Model King 1969 Camaro repair

[ratnasty]

Hello guys how many people bought the 1969 Camaro funny car that The Model King released , only to find out it had hogged out rear wheel wells and there's not much you can do with it (I did) LOL. Well I have doing so research and found out that car was dereived from the AMT 1969 annual kit (AKA the Gene Windfeild Camaro ) which is an expensive kit to obtain. I was able to get my hands on a nice built up and ripped it apart and stripped it . I was able to cut the quarterpanels from the annual kit and graph them into the funny car . I am going to cast them because there are several bodies I want to fix . Here is how I did it with pics

Chuck

funny hugger camaro

AMT stock Camaro

where I'm going to cut the stock Camaro

stock Camaro cut

I laid the stock quarters on the funny car and drew the outline of quarter panel on the funny car so I knew where to cut

[ratnasty]

I cut out the hogged out quarter panel

here is what it looks like after the installation of the new quarters

this afternoon I will make a mold so I can cast them . the one above is only taped in place .

thanks Chuck

[Dragracer]

Nice job!

[AZ Boy]

I've wondered about that myself, Chuck. I always assumed that I'd have to use some styrene and fill those wheel wells in to return it to a more stock appearance. Thanks for the idea!

[cobraman]

Nice work. I use a simular method when making a AWB body.

[ratnasty]

I also use the same process when building Pro Stock Vegas. I took a quarter from a junk Bruce Larson Vega and casted it so I could fix the Bill Jenkins Vega and to turn stock Vega kits into pro stocks here are some of those pics

[Tony1200]

very nice work...

[Kanedge]

Nice idea, I like it, seems like an easier way of doing it.

[ratnasty]

well I got the car all smoothed out and painted , now I'm just waiting on decals from Slixx to do the Kelly Chadwick 1969 Camaro funny car . I also found out that the Model King Camaro has the same wheelbase as the Polar Lights Mustang funny car kit , so a the chassis will come from a donor Mustang kit

Chuck

Edited May 10, 2012 by ratnasty