To the comparison the corrected front seat bank (left) and the still original left rear seat. You sees the difference in height clear. Something putty work was also necessary. Next part was the bumpers. They foregt the bolts on the rear bumper, i build it from plastic rod. In the next days I will show you the rest of this kit and what I have done. Until then…! Greetings from Germany Peter

Hi @ Mark: Oh, I will try it an article to publish here. It will be difficult and I'm not the best in English language. But I try it. Greetings from Germany Peter

Hi A small update. Before I prime and paint the body, I build something for a charge. I took the parts (boat and trailer) out of the '70 Bonneville (the reissue from Model King) and detailed the boat. Thus it looks.... I changed the seats to a benachseat and detailed the dashboard. The engine I didn't use, I build a cover from sheet with a scoop. Also I increased the trunk of the boat by three millimeters - the white sheet. The interior is ready. Greetings Peter @ Marc @ MPC Motorsports: This "story" I heared also...!

Hi Thanks to all for the welcome $35 (or more!) is definitely too much for this kit. I would buy this kit never for $35, perhaps for $10 or less. I want to be honest: I did not pay anything for this kit, that kit I build for the German model magazine "Modell Fan". It was the same with the '60 Bonneville. Never I would buy this bad kit, but I build it as conception for the German model building magazine. This magazine (Modell Fan) shows its customer which is wrong at the models. And I'm the man for very "heavy cases" like with the Bonneville and as now with the '78 Monte Carlo. None wants to build so a "muck", I do it....! :wink: Sometimes I love it to build models like the Trumpeter kits because they are a challenge...! 8) Greetings from Germany Peter

Good morning Bill About the vinyl structure on roof or seats, try this...(I wrote it in the '78 MC thread a while ago)! The vinyl structure I made with ethyl acetate and a bristle brush. Here are some pictures from the making of vinyl structure what I did on my '67 Charger (the Revell kit). This kit also have no vinyl roof but it is not a mistake, Chargers are build with and without vinyl roof. But I want to have a Charger with it because I build my best friends original car (it is a "White Hat Special Charger" Edition). You need ethyl acetate and a bristle brush Then you coat the roof with ethyl acetate step by step, and with the old bristle brush you presses the structure into the softened plastic, repeat it until the structure is real. The next pictures are looking "wild".... After painting with semi gloss black the vinyl is looking like this... The same way I did it on the '78 MC. Your Invicta is very very beautifull . I love these cars from the'50s. Greetings from Germany Peter

Good morning to all A small update on the '78 MC before I will to prime and paint the body. You'll see at the pictures the filled and sanded hood an trunk about the dents. The vinyl structure I made with ethyl acetate and a bristle brush. Here are some pictures from the making of vinyl structure what I did on my '67 Charger (the Revell kit). This kit also have no vinyl roof but it is not a mistake, Chargers are build with and without vinyl roof. But I want to have a Charger with it because I build my best friends original car (it is a "White Hat Special Charger" Edition). You need ethyl acetate and a bristle brush Then you coat the roof with ethyl acetate step by step, and with the old bristle brush you presses the structure into the softened plastic, repeat it until the structure is real. The next pictures are looking "wild".... After painting with semi gloss black the vinyl is looking like this... The same way I did it with the '78 MC. I tested the vinyl structure with a little of the brown color if the structure is okay. I will remove the color before I prime and paint it. The headlighst are not good. Too many careless edges and the chrome is not good also. Besides the turn signals are not correct, in the original exist the turn signal glass of a piece, at the model are secondarydivided it. I will paint the headlights with Alclad chrome, therefore the parts are painted black at the moment. Greetings from Germany Peter

Hi First something to my person: I'm Peter Lepold from Germany, some people here at the board knowing me and/or some my models. I'm building a long time - maybe more than 20 years - model kits. I'm living in Germany and I'm a coach of a successful hand ball youth crew. That's it...! If you want knowing something more, ask me...! A good boy invited me to write here at the Model Cars board about the Trumpeters 1978 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Landau Coupe. So I do that now. Ah, I want to still say that I am not the best in English language. Therefore please be pardon me if I'm not understandably enough. Here is something of Trumpeters '78 MC...! First is, many parts of that kit are are not correct and are made very dearless. - the floor have no carpet structure (you have to fix it with flocking material) - headers, intake manifold, enginemount and all the other bigger engine parts have no casting structures like on the original parts (make a comparison with Revell, AMT or old MPC parts) - no screws and no rivets and bolts at the engine parts (is the engine completely welded together?) - the front cover with the water pump is missing - instead two long "amusing" pins coming out form the enginemount on which you have to glue the wheels for the belt drive - carbuartor is missing, or is this briquette on the intake manifold the carburetor? - breather cap is missing - distributor is missing - the cluster on the instrument panel does not fit - the hood and the trunk have big dents on the surface, that happens, because Trumpeter did not build enough casting channels at this big parts - Signatures (like Monte Carlo or Landau) are to filigran - the roof have no vinyl structures, but it is a Landau Coupe with a half vinyl roof.... - the wheel chrome stripes and the rear window chrome stripes are missing - the front axle is developed too complicated and is also still wrong from the design - the rear axle the same (both axles and the completely suspension looked like Trumpeter have measure the original car on the lifting platform, because the axles do not work loaded if a car on the wheels stand), the car is looking like an Off Roader... ...and and and. Result: The model is not worth its money. You must improve much, so that you really get a good model. Now some pictures: The hood and the trunk with dents The filled parts Chromestripes build from sheet some other modifications Now the suspension, it is too high (the tires also wrong, they are too small) Suspension with other tires, but still too high, it is looking like a Offroader I have shortened the rear shocks (on the right side the new one) The rear axle/suspension I have corrected After I have corrected the rear and front suspension Chassis with new exhaust (from aluminium tube) The interior is finished, the steering wheel I took from the old MPC Monte Carlo kit (reissue AMT). I build some details in like belts and some photo eatched parts form Detail Master. Now the engine...you see the arrow, that is showing you what I meant with the cover of the water pump. This big part is missing, I took it also from the old MPC kit. I had plumped and wired the engine, took a carburator and a breather cap from the spare parts and what I have forgotten to tell, the cooling ventilator in the Trumpeter kit is too big, it does not fit into the opening from the radiator... Hope I was understandable enough. In my opinion the kit is not worth its money. Trumpeter built a very dearless model. It is even still worse than the '60 Bonneville. The '60 Bonneville has more love for the detail in the comparison to the MC, although the roof is perfectly wrong. If you want to see more, please wait a little. I have to sand the hood and trunk again and than I will prime it. I will paint the car white with brwon vinyl roof (like the interior). Many greetings from Germany Peter