As holidays are rapidly approaching, I needed to get building! My dad, politely stated, is a Buick, uhh, nut.
He loves almost all Buick's but is partial to those built form the late 40's until about 1970. He still knows all things Buick, but remains partial to this vintage.
As he's now retired, and no longer has one of the full size classics, he does keep up his own old car barn. This was once a garden shed, but is no more! It now has new siding, paint, floor, windows, and roof, and the interior is sheet rocked and has lighting - in it he keeps a very big collection of model cars spanning from the mid 50's (which he collected as a kid) through today.
For Christmas, I'm going to give him a couple more - a '66 Wildcat and a '69 Riviera. The Riviera is his favorite between '63-'69 and he has several models in many scales of these. Not the Wildcat though -
These are repackaged ERTL models by AMT. The parts are fairly nice, but the fit is not as tight as it could be, and the chrome is prone to flaking off....
Please take a look:
These were both painted with Vallejo Acrylics - the Riv is several layers of Gunmetal, while the Wildcat is a blend of US Interior Yellow, Ivory, white, and silver. No, I'll never match the color! The Gunmetal was not at all forgiving, and the blend was more so....
Of the two, I think I like the paint on the Wildcat more. As I said above, it was tough getting the gunmetal to look right/uniform. I did have better success than I expected with the Riv taillights. I blended Ammo by Mig transparent red with Vallejo Ferrari red and came up with nice results - on to the Riv:
And, for scale, the Wildcat and Chevy truck - you can see here how big the Chevy 37" tires look, and how long the Wildcat is!
Ok, thanks for having a look -
Cheers
Nick
