72 Cheyenne Replica Stock

[lizardlust]

My latest project has been working with the venerable AMT rehit of the MPC 72 Chevy Cheyenne annual. Please bear with me - this is the first time I have posted my efforts here, and I realize that my efforts are not as advanced as many of the others shown here!! First off, we have the one-piece chassis - finished, for better or worse!

The dash and interior shell are more or less complete - I still need to add the A/C vents to the dash, and flock or otherwise carpet the floor:

The body has the color coats on at present. Paint and primer is Duplicolor. Clear and BMF remain to be done:

It struck me as odd that a fancy Cheyenne has A/C vents on the dash yet no compressor or power accessories, so I decided to "option out" the motor. A second belt assembly was added to the kit piece along with a P/S belt/pulley from a Revell smallblock, then blended together with Evergreen styrene and putty with pulley faces were added:

Thanks for looking!!

Edited September 15, 2008 by lizardlust

[LVZ2881]

looks great to me!!

dash is amazing!!

[Don B]

Great work so far. Nice color combination on the body. Very good detail on the dash and interior. Keep up the great work.

[Kenny]

Looks great! It really takes patience and a steady hand to detail an old model like that. Nice job.

[Raul_Perez]

Kurt,

There are certainly no appologies necessary for your work! For a chassis with the primary features molded in, you did a great job of painting and highlighting the details! The dash and the interior look really good, and the paint scheme is perfect for the model.

Regards,

[Rudy]

I second the fact that no apologies are needed!!! If you are apologizing for the quality of your work than I am in trouble!!! Looks great, I love the paint scheme. Very realistic.

Rudy

[evilone]

i want one

[rollinoldskoo]

i agree with all these guys.... thats some outstanding work there.... if i remember correctly, that interior tub has those seats molded in... amazing how u detailed it out like that....

[lizardlust]

FINALLY I have some progress to show on this beast!! I finally added "carpeting" by using the embossing powder method. Special thanks to Randbugeye for graciously telling us how to do this!!! I think it gives a nice "in-scale" carpet appearance, plus it beats trying to fill and sand the ejector marks on the floorboards!!

In addition, I finally scratched up some dash A/C vents from some spare ribbed valve covers redone with BMF and Tamiya Smoke and added instrument "lenses" with 5-minute epoxy.

This may give this ole bucket interior some life yet!!

Edited September 15, 2008 by lizardlust

[Fisher61]

Dash, chassis details look great! I see some top-notch work here! Looking forward to more on your build!

[62SS]

WOW!!!

Great job. the interior looks awesome and I love the exterior color combination.

Cant wait to see it finished. Keep up the great work.

Ed

[ModelKing]

outstanding job one your truck i like the color choice also, what are the holes in the dash for?

[nonova]

Fantastic detail on the dash and interior Kurt. Keep up the good work.

[Randy Kern]

This may be your first w.i.p. here, but that work looks like a pro did it! Fantastic job on the build so far. Like I said Kurt, I can't take credit for the embossing powder method, I just tried it and passed it on. It looks like you got it down perfect. Can't wait to see it done!

[James Flowers]

I agree with everyone that is one nice build you got going. Looking forward to seeing it finished.

[Eshaver]

Thers a fellow here in Richmond that owned a 1-1 Chevrolet truck like the one you're modeling. Ken used to sell used G. M parts. He is into Ham Radio too. ill see him tooling along U> S 1 or Jefferson Davis Highway from time to time. Ill tell him to visit this site and look at you're work, he would like it! Ed shaver

[Daniel Lynch]

Very nice work! Great job! Look very realistic1

Daniel

[gary westervelt]

Glad to see you're doing more work on this beast Kurt.It's lookin fantastic.

[george 53]

WoW, Kurt, I gotta agree with everyone else, your doin a heckova job on that lil truck!The interior door panel detail is too much!Did you handpaint that silver trim, or is it BMF? Either way, it came out really NICE! Dash looks great too! Oh,wat the heck! The WHOLE truck is comin along GREAT! Keep it up!!!

[bsoder]

Hey Kurt wassup!...I remember this, great to see some progress man

[mageckman]

what are the holes in the dash for?

I believe those are supposed to be gauges.Some of the chevy trucks of this style had the fuel, oil, temp, and amp gauges stretched out under the speedo, tach,and clock. My 1:1 has just the speedo and fuel gauge in the cluster and the rest are idiot lights, but I do have a cluster like his that I am planning on swapping in. Hope this helped

[lizardlust]

what are the holes in the dash for?

Thanks, Chris!! He's right - the "holes" are my attempt to replicate the auxilliary gauges. I didn't have any decals small enough to work and any attempt by me to detail paint the faces would've resulted in a Dali-esque nightmare, so I just drilled 'em to emphasize the depth and backed them up with black styrene. I still have to fill them with epoxy for lenses - fake gauges, anyone?!?