Moebius '56 Chrysler 300B (first look!)

[Alyn]

I can be a challenge to get a model car to look good with black paint, including photographing it. This one looks great. Nice looking engine bay too. The gold looks like the perfect color.

[Art Anderson]

I can be a challenge to get a model car to look good with black paint, including photographing it. This one looks great. Nice looking engine bay too. The gold looks like the perfect color.

When I do another one (and the '55 C300 production kit is calling me pretty loudly right now!) I likely will use a metallic gold automotive body color, simply because the Testors metallic gold #1144, while nice and bright, doesn't stand being handled very much--and even after several hours "cooking" in my food dehydrator, the gloss black I used to paint the wiring looms on the valve covers tended to "pick up" the gold more than I would have liked.

Unfortunately, there really is no substitute for Testors #1146 Chrome Silver, as that is the same color (an unfortunately type) of aluminum paint that Chrysler used on engine blocks, bell housings, oil pans and cylinder heads from their start in the middle 1920's until the late 1950's, so that color was necessary--but again, after several hours in the dehydrator, it still tended to rub off on my fingers during final engine assembly.

Art

[Danno]

Beautiful, Art!

[Mopar - D]

Art, nice work on the 56 and thanks for posting the early build. Do you have a date when there expected to be in the stores ?

[Art Anderson]

Art, nice work on the 56 and thanks for posting the early build. Do you have a date when there expected to be in the stores ?

I'm being told to expect the 300B in stores by early November. So, we'll see.

Art

[geetee66]

Very interesting...especially as I'm currently building one of these. ( I just realized I'm building the New Yorker, St Regis version)

Mine's a (1/32 scale?) Revell re-issue of the original 1956 kit. The one with the 9-piece body, big sink marks and warped parts.

I rather fancy making one in 1/25. This is going on my 'to-do' list.

Edited September 22, 2013 by geetee66

[ChrisBcritter]

Mine's a (1/32 scale?) Revell re-issue of the original 1956 kit.

I have one of those too. Despite being described as a "custom", if you leave off all the extra parts it's 99% stock except for the grill insert (which is fixable).