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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – bench seat [9]

July 13, 2014
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I could’ve let the bench seat on this ’64 Chevy Pickup in one piece… but I couldn’t resist the temptation of adding some detail to it. It looks terrific, adding a nice high detail piece to the model and it’s easier than it seems. Cut the bench seat in two pieces Add some styrene pieces where […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – tailgate hinges [8]

July 4, 2014
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Now the tailgate hinges are done. This project seems to be just about hinges, door hinges, hood hinges and now tailgate hinges. I was actually quite surprised that no hinges for the tailgate were included in the kit. I mean, just leaving to pins on the bottom corners of the tailgate and a pair of holes […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – hinges pillar [7]

June 22, 2014
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After cutting the doors open and making the door panels, now it’s time to solve a few loose ends like the hinges pillar and the interior panel under the dashboard. There is not so much to say about this. Here you see the finished hinges pillar. I forgot to make a few pictures of the […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – hood hinges [6]

June 20, 2014
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On this post I’ll show you how I made the hood hinges for my 64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside in 1/25 scale (Revell kit). This ’64 chevy pickup project is going out of control. I can’t stop adding details to it. I must admit I enjoy scratch building and modifying a model much more than painting and detailing. […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – cabin floor [5]

May 10, 2014
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One more step in this project. As you’ve seen in my previous posts, I’ve been adding a lot of details on this kit. After opening the doors and making door panels, there is one more thing to fix: the cabin floor. The kit’s cabin floor is far from representing the original, so there were many […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – hood details [4]

April 11, 2014
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On this post I want to show you how I improved the hood details. I first saw this kind of hood structure details at scale models my bro Iggy did. I instantly got  hooked on “hood detailing”. Although this details will be difficult to see in the finished model, I wanted to do it anyway. […]

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’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside – Revell kit – door panels [3]

March 8, 2014
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Holidays are over, it’s time to continue with my ’64 Chevy Pickup Fleetside project. I’ve been working on the doors lately. After scratch building the door jambs, I decided to improve the truck bed as it was an easy and fast job. Now I’ll show how I made the door panels. After cutting the door […]

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From our Readers – Kerry’s Racers

July 3, 2012
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You know how we like junkers and rusty scale models! We also like old school race cars, as you may have noticed from our latest combined project: the 56 Sunliner from Fireball Roberts and the 57 Chevy Black Widow. Well, Kerry got both topics into one build with this 57 Ford. As he explained to […]

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Chevy Black Widow and Fireball Fairlane

April 27, 2012
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I’ve told you that I started the Black Widow from Revell. Of course, the idea wasn’t to build the car just out of the box. Thanks to the hints and tips given by some of you, I found some really cool insights. So there is some scratch building involved here. But while talking about the […]

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Grandpa’s 1942 WWII Chevrolet G506 / GMC Tow Truck – junker

February 7, 2012
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How this 1942 Chevrolet G506 army truck from WWII ended up in our grandpa’s junkyard in Argentina we’ll probably never know. One thing is for sure, it was a cool truck. It was functioning and our grandpa build a tow truck out of it for the junkyard. As I told you before, I used to […]

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AMT 55 Chevy Pickup – Street Machine Beater

November 4, 2011
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The first time I saw this kit was a real long time ago. My brother and I were still teenagers. We had picked the kit in one of our favorites stores back then. At home, we were really amazed about it. My brother built that one pretty much the same as shown on the box. […]

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Jerry’s Resin Realm – Find almost any car you can imagine

October 1, 2011
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One day, surfing the net, I found a forum discussion about resin bodies from somewhere called Resin Realm by Jerry. As I visited the site, I was stunned! Jerry has a variety of bodies that could make any junkyard diorama look like out of this world! Let me show you a few examples:   This is a […]

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