ranma Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 (edited) Bought a modelhaus 92 caprice wagon, heres the finished product. Edited May 6, 2015 by ranma
Harry P. Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 Seriously. One photo? And not even of the whole model? Come on...
ranma Posted May 6, 2015 Author Posted May 6, 2015 Three more pictures can bee seen in my profile gallery.
misterNNL Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 I believe that Don Holthaus drive one in same color as their toy show hauler for years.Don told me once that he changed the oil faithfully every 18 months whether it needed it or not.Also told me it had what he called a "sweet spot"at about 80 mph so he didn't baby it at all.
Guest Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 Post them here, please. Hard to comment on one partial photo.
Lovefordgalaxie Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 The model doesn't pass the actual size of those cars. Possible the very largest wagon made in the 1990s?? Friend of mine has one with woodgrain on the side. Great looking car.
SCI-FI Posted May 7, 2015 Posted May 7, 2015 *applauds* Nice, and a rare subject, too. Must remember to get one ASAP.
charlie8575 Posted May 9, 2015 Posted May 9, 2015 Having owned one of these (and three Roadmasters,) a few thoughts.... The door handles should be chrome with black gaskets. The roof rack rails are semi-gloss black. Did it not come with the cross-bars? No biggie, not that tough to make. Those are semi-gloss black, too. The moulding is tough to do. Unlike the Buicks, the molding is body-color with a bright insert. In all honesty, for simplicity's sake, it's probably best done with a 5-0 brush, some masking tape and chrome silver paint. You might also be able to foil and then paint. Remember that a very thin strip of painted urethane (the material the strips are made of) is above the bright insert. Yes, Tullio. These were very large cars capacity-wise, with 92.4 cubic feet of load area. My '91 died of frame rot and other problems related to old age at 260k miles. I decided to keep, rather than sell the Roadmaster I have now, and I love being able to load almost anything you can imagine into it. Mine is a '94 with the LT-1 and it goes like a scaled cat. Cruises very happily at 55-60, and will just as happily do 80 because of the towing package. At reasonable speeds, it gets decent mileage, too. Charlie Larkin
Ron Hamilton Posted May 10, 2015 Posted May 10, 2015 Having owned one of these (and three Roadmasters,) a few thoughts.... The door handles should be chrome with black gaskets. The roof rack rails are semi-gloss black. Did it not come with the cross-bars? No biggie, not that tough to make. Those are semi-gloss black, too. The moulding is tough to do. Unlike the Buicks, the molding is body-color with a bright insert. In all honesty, for simplicity's sake, it's probably best done with a 5-0 brush, some masking tape and chrome silver paint. You might also be able to foil and then paint. Remember that a very thin strip of painted urethane (the material the strips are made of) is above the bright insert. Yes, Tullio. These were very large cars capacity-wise, with 92.4 cubic feet of load area. My '91 died of frame rot and other problems related to old age at 260k miles. I decided to keep, rather than sell the Roadmaster I have now, and I love being able to load almost anything you can imagine into it. Mine is a '94 with the LT-1 and it goes like a scaled cat. Cruises very happily at 55-60, and will just as happily do 80 because of the towing package. At reasonable speeds, it gets decent mileage, too. Charlie Larkin I used to call that series of Caprice "Whale:. It was one big car. Back in the day, I was a manager at a Buick store, and my ride of choice was the Roadmaster. One of my demos was a '94 LT1 Estate wagon in Jadestone, with the Beige Leather and woodgrain. When the Auto Show came around, my demo was the only one available in the Metropolitan area. GM wanted the car, so they bought the car from the dealership with 2000 miles on it. It was shown at the show. When no one bought it, it was sold back to the dealership at a big discount, and I got it back as a demo, and put another 3000 miles on it before someone bought it. I should have bought it, but I had bought a new Bonneville SSE about 7 months earlier, and it would not have been financially prudent to do so. Those Roadmaster Estate wagons were rare when they were new, and I am quite sure that the Caprice Wagons were equally rare. I may do my Modelhaus Wagon (yes I have one) as either a phantom "SS", an Estate (woody), or as a Police Wagon. The job on that build was not too bad, but if it were me, I would get a fresh sheet of Bare Metal Foil, and a sharp x-acto knife blade, and re-do the chrome trim. Other than that, It's a nice model.
charlie8575 Posted May 11, 2015 Posted May 11, 2015 Actually, Ron, there were more Roadmasters built than Caprices in 1994-96, by a factor of about 2. In '96, only 480-something Caprice wagons were built. I had a '93 in Jadestone with the saddle leather, very nice-looking car. My '94 is white with the beige leather. I read someplace over half the 1991-96 production was that color scheme. I believe it from what I've seen. Charlie Larkin
ranma Posted May 11, 2015 Author Posted May 11, 2015 The kit was based on a 92 Caprice wagon that runs around here in Van Wert Ohio. the chrome strip had damage near the rear bumper, and the door hanles are blacked out on it as well. And their roof rails matched the body color, Maybe it was orderd that way? Thre is a buick Roadmaster wagon at a used car lot here but it's in need of a transmission work, body is decent though and has the woodgrain on the sides. I wish that Revell would take these two cars and make plastic kit's of them(full detailed) , They could be one of the first 4 in ones. With options like, Factory stock plain without wood grain, factory stock with wood grain, police,fire dept,taxi and customized . All they would have to have are actually two diffrent sets of tires four diffrent rims, decals and the lights/taxi light for the service cars.
christian-w Posted May 11, 2015 Posted May 11, 2015 This wagon is huge! Good, that you showed us 3 pictures at least (still less - because it's a rare model kit, shown in a forum). The only thing I really dislike, is the chrome trim. That is very unclean painted. I suppose, you've used a brush for it. I usually use a small, silver Edding marker. It's easier to draw such long lines at one time and looks nearly to chrome.
LongRoofNut Posted May 18, 2015 Posted May 18, 2015 Even as a scale model it's still a baby whale. LOL!
Atmobil Posted May 18, 2015 Posted May 18, 2015 Really cool build, nice to see one built up as I got the same kit on the shelf my self. I like these wagons and could actually be tempted to byuing a 1:1 scale one.
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