Samiches Posted December 16, 2014 Posted December 16, 2014 I love GTOs, and the 1970 model year is one of the tops. It is too bad that Round 2 hasn't retooled this kit, or better yet, Revell hasn't come out with one of their own. Comparing by the quality of the '64,'66, and '68/69 GTO kits that revell has put out it would most certainly be better than the aged molds that Round 2 is using. For this build I used the '70 body, interior, and firewall. The chassis,engine and small details to the interior and firewall (arm rests, brake cylinder, and wiper motor) are from revell's 69 GTO kit. I used a donor glue bomb that I had from my childhood. I ended up scratch building the spoiler chopping a couple of the incorrect spoilers that came with the '70 kit and oddly came with the '67 gto kit. I then cut a scale license plate in half to make the spoiler pillars. Finally, I used one of those fake plastic credit cards that comes in the mail for the spoiler ends. I had to cut the chassis short by about 1/4" since it is from a 1/24 scale model and the '70 is 1/25. I also drilled out the headlights since I hate kits that have them molded into the bumper. The interior is carpeted (a first for me) and the decals are from Kieth Marks. Thanks for looking!
FordRodnKustom Posted December 16, 2014 Posted December 16, 2014 Nice work. you really captured the look and feel of the 1:1.
Intmd8r Posted December 16, 2014 Posted December 16, 2014 Amazing! This specific year of GTO has got to be one of the best looking cars of the 70's in my opinion. I'm surprised that no one has released a (current issue) kit of this car. Job well done!
Lunajammer Posted December 16, 2014 Posted December 16, 2014 Super clean! So if you drilled out the headlights, what did you use for lenses? They look as good as any I've seen.
Snake45 Posted December 16, 2014 Posted December 16, 2014 Absolutely beautiful, a really stunning piece of work! Model on!
Samiches Posted December 17, 2014 Author Posted December 17, 2014 On 12/16/2014 at 5:48 PM, plowboy said: Really nice looking GTO Andrew! The color and decals makes it! Only suggestion I have would be to switch out the 1/24 wheels and tires for something more appropriately sized. Maybe a set from an AMT '69 Firebird or Revell '68 Firebird. Unfortunately, the only extra 1/24 scale wheels I have in my small collection are from the '67 GTO, which are the same rally wheel, but with poorer detail.
Samiches Posted December 17, 2014 Author Posted December 17, 2014 On 12/16/2014 at 10:18 PM, Lunajammer said: Super clean! So if you drilled out the headlights, what did you use for lenses? They look as good as any I've seen. I used un-faceted rhinestones.
Samiches Posted December 17, 2014 Author Posted December 17, 2014 Thanks for all the nice comments! I had a lot of fun building this goat and have several more GTOs with bodies painted waiting in line for me to build them.
StevenGuthmiller Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 I knew a guy from school who bought one of these brand new in '70! I was just a pup of about 8 or 9 & he was the son of the owner of the dairy in our small town. He was the talk of the town when he brought that thing home! His was orange though. Nice job!!
Custom10 Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 That's my favorite color on a judge. Nice work!
StevenGuthmiller Posted December 17, 2014 Posted December 17, 2014 On 12/17/2014 at 2:42 AM, Samiches said: I used un-faceted rhinestones. That's a great idea! I may have to check that out. Steve
tbill Posted December 19, 2014 Posted December 19, 2014 great looking build, really like the color/stripe combo. well done.
Chris D Posted December 19, 2014 Posted December 19, 2014 Very nicely done, thanks for sharing. Chris D
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