70.5 Baldwin Motion Camaro Finally Finished!

[10thumbs]

Hi Jim, thanks for the explanation, it makes sense. I'm doing a lot of filling on frame pieces at this time, and I like what I read now.

Michael

[Guest]

Nice!

[John Pol]

great so far check out your other built with the brake lines etc. you must do a how too it looks so good.

Edited October 21, 2014 by John Pol

[microwheel]

Got the Dash painted and detailed this evening. Still got the steering wheel ans steering column to do yet, but the dash is pretty much done.

To start with I painted the whole dash Model Master Dark Flat green Then I masked off everything but the dash padding and apply a coat of model masters semi-gloss clear. Once that had dried I masked the whole dash off again, all but the bottom edge of the dash, which I then painted Tamiya Semi-gloss black. Once that had dried, I got out the model car garage detail set, and apply the dash details, such as the radio face, heater controls, air ducts, and Camaro script, to the the dash. The Gauge insert for the dash was given the same treatment as the wood grain on the center console and the door panels. This was done by applying a couple coats of testors flat wood, followed by a couple light washes of flat black acrylic mixed with water, then when all that dried, it was over-coated with Tamiya's acrylic clear orange. Then all the dash gauge details from the model car garage detail kit was added.

The pics below show the final results. Sorry if some are a little dark, my camera doesn't like the evening lighting in my hobby room.

More to come as I get more done.

[Twokidsnosleep]

You are very talented and the build is coming along nicely

Thank you for posting the Model Car Garage picture of the dash parts...they have tons of useful detail parts, so appreciate the source

[slusher]

Excellent work and dash detail..

Edited October 22, 2014 by slusher

[microwheel]

Just a quick update for this evening. I didnt get a chance to work much on the camaro today. Had to take the wife for her chemotherapy treatment.When I did get home this evening, I came out to my hobby room and noticed I did a hap hazard job of the dash. In my hast to get it done. I forget to finish chrome foiling the trim on it. So I took care of that issue, now I can say in all honesty, that the dash is complete. Here is a couple of pics of it completed.

Now maybe I can move on to assembling the interior and moving on to staring work on the engine.

[microwheel]

I spent this morning working on and trying to finish up some odds and ends work on the interior so I can get it ready for final assembly. got most of it done except for the steering column and steering wheel. I work on those tomorrow morning and try to get the interior assembled in the morning also. For now here is what I got done today. It will take a couple of posts on here, so bare with me.

Started with getting the seat belts made. I dug out my seat belt hardware from the model car garage, as well as some seat belt material. The material I had on had for green was a olive green, so this will have to get a light coating of testers medium flat green to get them the color I want. (no big deal though)

Next was to assemble the seat belt hardware and material, and mask off the hardware and paint the material.

While those where drying, I cut some front seat outer seat, seat belt hardware blocks out of evergreen strip plastic.

These got a coat of medium flat green as well.

Once they were dry seat belt hardware ends were added to them.

The other seat belts where dry by then and unmasked

To be continued..................

[microwheel]

Next I sorted out the seat belt parts to be used with the front seats during the interior assembly and set them aside.

Sorry some of these pics are a little dark, and some may even be a little blurry, my camera doesn't seem to like the throw away batteries that are in it, while my good ones are charging.

Anyways, I cut the rear seat belts to size and tacked them into place. While I was at it I added some after market speaker grills to the rear deck. I know they are not factory correct, but I wanted to dress that area up a bit. These got painted the same color as the deck and then a light black wash over them.

Next I decided to do a little more work to the front center console. Originally I had painted the area just in front of the gear shift area, silver. I didnt like how it looked since that area is supposed to be a cubby hole. So I drilled some holes in it with my pin vise and then trimmed it out square with my exacto knife. Then added a small piece of evergreen plastic strip to the underside of it. I then painted the newly created cubby hole area flat black. Maybe I'll even add some sunglasses to dress it up before I assemble it into the interior lol.

Next it was back to work on the window cranks I had shaved off and saved from the door panels earlier. I had painted these testors gloss black enamel a little over a week ago and set them aside to dry.

Today they got a dusting of Alclad Chrome paint.

Once they were dry, they were reattached to the door panels where they came from.

And that's pretty much it for today. It wraps things up that needed to be done to assemble the interior, all but a few last things that will get done either late this evening or tomorrow morning. That would be, detailing the steering wheel and column, and getting the floor pan painted and flocked. Once that is done then all this stuff can finally be assembled.

[Guest]

Wow!

[Davewilly]

View impressive!

[slusher]

Outstanding. So realistic

[Wonderbread Kustomz]

very nice work!!

[DynoMight]

Great job Jim! Hope your wife gets better soon.

[microwheel]

Thanks alot guys. I will be posting several posts this morning of the interior progress so keep checking, because it's gonna take more than one post to list all the work on the interior.

[microwheel]

I was up pretty late last night working on the camaro interior. I got alot done and its gonna take a few posts to update you all on everything. This first post is just finishing up some basics. If some of the pics are a little dark, it's because it's still dark out here this morning, and without the daylight, my room lighting is not the best.

To start with I gave the interior floor pan a couple coats of model masters medium flat green. While the paint was still wet I dusted it with white embossing powder from hobby lobby. Once that was dry, I gave it a couple of more coats of the flat medium green. This gave me the in scale carpet look I wanted. I set this aside to cure.

Next was to get the steering wheel done. I masked off the center spokes, and gave the rim a couple coats of model masters acrylic wood.

In the pic you can see the 3 different colors I use to do my wood look on interiors. The little plastic medicine cup has the black wash I mix up with a little flat black acrylic thinned way down with water. My wife got me a bunch of those cups from where she works in a nursing home, and boy do they come in handy for mixing paint.

Once the wood color dried, I gave it a couple of quick light brush coats of the black wash. Then gave it about 30 minutes to dry. It may not look like it in this pic, but there is black wash on it.

Next I mixed up a little bit of clear acrylic orange thinned with denatured alcohol, about a 50-50 ratio . This will get poured into my air brush feed cup and mist sprayed fron about a foot away from the steering wheel, at 18psi. It will get about 3 coats done this way, It will look wet once the 3rd coat goes on, but it will dry down to almost a varnish look, which is what I'm after. And the longer you let it dry, the more of a varnished look it will achieve. If you put the clear orange on too heavy and too close, it will never really dull down and it will give too much of a orange or red glossy look when it dries.

And here is how it should look right after the 3rd coat of clear orange has been misted on. It will dry down nicely as you will see later when the assembly of the column and steering wheel go onto the dash.

While the steering wheel was drying, I went ahead and assembled all the interior stuff I worked on yesterday. I cut the seat belts to size and installed the ones for the rear seat and then assembled the rear seat onto the floor pan. The gear shift was detailed painted and attached into place on the center console and then the center console was fixed into place on the floor pan. Once that had been completed, the front inner seat belts were attached to either side of the trans tunnel, then the front seats were attached and the inner seat belts were tucked down in-between the front seats and the center console like you would find on these cars. Lastly a set of sunglasses from detail masters interior junk set was paint detailed and tucked into the cubby hole in the center console. LOL

Continued on next post in a few minutes.

[microwheel]

Next up was to unmask the steering wheel since it was dry, then get the column ready. I painted the column tamiya semi-gloss black. Once it dried, I cut the turn signal stalk off the column and drilled a hole where is was cut from the column, with my pin vice. I then took the old turn signal stalk ,and used it as a measuring guide to cut a straight pin and inset it in the drilled out hole on the column. I then cut the knob off the old stalk and drilled the end of it out and inserted it over the new turn signal lever made out of the straight pin. Using the largest pin vice bit I had, I drilled a dimple hole to attach a ignition key lock on the opposite side of the turn signal stalk. This all got attached to the dash and then the steering wheel got attached to the column. In the pic below you can see the results. Sorry no in process pics, it would have taken way to long to try to do that kind of ultra fine work and stop in the middle to take pics. Also you can see how much the steering wheel rim dulled down once it dried.

Next I painted and assembled the key fob and keys from the Model Car Garage Camaro detail set and inserted them onto the ignition lock I added to the column earlier. Yea I know... But I love detailing, so I figured Why Not!

Here is a shot with the dash complete with the steering wheel and column detail done. This gets set aside for later assembly into the interior.

Next I added the door side front seat belts. These were attached to each door panel floor area. And then set aside for the cement to dry.

Continued on in next post.

[microwheel]

Every thing for the interior is now prepped and ready for final assembly. Here is a few pics of everything lay-ed out to be assembled.

I dressed up the passenger side front seat with a photo reduced hot rod mag, with a 70 Camaro on the cover, from a set of Professional Car detail parts, that you can find on E-Bay.

I set everything aside to try for a little while, and later on this morning I will assemble the interior and take and post a few more pics after assembly.

Sorry for the long posts, but I figure you all would want me to be as detailed as I can

Edited October 24, 2014 by microwheel

[microwheel]

Here is a few pics of the completed interior, I just got it assembled. Once it drys and before it goes into the car, it will get the few little dust bunnies cleaned up with my trusty dusting brush.

Next thing to start work on is to finish up the front suspension detail and start assembling and detailing the engine.

[Greg Pugh]

Holy Cow!! How did I miss this one??!

[Sixx]

Man!!!! This just keeps getting better every post!!!!! Awesome work Jim !!!!!! :-)

[Curt]

Excellent work, Jim. I am also starting work on a Camaro pretty soon so your detailed tutorial is very timely. Thanks for sharing your talent.

[microwheel]

Excellent work, Jim. I am also starting work on a Camaro pretty soon so your detailed tutorial is very timely. Thanks for sharing your talent.

Thanks Curt, its a fun kit to work on, there is a little clean up work on the body and some of the parts, but not as bad as some I have worked on. You'll like it.

[microwheel]

Thanks for all the comments guys,

Just a small update for today guys. I have a honey do list to for the wife today, so I only did just a couple things on the Camaro to get the body ready for wet sanding and polishing.

I masked off the body, which took forever it seems like, and air brush painted the front wheel wells with Tamiya semi-gloss black acrylic. I used acrylic so it wouldnt crack the body colored paint under it, since I used a testors based enamel for the body paint. I would have used Tamiya's semi-gloss black in the spray can, but it's Lacquer based and would have wrinkled the body colored paint under it. While I was at it, I also masked everything up again and painted the head liner with model masters medium flat green.

Any was here are a few pics after the long process of unmasking it. I will hope to get the body wet sanded and polished in the next day or so, as well as some more work on the detail for the front suspension, and then hopefully start working on the engine.

An no I didn't remove the push pin marks from the headliner area. They wont be seen very well once the interior is installed any way. If I would have opened the doors, I would have spent time filling and sanding them. I will detail out the dome light and visors before I assemble every thing though.

More posts as I get things done.

[microwheel]

I've been wondering what to do for the front brakes on the Baldwin Motion Camaro. Most of what I know about them was that most came with front disc brakes. But AMT chose to make the front inner wheels look like drums just like the back. So I decided to see if I could come up with something to at least simulate disc brakes. This is what I came up with so far. Remember I havent worked out all the detail yet especially for the inner side of the brakes, but it would be close to the same idea. Let me know what you think. Here is my idea so far for the outer sides.

I started with the material you see in this pic. 2 different size evergreen strips. Some Model Car Garage photo etched plan discs, and the original kit rim parts. I want the brakes to look like disc brakes but I want them to somewhat rotate with the wheels as well.

I first cut 4 small little blocks to fit inside the backing rim. Then I cut 4 pieces off the flatter wider evergreen strip to make my caliper shapes out of. You can see the first one I shaped in this pic. Later I may improve it for detail.

Next I cemented the 4 small blocks to the inside of the backing rim. The rotor ring will be cemented to these blocks later. You can also see I plan to use my first caliper as a pattern for the rest. I plan to make 4 of these all together. 2 for the outer wheel sides and 2 for the inner wheel sides.

Next the kit supplied locking ring is slipped into place but NO GLUING HERE. It is just used at this point to center the MCG photo etched disc ring.

In this pic the MCG ring is set into place. It isnt glued to the blocks yet, but will be after the backing rim is painted.

Next the scratch made caliper is painted (this can be any color you want you caliper to be, I chose red so it would stand out in the pics.) and then attached to the kit supplied locking ring. This will allow the caliper to stay stationary when the locking ring is glued to the front spindles and allow the rotor to rotate through it when the wheels roll, once the rotor is glued to the inner rim.

And this is how it will look with the locking ring slipped into place. I'll post one more pic of the outer rim setting over it in the post to follow, since we are only allowed 6 pics per post.

Continued...............

Edited October 26, 2014 by microwheel