chaves pah Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 How can I convert a 1/25 Nomad Chevy into a 1/25 "marvelous" Waldorf Nomad Corvette?
Mark Posted December 12, 2019 Posted December 12, 2019 It will be more a scratchbuilding project than a conversion. The Waldorf Nomad was built on a '53 Chevy car chassis. The kits you will likely start with would be a Tri-Five Nomad (roof, windows), a '53 Corvette (trim pieces, portions of the body) and an AMT '51 Chevy (chassis is very close to the '53). I would try to use some of the Nomad lower body (mainly the sides and tailgate area) and adapt portions of the Corvette body to it to get the Waldorf Nomad styling. Any way you approach it, short of lucking into a resin body (none exist that I am aware of) this will be a lot of work, and will not be an easy project.
espo Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 I have seen someone do a build using the AMT '55 Nomad kit as a bases and grafted the front end from a '53 Corvette and the tail lights and quarter panels from the same Corvette kit. While not totally accurate it sure looked great.
BigTallDad Posted December 13, 2019 Posted December 13, 2019 What scale? There is a resin kit in 1/43 (I think) available.
chaves pah Posted December 20, 2019 Author Posted December 20, 2019 On 12/12/2019 at 11:51 PM, Mark said: It will be more a scratchbuilding project than a conversion. The Waldorf Nomad was built on a '53 Chevy car chassis. The kits you will likely start with would be a Tri-Five Nomad (roof, windows), a '53 Corvette (trim pieces, portions of the body) and an AMT '51 Chevy (chassis is very close to the '53). I would try to use some of the Nomad lower body (mainly the sides and tailgate area) and adapt portions of the Corvette body to it to get the Waldorf Nomad styling. Any way you approach it, short of lucking into a resin body (none exist that I am aware of) this will be a lot of work, and will not be an easy project. Thank you very much for your info! I am already collecting all the material I need...
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