Hey all, This is one of my many WIP I have going. I've been working on and off with this one for a few months now. My LHS has a gluebomb / used parts section that I like to dig through. I found this old 1/24 monogram Chevy Blazer body and some of its parts. This was already painted and put together and torn apart/ disassembled when I found what was left of it. Bought it with the intention of building a post apocoliptic vehicle but the direction changed. I was really needing a pull truck for my galaxie trailer and a lot of 1/25 trucks just look too small in front of it. I found that 1/24 scale goes a lot better with these trailer kits. I wanted a chevy truck and decided to use this blazer that I had already started.
This is body as I found it. Note the broken / missing door / roof post.
This is the body after I stripped the lime green paint off and repaired the missing post with evergreen sheet. Also pictured are the interior bucket with seats and half the dash, core support, front bumper, gas tank and a parts box chassis plate / front suspension from an unknown truck kit.
Next, I needed some good sized truck tires. I found 6 plastic "tires" from the used parts bin at my LHS to use. Not sure what kit these are from but they are hollow and were missing the tire backs. To remedy this problem, I made a mold of one of the tires and cast a couple in resin. One I am using for the spare with a resin plain bare rim. By pouring only a small ammount of resin in the mold, I was able to make these thin backs for the two front tires. The wagon spoke truck rim is also a resin part I cast.
One major part I was missing was the hood. This is what held up this build for so long. After a lot of looking, I couldn't find one. These are kinda' rare. I did find a couple on ebay, but the guy wanted way too much for them. Falling back on my old saying of " if you can't find it or affort it, build it yourself", I decided to try and make one since it is mostly flat and square to start with anyway. I had another one of these gluebomb blazer kits that I plan on building now that I've collected up the missing kit parts. I used the hood from this kit as a pattern in making another one out of evergreen plastic sheet. After some measuring, cutting, heat from a candel, some glueing and some sanding, This is what I was able to make. Now I can actually maybe continue building this thing. Heres the kit hood next to the copy I handmade. Not sure I'm gonna put the vent slots in the rear of the hood yet.
Next, I needed an engine. Simple enough. Digging through my parts box, I found this 1/24 scale chevy 396-454 bigblock that was common in a lot of old monogram kits. I had only one valve cover that fit it, so I cast a duplicte in resin. I also added a resin carb spacer plate to the manifold.
Another important part missing was the headlight bezel / grille. This too is a hard piece to find. I found these two 1/25 truck grilles at my LHS but they were too narrow by 1/8" per side to fit on the 1/24 body. Not sure what kits these are from but I am going to cut and combine these by using the headlight bezels from the top one with the grille from the bottom one. Then it should fit.
Source: http://cs.scaleautomag.com/SCACS/forums/thread/944803.aspx
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