75 Buick Century Indy 500 Pace Car

[DoctorLarry]

Back seat was Testor's white enamel, which is very thin. It needs another coat.

[DoctorLarry]

Door panel detail:

[Dominik]

that interesting Larry!

Had you built the body from scratch or used a donor?

[DoctorLarry]

Built from scratch. I built a 73 Buick Gran Sport and used that as a basis. I also did a 76 Century Pace Car and took the formal roof from that. All scratch built.

[AMT68]

Interior looks nice. I always liked either the blue or red with white seats interior combination Buick offered in the mid-70's. Pontiac also offered that combination in those years. 

Also forgot to mention the TS-54 on the carpets sets a nice contrast to the door panels. I'll have to remember that one as I like to use Tamiya paints. 

Edited December 18, 2020 by AMT68

[DoctorLarry]

Painted up a dash and console. Very hard to paint small details on these!

[doorsovdoon]

Nice. I like the blue and white colour scheme. Love these big old 70's Buicks.

[Timonator]

Lookin good !

[NOBLNG]

Very nice! I had a ‘75 Regal...silver with a blue corduroy-ish interior.

[Captain Spaulding]

It's coming along good, like the colors you chose for the interior.

[DoctorLarry]

75 Pace Car:

[DoctorLarry]

Almost done with the body. Shot some white paint on it. I need to tweak a couple of body lines and it will be ready for clay. The grill panel dropped down a tad in the picture. It fits flush up against the body.

[AMT68]

The Century body looks great. I always liked the sweeping fender lines on the '73 to '75 model years.

[RomanII]

You have done amazing work so far.  I would respectfully suggest some block sanding to make the T-Top panels more flush with the body.  They look a little tall in the saddle.  But do remember, your Century Indy Pace Car is worlds better than the one I will never even start.

[1972coronet]

38 minutes ago, RomanII said:

You have done amazing work so far.  I would respectfully suggest some block sanding to make the T-Top panels more flush with the body.  They look a little tall in the saddle.  But do remember, your Century Indy Pace Car is worlds better than the one I will never even start.

Some of those details need to be 'exaggerated' on the master so that they become 'normal' during the casting process . In essence , those T-Top would be faint on the casting if they were 'normal' on the master .

[DoctorLarry]

Paper copy of decals taped on. These are Fred Cady and I believe 1/24 scale. They are a little too big. Note on T Tops. They are kind of hard to model correctly.

[RomanII]

17 hours ago, 1972coronet said:

Some of those details need to be 'exaggerated' on the master so that they become 'normal' during the casting process . In essence , those T-Top would be faint on the casting if they were 'normal' on the master .

No.

[DoctorLarry]

They do stick up a little. I will try to smooth them down. The moldings also are not squared off but beveled. I had a T Top car so I remember what they were like. Building a body from scratch, like I do, is like sculpture combined with trial and error. It takes awhile to get right.

[Timonator]

I love the decals

Edited January 28, 2021 by Timonator

[1972coronet]

3 hours ago, RomanII said:

No.

You're welcome .

[slusher]

They look really good..

[Mike F.]

I would love to see the end result of this build.