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35 Yr. Old Monogram 69 Camaro SS-Now "Under Glass"-07/20

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I have one of these built box stock and an old Rampage Camaro I plan on rebuilding except I can't find the front and rear bumpers for it and Revell discontinued the parts for it.This was one of my favorites as a kit.

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Rich: Man thanks for the good word and the suggestion. I'll surely take heed to it.

Lou: Ebay is your friend. They are on there all the time.  Check it out. (I will say that the newer Revell Camaro is ALOT better-but I understand the nostalgia/ sentimental reasons for building it) http://www.ebay.com/itm/1980s-Monogram-69-Rampage-Camaro-Plastic-Model-1-24-Scale-2725-/401262427910?hash=item5d6d1abf06:g:EjUAAOSw44BYJ~w3

and http://www.ebay.com/itm/Monogram-1-24th-scale-1969-Chevy-Camaro-Z28-model-kit-EXCELLENT-NEW-COND-Wow-/192078304750?hash=item2cb8c255ee:g:3sIAAOSwo4pYekMM

I'll be turning my attention to the steering wheel and column tomorrow morning.

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As promised , I've been working on the steering column along with the dash for the better part of 3 days. First off I took the OOB steering wheel and cut out the spoke holes and shaved off the horn pad. I then drilled two holes in the column. One on the right for the ignition switch, key and key chain and the one on the left for a turn signal lever. I painted the steering wheel spokes with the newly acquired chrome pen that I just got in the mail and installed a PE "SS" horn pad. I then took a PE key along with a PE ignition switch bezel and a PE key chain with a  "Bowtie" on it , made a scratch built key ring and put it all together and installed it into the column. The turn signal lever is made from a .019" needle I had in the spares box and I'll be painting a black knob on the end of it tomorrow morning. Any ways here it all is. I'll show the before picture (which I knew I should have taken a more clear "before" picture of the dash beforehand but this is all I've got) and then the improvement pics:

 

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Ok gang. It's been a little bit since I posted any updates here and I'm trying not to bore everybody to death with a picture of a floor mat here and a picture of foot pedals there so I'm waiting till I feel that I've got some substantial progress before posting. Additionally , if I spend all my time taking pictures then I don't get much done at the bench. I build slow enough like it is.

Here we are with the dash in place, carpet / flocking put down everywhere except where the seats go and floor mats down. Folks I'm doing the very best I can with what I have here so there was just no hope of getting the floor mat on the drivers side to go under the pedals unless I wanted to cut that area of the floor pan out and graph in a "blank" piece of styrene and drop the pedals down from the back side of the dash. That's more work than I wanted to do so I cut the floor mat just short of the pedals and did most of my fancy foot work with the pedals themselves to try to make up the shortcoming. I've got the shifter plate along with the shift pattern insert on the plate installed on the center console in this pic and will be adding the PE gauge bezels and gauges as well as the shifter lever soon to round out that console.

The two front seats with the chrome emblem picked out with that chrome pen:

and the back seat that I robbed from the spare kit since my original Camaro build did NOT have a back seat at all in it. Yeah ....the roll bars are going bye bye for the revamp and I'll be installing this seat along with seat belts for the front and rear seats. I'll also be filling in those openings for the roll bar with some sheet styrene.

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This interior just keeps getting better with each addition. I've got the door handles and window cranks as well as the Camaro badges on the door panels and the console is finished. The shifter is a bobby pin that I bent and sanded the shifter ball to get rid of a seam it had. Center gauges are from the PE set I bought. I'm going to buy another set of floor mats so I can fix that drivers side floor area. I'm not happy with that but I'll fix it. Here we are so far guys:

 

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This interior just keeps getting better with each addition. I've got the door handles and window cranks as well as the Camaro badges on the door panels and the console is finished. The shifter is a bobby pin that I bent and sanded the shifter ball to get rid of a seam it had. Center gauges are from the PE set I bought. I'm going to buy another set of floor mats so I can fix that drivers side floor area. I'm not happy with that but I'll fix it. Here we are so far guys:

 

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...it's hard to imagine that's the MONOGRAM interior ......look's just outstanding, Joe....terrific effort to bring it out so nicely,,, great work and very interested in the finished  build....best, the Ace....;)

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Thanks fellas! Hopefully this'll finish up to be a decent lookin' car. 
 

James: I just painted the floor black, applied some Elmer's glue down and peppered it on the glue and kind of mashed it in some and dumped the excess off. This flocking is very fine though.

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Thanks Anthony.

When this all started the interior didn't have a back seat. I think it was in the kit but for some reason I chose to omit it on the original build. When I got the spare kit it had one in it but it was notched out on the sides for the dang roll bar braces.

 

This is after stripping the white paint from it:

 

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Here it is after filling in the cut outs with some Evergreen sheet styrene and filling and sanding everything smooth. Additionally, I made some small cut outs where the seat back and seat bottom meet for seat belts which are now installed with the PE seat buckles. Man I guess I need to fill the center "dot" in on those buckles. I'll also be working on the front seat finishes to match the rear seat. No biggie on that though.

 

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Thanks a lot Carl , Dave and Randy!

Well guys, the floor mats came in the mail yesterday and I went right to work finishing the interior. All I have left at this point are the door lock rods/ knobs at each door but that'll be one of the last things to take care of with this model. I will, however, go ahead and drill the holes in the door panel. Here it is with floor mats at all four seating positions , the front seat belts installed and a Hot Rod magazine to round it all out.

 

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I just hate these engines that are molded in two halves with the oil pan included. facepalm_zpsgaclnqrj.gif

 

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 After taking care of the seam lines and priming , I carried the black basing over from the aviation side and applied it here.

 

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I went ahead and black based the intake manifold as well. I shot the block with some home mixed Chevrolet Engine Red and shot the coat on and then shot the intake with some "Aluminum". After that I applied a subtle wash to bring out the detail of both pieces. 

 

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