Revell Packard
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This will be interesting.
These old kits (1950s?) of old cars take a bit of work but can build into great models. It will be an interesting build to follow.
The Revell Highway Pioneers kits are usually quoted as 1/32, and they do indeed come from the 1950s. Never having held one, and compared it to, say, Airfix, Matchbox, or Pyro 1/32 kits, who can say?
Well, someone on here will know!
Apparently, after a quick search of teh intrawebs, there was a Dapol series called Highway Pioneers too, but they had figures?
Well, someone on here will know!
Apparently, after a quick search of teh intrawebs, there was a Dapol series called Highway Pioneers too, but they had figures?
No No No - Like a lot of members - I have a few more years than that! I suspect that the model is earlier than '59 - more like '54 - it's supposed to be 1/32 - and it maybe originally from Merit, or Hudson Miniatures, so it is actually older than me!
Dave
Off to a good start. The fit on these old kits is often a bit iffy. Just needs patience, a lot of fettling and dry fitting and a bucket of filler :smiling:
The carriage section has the final 'brown' sprayed on and the bonnet has the third coat of very thin 'yellow' brushed on.
Attempt one of making the radiator look realistic has, so far, the 'gold' sprayed on and some black brushed into the grille - I now need to work out how to highlight the grid part with silver...
Not sure how to do this yet.....
Coming on very well. Dry fitting and patience, as you're doing, is the way forward.
The "grid" part of the radiator is raised, I assume, so a couple of ways to go about silvering it.
Firstly dry brush with silver to pick out the mesh. A second way would be paint overall silver, a couple of coats, then paint overall black. Now very gently sand back the raised mesh to reveal the underlying silver.
The "grid" part of the radiator is raised, I assume, so a couple of ways to go about silvering it.
Firstly dry brush with silver to pick out the mesh. A second way would be paint overall silver, a couple of coats, then paint overall black. Now very gently sand back the raised mesh to reveal the underlying silver.
Yes - by about 25 years...!
It's amazing to think that someone was building this kit 60 years ago....
Wow Peter, that has to the fact of the day. :smiling: :thumb2: I'd have had to take my shoes and socks off to work that one out!!!!:rolling:
Grille looks fine - success I would say.
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