AMT 1991 Silverado 454 SS-Almost There--03/16

Jan 16, 2019 10:06:11 GMT -7 mmthrax said:

Just found this and went through it Joe. Really great stuff. The engine is fabulous. All the different shades. When the thread first opened I thought I was looking at a reference photo.
No kidding. I did a triple take. Inspiring work sir.

Thanks Mark!

Well......the livestock show is now officially over. Our son placed fifth with his pig and for his first year that wasn't bad. We had a fairly sad morning this morning as we had to say goodbye to piggy but Joseph is handling it pretty well.

We didn't have to go feed a pig tonight so you know what that means?? It's BENCHTIME!!!! I had initially primed the interior pieces to include the tub. I was looking at it even with the ejector pin marks on the floor and thinking to myself, "Yeah.....that's gonna......no....no it aint gonna work!!" The ejector pin mark, even though it's in a terrible place I can actually deal with. More on that in a minute. That chintzy brake and accelerator pedal just isn't gonna do at all.

So ………...I put my thinkin' cap on.. :hmm:

I found another floorboard from a parts kit that I've got in the stash and cut the whole section out of this floor board. Then I cut a section out from the parts donor.

Then the replacement piece was glued into place.

We'll be using some PE pedals to have a little more true to scale and true to references look. Now to address those disgusting ejector pin marks. Those...…..will be covered up by these floor mats that I acquired which just came in the mail a couple of days ago.

This interior is long from being done. I'm just posting this to post some progress. I've been working on the color tones and surface textures with the differences in the seat fabric, carpet and on the door panels by using different colored pastels. You can see the contrasting colors on the seat between the weaved and the smooth sections of the drivers seat. That seat will directly contrast the passengers side seat which hasn't been touched up yet. I've got the door handle/ switch bezel painted but still have to fill in the details on those and then get the foot pedals taken care of.

Progress so far:

Mark: Thanks bud. Yeah it's kinda like a shoe that fits just right after a while. You just get in a groove and follow it. There's a lot of advise and tricks out there but each one of us finds what really works for us.

Les: I use pastels all the time in military modeling and figured that it'd work here as well.

Steve: Thanks for your comments as well. I hear ya. I wonder why the manufactures couldn't put the gates somewhere else? I mean what tha heck??

Ok gang. I've got the interior tub pretty much done except for the foot pedals. I really like this photo as it shows the color contrast on the seats very well. I finished up the passengers seat this morning with the color contrast. I left the pleated part of the seat the original color that I painted it and used a mixture of red with a little black ground up pastel and dry brushed it onto smooth parts of the seat to slightly darken the color tone for a subtle yet highly noticeable contrast. I was surprised with the results. Everything is adhered into place. The door handle/ switch bezels and all details have been painted here and I thought I'd add a Coke to the cup holder. I mean....why not? I'm smilin' so why not have a Coke to go with it?