1950 or 1951 Chevy

[iBorg]

I'm trying to reproduce this car or something similar. http://streetrodder.automotive.com/118269/0910sr-brian-vanzant-1950-chevy-woody/photos0-0.html

I have a AMT 1951 Chevy and a Wagon Rod. I've tried to merge them but I'm just not able to figure out where to cut. The 1:1 used a four door 1950 Chevy. The AMT is a 1951 Fleetline. It seems like it ought to work. Any suggestions?

Mike

[The Modeling Hermit]

If you don't mind 1/32 scale, and if you dig hard enough to find one, Pyro made an early fifties Chevy wagon back in the sixties. I recently saw one come up on the "bay" without too large of a price tag.

[Art Anderson]

I'm trying to reproduce this car or something similar. http://streetrodder.automotive.com/118269/0910sr-brian-vanzant-1950-chevy-woody/photos0-0.html

I have a AMT 1951 Chevy and a Wagon Rod. I've tried to merge them but I'm just not able to figure out where to cut. The 1:1 used a four door 1950 Chevy. The AMT is a 1951 Fleetline. It seems like it ought to work. Any suggestions?

Mike

Wagonrod would not be the correct body for that model--it's a prewar Chevy turned into a custom woody wagon.

All is not lost however! Revell has produced tons of their '53-54 Chevy sedan delivery kits over the years, and they shouldn't bring much money at all on the secondary market.

With the end of true Woodie station wagons at Chevrolet in midyear 1949, Chevrolet went to steel body for station wagons, and used that same shell for sedan deliveries, simply stamping out new quarter panels having no rear doors (their steel station wagon bodies 1950-54 were available as 4dr only) and using the shorter front door of the 4dr sedan and station wagon. That door is for all intents and purposes 6" shorter front-to-back than the 2dr doors in any of the AMT '51 Chevy kits (suggest you use the AMT/Ertl '51 Chevy Fleetline fastback for the front of the body forward of the B-posts, but cut away the Fleetline roof to the header over the windshield. Then simply graft in the Revell Sedan Delivery body which will work for this project, as Chevy's wagon/sedel bodies were identical in shapes and dimensions '50-54, but you will have some bodywork to do to blend in the Revell body with the AMT rear fenders, but that should be no biggie.

Then, simply cut out the side (quarter) windows to the same shapes as the real car, and add in all the fake wood framing (the real Chevy steel station wagon body of those years had the sheet metal on the body sides, AND the tailgate, stamped with a tradional wood-framing motif, just as you see in the pics of the car you want to model.

Should be fairly straight-forward to do, but certainly not a add-the-glue and shake-the-box proposition--but if you set that goal, then break it down into small parts, and persist, never giving up, you could have one awesome model!

Art

[Steven Zimmerman]

Jimmy Flintstone offers a sedan delivery resin body for that kit; might be an easier'do' than all the slicin n dicin....'Z'(somebody else offers one also,but I don't remember who....)

[Art Anderson]

Jimmy Flintstone offers a sedan delivery resin body for that kit; might be an easier'do' than all the slicin n dicin....'Z'(somebody else offers one also,but I don't remember who....)

Shows what little I know about who makes what anymore!!!!! Oh well!

Art