Scale-Master

No Jeff, I'm just going to finish it. I got a good start on the camper shell. I drew up some plans and built it up from sheet styrene. It snaps onto the bed.

I put the window sticker on upside down, didn't want to be like everyone else so I put the bumper sticker on "normally".

I started this model shortly after I bought my truck about 1985. (I only bought it short-term to facilitate the engine swap I had planned for my Camaro. But I found many uses for it subsequently, and we camped with it a lot.) The model started as a repurposed step-side (MPC) that I had built much earlier. To make the standard bed I sacrificed a Blazer body. (I think it was the Boondocker.) I mixed the Ocher color and painted the body, built most of the engine and interior back then. Then a couple moves and a lot of life got in the way, so the model sat on the far edges of my workbench all these years. Also the salt air (and it having never been garaged) took a toll on the real trucks paint, i.e. rust. And as it changed its appearance I wasnt sure what I wanted to do with the model. Fast forward to my current drive to build the models of my past (and present) cars; I decided it was time to pick up (no pun) the project again. Make no mistake, this was one ugly truck, but it was a great truck to me. It never left me stranded, and it did everything I ever asked of it, some of which was borderline abuse. It served me very well for 27+ years. It was very original down to the required smog equipment, (even though it became smog exempt in 98). According to the build factory sheet laminated to the inside the glove box door: LS9 350 4bolt w/4bbl, 4 speed transmission with PTO 12 bolt rear end with 4:11 gears Power front disc brakes ¾ ton add a leaf rear springs and trailer tow package (including rear view mirror delete) . White Spoke Wheels Heres where Im picking it up After a good wash down, (something I gave the real one at least once a year, or two).

Thanks guys! The real car is long gone, it was traded in on a Pinto when they came out by his ex-wife. I never saw the car in person. I had one photo of the car to work from and a ton of notes about the details I took down from the owner. He inspected it yesterday and it passed with flying colors.

Thanks guys. I think he will be pleased with it. He was very proud of the car and I think he had to let it go when he started a family. The door handles come in the Revell '67 Camaro kit.

I made smoke plexiglass covers for the headlights and parking lights on the real car. (The headlight covers were held on by Velcro for easy removal for night driving.)

I'm sticking a fork in this one: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=103495

Copy of a good friends car as was about 1969-70. I modified the Revell 67 Camaro 396 SS into this 327 non-SS in Le Mans Blue with the D90 stripes. I made the Baldwin Motion hood from a combination of the kit hood and a resin copy from a 67 Corvette. Wheels and tires are resin items I cast. WIP Thread: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=98972

Thanks guys. The exhaust and door handles are installed. I made a standard gas cap to replace the SS style that came it the kit. I replaced the side view mirror with the square style from a ’69 Camaro, (the kit came with a round one correct for ‘67).

I've always like that piece Pete. Love the kits in the back too.

Gonzo! What a great dog! (Met him at GSL.) As usual your workmanship is very sharp.

License plate and bumper stickers, just as it was back then…

Thanks Riley, I actually did a step by step article with lots of pictures of how I built the Interceptor for Model Cars Magazine a few years ago.

Nice brass work Steve.

The glass is in… And I made decals for the rear window.

The glass fits very well on this kit. It’s getting close to being finished…

I had 48DCOE's on mine. Mild cam, Blackjack header, turbo muffler with an Ansa tip. It was over carbed but I got a smokin' deal on the carbs and manifold. I lowered it too using the heavy duty springs (new stock) for the PacBell panel "telephone truck" version, I cut a coil out of them and beefed up the sway bars. It handled very well.

If the body wasn't so stubby I would have considered making a copy. I'll bet you have some great memories from that car Todd. What did you have under the hood?

A couple fun one's. My version of an "original" Magnum and Ford's answer to the Impala SS.

Thanks Ben! Cut, waxed and ready for glass…

Thanks guys. Cut, waxed and ready for glass…

Thanks guys. This model started out as just a "slot filler" in a collection of cars I've owned done in model form. (Right now I'm only short the '68 Vista Cruiser, all others are done or in progress.) I got carried away with some of the details on this and was having a load of fun, and I opted to not mess with the door handles. Originally it was just going to be straight out-of-the-box. There are other minor issues I let slide as well. Like the fact it had one '66 seat and one '67 seat... I'm looking at it as one part of a whole collection. I intend to put more accurate detail into the Camaro, and maybe the '72 C10. The '65 Coronet was done in 10 hours, the C5 was done OOB, the Vega Kammback is near completion and all fit into the collection fine as far as I'm concerned. You don't have to wait too long John... Here's the finished model: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=103329

This is a model of my fourth car, circa 1983, in about the condition it was in when I sold it. I only had it for about 7 months. It was fast and unsafe. It was in this condition when I got it, but a bit dirtier and with a bunch of junk stuffed into the interior. I did little to it other than drive it to the brink of abuse, (not that it hadn't been treated that way before I got it), and I put the OCIR bumper sticker on it. It was the last year for the dragstrip. I didn't run this car on it, it would never have passed tech. (I did get my Camaro into the field for The Last Drag Race though. Ran my Vega there many times too.) I used the AMT Grumpy's Toy kit and added a few items to the model that made my car unique. This model was a blast to build and brought back many memories. It turned out to be a really quick build too; only 11 days. WIP thread: http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=103049&page=1

Thanks guys! The silver I used is Tamiya MP-7 from the Mini 4WD paint pen line. I decant it and keep it in a regular paint bottle. All the silver on the body (except the lower trim panels) was freehand brush painted. Masking for this type of trim just slows the process and leads to paint bleed. Knowing I was going to weather it I had no problem with “messing up” a good paint job. Ironically the paint job came out better than I needed or planned. I don’t think there was much in the way of assembly line markings left from the factory by the time I got it. I build a little of everything, but mostly automotive. And even on my shiny cars I almost always add a little weathering.

Not necessarily. I started this model on 6-15-15. I painted the body last Monday afternoon with Testors enamel. (That's two days ago on 6-22-15.) But there has been more work done to the body post painting than I would for a "pretty" car. And thanks!