MY 1991 4 DOOR CADILLAC Brougham d'elegance BUILD!

[ROB213]

HI, fellas

heres a little about myself. iv been working on models off and on since i was about 8, I'm 36 now yikes time flies lol about 6 years ago i caught the model bug real hard, buying models where ever i could find them. i got real big into vintage kits jo han, mpc, amt etc... you name it i probably got it.

but about 3 years ago i caught another bug,... bmx! i got real big into collecting 80's bikes like what i used to ride back then, and kind of lost interest in this hobby and stopped building until last year to the date on x-mas night, i was surfing the web and found this wonderful place and seen all these sweet build's you guy's got here. i tried getting back into it and building something but with a new born and having limited space it just didn't happen. untill 3 weeks ago i talked to the head off the house (the wife) and finally got a little work bench i can call my own whoopie time to start building!!!!

so with out further ado here is one i pulled from the vault, its a 1991 Cadillac 4d brougham d'elegance resin body with a revell 2dr cadilac donor kit.

in this pic i cut off the front end of the resin so i can add the engine compartment from the donor caddy

heres the doors i worked on, a lot of cutting and measuring lol

heres the finished tub.

i wll keep updating this post in the next few weeks, as i move along to the chassie and body. hope you guy's like it as i know im in here with the best modelers iv seen to date

p.s. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! and excuse my writing and spelling skills lol

Edited December 26, 2011 by ROB213

[Agent G]

I'm watching this one for sure.

G

[Casey]

Looking very nice so far, Robert.

Who made the resin body, BTW?

[Foxer]

Impressive work here. It looks like some nice bodywork getting the open front end and some Cadillac level work on the interior!

[ROB213]

Looking very nice so far, Robert.

Who made the resin body, BTW?

thanks for the kind words fellas

and i got it from a guy on ebay about 4 years ago, his user name was rivera216.. hes on my saved sellers list. but to this day i havent seen any more come up

[RodneyBad]

Body is looking good and the Interior is Looking Great...

Welcome back..

[martinfan5]

I am going to watching this build as well, nice job on the interior, I have always liked this body of caddys.

FWIW, I have been seeing a lot of resin caddy bodies of this body style on ebay over the last three weeks

[Tonioseven]

Terrific work so far!!!

[Wheels]

Very Cool! Love in interior! Keep up the good work!

[Erik Smith]

Cool idea. Wow, that interior went from blurry to awesome in one frame! Looks really great so far.

[george 53]

I built Cadillacs for 32 years, an THAT'S the BEST Cadillac model interior I've ever seen! You did a commendably excellent job on that rascal! If the rest of it comes to that level, you'll REALLY have you a BEAUTIFUL model Cadillac!!! :D

[Plasticfanatic]

Now this is a project I will be following!....the conversion and surgery looks great and the interior,simply superb.

Great work and looking forward for more updates.

[4bangen]

that is really nice.

[Romell R]

Very nice I'll be watching this one oh and welcome aboard.

hey I wanted to share this with you. I made this long before there was ever a model of a 92 caddy brougham.

Sorry for hijacking your thread

[ROB213]

Very nice I'll be watching this one oh and welcome aboard.

hey I wanted to share this with you. I made this long before there was ever a model of a 92 caddy brougham.

Sorry for hijacking your thread

Thanks guys for the nice words and for the welcome back

and that's an awesome caddy thanks for sharing the pic.. the only thing you hijacked tho was the color scheme thanks

going to start back on the frame and engine tomorrow, ill post up some pics of the progress in the next few days so stay tuned

[lowriderphil]

thanks for the kind words fellas

and i got it from a guy on ebay about 4 years ago, his user name was rivera216.. hes on my saved sellers list. but to this day i havent seen any more come up

I believe he is the same guy from layitlow who used to have resin products, not sure what happened but he kinda just dissapeared

[Lownslow]

talking about Twinn right?

[Ron Hamilton]

I am enjoying this build, and I agree with George, in that your interior work is beautiful. However, didn't the Brougham d'Elegance option include the pillow backed, diamond button-tufted inserts in the seats?

When I did mine, I included the button-tufted seats.

Just an observation. Your 4-Door is coming along great. I too would like to do a 4-Door one of these days.

[Draggon]

A former g/f had a Caddy "bro-ham" and believe me, you nailed that interior! The backseat looks.... OOPS cant say that here!

[PARTSMARTY]

EXCELLENT SUBJECT!EXCELLENT INTERIOR-CONGRATULATIONS KEEP IT UP.

[Joe Handley]

Wow, that interior blew me away, fantasic work!!!!

[ROB213]

I am enjoying this build, and I agree with George, in that your interior work is beautiful. However, didn't the Brougham d'Elegance option include the pillow backed, diamond button-tufted inserts in the seats?

When I did mine, I included the button-tufted seats.

Just an observation. Your 4-Door is coming along great. I too would like to do a 4-Door one of these days.

that caddy is sweet!!! nice job on that

and your right it does come with the pillow button interior. but for some reason i like this one better. i have the 1:1 scale in my driveway, and if it wasnt all og id change the interior to this one, just the seats tho.. i know call me crazy but i would lol

[ROB213]

ok fellas, had some time to work on the engine, chassis and slapped on the wire wheels. im getting ready to go skating just have to work on the body now and prep it for paint

Edited January 11, 2012 by ROB213

[baddgass]

Very nice work on the caddy brother, and love that beautiful interior.

[mr moto]

I second what everybody's said about the interior. Absolutely outstanding! What did you use for the carpet? It looks better than flocking but maybe you're just that much better with flocking than I am!