Project '69 440 Six Pack

[JerseeJerry55]

Hey all,

Now that you have started to see my attempts at painting (if you think that's been painful to look at wait until you see me tackle the rest of the models) I present my latest work. The Monogram 1969 Super Bee 440 Six Pack. Where I've been trying to get an as perfect as I can paint job I think I'll build this one as a not so perfect one, High Low spots, some roughness to it. The reason for this is there is a local farm that on Friday nights becomes the local hang out for muscle cars. There's a 1969 Coronet R/T in dark green that is my inspiration. It's not in showroom shape and that's where this builds gonna go. I will take photos of the 1:1 and post next week. As always thanks for looking.

Jerry

[mustang1989]

Where'd it go? Looking forward to seeing it.

[JerseeJerry55]

Yes it would help if I had my first cup of coffee. My bad. Here are the pics.

[JerseeJerry55]

Question to all the builders out there. If I want to do a white interior do I just paint the seats and paint the interior bucket and dash black and just the seats white? 

[Action Jackson]

On about every 1:1 car with a white interior the only parts that are white are the seats and the door panels. Everything else is another color. 

[DaveM]

Here are a couple of reference shots.  A bench seat and a console.  

 

 

I am guessing that your green one might have colored carpet and trim inside.  I know the blue and red ones could be ordered with the white and black interiors.  (Or at least I have seen them restored that way)  

Hope this helps.

Edited June 18, 2016 by DaveM
I hit enter before I was done.

[superbike-shaun]

Dave,,super cool of you to post those Reference  shots !

[DaveM]

I just grabbed them off of Bing.  The main problem is I don't know the exterior colors of the cars.  You will want to make sure the white interior in your green Six Pack was available.  The die hard Mopar guys on here will be able to answer that for you.  Both of these cars were listed as 1969 Super Bees, but I noticed a difference in trim levels on the two cars.  The door panels and the chrome trim on them are both different.  I would just pick the one that comes closest to matching the parts in the kit and paint it to match that photo.  I built that kit way back in the eighties.  It was the first kit I built after a five or six year layoff.  I remember the interior being  pretty heavily engraved.  IIRC, it was a hair our of scale, but it made it pretty easy to go to town with the 10/0 paint brushes and pick out all of the knobs, instruments and dash details.  Even though it's an older tool, that interior can really come alive with a bit of patience.  After you get done painting up the instruments, you can put a drop of Micro Kristal Klear into each one to simulate glass.  

[JerseeJerry55]

Saw these today at a car show deep in the heart of South Jersey. The GTX is the color I've used for the Super Bee. The Super Bee is referrence for the hood.

[Lizard Racing]

A 69 440 Six-Pack was one of the baddest of the bad muscle cars.  Not necessarily the fastest, but the toughest to take off without spinning the rear wheels.

Your model is a worthy representation.

[JerseeJerry55]

I have decided my 69 Camaro is getting the white interior since it has the door panels separate. I painted them last night will post pictures ASAP.

Jerry

[Roadrunner]

I think you're being too hard on yourself, Jerry. I've botched nearly every paint job I've done in the last year, to one degree or another, but I'm slowly learning, and the results seem to be getting somewhat better. Having built predominantly aircraft and armor for the last twenty years, cars are a whole other world for me, and it seems to be taking me forever to learn how to get the results I want.

[bismarck]

I think you're being too hard on yourself, Jerry. I've botched nearly every paint job I've done in the last year, to one degree or another, but I'm slowly learning, and the results seem to be getting somewhat better. Having built predominantly aircraft and armor for the last twenty years, cars are a whole other world for me, and it seems to be taking me forever to learn how to get the results I want.

X2. I've been building for quite awhile now, but its just been recently, and with a lot of good advice from this forum, that I am just now learning to do some decent paint jobs. Polishing pads and Novus polish are absolute life savers!!! I can polish out dust, scratches, and even a bug or two, and the finish is fantastic. But it takes time, trial and error, and patience to get where you want to be. You'll get there. I like the color you chose for your Bee.

[Roadrunner]

X2. I've been building for quite awhile now, but its just been recently, and with a lot of good advice from this forum, that I am just now learning to do some decent paint jobs. Polishing pads and Novus polish are absolute life savers!!! I can polish out dust, scratches, and even a bug or two, and the finish is fantastic. But it takes time, trial and error, and patience to get where you want to be. You'll get there. I like the color you chose for your Bee.

One thing I did learn the hard way, is that Novus #2, contains silicone. If you ever need to respray an area after using that, the paint will not stick. I've switched to Meguiar's, and have had no issues (of that sort anyway) since then.

[bismarck]

Good information to have. Thanks. I've been lucky and haven't had too many bad burn throughs on paint jobs so far, I tried Meguiar's, but it actually lifted the paint i was using.

[Roadrunner]

Good information to have. Thanks. I've been lucky and haven't had too many bad burn throughs on paint jobs so far, I tried Meguiar's, but it actually lifted the paint i was using.

Yea, on two of my earliest paint jobs, I had to touch up, and the paint just slid off and pooled everywhere, even after a thorough scrubbing with dish soap, like I was spraying onto grease; quite the mess, and very frustrating. Someone here pointed out the silicone issue, and that was that.