1960 DeSoto Adventurer (JoHan)

[1959scudetto]

From the same rainy photo session, also built at the same time as my 58 Impala, here is my favorite JoHan model: Spraypainted and clearcoated metallic green paint (don't remember the name), trim again brushed-on Humbrol silver, whitewalls are brushed with Humbrol matt white enamel. Someday I will disassemble it and repaint the interior (was sprayed in light green from the can) - again: no reference material back in 1984! 

[Classicgas]

Looks great. Is that posed on a real one? Color of the background looks darn close.

[Tom99]

Looking good!

[cobraman]

Very well done !

[thatz4u]

very nice

[Geno]

Gorgeous, better get them windows up.?

Edited December 4, 2021 by Geno

[happy grumpy]

That's a beauty Helmut , you take good care of your models. Too bad we don't see enough mopars of that era from manufacturers, Ah well. one can only hope. I too sometimes rebuilt models to change the color or to correct errors but in your case I don't see anything wrong with it. It looks perfect from here.

[ChrisR]

VERY NICE!

[PappyD340]

Very nice!

[grodudulle77]

Nice paint job Helmut !! ??

[Zippi]

Good looking DeSoto.  Body color looks really nice.

[NOBLNG]

Excellent!?

[beeRS]

Nice job ??. Researching colours is so easy in the modern world, we forgot how difficult it used to be. Looks like a factory combo though.  
I have one or two models dating back to 1984; they look terrible now. 

[David G.]

Excellent detail work on the trim and scripts. The color looks great as does your paintwork.

Nicely Done!

I do enjoy seeing these old JoHan Mopars being built. I wish there was a way to bring them back into production.

David G.

[tbill]

Beautifully done, gorgeous looking car!

[1959scudetto]

On 12/4/2021 at 2:44 PM, Classicgas said:

Looks great. Is that posed on a real one? Color of the background looks darn close.

Thanks, Lee ! Yes, I placed my models for photographic purposes on the tinted sliding glass roof of the 1:1 car I owned back then.

[1959scudetto]

On 12/4/2021 at 2:54 PM, Tom99 said:

Looking good!

 

On 12/4/2021 at 3:09 PM, cobraman said:

Very well done !

 

On 12/4/2021 at 5:08 PM, thatz4u said:

very nice

 

On 12/4/2021 at 5:32 PM, Geno said:

Gorgeous, better get them windows up.?

Thanks, Tom, Ray, Al and Gene for your comments - yes, I should have shut the windows.

[1959scudetto]

On 12/4/2021 at 7:32 PM, ChrisR said:

VERY NICE!

 

On 12/4/2021 at 9:56 PM, PappyD340 said:

Very nice!

 

On 12/4/2021 at 11:12 PM, grodudulle77 said:

Nice paint job Helmut !! ??

 

On 12/4/2021 at 11:41 PM, Zippi said:

Good looking DeSoto.  Body color looks really nice.

 

On 12/5/2021 at 12:05 AM, NOBLNG said:

Excellent!?

Thanks Chris, Larry, Philippe, Bob and Greg for your kind words.

[1959scudetto]

On 12/4/2021 at 6:39 PM, happy grumpy said:

That's a beauty Helmut , you take good care of your models. Too bad we don't see enough mopars of that era from manufacturers, Ah well. one can only hope. I too sometimes rebuilt models to change the color or to correct errors but in your case I don't see anything wrong with it. It looks perfect from here.

Thank you very much, Mario - my models have been kept in closed boxes over the years - this might be the reason for their good condition. Well, you know the faults of your own models best. I did not strive to achieve perfect factory correct replicas (almost no reliable references in the mid 80's) - moreover, I used spraycans I had at hand which seem fitting for the models to me, but there are some details - here: the interior - that I would like to address to when I find some time to get at it (at the moment I'm modifying and repainting the interior of a Ferrari 250 SWB Spider California I built around 1988)

 

On 12/5/2021 at 9:55 AM, beeRS said:

Nice job ??. Researching colours is so easy in the modern world, we forgot how difficult it used to be. Looks like a factory combo though.  
I have one or two models dating back to 1984; they look terrible now. 

Thank you Sonny -  I liked the color so I used it for that one (I've got no idea if there ever was a DeSoto in a similar green, but I won't change it).

 

On 12/5/2021 at 12:59 PM, David G. said:

Excellent detail work on the trim and scripts. The color looks great as does your paintwork.

Nicely Done!

I do enjoy seeing these old JoHan Mopars being built. I wish there was a way to bring them back into production.

David G.

Thanks, David, for your nice comment - I'm with you concerning the old JoHan Mopars that unfortunately will never again see the light of the day.

 

On 12/5/2021 at 3:12 PM, tbill said:

Beautifully done, gorgeous looking car!

Thnak you, Tom !

On 12/5/2021 at 3:12 PM, tbill said:

 

 

[bogger44]

Wow that has really stood the test of time well, beautiful DeSoto Helmut! 

[Dominik]

13 hours ago, 1959scudetto said:

Thanks, Lee ! Yes, I placed my models for photographic purposes on the tinted sliding glass roof of the 1:1 car I owned back then.

this is cool!

looks good. well done!

[1959scudetto]

22 hours ago, bogger44 said:

Wow that has really stood the test of time well, beautiful DeSoto Helmut! 

 

14 hours ago, Dominik said:

this is cool!

looks good. well done!

Thanks, Tony and Dominik !

[slusher]

 Really nicely done! I enjoy seeing these classics  built!!!

[ewetwo]

Nicely done

 

[1959scudetto]

12 hours ago, slusher said:

 Really nicely done! I enjoy seeing these classics  built!!!

 

2 hours ago, ewetwo said:

Nicely done

 

Thanks Carl and David - old kits should be built and not only collected.