Monogram 1969 Camaro SS-PROJECT COMPLETED-07/20

Thanks Joe. Got a dang cold so I slept in this morning as it hit me freekin' hard last night. No bench time this morning.

Oh Yeah. The interior is shaping up very nicely. All the detail work is quite superb Joe.

Thanks Steve.

This interior just keeps getting better with each addition. I've got the door handles and window cranks as well as the Camaro badges on the door panels and the console is finished. The shifter is a bobby pin that I bent and sanded the shifter ball to get rid of a seam it had. Center gauges are from the PE set I bought. I'm going to buy another set of floor mats so I can fix that drivers side floor area. I'm not happy with that but I'll fix it. Here we are so far guys:

mustang1989

Thanks Steve! Haven't seen you around in a while buddy. Hope all is going well for you.

 

Thanks,  All is well,   just been "out an' about".  Then decided to clear and clean off my bench, could only find a gigantic pile of “stuff” where I remember seeing it last.  The excavation is slowly moving along, so took a break to see what was going on and wow, here you are, creating another gem. 

Thanks Steve! Haven't seen you around in a while buddy. Hope all is going well for you.

Chevy key fob!?  Revised gages? New script?  And then

a CHROME pen.....

Joe you made a silk purse out of a sow’s ear and your haven’t even got to the outside !  

p.s. thanks for the lead on that pen. I have been using a similar type of pen but it's a ball point type, yours sounds more precise and manageable –seeing your pictures.

Looks  fantastic 

Joe: Thanks buddy. I may end up giving the rest of that floor mat a shot yet. Thinking.............

Toshi: Thank you for the good word. All I can say about auto building is to be careful. This stuff is addicting.

Amazing detail work, now I'm going to have to build a car too!

Toshi.

Great progress Joe. All the detailing you are doing to the interior are really enhancing the appearance of realism. I think that the alterations you had to do to the  pedals and floor mat pass muster. I was curious to see how that chrome pen would work on more minute detail and it looks like it does well. Everything is looking excellent my friend.

Ok gang. It's been a little bit since I posted any updates here and I'm trying not to bore everybody to death with a picture of a floor mat here and a picture of foot pedals there so I'm waiting till I feel that I've got some substantial progress before posting. Additionally , if I spend all my time taking pictures then I don't get much done at the bench. I build slow enough like it is.

Here we are with the dash in place, carpet / flocking put down everywhere except where the seats go and floor mats down. Folks I'm doing the very best I can with what I have here so there was just no hope of getting the floor mat on the drivers side to go under the pedals unless I wanted to cut that area of the floor pan out and graph in a "blank" piece of styrene and drop the pedals down from the back side of the dash. That's more work than I wanted to do so I cut the floor mat just short of the pedals and did most of my fancy foot work with the pedals themselves to try to make up the shortcoming. I've got the shifter plate along with the shift pattern insert on the plate installed on the center console in this pic and will be adding the PE gauge bezels and gauges as well as the shifter lever soon to round out that console.

The two front seats with the chrome emblem picked out with that chrome pen:

and the back seat that I robbed from the spare kit since my original Camaro build did NOT have a back seat at all in it. Yeah ....the roll bars are going bye bye for the revamp and I'll be installing this seat along with seat belts for the front and rear seats. I'll also be filling in those openings for the roll bar with some sheet styrene.

Tanker Builder: You find it here: http://artprimo.com/catalog/molotow-liquid-chrome-4mm-marker-p-4634.html

Mustang 1989 ;

   Now , question is , where do I find that product in New Braunfels or San Antonio ?

Thanks crown!

that looks awesome !!!!!

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.

 

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.

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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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.

tempestjohnny

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

 

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.

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'.

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:

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

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

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.

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:

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