'50 Oldsmobile Mild Custom -Finished-

[squirrel886]

Looking good so far!

[slusher]

Thanks, Julius! I like how the engine is turning out, too. Hopefully I don't mess up the rest.

Today I went to the Paint Shop and bought some paint for the body. It's Maston spray can paint, those have always worked very well for me. Then I painted the chassis with it and I think the color looks pretty good and the body will be painted with the same color, except that the roof will be silver. I will clear coat the chassis as soon as possible and then I can put it together.

Beautiful color Niko, that will look sweet with silver....

[W-409]

Thanks Jason, Bradley and Carl! I really appreciate the comments.

Thanks for pointing out the mold seam. I didn't notice it while building and it's fixed now. It was really small in person, but after smoothing it out, the difference is huge. Thanks!

I've always liked the combination of Red and Silver. Those two colors just fit so nicely together and I will be doing the same color scheme in some other builds as well.

I've made some more progress with this one. After a couple rounds of putty and sanding I decided that the front seat is smooth enough for Primer. And it was, so I went ahead and painted it today. Also the backseat is painted. Today I went ahead and flocked the carpet on the interior. I've never liked Flocking, but it sure looks better than only flat black paint.

[slusher]

Seats and flocking look great Niko..

[Hayabusa]

Mycket snyggt

[W-409]

Thanks Carl och tack Stefan!

I got the seats sprayed with flat clear. After that I went ahead and painted the silver areas with a brush with the help of Tamiya Masking Tape. Also the dashboard is primered and painted with that same Metallic Red as the chassis. Door panels were painted with the same color as the seats, though I forgot to take a picture of them...

Some other minor things I've done are painting some engine parts to get the engine done and engine bay is painted as well.

I should get the dash and door panels clear coated tomorrow. Dash with gloss and door panels with flat clear. And I hope to get the engine pretty much done tomorrow.

[Tompidom]

Loving the interior, very cool!!

[W-409]

Thanks Tom! It means a lot when coming from such a talented builder like you.

I got the dashboard clear coated with Maston clear. I finished the steering wheel, too. I painted it with Revell Gloss Black first (With a paint brush) and then I painted the horn ring (?) with Revell's silver. After that I installed the little decal on the center and when it dried, I used Revell Gloss Clear to mount the glass cover on the top of the decal.

The engine is almost finished, too. It will need a couple of details and some detail painting and touch ups before it can be installed. But I did some black washing for it to get it looking a bit more realistic. I don't know if I succeeded in it or not though. And then I of course installed all of the parts that the kit offers.

Somehow that engine doesn't look as good as it does in person...

[Hayabusa]

Looking good so far Close-up camera pics tend to be a bit deceptive, I think. The Revell Olds ´50 seems like a nice kit.

Snygg motor, absolut. Ser mycket lovade ut

/Stefan

[JTalmage]

I have this same kit... I want to lower it on some whitewall tires too. Where did you get the tires? And can you show more of what you did to lower it? This is the next kit I plan to build. Thanks!

[lower99]

The engine Looks goergeous!

[Davewilly]

Looking very cool!

[W-409]

Thanks Guys!

Stefan: Yep you're right. Close up pictures show all little flaws a lot bigger than you can see them in person. On the other hand it is a good thing, because when seeing the flaws in bigger scale, they are easier to fix. But then again the parts don't look that good in pics....

Men jag är nöjd med den här motor. Tackar!

Jesse: I tried to find a picture or two of the lowering, but I couldn't find any. My English is not the best, but I'll try to explain as good as I can. If this doesn't make any sense, ask again and I'll try to answer more clearly.

On the front end, the spindles are molded together with the rear axle. There are little holes on the spindles where the tire will be glued in. My plan was to move those holes up so that the stance is as low as possible. So I cut the spindles in three pieces and glued them back together in a bit different way so that the part where the hole is, was glued as high as possible.

The rear end was much easier. I just used shorter rear springs and mounted the rear axle in a different angle to get the tires sitting lower. Only thing I really had to do was to grind that frame a little to get the axle on place.

I hope this makes sense.

The white walls are the ones that came with the kit. If you kit doesn't have the white walls, it is (If I remember correctly) an earlier copy of this kit and was it so that you can get replacement white walls from Revell if the kit you have doesn't have those white walls already. I'm not 100% sure on this, but it was something like this if I remember right. Someone else might know a better answer for this, but anyway the tires I have came with the kit.

[Hayabusa]

Yes, you´re right about tthe "picture-thing". I also use close-up pics to look for flaws.

I checked out your dragracer - really cool! Stock/Super Stock is a really cool class with a lot of classic muscle cars.

I wish you all the best for the 2014 season

[Skypower]

Nice very cool build, you are quite talented.

[JTalmage]

That made pretty good sense to me. Your english must not be that bad. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

[W-409]

Stefan: Thanks! Yep, I like Stockers and Super Stockers as well. I think it's cool how close to Stock they are, but anyway they are full race cars. And all little badges, chrome trims, buttons, switches etc have to be original.

Hopefully we can make it to run in Sweden, too. If not already in 2014, maybe in 2015.

Bob: Thank You, I'm getting better slowly, actually now I've been building exactly ten years and I have a bit over 60 finished builds on my shelf. But there sure is a lot to improve.

Jesse: Thanks! I'm glad you got it, since I don't know if I could have explained it any better. I bet yours will turn out at least as good as mine!

Interior is finished. I installed kit's decals on the dashboard and with a little black washing I tried to bring some details out. I also put BMF on Door Panels. They didn't turn out good, but luckily they can't be seen that well when everything is together. Everything fit really nicely on place, the interior was really fun to put together. In many kits especially steering column is a pain to get right. But here it worked well, too.

[slusher]

Great looking interior Niko...

[Dragfreak]

Very clean work Niko!

[horsepower]

I know that they don't make it real clear in the instructions, but the "ribbed" area on the dash it these old Olds were stainless, but could be painted in aluminum & it would appear very close, it isn't clear on the instructions either but most of the clock housings in the dash center were chrome.

[W-409]

Thanks Guys!

Yep I know how the Dashboard is painted in original '50 Oldsmobiles. And since this is a Custom, I wanted to keep it as a single color dash instead of painting it like original ones...

[crazyrichard]

nice progres ! looking sweet !!!

[W-409]

Thanks Richard! It means a lot!

Well I was doing bodywork today and I got all mold lines smoothed out. Then I sanded the rest of the body and I came up with a couple of sink marks on front fenders and hood. I will do some filling with putty tomorrow. My plan is to get this one primered really soon when everything looks smooth.

[W-409]

"My plan is to get this one primered really soon...."

Well, I wouldn't say this is really soon, but I got it primered today. I had to do some filling as said in the last post, but nothing too much. I'll see how it looks tomorrow in better lightning, but now it looks like it might need some more sanding and smoothing before I can shoot some paint on it.

[horsepower]

Thanks Guys!

Yep I know how the Dashboard is painted in original '50 Oldsmobiles. And since this is a Custom, I wanted to keep it as a single color dash instead of painting it like original ones...

I think you may have misunderstood me, on the real cars that ribbed panel is stainless steel, with only the tops of the ribs polished, but you could come close by using aluminum Metalizer (the buffing type) and lightly buffing the tops of the panel to give it the illusion that it's polished stainless.