Man this was a project! Mostly because I went for an enamel yellow finish, which just took forever to “take” and polish and repaint and wait and polish and repaint, etc, etc, etc! [banghead]
Well, my “Armor” background shows in the engine bay–I weathered the engine to look realistic. I’m just not a fan of super-clean engines. I say buy 'em and run 'em hard!
Welll, i’ll stop talkin’ and show it off. I used MOdel Master Enamel Yellow and Fred Cady decals, Wiring and plumbing from Detail Master products.
I’m pretty much burnt out on this one, so I hope I don’t need to revise anything too radically (sqeakie! [:-^]…[;)])
Top Notch all the way, [tup][tup] Chassis looks like it should for a Driver. Only thing I would reccomend touching up would be the “Cowl Grill” it is too clean it needs a dark wash in the depths.
{Cowl Grill - area behind hood and in front of windshield } in case you did not know [%-)]
Very spiffy work Dogg! I mean it looks fantastic and the engine weathering and the polished yellow body color is very well done. I usually don’t like yellow just because it is a hard color to work with and get right. Really shows your dedication and talents that you pulled it off. Only thing I can nit pick about is the wipers. I son’t model cars so I may be talking out my backside but the wipers are so chomed and shiney. No rubber or black edge on the flatside. Plus never have seen chromed wipers not that they don’t exist.
It’s really no big deal but was the only thing my inexperienced eyes noticed that looked off. Everything else is spot on and sharp. The wipers are prob just a minor unimportant thing. Kinda like numbers and FM AM buttons not on the radio and oval speakers in the back window. (Threw those extremes in to illustrate my ignorance)
What I think would be cool would be to see it side by side with your Charger. No real reason just think it would be a cool pic. Maybe personalize it with a 1/24 scale Fender Guitar in the back seat or an album cover for an old vinyl record. An oil rag or tool perhaps. Just thinking of the details you add to your Armor to add a type of realistic feel.
Perhaps a natural environment as you suggest when displaying Armor models. Nothing too fancy but I remember reading an article about making scale asphalt outta kitty litter to make a simple road bed display.
None of this is a critic mind you just my mind flowing after working all night. Maybe I overdosed on the coffee. Even though I don’t see any dead bugs stuck in the radiator fins it looks pretty real. I’ll take a good nap and check again, Cheers to a fine looking Super Bee! [:P]
Another great-looking '69 1/2 Six Pack Super Bee at FSM!
I agree the engine compartment looks great weathered a bit, especially on a model, but if that were my real car, it’d be clean AND run hard!
Great job on the plug wiring, too. Perfect gauge, I’d say! Looks to me you pulled off the difficult yellow paint job, too. Excellent!
The only advice I can offer other than what has been mentioned is that the hood that came on the 69 1/2 440 Six Pack Super Bee was a one-piece lift-off fiberglass unit with the scoop being integral, with no seams showing around the edges. Shouldn’t be too much of a hassle to go back and blend the scoop into the hood and re-spray it flat black, eh?
Thanks so much guys, for the really supportive comments! As you know, I’m more of an Armor guy, so it’s a real encouraging thing to get such positive feedback on this baby! It was a real task to get that yellow to work!
Summit–good call on the cowl grille! Illl take care of that for sure! And thanks for the compliment!
Aaron, good call as well on the wipers; I just plain overlooked that, but you’re correct–they should have a line of black “rubber” on them.I’ll fix that as well!
I’ll get a pic of the Charger and this stable mate side-by-side here in a bit; they look good sitting next to each other here on the shelf!
Hmmm…interesting detail there, J-Hulk! I never would have figured that!
I agree that the wiring from Detial Master is perfect scale, and really easy to work with too!
I’ll go back on take a loook at my references, and see if it’s a realistic fix to do; I’m just skeered that I might ruin it (especially the decals!) if I get in there too deep…but thanks for pointing that out, and for the nice compliments!
under the hood would have been spotless on about 98% of the cars, and we usually washed the engine compartment every couple weeks. Also I can’t remember ever seeing a factory six pack with orange valve covers. Seems like they were chrome from the factory, but I’ve also slept a lot since then. When they went to the PVC valve it pretty much eleminated an oily effect in the engine area, and the only ones you ever seen oil and dirt were hemis. They would get an oil build up in the sparkplug tubes, and you had to turn the motor over without the sparkplugs to sorta blow all that oil out of the chambers. Then put the old plugs in and run it for a couple minutes to burn the rest of it out. After that you put the new plugs in. Nice car and one of my favorite colors.
Well, that’s really interesting about the valve covers–I do trust your vast knowledge of these cars and this era, but here’s some of the references I used which seem to show that perhaps they did come in orange. I’m pretty confident that at least a good argument could be made to that effect.These are both from Superbee “6 Packs”.
I appreciate the info about the weathering effects; all I can say is that this car is in that other 2%! LOL! Thanks for weighing in!
Finally woke up as it has been one exhausting week for me. In the light of day with a fresh cup of coffee in my hand it looks even better! Only have praise for your builds. The diff between Armor and Autos as far as techniques, gloss paints extc would be a hard thing to master for me. Be almost like starting over again with all the new stuff! Looks like you have been building them for years though.
I’ll keep a look out for that article on the Kitty litter. Sounds odd but I remember reading this fellow spread some over white glue on a simple wood base. He crushed it first before appling then rolled it with an old water pipe to press it flat on the base into the glue. When he painted it it looked exactly like the parking lot the Orange Bee above is sitting on.
Not too important but it was impressive enough for me to remember. I like those cheap but effective recipes.
they probably were orange then from the factory, but in 68 and 69 there was an engine dress up option that did include chrome valve covers and a chrome air cleaner on single four barrel cars. All cars that had the air induction thru the hood had an orange air cleaner except for max wedges. You most often see them with orange air cleaners on them, but 90% were shipped with black ones.
The orange car is not a six pac car, but the guy’s done a nice jobe building a clone! He has a 1970 or later style air cleaner on it with a steel hood. The green car is a real six pac right down to the rubber heater hose spacers on the hood pins! Six pac cars didn’t come with hubcaps, but had the chrome plated lug nuts instead. They also came with a 4.10 rear end and a Dana 60 third member no matter transmission option. Also had 15" tires instead of the standard 14" ones (hemis also had 15" tires as well) Basicly a six pac car was a wedge powered car built on a hemi chasis, but with a wedge K-member. The carbs are similar to the ones on a 435 hp Corvette, but flow about 20% more air. Canadian built six pacs use a different set of carbs than the U.S. built ones. They had accelerator pumps on each carb where as the U.S. built ones only had one big one. The 1969 cars made about 20 more horsepower than the 1970 and later ones due to a lighter weight set of rods and pistons.
And speaking of big orange monsters on the prowl: what if I told you I have a pinion snubber in my possesion?
Over all build is very impressive…!!! I love the colour and the “Super Bee” graphics… I love the weathering job on the engine but (this is me only), it does not really coincise w/ the over all car itself…
Yet again, if you have the power, use it and use it hard[:P] Sweetass job over all my friend.
I know what you’re saying, Butz–I should weather the outside as well? But to be honest, this build relly reflects my personality–if I owned this car, I’d wash it at the car wash every now and them but the engine would look like that. I’m not a neatfreak…[:-^][;)].
Besides, after all the work it took to get that finish looking like it does, there’s no way I’m dirtying it up! [swg] Thanks for the compliment though!
**Gary–**once again your knowledge shows its vast depth and breadth. To be honest though, I have no idea what a “pinion snubber” is! Is it rare? WHat do ya do withit? Is it legal? [(-D]
Thanks, too Tony! Wait til you meet the “sexy beast” I’m bringing to SYRCON! LOL! [;)]
Doog! Nice job…the engine pops! Too bad car kits don’t lend themselves to interior shots!
Canopy closed.
Very realistic work…especially the chassis! This car has been repainted…that’s what a lot salesman told me when I noted overspray underneath. I think it makes it more real!
