AeroVette Sport Coupe

[Scale-Master]

I’m not building this one as a replica of the iconic car, but instead with a loose “what if it went into production” theme. And maybe a little earlier than the real life time line could suggest.

According to the instructions, the nose and tail are supposed to cemented to the body after the chassis & interior are installed into the body, but I want to see if I can mount those exterior parts and adjust the fit before painting the body and still fit the guts in.
(It looks like the front OR rear can be glued on and still get the guts into it. I’d suggest gluing the nose on over the rear due to the better fit of the rear.)
To try to pull that off, I cut the front from the chassis… And slightly modified the two holes in the rear that fit over two pins inside the body.

Then I committed to a one piece affair by permanently attaching the nose and tail to the body. The little fit issues can be seen here.


I am going to fill in the lines between the (Endura?) bumpers, as was somewhat commonly done to Corvettes “back then”.
Even if someone wanted to leave the panel lines to be correct for the AeroVette, once the parts were sanded to fit the lines looked like they could be scribed in uniformly without too much effort.

[Scale-Master]

After giving the body a once/twice over with 600# to smooth it out and address the fit issues of the nose and tail, (relatively minor), I shot it a mix of Testors Orange and Yellow enamels. (I didn’t have enough of either for a base coat, but the two together worked out well. Darn near a match to Camel Yellow.)
I let that dry for about 90 minutes and lightly wet sanded it with 1200 to smooth out some debris and give it a nice tooth for the final pearl color. (Still damp in the photo. That’s more water spots than orange peel.)


The color coats were sprayed, Testors Pearl Orange and the body was set aside to fully dry.

[Scale-Master]

Ready for a wax job…



Amazing what a little bit of wax can do for a paint job. I still need to get some of it out of the panel lines though…

[drunken monkey]

This is one of the things I love about car modelling; seeing all of those old cars and concepts that i had forgotten about again when someone builds one.

[nugundam93]

wow. what a beautiful car!

funny thing is, it might have been just the angles and lighting, but i liked the bodywork before waxing. lol.

[tonioseven]

This is COOL!!!

[Scale-Master]

Thanks guys. I'm having fun with it.

A couple shades of tan for the interior…

[corvettekid_7684]

Bummer. Pics aren't showing up for me in this thread (& a few others) but I really want to see this build!

[Scale-Master]

They're all showing for me. Maybe you need to dump your cache?

[Scale-Master]

I’m putting it in the ’73-’74 year range, so I painted the engine orange.

[Scale-Master]

All the glass fits very well.

[Scale-Master]

The chassis and interior went in with minimal effort and fits just fine as well. Still a few parts for the rear suspension need to be added.

[kashato]

Stunning work! I didnt see this model before

Go go go!

[sportracer02]

Looks great so far, great choice of colour

[Scale-Master]

Thanks guys.

The wheels came from the AMT ’70 Camaro. A little shaving of the AeroVette wheel backs allowed the rims to fit deeper into the tires and make room for machined aluminum outers. I textured the wheel centers to look more like cast units. Center cap decals are from the AeroVette kit.