Amt 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air

[GeeBee]

On the bench now, AMT's latest issue of the 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air, body is really good, only a few mold lines to sort out, around the inside of the front wings, and a few marks where the body was cut off the molding tree, and thankfully the attachment points for the chrome bumpers are located at the base of them, rescribed the panel lines for the doors using my trusty panel scriber bought in Japan, there's a few parts in this kit including some very nice photo etch parts, sadly one of side trims has a kink in it, so they will be done using BMF,  however the front grille will be used.

 

[GeeBee]

A little more progress on the 57 Chevy, engine halves glued together, fuel tank halves fitted together, and a lot of engine parts ready for assembly,  also removed some plastic from the back of the bootlid, (Trunk) and the lip on the body, as the bootlid did stick up a little past the body lines.

[66belair]

Thanks a nice kit on my opinion, it’s have multiple of the street machine version, good fit.

[GeeBee]

Gone as far as I can with the engine before it gets a coat of primer and then a few coats of Chevrolet engine red, drilled the holes in the heads and the distributor so it can be wired.

[58 Impala]

Looking forward to following your build. I've started an earlier version of that kit (Pro Shop). Going to do do a mild custom for my build. Wish AMT would do more kits detailed like this one.

Edited December 17, 2018 by 58 Impala

[GeeBee]

Used the chassis and floorpan clamped together so I could get the rear axle and springs glued together, fixed the front seat parts together and filled the few gaps in the back with bondo and sanded smooth,and dry fitted the interior parts onto the floorpan, the parts fit is pretty good so far, got a load of other parts ready for primer.

[Lovefordgalaxie]

Looking good Geoff. Have this kit, the only part I don't like are the tires, with tiny whitewalls. 

[Belugawrx]

Looking good so far Geoff.

I love when distributors come started like that,..Kudos to someone out there in amt land.

Will you paint the entire underbody as a unit, then detail paint..?

Cheers

[GeeBee]

11 hours ago, Belugawrx said:

Looking good so far Geoff.

Will you paint the entire underbody as a unit, then detail paint..?

All the parts on the underbody are only dry fitted in place, the axle and springs have been fitted together and will be painted as one, but the chassis and floorpan will be airbrushed separately.

[Kiwi_Bloke]

I will be watching with interest, I have this kit in the stash to tackle when I get a little more practice with Cars, this scale and my airbrush.

 

[GeeBee]

Paint is on it's way from MCW Lacquer, it's going to be painted in Larkspur blue with an India ivory roof.

 

[Deathgoblin]

Looking good so far!    I just got one of these, so I'm curious to see how it builds up.

[GeeBee]

Paint arrived a few weeks ago from MCW Lacquer, also managed to get the bodyshell and body parts in primer, hopefully I'll get the roof panel painted in the week, there were mold lines under the headlamp recesses that I had missed that the grey primer showed up, so after getting those sorted, the front wings needed to be re-primed, while waiting to get round to doing the primer, I got the headlamp housing detailed and fitted the lenses.

 

[mod3l Lover]

   I'm looking forward to seeing that paint on there!!

Nice work so far, it's going to be a sharp looking car!

      David S.

[ATHU]

Beautiful work so far Geoff and nice color choice!!

[carnut]

I like what you are doing so far. I personally like the retooled version from AMT.

[GeeBee]

Hopefully I'll get all these parts in primer tomorrow

[511 nova]

Gonna be sweet. 

[GeeBee]

Well that's one laborious job out of the way,no they need sorting into groups so they can be painted in there required colours.

Edited January 22, 2019 by GeeBee

[GeeBee]

AMT '57 Chevrolet Bel Air roof masked up,hopefully I'll get it painted tomorrow

[matthijsgrit]

On 1/21/2019 at 11:24 PM, GeeBee said:

Hopefully I'll get all these parts in primer tomorrow

You put the parts numbers on the sticks, I see? Great idea right there!

[GeeBee]

2 hours ago, matthijsgrit said:

You put the parts numbers on the sticks, I see? Great idea right there!

Only on parts that look the same,but are in fact sided, like the exhaust, otherwise i don't bother marking them.

[GeeBee]

Managed to get a little time this morning to get a bit of airbrushing done

[GeeBee]

Masking tape removed, I'll leave it to dry out before masking the roof to airbrush the body 

 

[Shambles]

Nice work, Geoff. I wish I could get better with airbrushing. Using the rattle cans is a hit-or-miss. Do you airbrush the primer too? I've never primed the little parts since it requires tedious scraping away of the enamel paint or primer to get the glue to adhere. Is there a secret I don't know about for gluing together painted parts?

Edited September 12, 2019 by Shambles