1977 Pontiac Trans Am (grey) - wip

Christian W Forfatter
I got this Trans Am of my brother. It was painted by brush and I tried to get it apart. Luckily it worked good. After stripping the paint off, The result was pretty good. Sadly some small pieces broke of so I had to repair it.
My grand child (6) was looking, what I was doing and showed interesst so I decided, to let him chose, which color the interior should have. He chose a dark red - what I was happy with.
After airbrushing that, He get a lesson in handling with the airbrush and did very well (no, I painted teh interior at the end). With some training, he could do that nexttime by himself.
When I did some detaillig, he found "steal grey" in my stash so that was another good choice for the body color. Good! I was thinking on a silver because I always wanted one Trans Am in silver. I painted the body with rattle cans including three layers of clear cote.

So far, the moste work is done. When this Trans Am is done, he will get it a s his first "full kit". He got his first experiences in modelling with two snapkits (Corvette C5 and Ford GT by Revell) so this will be his first full kit.

István Szücs
Yes, it also looks good... I mean VERY good

Christian W Forfatter
Thank you very much! When this T/A is done, I will give it to my grandson as a gift. Because of that, I'll go for another one for my collection *lol*. But first I have to finish the two coupes.

Yesterday I painted the window sealings and the rest of the body details. I've chosen the chrome trim instead of black. I think the black trim could be ugly somehow. So far it is chrome but I rethink it to paint it aluminum. I will add some rubber between the trim and body to get a better effect.
Then I spent the most time to paint the rear lights transparent red.

btw: the hood fits now into it's place 😉

Yngve N
Great job recruiting new people to the hobby who's 10% my age 😉

Christian W Forfatter
I try my best 🙂 My other grandchild (also 6 and a boy) has interest in all the "nice boxes and cars" but is not that he wants to try to build one. He is more happy with die casts. All of my grandchilds got easy kits for christmas and they enjoyed it. It was a try for me to see, how they react and how satisfied they are. It was all right.
It is important, that I will have someone, who wants to take over my stash 🙂

Christian W Forfatter
This kit is done. I'm happy with it and it is a nice variety. Not only, that this car mostly is black. The colors are always a good combination.