'70 Grande

Might hafta build one of these and quickly show it to my mother. She hated these '27 T's as my grandfather drove her to high school every single day in his old 1:1 in the mid-1950's! Grandpa was frugal, and my mother would say he thought he was "wise" too because who "would wanna date the girl that comes to high school everyday in a nearly 30 year old "T"! Funny thing was my dad told me that brought alot of attention my Mom's way... and it worked on him!

A terrific-looking Oldsmobile convertible, the color choices are outstanding as is the build-quality. Tried unsuccessfully to PM you; you mentioned you have some extra Grand Slam kits that you got the whitewall tires for this build from... I have been looking for all of the body, glass and interior pieces from one of those 1965 Pontiac Grand Prix kits; would you be interested in trading those unbuilt parts from one of your extra Grand Slam kits? Please PM me if you might be; thanks!

Really, really like this build... and it has no numbers and large sponsor decals on it, too! Great subject matter and as always from your workbench, outstanding build quality!

I appreciate all the fine comments... gives me some courage to post more of my builds... thanks all!

Thought I'd add two more pics:

Couple of more pics...

Started this build a few years ago. It is the vintage 1/25 MPC Pontiac GTO kit, (molded in Dark Blue), which caused me to paint it in a similar Dark Blue color over a Blue interior. I built this as a 2-door sedan, (instead of a hardtop), adding posts and rear, side-window glass, and as a circa-1972 car; 5 years old with its second owner who did a few performance upgrades to it. Interior is flocked, engine compartment has been upgraded with some additional panels and details, chassis has been upgraded with some additional panels and details as well. I deliberately build this car with a slightly-tall stance to it as my reference pics research for 1:1 '67 GTOs seemed to show that many of them "ride-alittle-high". Tried to give it the weathering of a 5-year-old daily-driver. My body paintwork is far-from-good as this is the area where my model-building skills can use the most improvement... still gotta add my driver's side rear-view mirror to call this one complete! Comments, criticisms and suggestions are all welcome.

I also have this kit in-progress but it hasn't been out of its box and worked on for several months now. Two things I do seem to remember from previous builds of this kit I did year's ago... 1) The track-width of the completed front suspension runs a little wide with the front tires sticking outside of the front fenders; I wanna try to narrow-it-up on my work-in-progress. 2) That front suspension also sits a bit high making the finished build have a nose-up stance to it.

Nice build; the post-race weathering effects are quite good! Two questions- 1) How did you create that dent on the passenger-side door/fender? 2) Does this build have mis-matched tires, and if so, is that part of the post-race effects?

Doesn't have to be revolutionary or groundbreaking for me; I just have a dislike for one-piece chassis and prefer to replace them with detailed versions in all of my builds.

Stunning build!

Rich... Agree; the '66 Impala stocker is my favorite in the series, (although the "stubby" but nicely-done illustration of it on the box art makes me chuckle)!

Chris... thanks for those wheelbase measurements. I'm not surprised at all by how accurate that measurement is when compared to the 1:1; those "kit-makers of old" really knew what they were doing! Now the challenge will be finding a more detailed chassis that doesn't hafta be stretched a long ways to make 126"! I've done these type of chassis-stretches before, but I'm not sure I wanna do another one for this '66 Wildcat kit.

I'm curious what the 1/25 wheelbase measurement is on this kit... (its 126" in the 1:1 world). I have never liked one-piece molded chassis with no separate suspension pieces and might get this kit if I could find an accurate/more-detailed chassis to swap underneath it. Anybody have any chassis-swap suggestions?

The big issue in my eyes with the Revell '65 Chevelle Z16's roofline is how straight-n-flat the roofline right over the doors is; a straight horizontal edgeline that has no tamper-towards-the-rear like the 1:1 has... it blatantly stands-out to my eye.

Lotz of great work here... I especially like that tasty little Porsche 904!

Lots of excellent work showing here... all nicely done!

Stunning build here of an iconic racing machine!

Beautiful build ! What scale is it?

Stunning build!

Almost 20 builds... that's more than I completed in the last decade! Great stuff here with a nice variety of subjects... well done!

Wow! This is an incredible build! Your paintwork and kitbashing to get that combination of sub-assemblies together is awesome!

Well done! This kit has some issues, and frequently, when built, looks a little "off" to my eyes, but your build looks very good and doesn't have that "off-look-symptom to it! Takes me back to the 1970's... nice job!

I agree; a very nicely done build! I have built this kit more times than any other kit out there, (4X if I remember them all)! It qualifies as my all-time-favorite kit even tho it has those mid-1970's kit production issues as you mentioned. I like your color choice of the Red interior with Inca Gold outer! Your detail-painting and engine work look exceptional, too!

If you are gonna build that USPS version, make certain it has some nice-sized fender- dents like shown in that 1:1 pic!