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1971 Oldsmobile 442 W-30
Since the paintbooth was up and running, I added another coat of Tamiya TS-21 Gold to the body and all of the various parts in the kit. This kit is coming along slowly.

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I painted more parts for the 442 today! Need some touchups and movin' on. Hey, that's a neat country song! Movin' On!

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Like the red inner fender liners. Olds only option, wonder if they would fir a Chevelle? I know they would in or scale world here. 

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Thanks David, Jeff and Carl!

The inner fenders should fit a Chevelle as they are both the same GM product.  Or, you can paint the Chevelle inner fenders red.  It would save you from dismantling the Chevelle front end completely. 

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A mock up to see where I am at. Some touchups this morning and rear spoiler assembly. The instructions don't call out the rear spoiler assembly so I had to guess where the stanchions assembled which way. Looks like I have it.

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A little work on the Olds W-30 this afternoon. I did a mockup of the chassis, interior plate and the body and I didn't like where the rear wheels were sitting. I used the wider rear tire (L60-15) and the position didn't look good. I cut off most of the rear mounting boss for the wheel inners and they look 100% better.

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I haven't worked on the 442 in a while so I did a mock up to see where I am at. The interior needs decals so that is next on my to do list. Here we go!

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Thanks Carl!  I need to get more gloss clearcoat and Dupli-Color Gloss Clearcoat is at Walmart cheap.

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It has been a while since I have paid any attention to the Revell 442 that is on my bench.  I notice a dip on the right side of the rear suspension and proceeded to take the suspension apart and in the process, I broke the rear axle in two.  I am trying to figure out how the axle got that way and repair it.  Something didn't go in right! 

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On 12/23/2024 at 9:57 AM, mrmike said:

It has been a while since I have paid any attention to the Revell 442 that is on my bench.  I notice a dip on the right side of the rear suspension and proceeded to take the suspension apart and in the process, I broke the rear axle in two.  I am trying to figure out how the axle got that way and repair it.  Something didn't go in right! 

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I have done that my self the best way i have found to repair it was cut a piece of a paperclip and use it as a pin and drill out a hole to match the pin and a drip of super glue the piece broke clean just match it up and glue.

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Thanks Carl and Richard! 

I figured out that if I use the second axle in the kit and use some of the parts from the W-27 axle, I wouldn't have to worry about lining up the three broken axle pieces and pinning them together.  I just added the center hub of the rear axle and all is fine.  Thank you Google.

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Thanks Rich!  I started thinking that there was an extra rear axle in the kit and a little research got me the information that both axles are the same except the differential cover.  The gold really does look great!

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