1979 Chevy Corvette _reworked from a Promo

[Snake45]

Very, VERY nice! Fabulous, in fact! What a change!

I have this very promo on my workbench even as we speak. I'm planning to just polish up the red plastic, and then detail it out similar to how you did yours. I hope mine comes out even half as well!

[Zoom]

Good looking!!

[lilcraigford]

Wow, what a shocking change from the first to second photo! The details make all of the difference. That and the clean work make for a really convincing model.

[Dragline]

Fantastic transformation.

[Fanof69]

Wow that came out fantastic!! That yellow looks so good on this car.

[Cosmo_Song]

Very, VERY nice! Fabulous, in fact! What a change!

I have this very promo on my workbench even as we speak. I'm planning to just polish up the red plastic, and then detail it out similar to how you did yours. I hope mine comes out even half as well!

Thank you very much! Good luck with your own build too.

One modifucation I did to this model was to reshape the C-pillar. The original shape was missing a triangle area so I had to use styrene to fix it.

[Snake45]

Ah, I see what you did there! Looks good!

 As I'm just polishing my plastic (sort of the point of the exercise, in fact), I'll just be leaving that area alone.

I'm about to finish an AMT Snapper (unassembled promo) '70 Vette molded in red. (Yes, I polished that one too.)  I did the interior in tan. I'll probably do the '79 the same way, just to make a beginning and end of the decade matched set.

I also have a '78 Anniversary promo, in the two-tone silver and gray. I'm hoping I can get by with a light polish of the paint on that one, and then do my standard detailing on that one as well. If the polish job doesn't come out to suit me, I can always repaint it.

Take a look at my polished plastic C2 Sting Rays in the thread "Two for Prince." I'm working on an entire series of polished plastic Corvettes in various colors and years. Rising quickly to the top of my Build List is the AMT '53 snapper, and I just got a Revell snapper of the latest generation (I forget exactly what year it is) molded in a bright yellow.

Edited September 30, 2016 by Snake45