COMPLETE: Customer's '92 Olds Custom Cruiser

Well it's easily the hardest B-Body I've done yet... Let's see... The Olds Custom Cruiser has most of the Caprice's body work, but has the Roadmaster's Vista Roof... It was built using a Modelhaus Buick Roadmaster kit for that reason, but I had to hack the body off in front of the front doors, and graft on the front end of a Revell Impala SS, because it was easier than completely changing the Roadmaster's front bumper and grille area. Plus, he wanted an open engine bay, so that was easier anyway. I also cut and modified the C-pillars to match the Olds/Chevy ones.

The colour is GM Dark Sapphire Metallic, just like the real car, with medium adriatic blue interior. The wheels are from a Toyota kit of some sort, but look almost the same as the real car's, except being scale 16" wheels instead of 15". The engine is out of a Revell Caprice police car kit, using the Throttle Body-injected 350 instead of the LT1 from the Impala.

The grille took about a week to fabricate, using 64 individual pieces of .010 x .030 styrene strips. I basically laid them, on edge, over top of a sanded smooth Caprice grille. There's a couple of tiny errors you can see right up close, but it looks great from 50 (scale) feet. :p

It's complete, other than the custom license plates.

Oh, and upon taking the pics, I just realized I forgot to paint the washer fluid jug or the coolant tank. I will do that now. :nono:

http://www.tigersdenhobbies.com/gallery/dbeasst%20olds%20custom%20cruiser/newshoes.jpg

http://www.tigersdenhobbies.com/gallery/dbeasst%20olds%20custom%20cruiser/dbeasst_oldscc_complete1.jpg

http://www.tigersdenhobbies.com/gallery/dbeasst%20olds%20custom%20cruiser/dbbeast_oldscc_complete2.jpg

Good work ;)