DoctorLarry

Was the interior part of the kit?

I meant dis it come with the body as a kit.

Interior?

What are you doing for interior?

Very nice build. I remember those cars running around town when I was a kid.

Looks great, Tim. How does the waterborne paint lay down compared to solvent-based?

That looks really good. Very clean.

After I finished my Motion Buick Skylark, I wanted to continue with Buicks. Perry's Resin used to do a 68 Skylark GS in resin but it is long gone. Occasionally they pop up on EBAY and go for big money. I've bid on and lost probably 4 or so over the years. Recently files were created for 3D printers for a 69 Skylark and Skylark wagon. The body is pretty accurate; the hood not so. The lines are wrong. The interior is not correct for the 69 DeLuxe interior in the GS. I made my own molds and cast it in resin for my Motion build and fixed the hood lines. There are lots of printers offering the 69 kits now. The chassis are pretty basic and the interiors as well, as far as being accurate. The dash and console are great. However, no 1968 kit yet. To do this for my build, I created a 69 to 68 "fix". I used the 68 Chevelle as a donor for the 69 chassis and interior and created my own seats and door panels. For the 68, the hood is different, the deck lid has trim on it, the rear marker lights are different. the fenders are cut out for a gill vent. The interior is also really different. So I made my own. The Chevelle rear seat is too wide so I created the door panels to look like the real ones do and made new seats. The front seats are wider and flatter with no head rests. I used 66 GTO seats and cut the middle out which made them just right to modify. The 68 also had a column shift console which I duplicated. I will make molds of everything and cast them up.

Incredible paint and detailing. Very nice!

Very nicely done, Curtis.

Perry's Resin did a 68 at one point. I have a 69 that I'm going to convert to a 68 and I'll also do the 68 interior. This is the goal:

Next on the list-the Motion 70 GS..

This is probably my most ambitious project yet. Baldwin Motion reportedly only modified two Buicks during their time. One was a 69 Skylark GS and the other a 70 GS. I started with a resin 69 Skylark. I made my own DeLuxe interior and used a 68 Chevelle as a donor. The rest is scratch made. Jay's Resin Hurst wheels and tires. Testor's blue metallic paint (a little dark) and white. Model railroad pinstripe decals. Photo etch GS emblems. I think it turned out great. Comments welcome.

Cool little build. My kids called these minicars "bug mobiles".

Looks great!

Craig your Challenger is super clean. I love the color combo as you can tell!

A friend of mine just retired and he used to have a green Challenger T/A. I built a replica for a retirement gift. I had the correct exterior color mixed by my local paint guy and used a different color craft paint for the interior. I love this color combo even if it was rather unique and lesser seen.

Very nice build.

A colleague of mine just retired and when he was younger he had two Challengers. For a retirement gift I thought I would build replicas of his cars. He had sent me some pictures so I tried to replicate them. The T/A was unusual: dark green metallic exterior with green interior. I got a Revell Streetburner kit open box and a Challenger R/T glue bomb on EBAY. I built the kit OOB and modified the R/T by filling in the hood hole, repainting it and making a single four barrel intake. I detailed both and put heater hoses, battery cables and plug wires on the T/A. I also added an Accell coil because his car had one. The pink car is what I started with.

440 six pack

Got major work done on both. The orange car rebuild is complete. It was not a Challenger R/T so I had to fill in the hood opening for the shaker. The rest was just masking, repaint and detail. The pink car in the photo was the glue bomb I started with. It was a 44 six pack so I had to fab up a single 4 barrel intake and air cleaner. The green car is awaiting mirrors and tire decals to be complete. I added a resin distributor, plug wires, Accell Super Coil, heater hoses and battery cables.

A colleague of mine is retiring soon. He had two Challengers at the same time: a 1970 Challenger T/A and a 1970 Challenger convertible. The T/A was rather unique: dark green with a green interior and the convertible was orange. Quite a pair! He once remarked that if I ever built one he would buy it from me so I thought doing them would be a nice send off. I found a T/A kit and a resto candidate on Ebay. The kit was a first for me-styrene, no resin, no handmade parts. His car was mildly modified with M/T valve covers and an Accel Super coil. I found the coil in resin but no luck on the valve covers so I painted them black. The kit has good interior detail bout minimal engine detail and a flat firewall. I added heater hoses, a distributor and plug wires and battery cables, For the firewall I made a blower motor, wiper motor and ignition amplifier. I used craft paints for the interior-a first. It turned out okay. I used embossing powder for the carpet. Exterior paint PPG acrylic enamel in the factory color. I need to foil the body and do decals. Tires and decals are from Fireball in correct E-60 and F-60 sizes. His car had Pro-Trac 60's so I ordered the decals from Fireball. The resto candidate was a Challenger convertible that had been badly painted pink. I carefully masked and repainted the pink bomber and am just detailing it. I still have to do the engine compartment. Pictures above in the post. I read through those posts and still could not fix it. First time for me.

Trying to get around the "page not found" problem. I have text but it won't go through so this is a test. Bear with me. I can explain the pictures.

It says "that page can't be found".

Just tried it again and no go. Is it something I'm doing that they are catching? It is a long post.