69 Chevy base C/10

[hedotwo]

A replica build of our 1:1 C/10 we owned in the early 70's to pull our 64 Winnebago trailer.  Base color is Folk Art Thicket Green craft acrylic with Tamiya clear.  Interior is Folk Art Bark Brown satin craft acrylic.  Build progress is in a post in the WIP section.  This project is a two step build with the second part trying to replicate the colors on our trailer onto a diecast Greenlight Winnebago that started life with gold trim.  Ours had red striping.  I'll try and post a short WIP on the trailer as I go along too.  I've included a pic of the trailer here after I stripped the gold.  Thanks for looking.

[von Zipper]

Very nicely done !

 

[TonyK]

That's definitely a base Chevy truck and it looks good. Always nice to see someone able to build a model of something they owned. I look forward to the trailer when it's done.

[Jim B]

Looks great.  Well done.

[Zippi]

Nice looking 69 Chevy pickup.

[cheyenne93]

Very nice!! Really like that cap. Great scratch building!! ??

[ChrisR]

Very nice!!

[carrucha]

Cool truck!  Very impressive scratch building especially on the camper shell!  I am planning on building a scale replica of a base 1970 Chevy C10 that my Dad drove when I was kid.

[NOBLNG]

Really nicely done Rich! That cap looks perfect.?

[PappyD340]

Looks great!

[slusher]

Your truck turned out great Rich!

[89AKurt]

Really awesome that you built this tribute.  Came out really nice!

[Marc1969]

Very well done. The cap looks great, followed in WIP. Good stuff

[ewetwo]

This is going to be great.

 

[Steve H]

Hi Rich, great looking truck. The whole build is really nice, but the scratch built topper is brilliant. The green looks pretty close to the factory colour those trucks came in. 
 

Cheers, Steve

[Plowboy]

That's a nice looking Chevy truck Rich! The scratch built camper top really makes this model! To me, there's nothing cooler than a model built after a full scale owned by the builder.  

[hedotwo]

I found time to finish changing the Greenlight diecast Winnebago trailer to match the colors and striping style on ours.  The trailer wasn't identical to our 64 fifteen foot but hey, I was tickled to see something this close available.  Rather than the tedious job of masking/painting the red striping I used lacquer thinner (the pic shows ELO but that didn't work) on a rag and gently wiped the original gold striping away and then creating the new striping.  I found a package of like 5 different widths of red paper masking tape on Amazon and then created the style of the stripes and "W" we had.  Was using tape ideal?  Nope but it looks good to me.  I also replaced the original wheel/tire combo with silver painted steelies and whitewalls, as we had, and disassembled the trailer to be able to change the colors on the inside as well to those close to what we had.  So this project is now in the display case and I'm really happy with it.  Thanks for all the nice comments on this build.  I'm including one of the only photos of both the truck and trailer that has survived in the past 47 years.  I'm sitting with my now 49 year old daughter ?!  The other old pic is of my wife and daughter.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 22, 2022 by hedotwo

[59 Impala]

Very nice replica build.  Looks great.