65 chevy

[ryanm]

Hello y'all I thought this kit was going to be a lot more fun than it is.

Feel free to post your 65s maybe I can learn what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks ryan

[Belugawrx]

Dry fit with the interior and glass and see where it wants to sit!

Looks great so far

Cheers

[slusher]

I agree with Bruce, it looks great so far and all require some not so fun work...

[crazyrichard]

well this kit def. involves a lot of pre-fitting , btw the roof shell needs to stick out at the front insted of the back

just tyake it slow and testfit a lot and make sure everything fits together .. i build one and would love to do a nother

maybe some idea's of contrasts between the parts wil help ?

to start with this is what the grille looks like out of the sprue

take some black paint (enamel?) and paint everything inside black , dont worry about spilling onto the top chrome and after every brush wipe of the paint with a cloth (flat over the grille)

after a while you get this > paint stays behind in the ford logo and grille area > makes it 2 times as realistic

if you give the chassis a color paint the floors black for contrast

and when your bed is assembled with the fenders and painted in the body color paint the underside and inside of the wells black , just easy going with enamel and a hand brush

here you can see that the side plates will be black and the underside of the cab in blak will fit onto that and create one black underside under the cab , i also painted parts chrome , (handbrushed)

you can do the indicators orange

on the interiour you could go through with any colortheme , for the small vents you can use a pinty tooth pick or wooden sate stick , dip inpaint ans gently touch the parts to paint

giving the roof a different color is also nice ... and i painted the whole engine compartment black and behind the grill section > black , just used a small hand brush and black enamel paint and patience

when you clearcoated the body you could make a watery black wash to paint the panellines darker , same as on the grill paint the line and wife off excess paint

the kit inclused a batterie , i suggest keep it white and paint the top black , you could ad a brace and some wires

[crazyrichard]

the bed > real wood strips with some styrene strips in between are more easy and look better then painting the kit floor

maybe with a sheet of plastic (mine isnt even styrene) you can make a bed cover

[ryanm]

Thanks for the input guys. I know the problem I'm not satisfied with something shiny maybe one day I'll be able to pull it off. Thanks ryan

[Danno]

Whoa! Twofers!

Two builders/two builds all in one thread.

Nice, both.

[Modlbldr]

They both look excellent to me. From one extreme to the other.

I have yet to build this kit but have it (and the 64) in my stash and I just came across a shop the other day with 4 or 5 more for $14 each. Gonna pick up at least one more.

BTW Ryan, what was the problem?

Later-

[rctruk]

I did one as a stock pick-up. I don't remember any issues with the kit

Edited June 14, 2014 by rctruk

[TFchronos]

Very nice work!

[gwolf]

This was my '65 I finished recently:

http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=89942#entry1188849

[slusher]

Did you weather the first one or are you building 2??

[ryanm]

Yeah I weathered it I can't do shinny I guess

[Wonderbread Kustomz]

Looks good!

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Not sure how I missed this. This looks great!