Sunday, March 30, 2008 4:39:34 PM GMT

Ok, my next WIP is the 66 GTO that I owned back in 1969. This is just going to be a box stock build except maybe for the paint which was just a little different shade than the box.

A little history on this kit, I got it at a garage sale along with 2 other kits and all 3 of them had been painted with god knows what kind of paint and no primer. I have had the bodys in CSC and DOT3 for 2 weeks trying to strip the paint. Maybe because he used no primer, the paint seems to have stained the white plastic but a good coat of primer covered it so I think everything will be fine. Here's a few pics of the beginning. I will be spraying another coat of white primer next just because the light metallic blue will cover better.

Last edit by Tim at Sunday, March 30, 2008 4:44:16 PM GMT

 Sunday, March 30, 2008 6:29:06 PM GMT

Hey Thumb...Looks like the body cleaned up nicely. I look forward to seeing your 66 Goat's progress. Aloha...Pete

 Thursday, April 3, 2008 1:08:49 AM GMT

All right! Finally got back to this build. It's funny how time flies when you're doing 20 different things

Anyway, got the first coat of white primer on the body and also primed the engine. If you remember, I put a gray first coat of primer first just so I could see when sanding if I went down to bare plastic. The white is there because I will be painting it a light metallic blue. Here's a couple pics

 Thursday, April 3, 2008 2:43:55 AM GMT

Nice start on the Goat Thumb. Light metallic blues sounds like a great color, can't wait to see the outcome. Anyways will be looking out for your progress.

Chris J.

Let's get it built.

Wip's
AMT/ERTL "Johnny Lightning" 1958 Chevrolete Impala Sport Coupe.
AMT/ERTL "1966 Chevrolet Nova" (95%)
Lindberg "61 Impala SS 409" (20%)
Revell "98 Pontiac Firebird" (70%)
Revell "BMW 320i" (90%)
Project WIP F

 Thursday, April 3, 2008 12:42:12 PM GMT

Oooooo, it's a GTO. Looking forward to see more progress on this one!

Last edit by Leonidas at Thursday, April 3, 2008 12:42:45 PM GMT

 Thursday, April 3, 2008 1:25:04 PM GMT

Yeah, I thought I'd do one since no one has ever done a GTO before

Stay tuned....more too come

 Thursday, April 3, 2008 2:14:26 PM GMT

baahd baahd

 Thursday, April 3, 2008 4:25:39 PM GMT

I was priming everything either gray or white depending on what color the part was going to be painted and since I am building this box stock, came upon a problem. They say to paint the instrument panel on the dash a gloss brown, don't know if they mean dark or light but that's not the real question. Why would they want you to paint it brown unless they want it too look like wood? The 66 GTO I had was a light blue metallic color and if I remember correctly(which may be the problem), the instrument panel was chrome or the normal silver color.
Here's a pic of the dash primed in white with the colors they suggest to paint it. I guess where the ??? are, is supposed to match the car color.

Any ideas or suggestions?

 Thursday, April 3, 2008 4:50:27 PM GMT

I don't know much about these cars.

But I like using google image search: Click here

Try different search combinations if you don't get your answer. Ebay sometimes has good photos too.

G

 Thursday, April 3, 2008 5:08:47 PM GMT

Well, maybe my mind just is not what it use to be because I looked all of the 1:1 in your link and they all have the brown/wood instrument panel. Ok, that's what it's gonna be then.

Thanks!