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Revoh · 02-07-2012, 09:51 PM

I built this a long time ago, but I recently took it all apart and painted it all up to look more like my real truck. I'm still kind of playing around with it, but it's coming along ...

kcsa75 · 02-07-2012, 10:51 PM

Craig, that's pretty cool!

Revoh · 02-08-2012, 09:45 AM

Thank you!

Believe it or not, unlike the real truck, the model kind of looks better in person than it does in the pictures. I really need to come up with a better solution for the door lettering, but I'm still thinking about it.

**special-K** · 02-08-2012, 10:22 AM

Lookin' good! How did you do the whitewalls? I like both trucks...great color!

Revoh · 02-08-2012, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by special-K

Lookin' good! How did you do the whitewalls? I like both trucks...great color!

Thanks!

I've been screwing up model kits for over 30 years. I've just got a big stash of old tires and stuff around.

Revoh · 02-08-2012, 07:17 PM

Here's some maybe better pics.

brad_man_72 · 02-08-2012, 09:33 PM

Very cool. I dig the matching patina.
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**special-K** · 02-09-2012, 11:11 AM

Ok,I was wondering if you had a trick to do them. That's one thing I hate about the newer issues of the 60s-70s vehicles. They don't give whitewalls anymore. Ok,so they went out of style in later years,but not in these years. If you want to build a "stock" truck,the wheelcovers only look good with narrow whitewalls,IMO.That's how you always saw them...blackwalls with hubcaps and whitewalls with wheelcovers. Sure,you saw people put whitewalls with hubcaps,like your truck,but I never liked the wheelcovers with blackwalls and don't recall hardy ever seeing it back in the day. I bought some truck kit parts lots just to get some whitewalls. With a he effort to build detail into my kits over the years...and hating it when friends would slap them together without a drop of paint...now I have the idea to build a promo in a factory color they never issued. That would be totally custom! Sure,anyone could do it,but have you ever seen it? I like things to be custom,yet not look that way. Like something that "coulda" but "wasn't". I have one of the dumb '72 Cheyenne "Rides" kits with the dippy wheels I want to do that with. I'm thinking medium olive poly.I have an old qt. that may still be good

Revoh · 02-09-2012, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by special-K

I have the idea to build a promo in a factory color they never issued. That would be totally custom! Sure,anyone could do it,but have you ever seen it?

My dad actually has a red '71 or so Chevy truck promo that he painted the white section in to make it two-toned back when it was new. You'd never know it didn't come that way unless you knew.

I've tried that on a couple of pace cars. I had a '55 Chevy coupe with a broken top, so I made a pace car out of it.

I also thought it would be neat to have n '82 Camaro pace car promo, which they also never made, so I just masked off the blue strip and gave it a quick, promo-quality shot of silver.

I'm not really very good at this stuff, but I like messing with it.

02-07-2012, 09:51 PM	#1
Revoh Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Music City, U.S.A. Posts: 638	Model remodel I built this a long time ago, but I recently took it all apart and painted it all up to look more like my real truck. I'm still kind of playing around with it, but it's coming along ... __________________ 1963 C-10 My car blog, for your reading pleasure.

02-07-2012, 10:51 PM	#2
kcsa75 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Kansas City Posts: 3,590	Re: Model remodel Craig, that's pretty cool! __________________ Willie Swamp Angel Truckers '72 C10 Highlander *People who blindly follow a GPS end up on television programs on The Weather Channel. Some survive, some don't.*

02-08-2012, 09:45 AM	#3
Revoh Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Music City, U.S.A. Posts: 638	Re: Model remodel Thank you! Believe it or not, unlike the real truck, the model kind of looks better in person than it does in the pictures. I really need to come up with a better solution for the door lettering, but I'm still thinking about it. __________________ 1963 C-10 My car blog, for your reading pleasure.

02-08-2012, 10:22 AM	#4
special-K Special Order Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mt Airy, MD Posts: 85,863	Re: Model remodel Lookin' good! How did you do the whitewalls? I like both trucks...great color! __________________ "BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~

02-08-2012, 07:17 PM	#6
Revoh Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Music City, U.S.A. Posts: 638	Re: Model remodel Here's some maybe better pics. __________________ 1963 C-10 My car blog, for your reading pleasure.

02-08-2012, 09:33 PM	#7
brad_man_72 the boat guy Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: springfield mo Posts: 2,339	Re: Model remodel Very cool. I dig the matching patina. Posted via Mobile Device __________________ 67, swb, fleet, tach, throttle, 5.3, 4l60e, 3.73's, fuel cell, 5 lug, p.d.b., 4-6 drop. great little truck 66, stevens drag/ski 18' silouette, 350, 2.02 doublehump heads. comp extreme marine 278 cam, vette 7 fin valve covers, old polished edelbrock intake, velvetdrive, casale v-drive, adj cavitation plate. 28, model a rpu project,

02-09-2012, 11:11 AM	#8
special-K Special Order Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Mt Airy, MD Posts: 85,863	Re: Model remodel Ok,I was wondering if you had a trick to do them. That's one thing I hate about the newer issues of the 60s-70s vehicles. They don't give whitewalls anymore. Ok,so they went out of style in later years,but not in these years. If you want to build a "stock" truck,the wheelcovers only look good with narrow whitewalls,IMO.That's how you always saw them...blackwalls with hubcaps and whitewalls with wheelcovers. Sure,you saw people put whitewalls with hubcaps,like your truck,but I never liked the wheelcovers with blackwalls and don't recall hardy ever seeing it back in the day. I bought some truck kit parts lots just to get some whitewalls. With a he effort to build detail into my kits over the years...and hating it when friends would slap them together without a drop of paint...now I have the idea to build a promo in a factory color they never issued. That would be totally custom! Sure,anyone could do it,but have you ever seen it? I like things to be custom,yet not look that way. Like something that "coulda" but "wasn't". I have one of the dumb '72 Cheyenne "Rides" kits with the dippy wheels I want to do that with. I'm thinking medium olive poly.I have an old qt. that may still be good __________________ "BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~



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