Plasticfanatic Posted July 3, 2010 Posted July 3, 2010 Well last week I saw the trailer for the new Green Hornet movie, I still have my reservations about been made an action/light comedy movie but must admit that the "new" Black Beauty and action scenes look great....let wait a see the movie for the final veredic!! It made me dig deep into my boxed up projects....those that never where quite good in their finished stage and they where put on "storage" to find my original TV series Black Beauty model in 1/25, I love the TV series car looks very much and always wanted a model of it. I made this model almost 16 years ago, can't remember who made the resin model or where I got it BUT what I can tell you is that it was of VERY poor quality in casting and detail, the interior was a blob of resin, I change the front bench seats with one from the spare box....I should have made the correct cloth/leather pattern....but by this stage I was felling disapointed BIG time with the quality of this model, I added some radios/telephones,floor carpet,back control panel and a sport steering wheel and tried my best to detail the interior and hide it's shortcomings. I opened the engine hood in the body(now I wonder why!!) to add a Hemi engine, which ended in another project, so I put spare engine from the part box which I don't know from what kit came from, added some more detail to the engine bay to make it look a little better, of course all painted green...but still... I hope that the new movie bring us a plastic model kit in 1/25 or 1/24 scale of the new Black Beauty....and even better if they made a combo with the new and old version...I want to make these two cars justice by doing a nice model of them!!....even if they do only the new one, it will be very easy to build the TV version from it, since the new movie car is a regular Imperial sedan with new front and modified back and huge wheels!!
RodneyBad Posted July 3, 2010 Posted July 3, 2010 I too hope they do a 1/25 kit of the Black Beauty. Your Black Beauty looks Fantastic. Great looking interior with all the lil do dads and lights. Motor looks Fantastic too. Great work. Hope the movie isn't as bad as SpeedRacer. I just couldn't stomach it at all.
Car Crazy 81 Posted July 3, 2010 Posted July 3, 2010 Thats an awesome looking build nice details. Cant go wrong with a big block chevy under the hood.
FuzionTheAce Posted July 3, 2010 Posted July 3, 2010 Kato rocks and so does this Black beauty!...ecellent work!
Jim Gibbons Posted July 3, 2010 Posted July 3, 2010 Well, I would never guess that it was that bad a resin product looking at your results. A beautiful job! I used to watch the TV show when I was a kid. I will never forget the car (or the theme song!) I looked to see if the '60s TV show was on Netflix, but it wasn't. However, they did have the 1940 and 1941 serials available. I should get them and see what the Green Hornet's car was like then. Here's an illustration that has the car in it, but I'm sure it has some artistic license. That would be a neat project; the car in the 40's, the '60s, and now.
Dragline Posted July 3, 2010 Posted July 3, 2010 STUNNING Black Beauty.... If I said I watched this when it first came out on TV, would that show my age???? Gorgeous model with fine details. I can see Bruce Lee behind the wheel of this one. Bob
Plasticfanatic Posted July 3, 2010 Author Posted July 3, 2010 (edited) Well, I would never guess that it was that bad a resin product looking at your results. A beautiful job! I used to watch the TV show when I was a kid. I will never forget the car (or the theme song!) I looked to see if the '60s TV show was on Netflix, but it wasn't. However, they did have the 1940 and 1941 serials available. I should get them and see what the Green Hornet's car was like then. Here's an illustration that has the car in it, but I'm sure it has some artistic license. That would be a neat project; the car in the 40's, the '60s, and now. Thanks you guys for all the positive comments about this model. Your idea of making all the know B.B. tru the years sounds quite interesting....it have been done with the Batmobile in scale models, so why not the Green Hornet ride!!. For some reason there was a "problem" with the rights of the series at some point and was imposible to find in VHS and latter DVD, then it became available for a short while in the two formats, it was (is?) a 3 show format per DVD with a bonus extra in some of them, including about the Black Beauty car today...but again don't know if they are still available....I have a old VHS comercial version with tree episodes...one of them the infamous "space man caper" and the other the famous Kato vs Mako!! Edited July 3, 2010 by Plasticfanatic
nails3825 Posted July 3, 2010 Posted July 3, 2010 Can't say I remember the tv series, or the car... but this build is sweet! Great job
Rick R Posted July 3, 2010 Posted July 3, 2010 I think it's great that the producers paid tribute to the old, short-lived tv series and kept Dean Jeffries' design for the hero car, I'll bet Dean likes it too. I too hope it turns out to be non-hokey, the previews look good, good premise. The only downside I see so far is the January release date, probablyt not a good sign... The use of the Chevy motors in the many stunt cars is probably a necessary evil, I'd think the 440 would be more powerful if more expensive to rebuild/maintain. Great job on the model!
Greg Cullinan Posted July 3, 2010 Posted July 3, 2010 Don't know who he is but I like his ride . I picked one of these up off of craigslist a while back,might have to pull it out now
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