1957 Chevy Bel Air Convertible - 1/12 (Junk Car)

That's just stunning, and just the most original thing I've seen in ages. BRAVO!!

I agree with cn spots. Excellent work! Bob

That's probably one of the most creative dioramas I've ever seen.  Fantastic work!

hello guys, here is the final result on this project:

awesome work!

Thanks!

That's a junker? It looks better than a few of the cars I've owned in the past.

Really good work....:)

I'm back with the engine bay details. Here you see a few pics of the process and t the bottom you'll see the finished engine bay.

I used an old light bulb to make the accelerator spring and I scratch built many parts such as the battery cable connectors, the brake booster, heater hoses, etc.

Here you see the finished engine bay:

Thanks for the update. She's really looking bad, and that is really good!

Hello guys, I'm back after a long absence. Lots of things happened lately.

Now lets get to the model. After painting a matt brown layer and 2 red layers I wet sanded the body using rust powder mixed with water to get a very fine superficial rust effect.

I hope you like it. 

@OctaneOrange - Yes, that's right, as a junker you can ad details that otherwise you would never see. That's cool!

About the scale, It was my mistake. It's a 1/16. I tried to edit the headline afterwards but it was not possible anymore. It's an old 1/16 kit of ERTL.

Excellent work on adding some much needed detail. at least building it as a junker you can leave parts off to expose the detail your adding (it'd be a shame if it was all covered up).

IBuild148

1/12 scale? What is the length and width on that beast? I will be watching this. Looks like alot of detail.

There is a 1/12 chevy kit available, fyi. (from revell). recently reissued.

Hello guys, I'm finally back. After moving, having a child, and lots of other things that came in between I managed to re continue this project!

here you have a few pics after painting and adding a few details. I'll be weathering the engine next. It wont take that long til the next post!  

Hello guys, I'm moving now and all my hobby stuff is packed in boxes.

As soon as my new hobby room is ready to use, I'll be back with more stuff!

Wow - this is amazing work. I'll be following this one.

@ Railfan: I'm glad you like it!

@ the doog: I had a look at your threads. Great models! Well done! I'll try to make my posts more complete!

Some great work here--one suggestion, if I may? It would be great and very instructive to the enthusiastic followers of this thread if you would post the "hows" of how you are completing your model here. For instance, what techniques did you use to make the molded-look of the firewall?

I also have a passion for old, rusted cars--here are some examples of my models--enjoy!

"Lair of the Rust Bunnies"

"Checkered Past"

If you look at these work blogs, you'll see what I mean about showing your methods. It really helps people to see what you're actually doing. Pass along the knowledge!

I'm completely speachless, with my jaw resting on the floor, droolng all over everything.

 I think you went past the extra mile for everything on this build.

Hello guys, thank you for the positive feedback.

I hope I had more time to work on my Chevy. Anyway, here you have a short update of the work done this weekend.

The engine compartment. Before...

and after...

The steering wheel:

And the front axle...

@ Railfan: oh yes sure you can! It's just a matter of practice.

Thank you for the kind words!

Wow!

Exelent work scratch-building the firewall. I definate don't think I would be able to do something like that, and have it work out to look remotely good.

Exelent work

Hello guys, I've been working on my Chevy again...

Here you see the original firewall and a picture of a real firewall printed on scale.

The difference is so huge I decided to make it completely new...  while doing that I actually realized that I had to make the whole engine compartment new.

So here you have pictures of the firewall. I'll post pictures of the complete engine compartment  as soon as it's ready.

Before:

After:

@ Railfan: I can't wait to build those models either! I hope I had more time to work on all that stuff...   I have to be patient

Model Junkyard

 

. We where thinking about including some more stuff than only cars, for example a WWI airplane such as Mustang P51-D and vietnam war helicopters like the Huey UH-1...  

The Chevy is looking exelent. Gettin closer and closer to rust time.

I can't wait to see the UH-1 Hueys you do. If they are only half as good as the cars, then they should look exelent.

@Railfan: that's right, the details on this kit are miserable... 

@kustommodeler1: It's actually not so out of topic. That's what I do... junk cars and junk stuff. I have another topic about a junkyard diorama . My brother and I will be building a huge Junkyard Diorama. We where thinking about including some more stuff than only cars, for example a WWI airplane such as Mustang P51-D and vietnam war helicopters like the Huey UH-1... 

Back to the Chevy. I've been working on more details for my Chevy the last days.

after and before

old tires

Here you see: before (left) and after (right)

At Model Junkyard, the work you do is nice indeed.

I got an idea which would fit right up your line of work-- Ever play, or seen played, the X-Box 360 game "Fallout 3"? Well, it's time frame and story line is, in 2077 there was a nuclear holocaust. The game is set 200 years later, in 2277.

The kicker is-- everything is retro--looks like it came right out of the 1950s, and ALL of it is rusty and beat up. You name it, all the cars, trucks, buses, mailboxes, vending machines, even an aircraft carrier in the Potomac River that has holes rusted through the flight deck which you can see daylight through when your character is on the hangar deck. (By the way, the carrier resembles an Essex class, and all the aircraft look like F-80 shooting stars which were some of our first jet aircraft after WWII)

It would be neat to see a diorama from you with that theme in mind. Yeah I know-

But the convertible's looking good!!

Hmm, after the last few posts, it sounds like Revell could possibly need to re-tool some molds.

I'm O.K. with the detail I get from Revell kits, and suplementing them with my own scratch-built stuff, but that may be in part due to Revell being one of the few manufacturers I can afford most of the time.

Of course, those mold seems do go pretty deep, and it takes a good amount of sanding to get rid of them (as well as the molded details in some cases)

@ SuppressionFire: I'm glad you like my work! Thank you! I know what you mean. It's the same with this kit although it is a 1/16 scale. One of my worst kits ever. 50% of the time I'm working on details that actually should be there, specially in such a big scale! And I'n not talking about the door panels and that stuff, but really basic things such as engine parts or other basic details. This is my last "bad" kit. It's half fun.