68 Camaro Pro Mod

[sah5150]

On 5/17/2025 at 10:25 PM, Tortuga Kustomz said:

That's a great start my friend, welcome to the forum, looking forward for more of this

Thanks Marcos! Was waiting for a few things, but hope to get back to it this weekend.

[sah5150]

On 5/17/2025 at 10:25 PM, Tortuga Kustomz said:

That's a great start my friend, welcome to the forum, looking forward for more of this

Duplicate... sorry...

Edited May 20 by sah5150
duplicate

[sah5150]

On 5/18/2025 at 2:36 PM, Nitro330 said:

Hi Steve, welcome to the board and more importantly, back into the hobby!  Looks like you already have a great start on a very ambitious project and have assembled some awesome aftermarket parts.  I was just at the NHRA event yesterday at Route 66 Dragway in Joliet, IL and most of the field in Pro Mod was Camaro's so there is a lot of reference material out there.  Really look forward to watching your progress on this, enjoy!

Thanks Terry - I've been assembling tons of reference material - the real question for me is how far to go with the detail.

[sah5150]

10 hours ago, rv1963 said:

Nice start on your pro mod chassis, soldered brass tubing always looks good and is very strong, I will be watching this build.

I appreciate you checking it out, Robert!

[sah5150]

Small Update - I am combining parts from two different engines and some separate parts, so i've been test fitting stuff. I actually glued part of the engine that I'll be painting the same color as soon as my paint arrives. Anyway, here are some pictures of where this is headed:

Steve

Edited June 9 by sah5150

[sah5150]

Since I hadn't done much airbrushing (took a class that was more about t-shirt design and primed some parts for a project I never finished years ago), I decided to clean my airbrush and practice on some spoons with Vallejo acrylics. I'd prefer not to use anything but water-based acrylics, so I wanted to see what what the metal colors looked like. I read that for the aluminum color, I should prime first with Vallejo gloss black primer and then do the metal color coats. I practiced on a few spoons just to get the hang of how much paint to use and controlling the airbrush and by the time I did a few, i felt confident enough to try my engine block.

Here is what my setup looks like:

Here is the block after one light and one medium coat of the gloss black primer:

And here are a few pictures of the block after a couple of coats of the Vallejo Metal Color Aluminum:

The lighting wasn't great for these pictures, but in person I think it actually looks metal-like for water-based acrylic. Anyway... not much progress, but I feel comfortable with my airbrush again!

[BK9300]

The metal look on your engine turned out really well.  Should look exceptional with all the other parts added on - nice work!

[sah5150]

6 minutes ago, BK9300 said:

The metal look on your engine turned out really well.  Should look exceptional with all the other parts added on - nice work!

Thanks, Brian - I’ll post an update when I get more of the engine together.