Revell 54 Chevy Sedan Delivery-COMPLETED-09/16

Thanks Dale!

This............had to go if I wanted the stance I was after..

So I used this from the AMT 66 Nova kit. I cut the front subframe from the chassis assy and the shaded area shown in the picture. I also cut the original flooring to work with this frame/ chassis...

I ended up with this:( I had to shorten the rear part of the chassis to get it to fit correctly into the body, re-adhere the spring mount rail back to the chassis and shorten the rear springs to get it all to work right.

Front half of original frame graphed onto the Nova chassis and fit up into the body.

Next came my very favorite part of automotive building. It took me two months alone just to build the engine. I start with black basing the whole engine and paint in coats working from a darker shade to lighter so as to add a pre-shade effect to the base paint. All chrome parts get a coat of Tamiya Smoke to give the chrome some depth as well as a true metal look to take away from the "toy chrome" effect. I picked up a PE throttle linkage set and built the linkage from a reference I got from Jegs High Performance. The throttle return spring is light bulb filament from a 1:1 scale 3157 turn signal bulb. Just break the glass and rob the element. Headers were treated to a coat of Alclad. The engine is from AMT's 1967 Pro Street Chevelle and the carburetors are from the Revell 1970 Boss 429 Mustang kit. Braided fuel line and fuel fittings are AM items and the steel fuel lines at the carburetors are made from straight pins.

The Chevrolet Dual Quad Big Block 427

and the rolling chassis with the engine mounted:

and body test fitted:

For the interior I broke it up into two groups. The front half which is a conventional layout with bucket seats and a console. The OOB seats in this kit SUCKED so I used seats from AMT's 1988 Mustang GT as well as the center console from the same kit. For carpet I used Raspberry Red flocking material with a set of Tasmanian Devil floormats to add a little humor to the equation. PE foot pedals are from Detail Master. For the dash I coated it with Tamiya Red X-7 and BMF'd the chrome panels on the passengers side. The speedometer and other gauges were completed by using the decals from Revell's latest release of this kit with a drop of clear over the decals to simulate that glass look.

A closer look at the shifter will reveal an "8 Ball" for  a shifter knob. This.......was a small model by itself!! I used a straight pin with the little ball on top, sanded the ball to a smooth finish, then bent the shifter rod into an "S" shape and painted a white dot in the middle of the ball:

after this I painted on two small black dots stacked one on top of the other and then two smaller white dots in the middle of those black dots to get the "8". Additionally I used a coat of Tamiya Smoke tint on the shifter rod for a little more realism with the chrome look.

I then cut the shifter rod and knob from the OOB Mustang GT shifter boot, drilled a hole in the boot where the and inserted the completed rod/ ball assy into the boot. I painted the shifter boot a dark gray and dulled/ shadowed it with a dry brushed  coat of ground up black pastel.

If and when I EVER get my butt back to the hobby room, I am so gonna try the pastel thing. I have always thought about using that stuff, my wife has tons of colors.

She chalks ceramics, so definitely have the supplies.

That shifter knob is incredible Joe, what do you use for these small touches, a telescope? LOL

Man this is serious building!!!

TOTAL AWESOMENESS

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Very cool man. I was thinking some Corvette style spinners for those front centers.

And where in the world did you find that scaled down TV? AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Except for the Lakers being on the screen - Lol

Awesome - thanks for the link, I went and saved it. I will have a look at what all else they may have

Really appreciate it!

I mentioned that I was going to work on the wheel center caps for the front wheels. I just couldn't stand leaving the front wheels the way they were with no cap:

I then took the two spare rear wheels that did have a center cap and sanded the backs of the wheels down until all I had left were......well ....the center caps:

although blurry, you get the picture (pardon the pun)

I then test fitted them to the spare front wheel that still attached to sprue. This'll work is all I've gotta say:

And here's the relative pic. The front wheels are completed in regards to wheel center caps and the flooring is now installed/ adhered to the chassis:

Thanks CC!

Ok I'm mostly finished with the rolling chassis and interior. I still have to build a master cylinder and power brake booster for it and add the brake lines but I figured that I'd start on the body some. To say that the body has it's fair share of problems would be an understatement.
I usually see mold lines down around the corners and "what-not" but on top of the front fender? Really??

This is pretty bad too...........

and this is just plain nasty!!!!

At this point I had a lot of work ahead of me but I ended up taking the body on our one week trip to Kansas along with a fine sanding kit to correct all this. More coming.............