1963 Pontiac Bonneville Convertible interior

[minkos]

Merry Christmas everyone...finally finished the interior for one of two AMT annual '63 Bonnevilles I'm building.  This car is Yorktown Blue, the other will be Grenadier Red.  I'm also working on an uptop for the blue car.  I have been struggling with simulating the lucite portions of the steering wheels on the AMT annual Pontiacs that I've done.  This time after lots of staring at a picture of the 1:1 steering wheel in a blue interior car,  I tried Tamiya Titanium Gold with a little bit of the light blue interior color thrown in for tint.

Hopefully I'll get this car done soon.

[StevenGuthmiller]

Nice Mark!

 

You can do those transparent steering wheels with some stretched and formed clear sprue.

I've used this method with several Pontiac, Plymouth, Dodge and Chrysler builds from that era.

I had done a tutorial on how I made them back in 2016 in the "Tips, Tricks and Tutorials" section, but unfortunately, the photo links have since been broken after the Photobucket debacle and the board no longer allows updates of old threads.

 

But here are a couple of photos of interiors with the updated steering wheels.

On of them is an '63 Bonneville that I built some time ago that shares your color scheme almost exactly!

 

 

1961 Chrysler New Yorker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1960 Plymouth Fury

 

 

 

 

 

1962 Chrysler 300

 

 

 

 

 

1963 Pontiac Bonneville

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

 

 

 

[Eric Macleod]

The interiors of 60's cars were sooooo cool! I am blown away by the steering wheel upgrades. Amazing.

[Curt]

Mark, that steering wheel can be found in the readily available '62 Catalina kit, if you aren't up to fabricating one.