The Red Devil - Jo-han Cadillac Sport Phaeton

[Richard Bartrop]

Ever find something about a model after years of being blissfully unaware, but once you know it, you can't unsee it?

Johan's Cadillac V-16 is a still a really nice kit, and a very faithful replica, but the taillights on the '30-31  V-16 are supposed to be different from those on the rest of the Cadillac lineup for those years.

Here's what they're supposed to look like:

And this is what comes in the kit:

So I decided to make some new lenses.  I beveled the inside of some cut off a slice, and repeated.  After sanding them down to the appropriate thickness,  I glues them to a sheet of patterned Evergreen sheet that has some finely spaced grooves.  A short length of .010 rod was used to make the screw at the top.  Once everything had set, I cut away the new lenses from the sheet, and rounded the backs with some sandpaper.  I sanded the kit lenses flat and added the new pieces.  A Molotow pen was used to restore the chrome.

 

[Richard Bartrop]

Attached the taillights and luggage rack.  THe luggage rack is painted the body colour with the ribs highlighted with a Molotow pen.  THe running boards got BMF, and the wood inserts were done in Tamiya flat brown with some clear orange to simulate the wood grain.  . A little alcohol on a paper towel was used to pick out the raised detail.

I finally tackled refinishing the stone guard by using BMF.  An artist's blending stump turns out to be great for working the foil into all the nooks and crannies.  This was followed by by Tamiya flat black, and some alcohol to clean off the raised mesh..

[bobthehobbyguy]

Nice work on a great old car.

[ea0863]

Coming out so beautiful Richard. And it's so nice to learn new things about old cars. I never knew of the Red Devil.