33 Willy's HiBoy

[68shortfleet]

I found images of this black 33 Willy's and decided it would make an excellent build, what I didn't realize is the amount of body mods needed to do it. It has been lengthened in the body and hood, widened through the middle, sectioned(pie cut), A pillars leaned back, B pillars leaned forward, grill leaned back and rear wheel arches moved up.

I will try my best to get close to that, but doubt I can build a perfect replica. I'm starting with a couple of AMT 33 Willy's kits. I started by un-chopping the kit body by adding 4" to the rear of the cabin area, which moved the roof forward 2", that gave me a perfect B pillar forward lean. The rear of the car was too long so i removed 6" from it right through the middle of the trunk area. Then I added 6" to the doors and leaned the A pillars back as I un-chopped some of the windshield height. Next came widening of the body in a pie form. Two inches at the cowl and three at the rear.. Then did a section cut out of each side. 

Next came the hood, I cut the rearmost 6"  and the grill area off one hood and glued the 6" to the rear of the second hood. This made the hood 2" wider to match the new wider cowl. 

Here's some pics to help it make sense.

Right now, between the two kit bodies and the Evergreen pieces, this body consists of at least 41 pieces I've glued together. The hood has about another five pieces so far.

[Pat Minarick]

Nice cutting!

[cobraman]

Ton of work but that will be very cool and worth the effort.

[stavanzer]

Wow!  what a butt-load of work.  It looks so smooth and professional though. Great job.

[Koellefornia Kid]

Great project Jason! Will watch closely

[Jantrix]

[bob29579]

Wow, a lot of work, but that black one does look really good...