Greg Pugh

Got the white on the body. I'm going to let it cure out and then onto the red on the roof.

After I had the desired overall shape I wanted, it took a quick swim in the whitewall cleaner to strip what was left of the chrome. Then, it was painted silver... ...followed by blue and some very light sanding on the raised fins to expose the silver paint underneath and this is what we ended up with. Still a couple of small things to do to it but I think it will work out great.

And speaking of reference photos, the real car had this ignition module located on the dash panel. My kit of course did not have this piece so time to make one. I started with a single valve cover I had in my parts box. It was pretty close to the width I was wanting but more importantly, it had the raised fins you see on the real piece. After a bit of grinding and sanding, I got the width I was looking for.

Thank you! I was lucky to find someone's online photo album where they took almost 100 photos of the real car so I have excellent reference photos for my build. And you're right, the entire inside of the car is flat black. I assume it was to cut down on glare. Anyways, my model will be built the same way. Thank you for watching!

Well, the ol' stomach flu got ahold of me and really slowed down my progress. But, I'm feeling better now and I'm back at the desk. I've been doing alot of detail painting and there's nothing there that's quite photo-worthy yet so this is kind of a weak update but I chucked up my tires in the drill and worked 'em over to give them a more realistic look. I still have to spray the sidewalls with dullcote and do the white letters.

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DAAAAAANNNG!!!

Is that the newer Revell kit?

Cool project!!

I've always liked AMT's Vicky kit! Good memories for me.

I'm just as much a Chevy guy as I am a Mopar guy but I definitely LOVE Mopars. My high school car was a '69 Coronet 440 2 door hardtop. I've also owned a '69 Roadrunner, THREE '65 Plymouth Satellites, and a '55 Coronet 2 door hardtop. My all time #1 dream car would be a '58 Belvedere. Here is my latest two. The '55 I sold about a year and a half ago and my current '65 Satellite 426 Wedge 4-speed.

I actually said "Wow" outloud! Nice job!!

Can't wait to see what you come up with here!

This is my setup.

Dang! That's nice!!

Awesome job on that!!

I third this.

Well, I'm throwing in the towel on this one. Sorry for the long winded explanation but I'm a talker. Lol When I started this build, I was replicating what I would have wanted my high school car to look like, had I still owned it today and had an unlimited restoration budget. Part of that was the color. The color/paint I had picked out just would not jive with the Moebius plastic and it became very frustrating. I'm now on my third body! After my second failure, I started testing and I tried different primers, different techniques, even had MCW mix up a batch in hopes that it would be different, and lastly tried mixing up my own using Testors paints. Nothing would work. In addition to that, yesterday, I placed the body on the chassis and noticed that the pass side inner fender is not lining up correctly. GRRRRRRR!!!! The other situation is...after I started this build, the juices started flowing and I got all fired up to find another 1:1 Satellite. Twenty years almost to the day of when I sold my original car, I found and purchased another one. I was going to keep this a secret until this build was done but seems how that's not going to happen for a while, I'm telling you now. I loved my original car but I always told myself that if there was something I could change about my original car or a requirement of a replacement car, that it would have to be 4-speed. Well, through pure luck, I ended up finding and buying an original 426 Wedge 4-speed car! So now, with the 1:1 car, I feel like it's rare enough that I don't want to put a 440 6-pack in it and paint it a non-stock color. So rather than build a model of what I wanted my first Satellite to look like, I felt it made more sense to build a replica of what my new Satellite will look like when I'm done going through it. So, with my frustrations mounting and what's going on with the real car in my garage, it just made sense for me to put this one back in the box. Not all is lost though as I will be able to re-use the interior, suspension, wheels/tires, etc. Also, now I have a 440 6-pack engine for another build. Lol Thank you for tagging along on this build. Stay tuned for the new one some day down the road. In the meantime, here's a picture of my new baby.

Thanks fellas!

I wanted to spray the inside of the body before painting it. I had some other pieces to do in that same Flat Black so I took care of them also.

What he said...^^

The body is now all in primer and is one final wet-sanding away from being ready for paint.

Sorry for disappearing on this. My mom had a minor heart attack right after my last update and needed to have a triple bypass done so I had to go help the folks out while she was going through all of that. She is home now and doing well so I'm back at this. I started by spending some more time getting the front end sorted out. The front frame rails were covered with sink holes (see black marks) so I had to get them filled in and cleaned up. Then I moved onto the rear bumper. Not quite as much work here but still required some work just the same. In the picture below, you can see that the bumper was too wide for the body and protruded out. No way that would've flown with the real car as this would've created some drag. Before: After:

I was pleasantly surprised at how little work the body needed in the way of clean-up. Everything else in the box is a different story however. Mold lines and sink marks are in no short order. When installing the nose piece, there were basically five things that needed to be lined up. Working our way from the top...the top of the fender to the top of the nose piece, the body line, the indention line at the lower portion, the lower edge, and lastly the left to right adjustment to the fender so that it was as smooth as possible. It seemed that no matter how I wiggled it around, I was only going to get maybe two or three of the five if I was lucky. So I picked the lesser of the evils, got it as close as possible and attached it with epoxy. As you can see in the first pic, the upper body line does not match up and the top of the nose piece is too high in relation to the fender. What you can't see is that the lower edge of the nose piece hung down too far and didn't line up with the lower portion of the fender but that's because I'd already fixed it before remembering to take the picture. In this picture, you can see that I have fixed the top of the fender and the upper body line. There's still some work to be done here but I wanted to get it in primer to aid with being able to see where things were. I wasn't ready to prime the whole body yet so I only sprayed the front.