The John Winchester GMC pickup from the TV show Supernatural

[Beans]

Continuing with my cars of Supernatural theme, I am working on the GMC truck driven by John Winchester in the show (Season 1, episode 21).

 

For the base I am using the Revell 76 sportside kit.

Some of the best reference photos I found came from an add when the production company sold the truck.

[Beans]

First thing done was to look at the parts I would need to modify the kit.  I ended up designing and 3D printing the tires and wheels, a GMC specific steering wheel, tailgate and grill and a center console for the interior.

I also printed out the weapons box but I'll get to that later.

I am pretty sure I still have the STL files for most of these so if you want them, let me know and I will make them available for you.

[T-Ray]

Could the Revell GMC Plow kit be of any use?

[Beans]

15 hours ago, T-Ray said:

Could the Revell GMC Plow kit be of any use?

Could definitely use those bed rails and maybe the grill if the one I printed doesn't work out.

[Beans]

Interior update.

Bench seat wasn't going to work for me and what is the deal with the total lack of door panel detail?

 

Back to the design and 3D printer and some new door panels were created.  Also some cutting and fitting and the bench seat is no longer a bench seat.

That is electrical tape holding everything together for now.

[stitchdup]

nice work, you should put your files on one of the trading sites, being for a supernatural vehicle it would probably be a good seller. I know i'd buy the door panels

[av405]

I'm curious why you didn't use the MPC Sod Buster. It has the correct 1981+ body lines and split seats.

[Oldriginal86]

It seems when the kit has buckets, we want a bench or vice versa. The door panels look nice.

[Beans]

4 hours ago, av405 said:

I'm curious why you didn't use the MPC Sod Buster. It has the correct 1981+ body lines and split seats.

 

You can blame my impulsive nature  and general laziness.  I saw a kit at the shop, said, "I can make that work"  boom.  research complete.  Didn't even stop to think there might be a better suited kit.?

[Beans]

Got the interior mostly done.  Added some messed up seat covers and the printed steering wheel worked out.  Weathered the whole thing.

I should mention I am horrible and taking pictures.   But they did allow me to notice some fixes I need to make.

[Beans]

23 hours ago, stitchdup said:

nice work, you should put your files on one of the trading sites, being for a supernatural vehicle it would probably be a good seller. I know i'd buy the door panels

I have some misc. ones up here:

https://cults3d.com/en/users/Joemama51/3d-models

I haven't charged for anything yet.  

When I did the Supernatural Impala I didn't have a 3D printer yet and scratch built all the trunk stuff that I couldn't source somewhere.  I am now in the process of creating STL files for the trunk box and then might move onto the actual trunk interior.  Opening the trunk on that kit was not as easy as I thought it would be and it had to be build out a lot.

Edited December 22, 2023 by Beans

[Beans]

Also painted up the weapons box I made that will fit in the bed of the truck.

[Lovelyyluciddreams]

On 12/20/2023 at 8:01 AM, Beans said:

First thing done was to look at the parts I would need to modify the kit.  I ended up designing and 3D printing the tires and wheels, a GMC specific steering wheel, tailgate and grill and a center console for the interior.

I also printed out the weapons box but I'll get to that later.

I am pretty sure I still have the STL files for most of these so if you want them, let me know and I will make them available for you.

Hi, I’m wondering if you still have the STL files you made for the truck, I tried the link you posted in another comment but I came up as “page not found.” I’m absolutely dying to build this truck and after hours of searching for models I couldn’t find the right year/make/model of the one that he drove, so I thought well, I’ll just have to use a similar one and customize it! Anyways, all the searching led me here to this page and I was delighted to see that your post wasn’t that old, so I have high hopes that you may respond! Thanks in advance  

[fordf-100]

On 12/22/2023 at 9:04 AM, Beans said:

Got the interior mostly done.  Added some messed up seat covers and the printed steering wheel worked out.  Weathered the whole thing.

I should mention I am horrible and taking pictures.   But they did allow me to notice some fixes I need to make.

Those seat covers look really good! How did you do that?

[Beans]

 

New pictures should be coming soon.  I have done a little more work on the truck but life delayed much of this project.

Edited January 27 by Beans

[Beans]

On 1/25/2025 at 10:09 AM, Lovelyyluciddreams said:

Hi, I’m wondering if you still have the STL files you made for the truck, I tried the link you posted in another comment but I came up as “page not found.” I’m absolutely dying to build this truck and after hours of searching for models I couldn’t find the right year/make/model of the one that he drove, so I thought well, I’ll just have to use a similar one and customize it! Anyways, all the searching led me here to this page and I was delighted to see that your post wasn’t that old, so I have high hopes that you may respond! Thanks in advance  

I may still have the stl for the misc. parts I worked up.  I had kind of catastrophic failure with my 3d printer a little while ago and haven't rebuilt it yet.  I dumped a lot of my stl files but there may be some lingering around.  I'll take a look and see what I can find.  

[Beans]

On 1/25/2025 at 12:34 PM, fordf-100 said:

Those seat covers look really good! How did you do that?

 

Thank you.

It's masking tape put on in a wrinkled way then painted and dry brushed.  I coated the masking tape with some white glue to keep it from coming off.  When I used masking tape in the past it would eventually peel up.  We will see if it happens again.

 

I really need to get back on this project.  

[fordf-100]

37 minutes ago, Beans said:

 

Thank you.

It's masking tape put on in a wrinkled way then painted and dry brushed.  I coated the masking tape with some white glue to keep it from coming off.  When I used masking tape in the past it would eventually peel up.  We will see if it happens again.

 

I really need to get back on this project.  

Thanks!