OOB Revell 1998 Trans Am-Now In Completed Section

Interesting subject mate, not the nicest shape, but i'm pretty sure you will knock it out of the park Joe.

Thanks Dale. I've always loved these cars. I guess I'm partial to 'em because they were the going thing when I went to work at my first dealership 24 years ago.

Cool, nic to see a firebird built

Thanks Les. I've been wanting to build one of these cars for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time now. I was posting my interest in these cars a few years back and out of no where BTD commented in my thread that he sent me a PM. When I checked it out I found that he offered to give me one of his. I didn't allude to wanting one or anything and BAM....it just appeared. It's been nearly two years since I received it now and figure it was high time that I built it so.....here it is. 

Got the engine finished up this morning. It only took me around a week to get everything together on this one and I stuck to my guns on my OOB goal all except for the oil filter decal. It's not much but it adds a lot to any engine build. For some reason the exhaust manifold texture came out grainy in the  photos but it looks smooth in real life. Weird. Anyways,  here's the 5.7 liter LS1 engine for this beast. It's my first OOB engine in YEARS!

Fantastic looking engine. The finish on the manifolds is extremely convincing.

Thanks Leon, Bruce and Dennis! 


Ok folks. It's been a couple of weeks since my last progress post but I'm trying not to "update" everybody to death. I've been payin' a lot of attention to pictures and trying to get it as close the those and also from what I can remember when I used to work on these. I managed to acquire a Camaro kit which had the dual outlet muffler and will be using that on this build instead of the single outlet one. The muffler is not glued into place yet so it is just there for display purposes at this point. I'll be stripping the chrome plating from the assembly, cleaning it up and modifying it so that both pipes will lay in the right place at the right angles as well as drill out the ends of the pipes to hollow them out. I used lots of different black tones by way of gloss, semi gloss, satin and flat finishes as to give the chassis some depth and more detail. The differentials always seemed to rust so I finished it up in a semi rusted state in what would be a "soon after new" look the way it would look after the car had been on the road for about a month or two. The heat shield just in front of the differential was achieved by the use of Matte Aluminum Bare Metal Foil and the fuel tank & spare tire areas were given a coat of darker gray to add contrast.







I cleaned the wheels up, added the WS-6 center cap decals and coated them with a light coating of Tamiya Smoke to get rid of the toy chrome look. I also gave the tire tread areas a light sanding to give 'em that "road wear" look (uh-oh....looks like I might've missed one ). Pretty happy with these.





I'm really glad that I chose to lower the car some because there would've been a whole LOT of air between the tires and the top of the wheel openings. I might try to lower the front just a smidgen more to get it where I want it....

Nice progress on the chassis and wheels Joe! Looking good.

Thanks Leon. Glad to have you along bro. 

Two tone paint looks great Joe!

Nice trick mate, really improves the panel

That interior is stunning!

Thanks Lee and Dennis.

WOW....That looks great Joe!