69 C-10 Pickup/Camper trailer project finished

[hedotwo]

To finally be able to put the wraps on my C/10/Winnebago conversions project I found time to finish changing the Greenlight diecast Winnebago trailer to match the colors and striping style on ours.  The trailer wasn't identical to our 64 fifteen foot but hey, I was tickled to see something this close available.  Rather than the tedious job of masking/painting the red striping I used lacquer thinner (the pic shows ELO but that didn't work) on a rag and gently wiped the original gold striping away and then creating the new striping.  I found a package of like 5 different widths of red paper masking tape on Amazon and then created the style of the stripes and "W" we had.  Was using tape ideal?  Nope but it looks good to me.  I also replaced the original wheel/tire combo with silver painted steelies and whitewalls, as we had, and disassembled the trailer to be able to change the colors on the inside as well to those close to what we had.  So this project is now in the display case and I'm really happy with it.  Thanks for all the nice comments on this build.  I'm including one of the only photos of both the truck and trailer that has survived in the past 47 years.  I'm sitting with my now 49 year old daughter ?!  The other old pic is of my wife and daughter.

I'd posted a similar post to this with pics earlier this week in my 69 base C/10 thread but in the interest of not taking up server space by posting the same pics here I've left them off.  If you want to see the final of this project you can look there. 

 

[mikemodeler]

Very nice! That camper top is spot on!

I have a resin Shasta camper from The Modelhaus and can't decide if I want to build a pickup like yours or use a Revell 66 Suburban as the two vehicle.

[Oldcarfan27]

[ChrisR]

Looks great!