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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 13, 2017 7:10:32 GMT -7
Ok folks. This is the very best that Monogram could do in the late 70's and throughout the early 80's I guess. It's not very accurate but it's what I've got ................so we'll deal with that.
It's not going to be perfect but I'm shooting for the best I can do with this interior bucket to transform it into something that somewhat resembles this....minus the wood grain of course. Yuck!
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Post by Big D on Jan 13, 2017 7:16:19 GMT -7
What's wrong with wood grain?
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Post by stitchdup on Jan 13, 2017 7:19:47 GMT -7
It could be worse mate, the cuda I'm doing has no door panel detail at all, just a kinked edge
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 13, 2017 7:52:54 GMT -7
What's wrong with wood grain? Nothin' really under most circumstances. I just don't want it on this interior. No worries.....I aint a hater.  |
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 13, 2017 7:53:31 GMT -7
It could be worse mate, the cuda I'm doing has no door panel detail at all, just a kinked edge You're right .....I have seen worse. |
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Post by coyotecrunch on Jan 13, 2017 14:04:40 GMT -7
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Post by DeeCee on Jan 13, 2017 15:46:23 GMT -7
Enough chit chat, get buildin'...... dope-slap_zps6h5ivvpw  Popcorn%20and%20drink%20emoticon_zpsnbkzs8ys |
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 13, 2017 16:45:23 GMT -7
Enough chit chat, get buildin'...... dope-slap_zps6h5ivvpw Popcorn%20and%20drink%20emoticon_zpsnbkzs8ys LOL! Patience "grasshoppa". There's a lot of setup and "paving the way" before parts start a flyin'. I'll get there though and I plan on making the wait worth while. What happens is a different story. sorry%20bout%20dat_zps1nny96hw |
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Post by DeeCee on Jan 13, 2017 16:57:22 GMT -7
I know the feeling mate, a lot of modeling is the mundane stuff that doesn't warrant pics,
but usually the most important part of what your trying to do.
But i'm still going to wait... impatiently though.. icon_bored_zpscodtnzo5
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 13, 2017 17:52:18 GMT -7
I hear ya brutha. I'm kind of waiting impatiently as well. I'm ready to get the show on the road.
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 20, 2017 6:45:45 GMT -7
Sorry guys. I've been working on this thing but there are a lot of corrections to make. First off the PE bezels are NOT going to work with this dash ....................BUT I've got a different plan. I also sanded the Camaro script from the dash. Here's where we start this morning.....
I drilled out the IP gauges and sanded down the back of them for the scale thickness factor and sanded the Camaro emblem off as well as cleaned up a bunch of flash and sinkholes that I found not only on top of the dash but the face of it as well.
We'll be slingin' paint on this thing about anytime now
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Post by coyotecrunch on Jan 20, 2017 8:23:53 GMT -7
Oh Yeah!!
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 22, 2017 5:33:34 GMT -7
Dash is complete. I got the film instruments and the "Camaro" script from the PE set. All dash trim was brought out with a silver lead pencil. While it's not the best dash you'll ever see, it's a far cry from what it was.
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Post by stitchdup on Jan 22, 2017 6:12:02 GMT -7
Certainly a BIG improvement
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Post by Big D on Jan 22, 2017 7:37:19 GMT -7
Very well done Joe.
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 22, 2017 18:33:45 GMT -7
Thanks fellas! Moving on to the steering wheel and column tomorrow morning.
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Post by DeeCee on Jan 23, 2017 3:28:25 GMT -7
You got to be happy with that result... I would be!!
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 23, 2017 11:35:47 GMT -7
'preciate that Dale!  |
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 24, 2017 4:03:55 GMT -7
As promised , I've been working on the steering column along with the dash for the better part of 3 days. First off I took the OOB steering wheel and cut out the spoke holes and shaved off the horn pad. I then drilled two holes in the column. One on the right for the ignition switch, key and key chain and the one on the left for a turn signal lever. I painted the steering wheel spokes with the newly acquired chrome pen that I just got in the mail and installed a PE "SS" horn pad. I then took a PE key along with a PE ignition switch bezel and a PE key chain with a "Bowtie" on it , made a scratch built key ring and put it all together and installed it into the column. The turn signal lever is made from a .019" needle I had in the spares box and I'll be painting a black knob on the end of it tomorrow morning. Any ways here it all is. I'll show the before picture (which I knew I should have taken a more clear "before" picture of the dash beforehand but this is all I've got) and then the improvement pics:
Before:
After:
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Post by stitchdup on Jan 24, 2017 6:48:17 GMT -7
Nice job mate, I have to ask what you used to cut out the slots in the wheel? everytime I try to do that they break, and I use a tiny PE scriber
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Post by vcv8273 on Jan 24, 2017 7:08:13 GMT -7
Very nice detail work Joe looking 100% better. Looking forward to more updates on this one
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 24, 2017 7:09:42 GMT -7
Thanks Les. I used a pin vise on the spokes. What I did was drill three holes in each "cut out" and using an X-acto blade I just gently connected the dots and slowly cut out each slot and then just cleaned the holes out with the blade.
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 24, 2017 7:21:10 GMT -7
Very nice detail work Joe looking 100% better. Looking forward to more updates on this one Thanks buddy!  |
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Post by Big D on Jan 24, 2017 12:02:13 GMT -7
Excellent work here Joe and I learned something. I like it when I learn something.
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 24, 2017 14:44:31 GMT -7
Excellent work here Joe and I learned something. I like it when I learn something. Thanks Dennis. Glad I could be of help buddy. |
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Post by coyotecrunch on Jan 25, 2017 8:05:17 GMT -7
Awesomeness man - Pure Awesomeness!!!!!
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 26, 2017 4:28:49 GMT -7
Awesomeness man - Pure Awesomeness!!!!! Thanks Tom! Today I started on the seats. They didn't have any backs on them so I broke out the Evergreen sheet and fabricated both seat backs. Progress pics this weekend...........and that'll be starting tomorrow BTW. |
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Post by mustang1989 on Jan 29, 2017 5:35:23 GMT -7
Ok gang. It's been a little bit since I posted any updates here and I'm trying not to bore everybody to death with a picture of a floor mat here and a picture of foot pedals there so I'm waiting till I feel that I've got some substantial progress before posting. Additionally , if I spend all my time taking pictures then I don't get much done at the bench. I build slow enough like it is.
Here we are with the dash in place, carpet / flocking put down everywhere except where the seats go and floor mats down. Folks I'm doing the very best I can with what I have here so there was just no hope of getting the floor mat on the drivers side to go under the pedals unless I wanted to cut that area of the floor pan out and graph in a "blank" piece of styrene and drop the pedals down from the back side of the dash. That's more work than I wanted to do so I cut the floor mat just short of the pedals and did most of my fancy foot work with the pedals themselves to try to make up the shortcoming. I've got the shifter plate along with the shift pattern insert on the plate installed on the center console in this pic and will be adding the PE gauge bezels and gauges as well as the shifter lever soon to round out that console.
The two front seats with the chrome emblem picked out with that chrome pen:
and the back seat that I robbed from the spare kit since my original Camaro build did NOT have a back seat at all in it. Yeah ....the roll bars are going bye bye for the revamp and I'll be installing this seat along with seat belts for the front and rear seats. I'll also be filling in those openings for the roll bar with some sheet styrene. Here the seat is fresh out of the brake fluid bath to remove the white paint it had on it.
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Post by stitchdup on Jan 29, 2017 5:48:41 GMT -7
Nice clean work Joe
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Post by coyotecrunch on Jan 29, 2017 6:40:13 GMT -7
Well planned out, coming along nicely....
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