66 Chevy Impala

[Christopher J]

The Impala I've been laboring on is finally done. Got it done about a month back, but the forum was down. Anyway.....that said, here's the finished product......

Sitting in the "parking lot" I made with my 6yr old.

Rear view and trunk view

Got the wiring and plumbing all done....

Front view

[Tom Geiger]

Nice work. That is a pretty darn cool model, far from my own building style, but I can dig it!

[ChrisR]

Also not my style but a great build!

[crazyjim]

Whoa. Let's pack some details in there. Nice build. Are those decals? If not, how did you do the paint?

[Danno]

Ambitious paint job! Looks very good.

Is that polishing burn-through on the left front fender? Too bad, it distracts from an otherwise great effect.

[Porscheman]

Nice build, Excellent Detail!!!

[cobraman]

Very nice build.

[Darbo]

Awesome work Chris! Love it

[MikeyB08]

Killer!! Working on my 63 Impala at the moment. Given mine will not be any where near as cool as this one. Such a good clean kit. Love the flat black wheels, really helps to set off that color.

[Christopher J]

Thanks for all the kind words. Crazy Jim, those are decals ordered from Franklin Ink. Until his PC went belly up he made full body decals for a number of model kits. Danno the fender is now meant to look as if the paint had been rubbed down to bare metal. It suffered a mishap when I was shooting clear. I accidently grabbed a can of black when I got distracted and put my can of clear down. They were next to each other on my bench. I didn't get much on there and was able to get the black off with careful use of cotton swabs dampened with lacquer thinner. In the process I thinned the existing clearcoat more than I thought and tapped over the decal to protect it so I could touch up the yellow. When I pulled my tape it pulled the decal. Once that happened I decided to go the "FUBAR'd" fender route.I thought it was a decent semi save.

[vintagedragfan]

looks like you finally finished this Impala up Christopher, looks great, too bad about the paint mis-hap, oh well live and learn brother live and learn, still need to try and get to a Slammers meeting some time

[rayu1988]

Very nice. I'd drive it...carefuly. Lol.

[Chris White]

The black contrast looks nice

[realgone58]

Lot's of work went into this build. I thought the fender was done purposely. Looks like the guy got a few dings and decided to do some body work. I think it's a really nice touch!

[JDGREEN]

Nice, I like it!

[slusher]

Gorgeous build Chris, with killer detail. You have some great building skill. Work of art...

[Mack_Mechanic]

Very nice!Alot of nice detail to look at!

[kratvmnd]

Super build and great colors,only thing I'm not sure of is the door handles on the wrong side of the suicide doors?

[Mrdarkmonkey96]

I was amazed at the paint job! Then I realized it was decals, but this model still looks absolutely gorgeous. I think if you put any morr detail into it it would up and drive off!

[PappyD340]

FANTASTIC job Chris, that's tough on the misshap, but IMO you recovered well, hey stuff happens, looks great!!

[Mrdarkmonkey96]

say can you stil get those decals for the full body?

[Christopher J]

A big thanks to all for your thoughts concerning my build as well as your sharing your feelings about what should be different Orr is spot on. I love the thoughts and criticisms as it helps one to get better. Mrdarkmonkey the decals aren't available at present, but as soon as he gets a computer running again I'm sure they.will be.

[blunc]

lots of great work on this model.

I too would have suggested rethinking the placement of the door handles. A full size custom of this complexity most likely would not have door handles at all.