gtx6970 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 (edited) This went much better than I expected for the upper body line trim. It's a .020 x .040 styrene strip glued along the very top edge of the body line. And a test on how to make the grill My tubing is 3/64" rod glued to a flat faced piece of styrene strip. Anyone know if they make a smaller diam rod ? I need to get 7 strip where I now have 5 A 1967 GTX has 4 head lights. A 1966 satellite has 2 with the smaller diam inner circle is the park lamp turn signal . Thus the need to remake the grill Edited February 22 by gtx6970 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moparman18064 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 4 hours ago, gtx6970 said: Anyone know if they make a smaller diam rod ? I need to get 7 strip where I now have 5 Can’t you use the .020 X .040 strip instead, if too tall, file to height desired? I would think you should be able to get 7 evenly spaced, I could be wrong, has happened before😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtx6970 Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 (edited) 14 hours ago, Moparman18064 said: Can’t you use the .020 X .040 strip instead, if too tall, file to height desired? I would think you should be able to get 7 evenly spaced, I could be wrong, has happened before😁 Im going to stop in my local shop for more sizes of styrene strips My fear in trying to get much smaller strips is getting all 7 aligned straight across Edited February 23 by gtx6970 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenGuthmiller Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 (edited) I think I'd try some .010x.030 strip, laid on edge. Use some thin rod or strip vertically as your background mounting members, and possibly some .020 or .040 strip for spacers to ensure that the spacing is correct and even. Use a thicker strip for the horizontal center grille member, and the upper and lower outer moldings. If it wasn't for the fact that I'm way behind already on my current project, I'd sit down in my shop for a couple of hours and test this theory, but That's the approach that I would take. The parking light bezels could be done with some plastic tube of the correct diameter, but I'm not sure if I would try to do them before the grille members and butt them up to the bezels, or more likely, add them after. Steve Edited February 24 by StevenGuthmiller 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtx6970 Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 I picked up some more strips yesterday Will try a few ideas next week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwc43 Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 Could you use the Moebius 65 Satellite grill instead. It has the single headlight to begin with and you could just cut out the rest and put the tubes in with the circle cut for the marker light. I don't know, after looking at the pics again, the 65 does not have that angle by the fender does it. Oh well, it was just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtx6970 Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 The 65 Belvedere grill has a noticeable peak in it the 66 Does not. Not to mention a completely different pattern I have a couple ideas on both the grille and taillights. AND Also talking to a 3D guy maybe working out the pieces all get done in 3d print, ( fingers crossed it works ) he was already thinking about it . So I sent him all kinds of pictures to get some ideas . If need be, I will send him a spare body to test fit In the mean time, I spent a little time in the garage today working on the body conversion. So far,,,,,,So good. But I still have a long way to go 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtx6970 Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 Engine is a mix of parts box stuff to the hemi and auto. Painted duplicolor hemi orange. Chassis plate is simple out of the box just painted to kinda sorta look like an OE bottom side. ( which my car is not) I think the turndown exhaust is revell 68.69 charger??? Which is where the rear springs and Dana will be sourced 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtx6970 Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 (edited) Painted the interior with the same exact paint used on hard plastic pieces of the actual car. A metallic crimson clear red sprayed over a silver base I made a plate to cover the radio on the kit dash as my car doesn't have one. Also converted the 67 style 3 spoke wheel to a correct 2 spoke for 1966 Im waiting to hear back if the 3D guy is thinking make the correct 66 seat pattern , or not. So I may not use these in this build. Edited February 28 by gtx6970 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtx6970 Posted February 28 Author Share Posted February 28 (edited) Test fit Edited February 28 by gtx6970 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 Your doing a great Job! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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