mrmike Posted November 8, 2019 Author Posted November 8, 2019 I got the Riviera interior finished. Have a look... More Buick to come...
mrm Posted November 8, 2019 Posted November 8, 2019 Wow, really nice! The seats have the perfect level of shine to them. Looks like real leather. What did you use on then to achieve the effect?
mrmike Posted November 9, 2019 Author Posted November 9, 2019 16 hours ago, mrmike said: I got the Riviera interior finished. Have a look... More Buick to come... Thanks Michael and Keith! Micahel, I painted the interior with Tamiya AS-15 Tan (USAF). It has a semi-gloss effect when sprayed from the can.
mrmike Posted November 13, 2019 Author Posted November 13, 2019 I painted the grille with Tamiya X-1 Flat Black paint, waited a few minutes and then I wiped off the grille bars. The headlight covers were painted with Model Master Metalizer Aluminium. The taillights were painted with Tamiya X-27 Clear Red and the backup lights were painted with Tamiya XF-2 Flat White. More Buick to come...
mrmike Posted November 14, 2019 Author Posted November 14, 2019 I got the Riviera foiled. This took me hours to do and I like the results! More Buick to come...
Trendsetta68 Posted November 14, 2019 Posted November 14, 2019 Foiling a model always brings the car to life ... very nice job !
espo Posted November 14, 2019 Posted November 14, 2019 I like the way you detailed the interior. Very nice color combination between the body and the interior.
mrmike Posted November 14, 2019 Author Posted November 14, 2019 (edited) Thanks David! There is a Riviera GS that I have been watching lately that has a similar color interior. My build is based on that car. Edited November 15, 2019 by mrmike
mrmike Posted November 15, 2019 Author Posted November 15, 2019 The Riviera got its coat of Tamiya TS-13 Gloss Clear. This is two mist coats and a medium coat of clear. A wetter coat of clear is coming soon. More Buick to come...
mrmike Posted November 16, 2019 Author Posted November 16, 2019 After polishing the body and installing the chassis, I went looking for the radiator hoses only to find that there are none! None in the box nor are any called out for in the instructions! There no holes in the radiator, either! So, with ingenuity being the mother of invention, I got out a hose from the parts box and a piece of styrene rod and inserted the rod into the hose and glued it to the intake manifold. When that has dried solid, I'll do the same to the other end and glue it to the radiator. More Buick to come...
Can-Con Posted November 16, 2019 Posted November 16, 2019 That's really looking great. I'm not sure if you're going totally factory stock with the chrome rallye wheels but if you do, in '65 the detail paint on the wheels was grey, not black like almost everyone thinks. It looks like it was only that year and was indeed black from '66 on.
mrmike Posted November 17, 2019 Author Posted November 17, 2019 Steve, this is the first time I have seen a grey painted Road wheel on the '65 Riviera. All the pictures I have seen show the wheel with black highlights, not grey. Grey painted Road wheels may have been an option (grey or black) or was color keyed to the exterior color. I will never know. My Riviera will be factory stock...more or less. It will have white lettered BF Goodrich tires which was not factory stock, but more of a "Day 2" appearance. Thanks for showing me the grey painted wheels, Steve.
Can-Con Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 6 hours ago, mrmike said: Steve, this is the first time I have seen a grey painted Road wheel on the '65 Riviera. All the pictures I have seen show the wheel with black highlights, not grey. Grey painted Road wheels may have been an option (grey or black) or was color keyed to the exterior color. I will never know. My Riviera will be factory stock...more or less. It will have white lettered BF Goodrich tires which was not factory stock, but more of a "Day 2" appearance. Thanks for showing me the grey painted wheels, Steve. Yea, I've grown up with Buicks and have owned quite a few, including a couple Rivieras and haven't seen any in grey personally either. But, all the advertising from '64 when they were introduced and in the '65 brochure show them in grey. I'm not telling you how to build your car, just throwing out some information. Do with it as you like.
mrmike Posted November 21, 2019 Author Posted November 21, 2019 I do thank you for the infromation, Steve! It's definitely good to know, but I will be sticking with the black as it does look better to my eye. Well, it was bound to happen soon or later. I reach over the Riviera to reach a tube of superglue and when I had lifted the tube by the cap, the cap came off and the tube spilled onto the Riviera's left front fender. My heart just sank! I sanded the fender and got it as smooth as I could, reprimered, repainted and reglossed the fender. The fender is now slightly darker than the rest of the body. I'll have to refoil the trim that I had to remove and polish the paint. Lesson learned...tightly recap a bottle or tube of whatever I had used! More Buick to come...
wrenchr Posted November 21, 2019 Posted November 21, 2019 I hate that........it is looking very good though.
mrmike Posted November 22, 2019 Author Posted November 22, 2019 Yep! Ouch is right! Now to foil, assemble and finsh this model.
mrmike Posted November 27, 2019 Author Posted November 27, 2019 I have finished my '65 Riviera and it is posted in Under Glass. I would like to thank all those who have viewed and commented on my WIP.
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