Sport Suburban Posted July 17, 2016 Posted July 17, 2016 I have not been showing many of my builds so I figured I would post a few of them. Here is one I have had waiting for a long time and I figured I would get this one built. It is a Modelhaus resin 72 Olds 442 convertible along with their 71/72 W30 conversion kit. I bought this stuff back in 2008 along with the Fred Cady decals to do the pace car. Figures that in 2010 Revell releases their kit. I have two of them and will build one some day. This one is based on the Johan kit. Don't worry no Johan original Johan parts were used in this build. The chassis is AMT 69 442. I used Scale Finished Fire Orange and real automotive clear coat. Door handles are from the Revell 66 Chevelle wagon. Please feel free to post any comments or questions.
CometMan Posted July 17, 2016 Posted July 17, 2016 That is really sharp! Very well done! Is the wood grain trim in the interior painted or decaled?
Sport Suburban Posted July 17, 2016 Author Posted July 17, 2016 That is really sharp! Very well done! Is the wood grain trim in the interior painted or decaled?It is brush painted over the semi gloss black. I'll thin it a little more so the black shows though the brush strokes and looks similar to real wood.
MrObsessive Posted July 17, 2016 Posted July 17, 2016 Beautiful car Raoul! Actually, when I first saw pics of your model, I thought it WAS the Revell kit! Very nice conversion, and whoever did the convertible master did a great job as they got those rear quarters correct. They're not quite the same between the coupes and convertibles.
Drake69 Posted July 17, 2016 Posted July 17, 2016 Beautiful car Raoul! Actually, when I first saw pics of your model, I thought it WAS the Revell kit! I'll second that. I was looking at it like, "Wow! Nice build for Revell, think I need to pull out mine and dig into it!"Good work!
Sport Suburban Posted July 17, 2016 Author Posted July 17, 2016 Beautiful car Raoul! Actually, when I first saw pics of your model, I thought it WAS the Revell kit! Very nice conversion, and whoever did the convertible master did a great job as they got those rear quarters correct. They're not quite the same between the coupes and convertibles. Thank you and yes, whom ever did the master for this did a great job. My Modelhaus catalog from 2007 does not give any credit. I look forward to building the Revell kit and will get to it. I have both the first Hurst version and the latest Hurst pace car version with all the extra stock parts. I also built a 70 Olds 442 Pace Car convertible resin from All American resin and it is well done also.
espo Posted July 17, 2016 Posted July 17, 2016 Another one of your beautiful builds. A lot of attention to fine details really shows.
Hubert Rollins Posted July 19, 2016 Posted July 19, 2016 Very sharp, clean model!! I have had the experience of helping restore several of these Oldsmobiles in my younger years. But no 4-4-2's, only regular models. Did help on a couple convertibles though.
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