1956 Cadillac - Class of '56 - Graduate # 12

[Ramfins59]

It took a while but I finally got this model finished.  Had some mishaps along the way as usually happens.  It is a resin kit from Modelhaus that I got from them shortly after the NNL East show.  The major mishap was me getting drops of CA glue on the trimmed vacu-formed glass while tacking it in place in the body.  I used a polishing kit but just could not get the white spots out of the glass.  Steven Guthmiller was kind enough to send me the front glass from his kit that he had not yet worked on.  I will replace it as soon as Modelhaus' website is opened up and running again.  Steven, I can't thank you enough for helping me out on this.

The car is painted Duplicolor Arctic White on the roof and Krylon Baby Blue on the body.  Here are the pics...

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While I love Modelhaus' kits, they are not without their little foibles and sometimes annoying issues.  Nothing that can't be overcome by an experienced modeler working with resin, but annoying nonetheless.  Most of the time the interiors do not fit perfectly into the body.  They are either a tad too narrow, causing the builder to add pieces of plastic to the outside edges of the side panels, or, a tad too wide and need to be sanded down a bit.  The vacu-formed glass, while more in scale than plastic kit glass, can be a bear to trim properly, needing a lot of trimming and fitting over and over to get it right.  Then, once you get the glass trimmed and installed you'll sometimes find that either the dashboard or the package tray need trimming or sanding to snug up properly against the glass.  Of course you don't find this out until the glass is installed and the interior is painted and assembled.   In a lot of instances you'll find that the resin interior buckets do not have positive mounting points inside the body of the car.  You have to get creative in making your own using pieces of plastic.

Overall though, Modelhaus kits are excellent products and a lot if not most of them are of cars that cannot be found anywhere else.  Their kits of mid and late 1950's cars and later appear to have been made from old original promos or craftsman kits with the screw on chassis's.  I've built almost a dozen of their kits so far and will be building several more.  

Thanks for looking in on this, and as always, comments and critiques are welcome.  Now on to the next one.

[snacktruck67]

Now that is glamours.  Great clean build.  Congrats.

 

 

[cobraman]

Wow ! How nice is that ? 

[slider51]

Beautiful build!

[bbowser]

Another graduate from your bench Rich!  Perfect color combo, perhaps my favorite year of Caddy.  Well done.

[Ramfins59]

Thank you all very much for your kind comments guys.

[StevenGuthmiller]

Very nice Rich! And you're welcome for the glass.

I was about to razz you for something that I believed you had missed, But I did a little research & was surprised to see that the molding running along the top of the doors was "not" chrome.

I didn't know that most of the Coupe Devilles in '56 had that area painted the top color with a very thin chrome molding between the colors, But they were sometimes painted body color as well.

I learned a little something from viewing your build! 

 

Nice work!

 

Steve

[Ron Hamilton]

Lovely.

[donb]

Stunning! Just stunning Rich. Another fine example of the class of 56.

[Ramfins59]

Thanks again very much for the kind and encouraging words guys.

Steven, I always try to do my homework and first research the cars that I build to try my best to get the details right.  When I started doing the BMF on this car I was going to foil the molding at the top of the doors but then discovered from Googled reference pictures that they were not chrome which surprised me.

[jeffs396]

SWEEEEET Caddy Rich!

[wayne swayze]

Sweet looking Caddy you have there Rich! Probably my favourite year Caddy.

[Ace-Garageguy]

Fine looking model. You always do such a nice job with these resin builds, you may just inspire me to try one myself someday.

Great colors. I can just imagine a '50s Vogue-model-look blonde getting out of it. 

[Sixties Sam]

Sweeeeet! Great looking Caddy, Rich! Very nice work! The color scheme is just perfect!

Sam

[slusher]

Very sharp Caddy Rich. You have a good eye for colors on your models..

[Danno]

Superb!

[72 Charger]

Stunning new addition to the class of 56 well done Rich

Edited September 18, 2015 by Doobie

[Ramfins59]

Thank you all very much guys.

Bill, you really shouldn't let resin kits intimidate you as they are really not much harder to work on than plastic kits, plus, since they're curbsides you don't have to work on engines or chassis.  Gives you breaks from full detail kits.

Carl, I usually have a color scheme for a car "in my mind's eye" before I start working on it.  If not, I'll do a search on Google until I find the car in colors that appeal to me.

Dave, I've only got a couple more cars for 1956 to build and I'll have all of them.  Once that happens I'll be able to take pictures of the entire "graduating class".  The only car that is eluding me is a '56 Studebaker.  I get outbid every time I try to get one on EBAY.

[thatz4u]

Rich, your CADDY is LACKing nothing

[XJ6]

I am coming over for a Ride in that Beautiful Cad That is Just Stunning 

I really like your Subject of Cars ??

[Petetrucker07]

Looks great Rich. Very classy, as a Caddy of the 50s is. Paint looks smooth, interior looks very nice. 

[Ramfins59]

Thanks very much for your kind words guys.

[Helix]

Very nice Richard!

[RandyB.]

Very nice. I need one of these in my collection!  

[ChrisR]

Looks great!