#60s el camino full#

I first laid tape along the outside edge of the instrument cluster to determine the easiest, straightest cut. I tried something different on the 60 dash. When you swap pieces from sides to side it often comes out looking very irregular and getting it looking right is the challenge.

#60s el camino full#

THe biggest trap is that dashboards that appear to be symetrical and full of straight, parallel lines often aren't. I don't think I ever do two the same way. 'Late model' cars are more complex but I enjoy the challenge. I have been making all rods RHD since I was a kid but they are usually pretty easy. For the last 25 years or so I have been making all my models right hand drive. My Elky will be getting the mild custom treatment, possibly a tube grille, possibly side pipes so a little decking of the tailgate will fit in nicely.Īlso I am tackling something most of you would never have to bother with. I think it will be a lot cleaner without it. I'm guessing it is a remnant from the window winder on a station wagon. This Elky is going to be a tow car and we don't want to be stopping at every servo on the way to Bonneville, now do we? I'm also not going to put that big medallion in the centre of the tailgate. I have also decided to go with the Impala fuel tank. I can fix it but your way would have been easier. I realise now that this has the effect of making the bed rail somewhat thicker than it should be. I only cut about a mm away form the bed rail and then filed the excess back to the bed rail. You removed about half the width of the fin and then fitted it to the sixty. I am really more of a hot rod guy but these two cars have captured my imagination since I was very young.īob, I like your graft of the bed to the 60 better than what I did. Seems like anyone who wants to build a 60 Elky now has at least three ways to consider! I am in awe of Randy's precision grafting of the Bad Actor fins to the Revell body - that is a work of art! I too have a Bad Actor body from my childhood but unfortunately back then I cut open the tailgate and then lost it so it won't give me much of an advantage! Instead, I am going to use it as a donor roof on the left over AMT 59 body to produce a 59 Sedan Delivery - waste not, want not! I was originally going to do it with the Revell 60 body but ended up buying a Jimmy Flintstone resin body instead so I should eventually end up with a coupe, a sedan delivery and an El Camino version of both the 59 and the 60. The main thing is I got it to fit and the top edge is lined up with the bed.īefore I glued it in place I grabbed my razor saw and continued my earlier cuts up through the trunk lid - I didn't want to risk damaging the blue part of the tailgate by cutting later on Now if you are a master craftsman, please look away now! What with scraping the back of the blue piece down to a taper and trying to fit a curve to a straight angle, lets just say it is not as finessed as I might like.

With about an hour's worth of sanding, filing and cutting I ended up with the piece you see here. I grabbed the custom tailgate from the AMT kit and carefully sawed off the top section as you can see here. I changed my mind about how I was going to tackle the tailgate. I know I have already made a few errors, some that I have fixed and some that I am going to have to think about! I might even have to cheat on a few things - I am not bound to a full replica as your superb model was. Thanks for that, Bob, I just went and read both your threads and they are going to be a huge help.