PM Request

[George Bojaciuk]

Someone PM'd me and asked about a Nova of mine that he saw at NNL East...ages ago. He also asked about working with resins. I've done a few articles over the years about this and from my experience, Holthaus kits are the closest to working with a plastic kit. The Nova, a R&R kit, I did was a "going in the trash" trans kit. A friend bought it, complained and they sent him a better one. I wrote an article about my experience with it. I did rescue it! I know at the time, Ray was not happy with my comments, but I clearly stated it was a trash model. I think this went into Fine Scale Modeler!

So...here is the Nova for your review...

Edited December 30, 2016 by George Bojaciuk

[dragstk]

Nice build, George. I really love the color.

[mikemodeler]

Nice model, that blue is very deep!

I am a bit confused when you say Ray was not happy about your comments because you also mentioned Holthaus kits, where did that kit originate? The pictures make that body look like a plastic kit!

 

[George Bojaciuk]

Unfortunately, Mike, I never got an explanation from Ray. He avoided me when I'd come to his table. The model was so bad that while I was cleaning it up, I'd hit an air pocket in the resin and it would give me a 2x crater! A few times it went thru! Realistically, it should have never hit the market like that. That car taught me to do a bulb test on resins. I'd hold the car to a bulb and mark the thin spots.

Again, I clearly stated I was working with a reject and that the original buyer was satisfied with his replacement. That being said, my friend sold me his '68 Coronet 'cause he went with a Modelhaus version. I can see some work that has to be done to firm that up. 

Modelhaus stuff was more consistent to work with. Same prep, but less to fix. I did a '70 Monte for someone and it went together like a kit.

Edited December 30, 2016 by George Bojaciuk