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Saturday, March 3, 2012

1962 Chrysler Imperial WIP - Doors opened. Jams started

I'm periodically trying something new that intrigues me, and motivates me to be a better modeler. This will be a bit of a different style for me. I love the flambouyant, elegant cars of the 50's and 60's, so I'm stepping into new territory for me in this type and style of building, and I'm expecting it should be challanging and fun.

I've never done BMF script detailing, and could use all the pointers and advise anyone would care to share. Never seen anyone do a "How to", so any help would be much appreciated.

Here's the project I'll be working on. This is a "builder" I got some time ago, that was fairly incomplete, so Modelhaus came to the rescue once again, and as usual the parts to finish the car are "Spectacular".

I am amazed at the quality of this incredibly old tooling, and the crispness seldom seen today in a lot of modern kits. Not knocking todays stuff one bit, just wasn't expecting the high quality of this model - the body especially, and the script detail. The interior is somewhat lacking, but easily excuseable due to the lack of period technology.

As this is somewhat of a rare kit, I've never seen one at a contest or anywhere before, even with all the events I've been to over the years. I have seen some on ebay, but usually they're pretty trashed like mine was. This will be the first one for me to ever see done in person, so I want to do as nice a job as I can.

There are some amazing "Masters" out there who do incredible work painting and detailing these beautiful old pieces of rare art, but I never see opening features, so I'm going to open the doors and the trunk, and detail everything the best I know how, and put hinges on everything that opens and closes.

Here are some beginning pics and a bit of progress to get past all the parts that had been glued on it at one time, probably by some well-meaning youngster. Thank goodness the windshield frame and all the trim and script were mostly just like new. Just required a bit of touch-up in a couple of places.