Finished Project #2 - '58 Buick Roadmaster

[Ramfins59]

This is a resin kit from The Modelhaus that I picked up at this years NNL East. I got the inspiration from a 1:1 car I saw online while looking for reference material. The paint is Pactra RC car yellow lacquer with Duplicolor clearcoat. I sanded off the door handles, wipers & Buick lettering, and added chromed handles & wipers from my parts stash. I gave the grille a dark wash and coated the turn signal lenses with Floquil Dust color to look more like plastic lenses. I used photo-etched Wizard's O's from RMCOMD for headlight bezels. The taillights were painted with Tamiya clear red. It took me a total of 5 hours, and a quarter of a sheet of BMF to cut, apply and trim all the chrome on this beast. I LOVE these chrome-laden 50's land yachts...!!! The wire wheels & tires are from the Moebius '55 Chrysler kit. The antenna is a piece of a dot-matrix printer pin and a piece of surgical stainless tubing. The convertible boot has photo-etched metal pieces as snaps.

Since this is a Curbside model, with no engine or chassis details, I had to kind of do something special with the shallow, resin interior bucket. I started out by spraying the same yellow paint on the interior and dashboard. I flocked the floor in brown and painted parts of the seats and door panels in flat white. I added photo-etched metal pieces to the seat buttons and pieces of chrome trim from the Galaxie '48 Chevy kit to the seats & door panels. I also added resin door handles and window cranks from RMCOMD to the side panels. The dashboard was detailed with paint and some photo-etched metal pieces. I also used parts box decals for the speedometer, radio, clock and gear indicator, and covered them with clear epoxy as lenses. The steering column has pieces of shirt pins for the gearshift and turn signal stalk.

I'm pretty pleased with the way this car turned out and will be picking up more of these land yachts from The Modelhaus in the future.

Thanks for looking everyone, and feel free to comment, as always.

[jeffs396]

WOW Rich!!!

She's a BEAUTY!!!

Hope you'll be bringing it to Castle shannon...

[Austin T]

Man that's sharp.I love the yellow.

[Bartster]

This is beautiful. Stunning! l could go on & on, but you'd get ALL my adjectives! l Love the tires & rims on here. They might steal the show on a mere mortal car, but not with all this yellow & chrome!

[Ramfins59]

Thanks guys, I appreciate the kind words.... and yes Jeff, barring any unforseen circumstances, I'm planning on attending the Castle Shannon show on September 30th.

[jcbigpaw]

Incredible. Very nice

[bbowser]

Very nice, great looking car. I love it!

[cobraman]

Man, she be bright ! Looks like a ton of BMF too ! Very nice build , it came out very nice.

[crazyjim]

The headlights look weird, but I love the color and the SHINY :)

[TooOld]

HOLY MELLO YELLOW ! ! WOW ! !

[Madrdnckbldr080]

Wow Sweet Build Richard..... Red

[Ramfins59]

The headlights look weird, but I love the color and the SHINY :)

The headlights are the clear resin ones that The Modelhaus supplies with the kit. Looking at it now, I probably should have cut off the mounting pin on the back of the lens, then either used BMF or silver paint on the back... Oh well... too late for that now... LOL. Although I DID use photo-etched metal rings around the lenses... Does that help...???

[realgone58]

Beautiful!! I'd love to get some of the Modelhaus resins, but quite pricey!! I plan to do a '58 Buick station wagon.

[crazyjim]

They almost look some of the new cars that a ring of LEDs around the outside. Still a very nice build. And still SHINY :)

[Foxer]

Everyone's said it already but,I have to agree that this is one good looker! Beautiful job!

[Dominik]

Oh wow. What a beautiful big cruiser! One more on my wishlist. Yours looks pretty good - like it!

[Ramfins59]

Thanks again for the kind comments everyone... Yes, The Modelhaus resin kits ARE a bit on the pricey side, but in the case of this Buick, it was cheaper than paying for an original AMT kit from waaaaayy back...!!! Plus Don Holthaus' castings are so good that it's almost like working on a plastic kit. I treated myself to this at the NNL East this year and I have plans for future builds of his '58 Ford Fairlane and '58 Oldsmobile which I have yet to buy.... maybe I'll get myself some cool Christmas presents. I just LOVE all the cars from 1958... Chrome-laden land yachts...!!!

[Joker]

Awesome choice on the wire wheels and full white walls..

they go together like carrots and peas.

Like your first and second build Richard ..

can't wait to see what's next in line.

[Grumpa]

Beauty and the Beast! A perfect combo! Your "BMF" work is great. My inability to master that stuff is holding me back from tackling one of these. Maybe one day.......

[H.A.K]

This is very nice. Great job man.

[Custom Mike]

Man, that's a land yacht Richard, and bright to boot! I love it, great job!

[Ramfins59]

Thanks guys. But the camera sure picks up ALL the little flaws doesn't it... I have to do a little touch-up work on the BMF around the front wheel wells and on the body at the tops of the doors around the interior.

[1930fordpickup]

Looks great !