loudcherokee

Couple pics of the interior - LC

Here's a recent build I finished before starting on the uncles camaro build. Built mostly stock, with a couple of variations, such as the hurst shifter, red plug wires, red line tires, etc. LC

Hi Folks, I'm still a bit fresh to this site, and seem to have trouble getting the email replies to work correctly. Even when I click the box at the bottom of the new post to "enable email notification of replies", I still dont get emails for some replies. It's like I only get emails for replies to my actual "post", but not the thread. I thought I had it figured out by turning on email replies for forum posts in my settings, but then i started getting emails whenever someone started a new thread! Can anyone suggest what I may be doing wrong? LC

Well the wire definately looks like the way to go! And here I was trying to think of how I was going to bend the smallest piece of square evergreen I have into the shape of the seat, and then sand it to a round shape. I never even thought of wire, and I'm sure I have some hardline somewhere that will be accurate in scale. Thanks guys! What would you suggest for gluing the wire to the already painted seat? I dont want the CA to fog the seat or the wire. Thanks, LC

Hi Folks, Any idea on how I can make this piece of chrome trim that goes up the side and around the back of the seats on the 70 chevelle? The kit seats dont include this trim, and it's a piece that I feel really needs to be included on my kit. Thanks, LC

I also use the red stuff, Bondo glazing and spot putty. Works great, and can be sanded smooth for nice contour lines and filling lines. I also agree with laying it on thin, or it will crack. I'd like to add an additional tip for this putty. When you use it, be sure to squeeze some out on a "palette" or old tupperware lid. You may see some watery substance come out, and then the thicker putty. MIX THIS WELL! If you dont mix it up on your palette, the putty can attack your plastic and actually melt it. I used the bondo here for these fender flares - Hope this helps. LC

I'm not the greatest at photoshopping stuff, but here's something I threw together that I thought was neat. LC

Here we go. All that lacks is to add the Z-28 logos to the front fenders, and painting the marker lights. I'm just too tired to do that right now, but I snapped some pics of final assembly. Hope you like them! I also need to touch up that little dot of silver sharpie I got on the rear lense LC More pics can be found at -- http://s40.photobucket.com/albums/e210/Lou...aro%20finished/

Tagging this one to follow. Nice start so far. I would definately put it in the weeds at all four corners. I really miss doing truck kits. You just cant find any good ones now days. One of my favs to drop was the C1500 454 SS by AMT. I must have built 5 of those things as a kid, and now I cant find one. Good luck with the build, and cant wait to see it finished! LC

This is looking fantastic! Keep it up. I love all the added detail. In your bucket, I noticed a T handled shifter. Did you scratch build that? LC

Awesome. I'll have to order some and give it a try. Thanks for the tip! LC

Thanks guys. I appreciate the comments. This is probably one of my more intensive projects, and has provided a couple of firsts for me, such as the fender flares, use of photo-etch, resin parts, etc. I think I'm going to have to build something out of the box before I start my Chevelle that I plan on building for a contest. As another modeler put it, I need to "decompress" after starting that project, haha. LC

Modlbldr, again, thank you very much for the help in finding the wheels. They made the build! It just wouldn't look right if I couldn't go with the same kind of wheels he had. Luckily there was a scale version made! LC

Yeah, unfortunately the surprise factor was ruined by me having to ask for reference photos, questions about the car, etc. For instance, I would have never known about the thrush mufflers if I hadn't asked. I would have liked to surprised him with it though. I am planning on sending it to him when I'm finished. Any tips on packaging for a safe trip from PA to TN? LC

Aren't the wires going to the coil and distributor smaller gauge than what I would use for spark plug wires? I use the ignition wire offered by www.scaledreams.com for my spark plug wires. I need to source a smaller wire for the MSD box, i think. I have some floral wire that is smaller gauge, but it would need to be painted. past experience shows that when bent, the paint flakes off. Any suggestions for a smaller gauge wire that is already coated in color? LC

That helps quite a bit guys. Now I just have to find some wire small enough in scale to run these things. So just to be clear, the MSD ignition box does NOT replace the coil? I would still use the coil from the kit, correct? Thanks, LC

I hope this is the right place to put this. I didn't think it would belong in the tips section. I'm trying to figure out how to wire up an MSD ignition box. All the reference photos I can find just show the box, and then a few wires coming out of the box, but they dont show where the wires go. I cant find a picture at the angle I need, so that I can see what is wired to the box. I'm guessing the box replaces the coil? and then wires go to the battery and starter, but that's just a guess, and I dont have enough knowledge of 1:1 cars to know. Thanks, LC

Also got the vanity plates and the USA-1 license plate on the front made with testors decal paper - When i had originally painted the car, I painted the hood shut. I was unaware of this, until I popped the hood off from underneath and it decided to take some paint chips with it from the fenders. I debated over how to fix this, and then decided to go at it like a 1:1, I masked off an area slightly bigger than the chips, sanded everything smooth, and primered it up. I then wet-sanded the primer smooth at the edges, to blend into the surrounding paint so there would not be a transition line - And now we are fixed! The latest things I've done are completed the chassis, and installed the Thrush glasspack mufflers that he had on his car. These are machined aluminum by scale repros plus, obtained from scale dreams. I scratch built the flanges from two pieces of strip styrene. I was able to obtain the correct tires through another forum member, and get the correct stance - So thats where I'm at. All that's left is to BMF the front and back windows, polish out the body, throw some wax on it, and finish assembly. Thanks for looking, and any comments/criticism are always welcome, good or bad. LC

Now, at this point, I was ok with the flares, but still somewhat unhappy with the results. I looked and looked, and then finally seen that the fenderwell on my uncles car came up well above the body molding line in the rear quarters, so i decided to rip the fresh fender flares out, and grab my rotary tool. By placing the chassis in the body, I drew a line where the fender wells were at on the chassis, so I wouldn't go above the frame. I followed this line, and then was finished with radiusing the fenders The new fender flares match my uncles ride much better After this, I went through alot of trial and error with the flares. Bunches of bondo, superglue, and baking soda. Inbetween all of this, I was also working on the interior and engine. painted the seats and door panels gloss black, then hit it with testors dull coat. Added seatbelt material sourced from michaels craft store, and some photo etched hardware from Detail master, purchased at www.scaledreams.com A mockup of the ride height, before I sourced the L-88 hood from the baldwin motion 69 camaro, and after I obtained the 5 slot fenton mags from PSF hobbies. The tires at this point were still incorrect. The engine was painted with Chevy Engine Red, then wired with yellow ignition wire from scale dreams. Also used some detail master photo etch wire looms. I made 90 degree spark plug boots for the distributor end of everything with the boot material -

Hello folks, I just joined up here, and thought I would share my current work in progress. I'm working on my uncles 1969 Chevy Camaro Z-28. It was a car that he had when I was a child, and it is one of the only cars that sticks out in my mind from my child hood. Here are some pics of the car I'm replicating -- As you can see, it wasn't necessarily stock. Radiused fenders, and fender flares for the rear. Chrome trim removed, no badges anywhere, except the Z-28 badging, L-88 Fiberglass hood. My starting point was the Yenko 1969 Camaro, since it was a kit that I had laying around, and I couldn't find any more of the Z-28 kits locally. I started by sanding off the scripts everywhere on the body. and filling in the gills in front of the rear fenders - Then I started work on the fender flares. I used Evergreen strip styrene, and attached it to the inside of the fender by using plastic weld. Here's a comparison shot - stock vs non stock -

Hello...quick question. The texturing on that dashpad...did you paint it like that or was that how the kits dash was textured? Thanks, LC