Removing badge from an SS Grille?

[tigeraid]

So I'm making a kit of my buddy's '72 Nova, should mostly be easy, but he doesn't have an SS grille. I've searched all over the place online for machined piece or a stock replacement but I can't find anything but SS grilles. I think I'm going to attempt to shave the "SS" off myself and maybe re-groove it to look like the rest of the grille. Am I opening up a can of worms here? Could you guys suggest any other possible ways to do it?

[DukeMan]

I may have a solution to your problem, it´s called MCG Custom Grills Horizontal Bar. Have a look at the link for further info about the product. It´s not going to be a direct replacement for the kit grille but if you use the kit grille as a template for the new one I can´t see how you should run into any problems. Or you could buy a whole detail set for a ´70-72 Nova instead, it seems to include a non-ss grille and you´ll have a lot of detils to add if you want!

Good luck!

MCG ´70-72 Nova detail set:
http://www.modelcargarage.com/mcg_di...tem.cfm?m=2219

Nova ´72 grille:


MCG Grille:

[tigeraid]

Dukeman: a-HAH! Thanks dude... I was actually gonna order that detail set to do the car anyway, but I couldn't really see in the pic where the grille was... I didn't realise the grille was literally just a piece of mesh. I've never worked with photo-etched parts before (except those in factory boxes), how do I lay that thing on top of the stock grille? Like, looking at the stock grille, I see two headlights and the mesh in the middle, but in the detail set, the grille looks like it has parking lamp boxes on either side?

[spidereddie]

I've bought the detail set for the nova and the grille doesn't come with an SS badge. It's a seperate photo-etched piece that comes with the set you have to add on yourself (if you so chose) See the grille below. This is the obvious easy answer to your problem that will come out spectacular instead of 'shaky' (depending on your sractchbuilding skills of course..no offense).

[tigeraid]

Okay cool. Don't mean to sound like a retard, but I'm lookin at the pic and I don't see how the grille mounts, is my point. Does it lay on top of the stock one? Do I cut the middle out between the headlights on the stock piece?