Revell '57 Chevrolet 150

[Fisher61]

I wasn't going to start a new build until after my oldest daughters wedding at the end of June, but I was extremely bored this last weekend and decided I would just tear into this '57! I decided on painting it silver and white because I liked this color scheme and I had the paint on hand and I'm on a tight budget!

I will polish this out when it's cured well enough, get the foil on it and that should motivate me to get rolling on the rest. Thanks for looking!

Edited June 24, 2009 by plumber

[berr13]

I like that color combo, too. Where are you going with the model?...stock utility sedan? Street racer? Should be interesting.

[pibull63]

looks pretty sweet. did you use a rattle can or airbrush?

[BigGary]

Are you going to stay with the minimalist interior and 6 lug wheels? This kit portrays a special production car with brakes from the pickup and the injected engine, among other changes.

Gary

[Fisher61]

Thanks for the comments guys! To answer your questions, this will be a factory stock build, I'm thinking about adding a backseat. The paint is Duplicolor sprayed right from the can. Still debating over the fuel injection or 4 barrel induction. I would like to build an injected Belair hardtop in the future, this unit would look right at home under the hood!

[george 53]

She's lookin good Bill. Congrats on the new addition to the family, I wish them well. The colors right on for that design, they look like they coulda been factory colors! Were they? Just keep us posted,caz I think this one'll be sharp!

[Fisher61]

She's lookin good Bill. Congrats on the new addition to the family, I wish them well. The colors right on for that design, they look like they coulda been factory colors! Were they? Just keep us posted,caz I think this one'll be sharp!

Thanks George! These were factory colors, Inca Silver and Imperial Ivory and were available on a 150. I might even run white walls on this one!

[vizio93]

wow that silver-white paint scheme looks killer !!!

[Fisher61]

Ummmm not exactly. It has two different sets of 283 block/tranny sides, one set with an attached Powerglide & the other with an attached 3 speed manual, (the latter for the Black Widow version), & both a factory stock, (slighty incorrect for an accurate BW version, you need the round Corvette FI air cleaner from the Revell/Monogram 57 Corvette for an accurate BW FI setup), Rochester FI setup, and the intake, 4 bbl carb & factory stock air cleaner for a non FI 150.

Also keep in mind that 22 non BW 150 Utility Sedans, (without the back seat, as typified by this model), are verified to have been built with the Rochester FI unit. I don't know how many 150 sedans with a back seat may have been built with the FI unit. This information is in the newest issue of Model Cars Magazine, (which this forum is from). Also, the Modelhaus makes a 150 sedan back seat that fits this kit.

So out of the box, one can build a "plain Jane" 150 Utility Sedan with a 4 bbl & dual exhausts & a 150 Utility Sedan with factory FI & be correct, (exception is the 6 lug wheels, & the factory hub caps cover them up).

With kitbashing, (substituting a Chevy 12 bolt truck style rear end for the standard Chevy 10 bolt passenger car rear end that's in the kit, as well as the aforementioned Corvette FI air cleaner), some scratchbuilding/modification, (making proper exhaust dumps from plastic tubing), & some aftermarket parts, (Plastic Performance Products deeper 6 lug truck rims & 1957 Firestone Nascar tires), an accurate Black Widow 150 is possible, & with the Modelhaus back seat, a 150 sedan is another variation. Proper research can lead one to building a 6 cylinder powered 150 sedan, (raid an AMT 51 Chevy, [sedan, hardtop or convertible], the AMT 50 Chevy pickup, or a Revell, [ex Monogram], 1953 Chevy hardtop for the Stovebolt 6), & if you can find a 2 bbl carb & manifold for the 283 & make a crossover pipe, you can do a single exhaust, 2 bbl 283 powered 150.

RPO-578 Model Application

Nine passenger station wagon 1

150 Four door sedan 3

Belair Four door sedan 4

Sedan Delivery 5

Six passenger station wagon 6

210 Four door hardtop 10

210 Four door sedan 17

150 Utility sedan 22

Bel Air Two door sedan 40

210 Delray coupe 46

Bel Air Convertible 68

210 Sport Coupe 85

Nomad 109

150 Two door sedan 156

210 Two door sedan 434

Bel Air Sport Coupe 524

Source: Classic Chevys, The 1955-'57 Performance Years, By Martyn L. Schorr

Found these production figures for fuel injected '57 passenger cars in this book I've had for years, in addition there were 1,040 Corvettes so equipped.

[Fisher61]

When I got off work today I had nothing pressing to do, so I polished it up and foiled it.

I'm glad a 150 has pretty sparse trim because my foil supply is down to just small scraps!

[Foxer]

That's looking great! I have to say it's SO refreshing with the BW out to see 57 Chevy's in this trim style for a change of pace,

[Zoom Zoom]

Love the paint scheme

Looking great.

[berr13]

Just an FYI, I was flipping through a book I own, "Cars of the fabulous '50s", and there was a small photo of a '57 utility sedan, fuel injected, in the same color scheme as your model, with silver wheels, blackwalls and hub caps. Any updated photos of your build?

[Modellpularn]

Looks very good so far! I like the black paint around the BMF, to imitate a rubber molding, nice touch. I think yours will look much better than the one that was built in "the other magazine" He forgot to foil the vent windows, forgot the black recesses in the headlight buckets - you know the top ones are a mesh, and forgot the turn signal lenses..... Must have been a quick stressed build, why would a modeler like Clay Kemp forget, or miss these details on a model that is a cover car...?

[nascarfan]

Wow those colors pop!! I can't wait to rip into my BW chevy, just not sure which direction to go yet!!

[Fisher61]

Just an FYI, I was flipping through a book I own, "Cars of the fabulous '50s", and there was a small photo of a '57 utility sedan, fuel injected, in the same color scheme as your model, with silver wheels, blackwalls and hub caps. Any updated photos of your build?

Not much to update other than I finished painting the frame rails. I've been kind of messing around building a back seat for it, if it turns out I'll post pics of that. I also learned that The Modelhaus is offering a backseat for the Black Widow kit, I may order one for my next 150 build.

[Fisher61]

I wanted a back seat in my 150, so I scratched this one from the old tool Revell '55 Chevy [ the one with the opening doors that dates back to the 60's] I cut the back of the seat from the cushion, widened it to fit the 150, added some styrene to thicken the back cushion, puttied and shaped the mess! Now I see Modelhaus has a backseat available for this kit! Maybe I'll get one for the next one.

Thanks for looking!

[Bernard Kron]

...I finished painting the frame rails.

Very clean and crisp underside. Nice overspray, especially from a can. Are the frame rails and other black details hand painted?

Edited June 6, 2009 by gbk1

[Fisher61]

Very clean and crisp underside. Nice overspray, especially from a can. Are the frame rails and other black details hand painted?

The frame rails were hand painted with no masking. I painted them with Model Master semi gloss black out of the jar.

Edited June 6, 2009 by plumber

[nascarfan]

I wanted a back seat in my 150, so I scratched this one from the old tool Revell '55 Chevy [ the one with the opening doors that dates back to the 60's] I cut the back of the seat from the cushion, widened it to fit the 150, added some styrene to thicken the back cushion, puttied and shaped the mess! Now I see Modelhaus has a backseat available for this kit! Maybe I'll get one for the next one.

Thanks for looking!

Coming along nice!!!!!!!!!!

[blubaja]

That back seat is coming along very nice and plainly:)

[Fisher61]

Here's the interior painted and mocked-up.

Thanks for looking!

[Fisher61]

Just finished the interior, painted with Krylon semi gloss black and Testor silver. I repositioned the gear selector to the park position as I'm using the automatic trans.

Thanks for looking!

[BigGary]

Looks like you got it all together Mark! We're looking forward to seeing this one finished. Keep up the good work!

Gary

[Fisher61]

Thanks for the comments guys! I spent most of Sunday night putting in the windows. I tape them into position, then I use Aleene's Tacky Glue thinned with water brushed around the window, it just flows between the window and body and sets up to form a really tight bond. Best of all it cleans up with water and dries clear. On the vent windows, I used some chrome silver paint to make a "frame" around the glass, adds a little realism to the vents

Thanks for looking!