Carrera Panamericana Olds 1950

[1959]

Hi all

Finally finished this Revell Olds with Jimmy Flintstone resin body. This was actually my first resin body build and also first time to try to weather a model as dusty and dirty. Body went to the chassis pretty nicely after a heavy thinning but the rear shelf in the interior needed to be modified. I used the "rear seat delete" piece of the revell kit and extended the shelf with a piece that had some similar structures from the spare part box. Paint is a quick one with spray can metallic green with clear coat over the decals. Weathering is done with few different AK dust washes. I probably should have air brushed it to get more dusty look, now it looks more like it has been driven in wet gravel road. 

I tried to add BMF for the trims but color peeled of in few places so I made the rest with Molotow pen. As this was made just  as a weathering practice I didn't put any efforts in the detailing. Thanks for looking!

Kimmo

[Jim B]

Great looking Oldsmobile. Very well done. 

[PappyD340]

Real nice Olds!

[slusher]

Great looking Oldsmobile!

[ChrisR]

Nice.

[MarkJ]

Great weathering on this build. Looks exactly the way it should after that long journey. Thats one thing I have never been good at, so I have stopped trying. 

[drodg]

Nice job.   

[Mattilacken]

neat build!

[Matt87]

Hey 1959 this Olds looks great! So i want to get a JF fastback body for my 50 kit to as i prefer that body to club coupe how did build go with that body? I have only built 1 model so far with a resin body it was a JF 70 Elcamino body

[1959]

On 11/19/2025 at 4:11 PM, Matt87 said:

Hey 1959 this Olds looks great! So i want to get a JF fastback body for my 50 kit to as i prefer that body to club coupe how did build go with that body? I have only built 1 model so far with a resin body it was a JF 70 Elcamino body

Hey Matt

The body was quite easy to fit. It has the inner fenders as in the Revell kit so it does not require much more work than slightly modify the bottom plate from the rear end area and thin the fenders and rockers from the body. Interior fits well too but of course the rear shelf needs some changes to fit the fastback rear window area. 

I made a mistake by not installing the center post in the windshield that the body is missing. It is missing the vent windows too. Those would bring a lot of reality but somehow I missed to install them.

This was actually my first resin body build so I can't compare how good or bad it is compared to others but I can recommend it.

Kimmo

 

 

[Matt87]

Sounds like for resin body minimum mods are needed