Monogram 1969 Z to SS Camaro-MOVED TO COMPLETED-07/20

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Re: Monogram 1969 Z-28 Camaro-Interior Beginnings-01/13

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Sorry guys. I've been working on this thing but there are a lot of corrections to make. First off the PE bezels are NOT going to work with this dash ....................BUT I've got a different plan. Here's where we start this morning.....

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I drilled out the IP gauges and sanded down the back of them for the scale thickness factor and sanded the Camaro emblem off as well as cleaned up a bunch of flash and sinkholes that I found not only on top of the dash but the face of it as well. I also sanded that Camaro script from the dash.

We'll be slingin' paint on this thing about anytime now:

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Re: Monogram 1969 Z-28 Camaro-Some Progress-01/20

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Dash is complete. I got the film instruments and the "Camaro" script from the PE set. All dash trim was brought out with a silver lead pencil. While it's not the best dash you'll ever see, it's a far cry from what it was.

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Re: Monogram 1969 Z-28 Camaro-Dash Complete-01/22

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Very nice.Your stuff looks so realistic.
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Re: Monogram 1969 Z-28 Camaro-Some Progress-01/20

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mustang1989 wrote:Dash is complete. I got the film instruments and the "Camaro" script from the PE set. All dash trim was brought out with a silver lead pencil. While it's not the best dash you'll ever see, it's a far cry from what it was.

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That looks great! In the 1:1 size, real thing, was the dashboard like hard plastic or softer one ?
Either way around, looks good!

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Re: Monogram 1969 Z-28 Camaro-Dash Complete-01/22

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Thanks Kari. I believe it was a combo of plastic, metal and a vinyl type covering on the dash pad.

As promised , I've been working on the steering column along with the dash for the better part of 3 days. First off I took the OOB steering wheel and cut out the spoke holes and shaved off the horn pad. I then drilled two holes in the column. One on the right for the ignition switch, key and key chain and the one on the left for a turn signal lever. I painted the steering wheel spokes with the newly acquired chrome pen that I just got in the mail and installed a PE "SS" horn pad. I then took a PE key along with a PE ignition switch bezel and a PE key chain with a "Bowtie" on it , made a scratch built key ring and put it all together and installed it into the column. The turn signal lever is made from a .019" needle I had in the spares box and I'll be painting a black knob on the end of it tomorrow morning. Any ways here it all is. I'll show the before picture (which I knew I should have taken a more clear "before" picture of the dash beforehand but this is all I've got) and then the improvement pics:

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Re: Monogram 1969 Z-28 Camaro-Steering Wheel & Column-01/24

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Nice improvements to the steering wheel.... and the keychain is just too cool! :shoutout:
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Re: Monogram 1969 Z-28 Camaro-Steering Wheel & Column-01/24

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Thanks stik!!

Ok gang. It's been a little bit since I posted any updates here and I'm trying not to bore everybody to death with a picture of a floor mat here and a picture of foot pedals there so I'm waiting till I feel that I've got some substantial progress before posting. Additionally , if I spend all my time taking pictures then I don't get much done at the bench. I build slow enough like it is.

Here we are with the dash in place, carpet / flocking put down everywhere except where the seats go and floor mats down. Folks I'm doing the very best I can with what I have here so there was just no hope of getting the floor mat on the drivers side to go under the pedals unless I wanted to cut that area of the floor pan out and graph in a "blank" piece of styrene and drop the pedals down from the back side of the dash. That's more work than I wanted to do so I cut the floor mat just short of the pedals and did most of my fancy foot work with the pedals themselves to try to make up the shortcoming. I've got the shifter plate along with the shift pattern insert on the plate installed on the center console in this pic and will be adding the PE gauge bezels and gauges as well as the shifter lever soon to round out that console.

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The two front seats with the chrome emblem picked out with that chrome pen:

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and the back seat that I robbed from the spare kit since my original Camaro build did NOT have a back seat at all in it. Yeah ....the roll bars are going bye bye for the revamp and I'll be installing this seat along with seat belts for the front and rear seats. I'll also be filling in those openings for the roll bar with some sheet styrene.

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Re: Monogram 1969 Z-28 Camaro-Interior Updates-01/29

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Excellent update man! Don't worry about taking awhile to post new progress. All your work is well worth the wait. Glad to see the new improvements.
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Re: Monogram 1969 Z-28 Camaro-Interior Updates-01/29

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Thanks Mark!!

This interior just keeps getting better with each addition. I've got the door handles and window cranks as well as the Camaro badges on the door panels and the console is finished. The shifter is a bobby pin that I bent and sanded the shifter ball to get rid of a seam it had. Center gauges are from the PE set I bought. I'm going to buy another set of floor mats so I can fix that drivers side floor area. I'm not happy with that but I'll fix it. Here we are so far guys:


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Re: Monogram 1969 Z-28 Camaro-Interior Updates-02/03

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Excellent interior! I love it! It almost looks like a real car in these pics. Keep plugging man!
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