Post by mustang1989 on Sept 25, 2018 10:17:39 GMT -6
I finished this one after 7 months in July of last year and this is another one that's got a special place with me. I've shown it at one other place but thought I'd try my luck here as well. This car was my very first car model and I originally built it at 13 years old. It survived all these years to become a "glue bomb" project at the first part of last year. Almost all of the original parts have been used except for the hood, grille and a few other parts here and there. All in all the old build was in decent shape as I'd managed to keep it encased since first building it 37 years ago. When I left home at age 19 for the Army I left this build and several others behind where it stayed all this time until I finally picked it up from my parents house and put it in my display case here at home where it's spent the last 5 years. When I started on it there was no engine and the interior was.......well ........you know ...........very "Monogram" basic. I had alot of work ahead of me which I found out throughout the course of the re-build. I ended up using a total of five other kits to piece some of the missing pieces together (one of which was a newer Revell Camaro release kit to "update" this old dog of a kit with some of the parts that Monogram had failed to put in their kit) , hood and wheels were donations from good friends on the forums. Powertrain/ drive train was from the AMT Chevelle SS396 kit with the rocker covers coming from the AMT 1970 454 kit. I ended up spending ALOT of time in the interior as well as the engine compartment. All badging is from PE fret for the Revell Camaro kits and the paint is GM paint code 79U--Mystic Teal Metallic, a paint that was used in the late 90's/ early 2000's on GM vehicles (Camaro's / Firebirds being in that line up). I also opted to transform this into an SS which took a little fancy foot work with the grille (using two grilles with some cutting and splicing) but I managed to pull it all off okay plus I got rid of those FREAKIN' DOTS in the middle of the turn signal and headlamp lenses. I'm pretty happy with the results although the kit (as well as me) had it's limitations. lol
The original boxing that I'm sure a number of you here are familiar with:
The "Before" Shots:
and the "After" Shots:
