'69 Chevelle Malibu Project

Stock hood huh?

Yep I had to grind that sucker way down! (Here's some more work).

Next the front bumper need some reworking and the tail lights need to be fully scratch built. (Oh and I'm working on adding detail to the two front seats.

Hood looks great and nice detail on the interior bracing.

Nice body work on the hood!!

Ok here a bit more progress...

There's no stock malibu tail lights in this kit, so I made my own.

Some gaps need to be filled.

I filled the putty down and shaped it.

Some motor work..

Chrome trim had to be added to the car's body.

Some engine work.

More engine work: Making the coil and adding more detail to the engine.

Making fire wall parts.

Good thing you are modifying this in which you are doing a great job. These AMT kits need all the help they can get. I built a couple of Mustangs and lemme tell you there was ALOT of clean up.

AMT kits make you really use your sill to over come there lack of detail.

Here the front seat head rest work...

I had to rework the front bumper as the light cover stick our to far.

The fixed front bumper and the head rest with mounting strips.

I did a test fit of a Jimmy Flinstone Resin figure. An I have to tell you that there figures are not 1:24 scale, there 1:20th scale. There way to big for both 1:24 or 25.

Now before I added the pulled up head rest's I had to chrome the top mounting plated. (Oh and the fire wall is finished!)

An yep I plated the front bumper and here the finished front bench-buckets.

Now I had to go back and make some rear speaker grills.

I'll trim them down later to night...

Ok the interior is fully finished and we have our rolling chassis.

A some days ago I had painted the body.

An what you see in the back ground is the maksing for plating the trim.

Ok once I fully maksed the body I used Alclad II to chrome all the trim.

Great Job

Thanks "Mike".

Fitting the rear bumper and the plating of it and front bumper.

I had to go back and replate the bumper and it worked out. I also needed to show that the trunk needed to be painted.

Next engine detail will be next.

Oh Oh folks I forgot and left out the over head shoulder seat belt mounts.

You're showing how  difficult it actually is to modify what is a darn close model of  car into another nameplate.  It's the details  that matter and you've got them covered with your eye and abilities. Great stuff so far and I gotta say- my Alclad experiences suck compared to what you're showing.

Nice chrome and detail work!

"MrSquid" what type of gloss black are you using and how long do you let your paint dry? An thank's to the grate comments folks, now I still have a ways to go so later to day I'll post more progress.

Been off line for a couple of days recovering from a two day trip in Dallas and this stupid cold or whatever it is. Man I gotta say whatever line of work you are in it's probably the wrong one because you have this skill here too well perfected! Almost looks like the real thing. Great job! Havent built a car model in around 10 years and didn't come close to this!! Awesome....simply awesome!!

nice work on detailing the malibu

Mustang get back in to building and thanks octane for the comment. Here's some more work. I need to make deals for the side emblems. An I'm sorry for the misspeling...

An folks I was a truck driver aka: A glorified wheel holder.

A test fit for the word malibu.

Made on clear testors decal sheet, I had painted with a 0/0 paint brush to make the words malibu stand out.

Added engine detail...

An now the finaly finished car.

That is friggin awesome!! I do build now but just not cars. Been known to do a 109 or so.

As a Chevelle lover, especially the "69" that is a most awesome build!

Thank you for sharing.