DoctorLarry

4 barrel intake yet?

I looked over pics of real cars and you are correct. The lines should flare back to the corners of the hood. I will fix it with plastic and putty as you suggest. Thanks for the tip.

Stephen, this was a 3D print version that I found on EBAY. It was not a good experience. I ordered and paid and then nothing. It went on for awhile and I kept communicating. Got a couple of "ready to ship" notices and one stating it was being shipped but nothing. More time passed and I finally filed a claim with EBAY and PayPal. It finally shipped after several weeks had passed. As you can see from the picture it has different resin colors and one of the other members said the hood is wrong. Robert Burns is supposed to do them but he has put them on hold for awhile. There is another European seller on EBAY that has a kit of the 69 and Robert Burns does a nice 69 GS wagon. So all I can say is good luck. The interior in the 3D print kit is a base interior, not the custom/GS one so I had to make my own seats and door panels and console. I hope the dash will work. I will probably cast them in resin just to have them and I will also do ones for the wagon.

Anybody know of a place where I can find Lakewood ladder bars for GM coil spring cars? Thanks!

Anybody out there do Lakewood ladder bars for GM coil spring cars?

Ordered some Thrush mufflers and fly eye velocity stack air cleaners from VGC Resins today so I think that's the last of the special parts for this one. I still need some Lakewood ladder bars for the 70 yellow car. There is someone with them on EBAY but priced in a ridiculous way. Anybody know of a kit I can pirate for them?

Thanks. I think it will, too. It is coming along nicely.

Thanks, Rich!

Went to the paint store yesterday and got two colors: 1969 Code 53 Crystal Blue for the 69 Skylark GS project and 1970 Code 52 Saturn Yellow for the 70 GSX project. I also finished the rough-in of the 69 GS interior. The seats have a lot of detail in them-hard to replicate in scale. I will probably make molds and resin cast them. The 3D print seats and door panels were all wrong so I made new ones. The dash should work with some modifications. I still have to build the "consolette" for the four speed in the car. I am going to use the 69 Riviera engine as a base. I will need to fabricate a new intake and chrome the valve covers. I have a Fireball Holley double pumper and the "fly eye" air cleaner from the Baldwin-Motion 70 Camaro. The 71 Olds 442 will donate the finned rear differential cover and I ordered resin Mallory coils. I have MSD boxes that I can modify for the Motion Capacitative Discharge unit. I still will need to fabricate exhaust headers and Thrush mufflers, but things are coming together. I will also need to figure the black vinyl top out.

Looks great!

Sweet! Thanks to both for making the attempt to do these. IT is much appreciated (at least by me).

Very nice. Paint, trim and decal work is impressive!

One of my good friends bought the wagon. He lived around the corner. I don't remember what happened to it after the rear end self destructed.

Curtis, I have tons of reference material on the car so if you want pictures PM me. Larry

I did not do the print but it did come with a different color resin than the rest. I also have a Robert Burns Skylark wagon so I have something to compare to. Thanks for the tip!

Evidently there were two Motion-prepped Buicks. The other one was a yellow GSX. I have ordered parts to do that one, too. It will be easy because the kit already exists. Ladder bars, 12 bolt Chevy rear, Motion under hood stuff and Keystone mags with Motion spinners.

In my hometown, we had a v8 Vega wagon someone did (it was not by Motion). They had shortened the axles on the rear end and evidently either welded them back together or destroyed the heat treating so of course there was a minor explosion one time when the hammer was dropped!

I think I bought one of those kits to test the size of the engine. As I recall it had a hole in it for a metal axle and as you said not much detail. I will check it out. Thanks for the tip!

I think so, too.

Having just finished a Buick Pace Car, I had a number of new possibilities to start. Cleaning up some old magazines (at one point I had 18 boxes of car magazines) I found an old Musclecar Review article about one of two Buicks known to have been modified at Joel Rosen's Baldwin-Motion shop. It was fully restored and is a beautiful car. I had bought a 3D printed 69 Skylark on EBAY and thought that would be a good use for it. The Revell 68 Chevelle is my donor, it has the same wheelbase. I will start with a Monogram GSX engine but at 1/24 scale it might look too big (that was true in the last build). The Motion car has Hurst wheels on it and just so happens that Jay's Resin just introduced them in 20/21 diameter. I emailed him and asked if he could do them in 17 and he did! They look awesome. Original car had 14" wheels but I'm stretching things a little. I started making the interior (the 3D print had one but it was all wrong) from the Chevelle parts and sheet plastic. I'll get my paint guy to mix up the paint. No decals this time so it should go faster (I hope). Thanks for looking.

Does anyone do Pontiac engines or Buick 350/455 engines in resin?

I started sanding with 220 dry and will follow up with 400 wet. Then tape off the detail stuff and hit it with Dupli-Color Filler primer and see how it turns out. The top had really deep lines ii it as well as the hood.

I bought a 3D print 69 Skylark from someone on EBAY (not Robert Burns, to be clear). It has all sorts of ripples in the body. My question is is this a common thing? Second, do I just try to sand them out? Third, how do you prep one of these for paint? Any experience would be appreciated. Thanks!

Very nice and clean. I love the engineering that went into opening doors, trunk and hood. At first glance you would think it was the real car. Excellent!

Thanks, everyone for the kind comments. I don't know if I will try another engine compartment like that one. Maybe back to the 60's-an alternator and a heater!