Revell Beretta Pro Street

[crowe-t]

I needed to paint a body to test some new clear.  I have a few Revell Beretta Pro Street kits so I decided to build one.  It was supposed to be an out of box build but I got a little carried away. lol

The Revell Beretta body is basically a stock Beretta.  I enlarged the rear wheel openings 5 mm so it would look like a Pro Street car and I extended the hood and fenders back towards the windshield and removed the hood scoop.  The blower is from a 68 Corvette kit.  The rear end was goofy since there is no suspension so I took a spare 9 inch rear's housing and scratch build a 4 link and wheelie bars.  The wheelie bars are more of a Pro Mod design but due to the small diameter styrene rods(1.2 mm) the cage design gives it strength.  I also didn't have any 1.6 mm styrene rods so I made due. 

I thought it needed a rear wing so I made one from some sheet styrene.  I'm holding it in place in the picture with a pair of tweezers.  This kit has a Lenco which isn't too realistic for a Pro Street car so I ordered a resin Turbo 400 for it.  This is about all the modifications I'm doing on this one except I might make the rear quarter windows a bit larger.  The quarter window frames on this kit are too wide and make the windows too small.

 

Here's some progress pictures.

Edited January 29, 2022 by crowe-t

[Fabrux]

Love it!

[Snake45]

I like where you're going with this. Drive on! 

[crowe-t]

Hey thanks guys!  I'm trying to take some of the Rick Dobbertin out of it. lol

I found pictures of this Pro Street Beretta that's a really nice color.  I also found this same Beretta in a video on Youtube.  At first I thought it was red but it's actually a red-orange metallic/pearl color.  In a night time shot on the video it clearly looks orange.  The Beretta is shown at :45 seconds in and then again at 1:59.

Here's a link to the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEh-ddnSx8w 

I'm going to paint it McLaren Mira Orange Pearl which looks the same. 

 

Edited January 30, 2022 by crowe-t

[NYLIBUD]

Yea i like this thing so far.Great job.

[MeatMan]

Works for me!

[crowe-t]

Thanks guys!  I'm trying to have fun with this build.

I have a set of Centerline Convo Pro wheels I think I'll use for this.  I modified a set of wheel backs from an AMT 1966 Nova kit to work with the wheels.

  

[NYLIBUD]

On 1/29/2022 at 11:20 PM, crowe-t said:

Hey thanks guys!  I'm trying to take some of the Rick Dobbertin out of it. lol

I found pictures of this Pro Street Beretta that's a really nice color.  I also found this same Beretta in a video on Youtube.  At first I thought it was red but it's actually a red-orange metallic/pearl color.  In a night time shot on the video it clearly looks orange.  The Beretta is shown at :45 seconds in and then again at 1:59.

Here's a link to the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEh-ddnSx8w 

I'm going to paint it McLaren Mira Orange Pearl which looks the same. 

 

I think I saw this car at a show somewhere on LI,NY a couple of years ago.This is turning out to be a wild build.Please keep the pics coming.

[crowe-t]

1 minute ago, NYLIBUD said:

I think I saw this car at a show somewhere on LI,NY a couple of years ago.This is turning out to be a wild build.Please keep the pics coming.

This car has NY plates so it must be the one you saw.  

I did some more work today and will post pictures in a day or so.  It's not a replica of the car I posted but inspired by it.

[crowe-t]

I installed three 1 mm brass rods into the wing to attach it to the rear deck and used straight pins for the four supports that go into the bumper.  I used the kit's parachute which I made a bracket for and also used straight pins.

The fenders and hood are raised up slightly towards the windshield and the rear quarter windows are opened up which I feel looks more accurate to a real Beretta.

This kit doesn't have a Beretta dash board.  The dash board in the kit is basically a flat top piece which has a large gauge panel that goes underneath.  I'm not using the gauge panel so I started building a Beretta dash board.  It's rough but I'll clean it up and add some details.  I had to file down some of the inside of the transmission tunnel to fit the Turbo 400 so I added some .75 mm styrene sheet to the sides.  I think it actually looks better now that it's wider.

I attached the front of the chassis rails in the engine compartment and added some supports.  I'll be painting the chassis rails and roll cage the body color.  After these are painted I can glue the roll cage in.  The interior will have dark gray door panels, seats and dash board and possibly red carpeting on the floor.  I'm not sure if I'll spray the transmission tunnel and rear wheel tubs in polished aluminum or use carbon fiber decals.  What do you all think?

I cut out the front of the belly pan to accommodate the Turbo 400's pan.  It's larger than the Lenco but I made it fit.  I started making a tunnel in the rear of the underbody for the wheelie bars.

Thanks for looking in and comments are welcome.

 

Edited March 28, 2022 by crowe-t

[Snake45]

Nice work! I have one of these in the Snakepit and you are making me want to drag it out and slap it together, which is a high compliment. Drive on! 

[MeatMan]

Awesome fab work!

[crowe-t]

Thanks guys!

The paint came today.  It's a red orange pearl and should look quite a bit like the 1:1 Beretta pictures I posted above.

[NYLIBUD]

Again,great job so far.

[crowe-t]

15 hours ago, NYLIBUD said:

Again,great job so far.

Thanks Ron!

[crowe-t]

What do you guys think, ground effects or no ground effects?  The part I taped on for the picture is from an MPC Beretta GT kit but it's too long.  It's even too long for the MPC body which has the same wheelbase as the Revell body. 

 

I started scratch building an Enderle bug catcher injector scoop.

[NYLIBUD]

1 hour ago, crowe-t said:

What do you guys think, ground effects or no ground effects?  The part I taped on for the picture is from an MPC Beretta GT kit but it's too long.  It's even too long for the MPC body which has the same wheelbase as the Revell body. 

 

I started scratch building an Enderle bug catcher injector scoop.

Yea go with the ground effects.I guess U would just have to trim the sides,and I think it would look cool.

[Cool Hand]

Excellent re working of a kit to suit your vision.

[Spottedlaurel]

Great work. I'd say no to the side pieces, just try and get the unmodified body sitting as low as possible.

Comically small gap between the rear arches!

[crowe-t]

Thanks guys!

[crowe-t]

9 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Great work. I'd say no to the side pieces, just try and get the unmodified body sitting as low as possible.

Comically small gap between the rear arches!

What's the 'Comically small gap between the rear arches!'?

[Spottedlaurel]

13 hours ago, crowe-t said:

What's the 'Comically small gap between the rear arches!'?

The little gap barely big enough for the back end of the transmission tunnel between what I d call the inner arches, but you might say tubs?

[crowe-t]

9 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

The little gap barely big enough for the back end of the transmission tunnel between what I d call the inner arches, but you might say tubs?

That's one of the problems with this kit.  Revell should have used a different chassis that is more realistic.  I'm sure they wanted to make as much money on the Rick Dobbertin J2000 kit by re-using the chassis in this kit.  I'm trying to make this look a bit more like a real Pro Street car and use as much of the kit as possible.

[crowe-t]

I got inspired and I stretched the nose/wheelbase.  It actually solved the problem I had trying to get the rack and pinion to fit.  I had originally moved the engine forward and the rack and pinion didn't fit.  Now that the nose is stretched I was able to move the engine back to almost it's original location.  I also attached the Turbo 400 to the engine.

 

Edited February 9, 2022 by crowe-t

[crowe-t]

I set the Beretta on the wheels and took some pictures.  It'll have Centerline Convo Pros all around.  The wheel backs kept popping off so I just used the kit's front wheels for these pictures.