Article: Amazing 1/8 Scale 1969 Camaro Build

[comp1839]

hey, bill. glad to see ya.

[hot ford coupe]

Did you say that was totally scratchbuilt??? Would you consider doing a tutorial similar to what Ken did for some of us styrene guys? I would love to see how you make the body. Thanks in advance. BTW, your work is some of the best I've seen.

[bills69camaro]

Hi hot ford coupe,
Yes it's 100% scratch built , except for nuts, bolts, and springs. I have a 1:1 camaro in my garage and used it for measuring the parts. I took a 1/24 scale model cut it up to get the profiles, scaled to 1/8 and used the 1:1 for measuring, made a template for each profile and cut them out of balsa. Then I made a top and bottom spar of the side profile and a left and right spar of the top profile. All the body profiles (bulkheads) have notches cut in the top, bottom, and sides for the spars to slide into. I drew a full size drawing of the top view and taped or glued to a flat surface, then taped the bottom spar in the middle of the drawing and started gluing the bulkheads front to back following the drawing. After the bulkheads are glued I glued the top spar and the two side spars, then I covered the body with strips of balsa 1/8 wide by 1/16 thick. After sanding and filling and sanding more I covered the body with 6oz. fiberglass and sanded again.
Then I broke away all the bulkheads inside the body and sanded smooth
and covered the inside with 6oz. fiberglass. 6 oz. is overkill you can use 2 or 3 oz. glass. Then I cut out the fenders, hood, doors, windows, and deck lid. I did all my drawings in illustrator. This is it in a nutshell, to give a full tutorial I would have to make a new body, and that takes a long time. On the next project I will give a step by step.
Hope this gives you some idea of whats involved.

Bill

[hot ford coupe]

That's great. Thanks so much Bill.

[crawler07]

Wow thats amazing!!! You are a true craftsman.

[ScaleMotorcars]

Welcome Bill, Thats one amazing Camaro you built.

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Here's a link to the slide-show from Bills Fotki
Slideshow

[bills69camaro]

Well I had some time to do some work on the camaro.

Here is the exhaust system finished, molded, cast and primed.




Muffler and gas tank made with styrene and ren, molded and cast.



Shocks made from styrene , molded cast and painted.




Made exhaust tips from aluminum stock and polished to look like chrome.
Photo: exhaust system 011 | camaro build album | Bills69camaro | Fotki.com
Photo: exhaust system 014 | camaro build album | Bills69camaro | Fotki.com
Photo: exhaust system | camaro build album | Bills69camaro | Fotki.com

I,m working on fuel and brake lines, gonna take a while to figure out the bends.

Bill

[hot ford coupe]

That is really expert work. I looked at the whole set of pictures and I'm very impressed. I love how the tires and wheels came out. This looks as real as it gets.

[3.Star]

Hello Bill,

a true masterpiece. Well, I just want to ask you, if you could share the dimensions of your scratch-built shocks with me. I'd appreciate your help very much, would save a lot of research for
me. Thank you in advance.


Michael

[bills69camaro]

Hi Michael,

I made the shocks with styrene tube, here's a link to the dimensions

http://public.fotki.com/bills69camar...imensions.html

[3.Star]

Thank you so much Bill, it's a great help to put my corvette on the wheels.


Cheers
Michael

[duanecr]

Very nice! I love the pictures of the engine. For the bolt heads on the pulleys and brackets, are those separate or just detail painting?

[bills69camaro]

duanecr the bolts are all real, the pulleys and brackets are bolted on.
thanks for looking.

Bill

[duanecr]

That's great. Can you tell me what sizes you used for the bolts? I'm interested in building something similar and would like to make the bolts look as accurate as possible.