1957 Chevy

55, 56 & 57 Chevy Bel Air automotive paintings

April 21, 2012
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Last week I just finished this series of Chevy Bel Air paintings. The tri-chevys are among my favorite cars since I was a kid. Unluckily I’m not the only one…  and in the meanwhile the prices of this great Chevys are beyond most people’s reach. As you might notice by now I do not limit [...]

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57 Chevrolet 150 – Black Widow Project – Building Tips, Facts and Questions

April 15, 2012
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I wrote a kit review about this Revell model some time ago. I really liked the kit right from the start. So, when my brother and discussed about our next project, an instruction DVD tutorial, I suggested to build this car in the racer stock car version. By the way, we will be filming this [...]

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1/25 Revell – 1957 Chevy 150 Utility Sedan & BlackWidow Race Car

September 23, 2011
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This kit is labeled “Special Edition Series”. And in comparison with the average scale kit, this one is surely special. I wanted to buy since I first saw it! This kit features a 150 Chevy Utlity Sedan (which you can also build as the Black Widow Stock Car). The 150 Chevy Utility Sedan – also called Handyman [...]

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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [4] – Engine details

August 8, 2011
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Last week I continued adding a few details to the engine. After painting I started wiring the engine and detailing the carburetor. The easiest way to attach the cables was to drill little holes on the distributor and the engine block. I used an old telephone wire to do the wire. For the black plugs [...]

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Collector’s Kit: 54, 55 and 56 Chevy Revell HOTROD Series

April 8, 2011
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As the name tells you, you get three classic chevys in one box – now, if that isn’t already a good start!! And wait for the rest to come! Although you may not find this kit very often (it was made in 1985), I thought of making a review anyway – just because this kit [...]

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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [3] – Engine compartment

February 18, 2011
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The engine compartment of this kit was a real mess. As it is a relatively big scale (1/16) I just couldn’t live with that. I decided to make it complete new. I searched for real pictures of a real ’57 Chevy Bel Air’s engine compartment. I found a few nice pictures. I took the firewall’s [...]

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1/24 Junkyard diorama project

February 4, 2011
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As you might already have realized by now, we are really passionate about junk cars, junkyards and everything that looks old and rusty. One of our greatest dreams is to own a junkyard full of great classic cars… but how do you do that when you live and work in a big city and you [...]

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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [2] – Further Progress

January 2, 2011
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I kept on working on the 1957 Chevrolet. On this video you can see some more scratch built details, such as the inside of the hood, which was almost completely built on plastic. The bolts holding the rear suspension to the differential and rear axle were pretty unclean on the original model, so I made [...]

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1957 Chevrolet Bel Air [1] – High Detail

December 4, 2010
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This build is based on a pretty old kit from ESCI – ERTL. Although the scale of 1/16 is pretty big, this model doesn’t have much details out of the box. So I had to do a lot of scratch building to make many things by myself so the model would look more realistic. This [...]

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