AMT 1991 Silverado 454 SS

Thanks Joe and John!!

John: I'll be going with the factory color scheme of black.

Love the big meats in the back.  What color are you going with?

What can I say Joe, I like it!

Dandy set of decals you got yourself also.

I still have to move the rear tires inwards a little but I've just about got the wheel/ tire and stance set up where I want it. The chassis isn't adhered to the body yet which will pull the body down to set a better stance but you get the idea anyways.

I also received my re-mastered decals from Thomas at Speedway Decals.

JOE RIX

 

mustang1989

Thanks Joe and I'm glad to hear that you had a good Christmas and New Years. We had a good one as well with the usual "Dr. Liz"/ NRA President/ Master Counselor at the house. lol.

 

 

Comforting to know that your holidays had adult supervision. LOL!!

 

mustang1989

I'm going to have to check that Skyhawk out. Whatever happened to the Corsair?

 

 

I've set the Corsair aside for the time being. Don't worry, I'll get it done. In the meantime, I just needed something to get me back in the groove and the A-4 along with Bish's GB fit the bill.

Sorry I missed you this morning. Needed to sleep in on my day off to fully recover from staying up on New Years with the family. Feeling rather refreshed now.

 

No worries on this morning. There'll be Monday. Got the headliner and sunvisors replaced in my 1:1 truck and took the carpet out of it and used the high pressure rinse on it at the car wash. I purchased the new jute yesterday and will be reinstalling the carpet probably this weekend. Speaking of which I probably couldn't have heard much of what you would've been saying this morning anyways with all the carpet out of the truck. I was surprised at how much it deadens the exhaust noise. With "40 Series Flows" and no catalytic converters it's been really loud the last few days.

Bakster

Great progress, Joe. I love that engine and the weathering that you did. 

 

mustang1989

Thanks Joe and I'm glad to hear that you had a good Christmas and New Years. We had a good one as well with the usual "Dr. Liz"/ NRA President/ Master Counselor at the house. lol.

Comforting to know that your holidays had adult supervision. LOL!!

mustang1989

I'm going to have to check that Skyhawk out. Whatever happened to the Corsair?

I've set the Corsair aside for the time being. Don't worry, I'll get it done. In the meantime, I just needed something to get me back in the groove and the A-4 along with Bish's GB fit the bill.

Sorry I missed you this morning. Needed to sleep in on my day off to fully recover from staying up on New Years with the family. Feeling rather refreshed now.

Great progress, Joe. I love that engine and the weathering that you did. 

Thanks Joe and I'm glad to hear that you had a good Christmas and New Years. We had a good one as well with the usual "Dr. Liz"/ NRA President/ Master Counselor at the house. lol.

I'm going to have to check that Skyhawk out. Whatever happened to the Corsair?

Thanks Joe. We did indeed have a wonderful Christmas and New Years. I hope your holidays were filled with joy also.

Thanks for the clarification on the tires. Makes sense. The chassis is excellent. Definitely up to your usual standards. That's cool that you were able to make this with positional front wheels. That's a slick new addition to your kits.

You'll be happy to know that I am getting started on my 1/72 Airfix A-4B Skyhawk over on the Airfix GB. Feels all so good to be working on something at the bench again.

Cheers Brother

Thanks Joe and I hope you had a great Christmas and New Year. These are more of a street tire than a drag tire and the letters on these tires are HUGE and don't look right for a street tire. I used these same tires on the '69 Camaro SS that I built a couple of years ago and they worked great.

Chassis is now complete. I did make the front wheels steerable as I've always wanted a model with posable front wheels. It was a lot easier to do with this kit than it has been with some of the builds that I've done. The ones in the past and really delicate and finicky parts or they had no option for steering at all.

Terrific progress there Joe. The chassis is certainly looking sharp. The time and effort you put into cleaning up seam lines and injector marks sure pays off. I'm curious though, why exactly are you removing the white lettering off of the tires?

Looking forward to more awesome and wanderous builds from in the coming new year.

Happy New Year to your and your family my friend.

Cheers, Joe

Thanks Lee!

Engine looks much better.

I've been working on the chassis as time allows for the last couple of weeks. Having acquired this kit on Ebay, it was missing one of the front molded coil springs. After looking at the one remaining spring and noting how horrible it looked, I thought it best to up the ante a little bit and make it a little bit more realistic looking. I opted for a set of steel coils that I had in the parts bin. Other than that it has been a rather labor intense seam and injector pin mark clean up. I shot almost all of the chassis parts in a coat of semi gloss black lacquer followed up by a thin shot of semi gloss acrylic paint which resulted in a more life like color to me. Not completed by any means but I thought I'd show a shot of progress to let you all know that I am in fact alive, well and building.

and for all of you who are curious....this will be my only modification to this build. I have too much love for this truck in stock form to do anything else to it. Still have some clean up left on the rear tires to get totally rid of the raised white lettering and then matching both sets of tires up color wise but here's what we're going with.

midnightprowler

Very nice engine Joe. I agree it does sit a little high.

 

Very nice engine Joe. I agree it does sit a little high.

Thanks Joe. Not as much detailing on this one as I would've liked but there's still quite a bit of detail from all the OOB parts.

Merry Christmas to you to bro.

You've got it all going on brother. Stellar detailing as usual. It'll look all that and a bag of chips when you get the last bits on. 

Merry Christmas to you my friend.

Too much info. lololol

Ok folks. I've been on and off at the bench for the last few months so progress has been pretty thin as of late. The bench time will become less frequent during the month of January due to my sons FFA show for a week in mid January. It's gonna be a crazy week with lots of preparation for the show in the days before it so I'll be trying to get what I can in on this bad boy before that.

As for now I've got more done on the engine. The air cleaner is merely resting on top of the throttle body in this picture. I be lowering it somewhat as it sits way too high. I'll also be adding some fuel lines to the back of the throttle body, some throttle linkage and will be installing an ignition coil. For such a detailed engine I'm not sure why that part wasn't included in the kit.

keavdog

I had Farrah Fawcett

 

I had to keep the good stuff under the mattress.  The car and truck posters only served to keep my parents off the trail!  

Thanks fellas! I ran into a little bump with the build but I'm already past it. I initially was going to use the cool 90 degree spark plug wire boots that I acquired but after tireless attempts at trying to make them work at the distributor connection I had to scrap them and do the plug wires the way that I normally do them. It's not accurate but maybe the air cleaner will hide some of that. Anyways I should have some updates within the coming days.

keavdog

I had Farrah Fawcett

 

I like how you mind works. Great comeback!

That is a terrific looking start Joe. I have to say that that kit engine is one of the better looking ones you've had to work with OOB. Did you create that textured look on the engine? If so, how did you do it? Looking for that next update to come along. 

Oh, Gee Christmas is commin' and Joe is doin' the "build 'em like you wished you could of had 'em" treatment to a ChevyTruck !  What to do?  watch or shop or shop while I watch the cell phone  or....

Ok folks....update time.
This kit has a pretty decent engine with lots of parts. The chrome parts all got stripped to include the rocker covers but other than that it's a pretty complete and detailed engine.



And here we are with the assembled base engine and transmission. Believe it or not....this IS some big time progress for me. I spend a lot of time in research and trying to get the details and colors down.

tempestjohnny

 

keavdog

I had Farrah Fawcett

 

 

 

 

I had Samantha Fox

 

 

keavdog

I had Farrah Fawcett

 

Thanks Joe, John, Greg and Chad.

John....you crack me up!

I had Farrah Fawcett