Monogram 1969 Camaro SS-PROJECT COMPLETED-07/20

Hello!

Now I wonder what are you going to make out of this baby! Good luck with your build and have a nice day

Paweł

Hopefully something good. lol . Thanks Pawel.

How did you get everything apart so cleanly?

Apparently you do not glue stuff to withstand the acopolypse, as I tend to do for whatever reason.

Looking forward to seeing what you do with this one, Joe.

Johnny: I know right ??? Thanks bud.

Greg: You know I guess I didn't get everything glued down to the max back then. The only thing that's been giving me trouble is getting the headlights out of the grille. May have to do some fancy foot work there. Thanks for the good word.

Say good bye to the paint fellas. Currently in a bath of Dot 3 Brake Fluid:



and I just acquired this yesterday....

 Tire / wheel search currently in progress....

I cleaned up most of the interior parts in regards to excessive flash and sprue joins got most of the small parts separated like the steering wheel and master cylinder and stuff like that. I ordered a spare kit just because I needed some parts that were missing or otherwise deemed unusable just this morning.

The parts I need are all there...........

Still on this one fellas. I've managed to strip most of the paint from all the parts.

The body turned out pretty good and still needs some cleaning up. I ended up clipping one of the rear tail light openings at the bottom and knocked the thin strip at the bottom of the opening out so I'll have to work some fancy foot work to get that back in line but it shouldn't be all that bad.

I've got the wheels and tires picked out for it now after a few days of searching.

I started setting up two different stances but I like the second one alot better so I think we'll be going with that one.

This isn't going to be a "numbers matching Camaro" as I'll be changing a few things up to more of a mild modified street car. I'm currently looking for a blank grille with no Z/28 or RS emblems in it. I had 'em on ebay just last night and forgot to visit when I was supposed to and lost it.

Stay tuned...more coming this week.

Oh, this will be awesome Joe. I really enjoy your "refurbish" builds. They're a departure from the norm and lend to some quite clever modeling from you. Not to mention that it's just plain fun to watch the overall transformation. I also like the second stance. glad that you are going with that one. I'll be following along and offering up a healthy dose of "oohs and aahs" Bring it on!

Glad you're here Joe! I didn't wanna spoil the surprise for you in just blabbing it to you. Thanks for the good word bubba.

This is turning out to be a very interesting redo.  Nice start!

Toshi

Thanks Toshi!

Coming along nicely mustang1989.

I tried the same thing recently when I'd lashed the paint up on a build, but the brake fluid has been in the garage at least 25 years, since my time building kit cars, and it picks up condensation anyway which waters it down.

I'll have to get another tin!

Aww, you'll have that interior dressed up real nice and all real lookin' and such.

Thanks for the comments Joe and Pat!!

Sorry for the delay in updates everybody. I've been working on this thing but there are a lot of corrections to make. First off the PE bezels are NOT going to work with this dash ....................BUT I've got a different plan. Here's where we start this morning.....



I drilled out the IP gauges and sanded down the back of them for the scale thickness factor and sanded the Camaro emblem off as well as cleaned up a bunch of flash and sinkholes that I found not only on top of the dash but the face of it as well. I also sanded that Camaro script from the dash.

We'll be slingin' paint on this thing about anytime now:

Dash is complete. I got the film instruments and the "Camaro" script from the PE set. All dash trim was brought out with a silver lead pencil. While it's not the best dash you'll ever see, it's a far cry from what it was.

Very nicely done Joe. Superb work on refurbishing it and giving it a more detailed and realistic look.

Thank you Joe. Hopefully the rest of the interior goes as smooth as this part did.

As promised , I've been working on the steering column along with the dash for the better part of 3 days. First off I took the OOB steering wheel and cut out the spoke holes and shaved off the horn pad. I then drilled two holes in the column. One on the right for the ignition switch, key and key chain and the one on the left for a turn signal lever. I painted the steering wheel spokes with the newly acquired chrome pen that I just got in the mail and installed a PE "SS" horn pad. I then took a PE key along with a PE ignition switch bezel and a PE key chain with a "Bowtie" on it , made a scratch built key ring and put it all together and installed it into the column. The turn signal lever is made from a .019" needle I had in the spares box and I'll be painting a black knob on the end of it tomorrow morning. Any ways here it all is. I'll show the before picture (which I knew I should have taken a more clear "before" picture of the dash beforehand but this is all I've got) and then the improvement pics:

Before:



After:

Your work on the dash is awesome. The steering column is great. Looks like the new chrome pen worked quite well. Seems that I'll have to be getting one of those myself. It really astounds me the amount and quality of AM stuff that is out there for autos. It's really terrific. Amazing stuff Joe. Keep it a comin'.

Thanks Joe. I hear you on the AM stuff for autos. It blows me away sometimes at the amount of stuff that's out there.

tempestjohnny

Gees when I'm through with all these plane GB's you're giving me the idea to start a car

 

That dash is the spittin' image of your reference pic. Nice work.

But where's the woodgrain steering wheel rim? (Just razzing you, I read what you said about woodgrain. Yuck)

Tell me about this chrome pen, should you feel the urge. Results on the steering wheel spokes look good.

Greg

Tell me about this chrome pen, should you feel the urge. Results on the steering wheel spokes look good.

I just got through buying a chrome pen from this company called Art Primo. They come in a variety of sizes and I got the smallest one since I do a lot of chrome trim work. I used it for the first time a couple of days ago on my Camaro steering wheel and dash trim and have to say that it works great!! It will also work great for stuff like aircraft landing gear oleo's.

Here's a short video if you are curious.

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and where to buy one of these bad boys at:

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You Know ;

 You make me afraid . I am so old school I never even thought to use a silver pen or pencil for detailing a dash or anything else . I have to try it ! T.B.

Tanker - Builder

You Know ;

 You make me afraid . I am so old school I never even thought to use a silver pen or pencil for detailing a dash or anything else . I have to try it ! T.B.

 

that looks awesome !!!!!

Thanks crown!