Amt 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air

[GeeBee]

3 minutes ago, Shambles said:

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?

Pretty much all my painting is done using an airbrush, i only used brushes on small detail parts, yes the small parts do need scraping to get them to glue properly,although using 2 part epoxy glue doesn't need the plastic to plastic bonding.

[charlie8575]

Nice colour choice. I'm doing mine in Surf over Highland Green.

Charlie Larkin

[Super28]

Nice build so far.

[GeeBee]

9 hours ago, charlie8575 said:

Nice colour choice. I'm doing mine in Surf over Highland Green.

Charlie Larkin

I've got another one in the stash, I haven't even though about colours for that one. 

[GeeBee]

As the saying goes "Make hay while the sun shines" but as I'm no farmer  I did some airbrushing instead, chassis and a few other parts done, gearbox needs masking so I can airbrush the engine. 

[GeeBee]

I think the airbrushing Gods must be looking over me lately, another job that went without any problems

 

[gman]

I would have to agree- that looks stunning so far. Your build is coming along nicely.

[beeRS]

Superb work Geoff. If this turns out anything like your other builds it will be a stunner.

[espo]

Great looking paint work. Just a little suggestion since you're going for the showroom appearance. The A pillar has an area that would be painted white to match the roof color. This is between the vent window trim and the windshield trim. This is a very slim area that can easily be touched up by brush painting.  

[Tonioseven]

Beautiful work so far!!

[GeeBee]

A little more airbrushing on the body colour parts.

[StevenGuthmiller]

On 9/19/2019 at 3:23 PM, espo said:

The A pillar has an area that would be painted white to match the roof color. This is between the vent window trim and the windshield trim. This is a very slim area that can easily be touched up by brush painting.  

I believe that you may be mistaken, at least on the Belair Sport Coupe.

It appears to be all chrome from front to back.

 

 

 

Steve

 

 

[espo]

10 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

I believe that you may be mistaken, at least on the Belair Sport Coupe.

It appears to be all chrome from front to back.

 

 

 

Steve

 

 

After looking at your photo I guess I should stand corrected. I owned a 210 Hardtop long ago and there were differences in the trim. I may have been thinking of the '56 year model Bel Air. Sorry about any confusion I may have created.  

[tbill]

This is really looking great! Should be a stunner when done .

[GeeBee]

2 hours ago, espo said:

After looking at your photo I guess I should stand corrected. I owned a 210 Hardtop long ago and there were differences in the trim. I may have been thinking of the '56 year model Bel Air. Sorry about any confusion I may have created.  

No problem, I was going to PM you, as I'd been looking at the photos of the 1:1 I'd downloaded, and couldn't see which part you were on about.

[StevenGuthmiller]

3 hours ago, espo said:

After looking at your photo I guess I should stand corrected. I owned a 210 Hardtop long ago and there were differences in the trim. I may have been thinking of the '56 year model Bel Air. Sorry about any confusion I may have created.  

1956 was the same as the '57.

The high end models got an extra piece of trim to fill the gap between the vent window and windshield molding.

Same in '55.

 

 

Steve

 

[ATHU]

3 hours ago, espo said:

After looking at your photo I guess I should stand corrected. I owned a 210 Hardtop long ago and there were differences in the trim. I may have been thinking of the '56 year model Bel Air. Sorry about any confusion I may have created.  

You're not compeletely wrong, the 2/4d post 57 210's/Bel Airs had that small area painted in roof color?

 

Edited September 21, 2019 by ATHU

[ATHU]

Beautiful work on that 57 Geoff, cant wait to see the finished model!!

[Bucky]

Here's a BelAir, according to this site: https://www.streetsideclassics.com/vehicles/0450-phx/1957-chevrolet-bel-air-2-door-sedan

Edited September 21, 2019 by Bucky

[StevenGuthmiller]

2 hours ago, ATHU said:

You're not compeletely wrong, the 2/4d post 57 210's/Bel Airs had that small area painted in roof color?

 

 

1 hour ago, Bucky said:

Here's a BelAir, according to this site: https://www.streetsideclassics.com/vehicles/0450-phx/1957-chevrolet-bel-air-2-door-sedan

Absolutely true on both counts.

But Geoff's build depicts a '57 Belair sport coupe, not a sedan.

We don't want to confuse the situation.

 

This is why there are different "trim levels".

The 210 and 150 sedans had almost no bright work window trim at all.

 

 

Steve

[Bucky]

OOOOOPSS!!! My bad!! I got crossed up, somehow, and thought he was building a sedan! (Need to get my eyes checked.)

[GeeBee]

Today's job is to build up the engine 

[bisc63]

I'm loving your choice of colors, and your build is very clean so far. Keep it up!

[henry57]

Beautiful paint. How much was a bottle of the MCW Lacquer? How well does it cover?

[StevenGuthmiller]

10 minutes ago, henry57 said:

Beautiful paint. How much was a bottle of the MCW Lacquer? How well does it cover?

I believe a 1 oz. jar of MCW lacquer still runs about $7.50.

 

The last time I ordered right after they switched hands, I received several jars that were over thinned and did not cover well.

But this is the exception and not the rule.

In general, I have few complaints about MCW.

 

I recently started using Scale Finishes because you get twice the amount, ( a 2 oz. bottle) for $2.50 more. ($9.99 a bottle) and the paint is every bit as good.

That plus the fact that there were colors that Scale Finishes carried that I would have had to special order from MCW.

 

But that said, MCW produces a great product!

 

 

 

Steve