Jeffcad
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Hi John ! Thanks for your message and for sharing your models... Wow, I am really impressed by your conversions and your skills. Fins transformations as well as bumpers must have been very complicated to do cause still quite differents from 1959 to 1960 in fact. What a unique model, never seen one before in that scale, congratulations !. Can't wait to see the flat top you are working on of course. cheers, and thanks again ! JP.
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1959 Cadillac Eldorado Seville in Georgian Blue Poly
Jeffcad replied to YBlock292's topic in Model Cars
Excellent build. Color is fantastic, congratulations ! -
Thank you all very much !
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Hi John ! Thank you so much. I wanted my Fleetwood to be as close as "Sienna Rose Metallic", a GM color available for Cadillac that year, and not that common on this series. I do have the X-el's '58 and '59 Sixty Specials as well, and an original 1959 JoHan Fleetwood built kit that needs total restoration. JoHan did an amazing job with these, and for the 1961 model year, the kits or promos were even better in proportions. No chromed detailed, no opening features and sometimes no detailed chassis, but so good on overall accuracy and proportions. 60 years later, JoHan is still ahead of most manufacturers, imho. I also have the 1960 Coupe DeVille from Modelhaus. My biggest concern is with the rear of the car. Fins are not raising enough and the rear quarter panels are too low. But I won't complain too much, knowing that's impossible to find now. Feel free to share your own 1960 Fleetwood kit. No need to tell you I'd love to see it Thanks again!
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Hi guys. Today I share a rare Cadillac I have in my collection. As we know, the 1960 Cadillac promos ( as well as many from 1958 to 1962 ) are all deformed and warped now, but since kit versions were not produced with the same material, some are still straight, like mine. I have replaced the original wheels with the ones from the '59 Eldorado Monogram's kit, which are way more accurate. This Cadillac needs a bit of work and detailing but overall is worth to show its fins !. Hope you'll like it.
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Hello Roger. Fantastic build and your paint job is absolutely gorgeous! I am myself using Duplicolor paints ans duplicolor clears on my models. I didn't know that using Tamiya's clears on top of the Duplicolor would work. The clear Duplicolors are working fine but require a lot of sanding to remove pretty strong orange peel effect. Hours of sanding and really hard to achieve in curved surfaces or strong angles...I managed to do a pretty decent job but I wonder if the Tamiya gives smoother layers. So, as your Pontiac is mirror shine, do you need a lot of sanding after the tamiya to get this so clean result ?. Thanks in advance to let me know.
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Hi Paul, you're right. Both hubcaps years looked quite close anyway, depth and a bigger number of turbine blade shapes characterised the 56. Thanks a lot for my Eldo !. Coming from you, it's a real honour.
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Hi Christopher. Thanks ! You're right, a "plain" color with no metallic "glitters" can be very cool too ! That promo was factory painted "Dynasty Red" but the passager side was ravaged by scratches and dents. So most of the work was to sand the model from its paint, to fill dents with putty and sand the body completely again before, of course, adding a new paint and all the detail inside and out. Fortunately, chromes were still in decent shape.
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Wow !. Fantastic build as always Paul. Gorgeous paint, chromes and details work. An amazing kit for the time already. Funny thing, I didn't remember that it came with 1957 Cadillac wheels/hubcaps instead of '56s...Doesn't make it less attractive for sure.
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Hi Phillip ! Thanks very much. Stripes are 0.2 and 0.1 millimeters gold decal lines on this Eldorado. Decal Brand is "Studio27". They exist in many colours. Silver, Black, White, Gold if I remember correctly. They come in a card of 0.1 to 0.5 mil that you can find on Ebay but availability is sometimes limited. Quality is very good but it is so thin that it is quite hard to apply once watered , especially if you want tight ligns.
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Hi Claude ! Merci infiniment !. For 1973, Cadillac calls it "Harvest Yellow", code mfg 81. It's a pale but rich cream colour that goes really well with these ligns, you're absolutely right. Thanks again.
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Hi guys. Here's a tribute to my own beloved 1973 Cadillac DeVille that I used to drive some years ago. I had a damaged 1973 Eldorado promo left that I wanted to restore with the exact same colours combination than my late DeVille. So here she is, with new paint and polished coats, interior wood-ish door panels, carpeting, white walls, front and rear fender shock absorber lines and detailed bumpers, detailed hood with thin gold lines. Scripts needs attention and I aslo need to find side mirrors, which is quite hard to do !. Anyway, hope that Caddy will please some of you. Cheers.
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Hi David. Yes I remember your posts about your family car and also your '62 JoHan build of course. They have clearly helped me choose the color combo for this Coupe . ( this '62 Caddy was painted with Medium Garnet Red Met ). For an unexplicable ( and silly ) reason I've never learn ( yet ) how to use an air brush. I am about to change that very soon.... So my Cadillacs are painted with sprays. Hobby shops are dead in my place now so it became complicated to have choices and availabilties. Not fan of tamiya's and never used ModelMaster's. I am using automotive sprays called Dupli-color. From primers to clears. Pros: nice metallic colors, easy to apply with no runs, fast drying process... Cons: moderate orange peel effect. (Well, no surprises here, all paints from sprays need fair amount of water-paper sanding process in order to have a mirror and smooth finish ). That's why I plan to learn air brush to improve paint quality results, and a better access to a larger variety of real accurate brand colors. I've discovered MCW finishes a few months ago and the "real car" colors are also pushing me to learn to use them. You won't be disappointed with D.Decko's kits, they are almost as good as real JoHan"s. Please show me that 61 once done
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Thank you so much everyone !
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80's Cadillac Coupe Deville Custom None Low Rider.
Jeffcad replied to martinfan5's topic in Model Cars
Very nice Cadillac and clean build. I would probably add some white walls but it's just my personal taste... Very good work anyway. -
Thank you all very very much. Your kind words are truly appreciated.
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Hi Tim ! Thanks for your kind words !. I still have to learn how to print my own decals to bring some of my conversions the names, scripts or crests they should normally have. Hope to do that soon.
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Hi guys. Today I share my last conversion. I have build it from an old JoHan's 1968 Coupe Deville kit. The kit was damaged so I decided to turn it into the 4 doors Brougham Cadillac was offering that year. The roof is completely new, higher and stretched towards the trunk, with new windows mouldings, new B and C pillars, new vent windows. The shoulder line on the body is also modified, more horizontal than the coupe. The interior is converted with plain front seats and wood-ish door panels, carpetting etc... New lower body mouldings to match the real car and set it apart from the Sedan Deville. Color is as close as "Spectre blue" with hand polished clear coats, and black matte vinyl top. Hope you'll like it.
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Wow ! Oh my !!!! A-mazing !!!...I have room on my shelves Paul if you don't know what to do with that Caddy !. Congrats, it's just outstanding.
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Hi Steve, Thanks ! Modelhaus has made some of them a decade ago, 1960 and 1961 Coupe Devilles. Now extremely hard to find, sadly. The Modelhaus's '61 kit was a bit better than the '60, proportionnaly speaking. Someone's actually selling one on Ebay for 700 $ dollars !!!. Here's mine, build 10 years ago, still presentable IMO, but she'd need a better paint and chrome job.
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Hi guys. Hope everyone's doing good. Here's my last build, this is a very rare R&R Resin kit of a '62 Coupe Deville I have since at least a decade. It is converted from the Fleetwood 60S by JoHan. I had poorly painted it with a saturated turquoise blue back then and had never been happy with it. Needed a good restauration. So, I offered the Cadillac a new two tone dress, as close as "Pompeian Red Metallic" with an off-white top. Black and white interior with black carpeting. Painted accent hubcaps and new hand made chromed V crests. Hope you'll like it. Thanks !
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1971 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible., lost on route 66 ;)
Jeffcad replied to Jeffcad's topic in Model Cars
Thank you so much for the info John, I wasn't aware about these MCW paints. Unfortunately, they don't ship to Canada because paint is hazardous materiel... -
1971 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible., lost on route 66 ;)
Jeffcad replied to Jeffcad's topic in Model Cars
As always, thank you all very very much for the kind words ! -
Very cool conversion and beautifull execution . Congrats for the great work and color choice !.
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1971 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible., lost on route 66 ;)
Jeffcad replied to Jeffcad's topic in Model Cars
Hi Claude, merci beaucoup ! As I don't have nor know how to paint with an airbrush yet I am still using spray ones. You know it's tough to get real metallic auto paint now here so Dupli-colors are almost the only ones I use. Once the world will come back to normal, you'll be able to find these paints in Canadian Tire shops. This Eldo wears "Mocha Frost Metallic". It's a gold with a light tone of copper in it. Then sprayed with clear coats that I sand by hand to a mirror finish. First I wanted to find something close to the real 1971 Cadillac "Almond Firemist" color, but nothing was available...Thanks again, and stay safe !.
