FINALLY Completed: Buddy's '74 Nova

[tigeraid]

What an ordeal. Just to recap, my buddy has a '74 Nova with a '72 front clip on it. There is no model kit for a '74 Nova, but there's lots of them for 68-72 Novas. So I bought the Old Pro Nova kit. First problem? The damn fenders are seperate pieces in this kit. So it took me about 8 tries to properly align the fenders.

I then had to kitbash the entire rear fascia, because the '74 has four small square seperate headlights, with a chrome bumper that has a sunken area under the licence plate, and a black rubber strip. The '72 Nova's looked nothing like that. I took the advice of others on the board, bought a whole Mustang II model kit JUST for the rear bumper, which looks a lot like it...

So I custom fabricate the entire rear fascia, chrome the bumper myself with bare metal foil... and the rubber strip is missing from the kit.



Luckily, the owner of my Local Hobby Shop was nice enough to grab the part from another kit for me, so I could finally finish the rear end.

Then I painted it. Completely ruined it. Used Tamiya clear on top of Testors colour for some stupid reason... had to dip it in the CSC and start all over, finally got it right.

So here it is. I hope my buddy's happy. Whew.

[itrgtr]

wow, sounds like u put in alot of hard work. very nice. what did u use for the chrome window trim?

[tigeraid]

Paint

Just regular Testor's silver. I work REALLY badly with bare metal foil :P

[Honoturtle]

Great Nova. One day I'll build my '74.

Nice PE grill.

[NOMADGAMER]

i also agree that separate fenders makes this kit horrible in my opinion. i picked up 6 of these, and on the first one, i was bummed out by the fact that you have way too much work in making it perfect. it also took me 6 - 8 tries to get the fenders to align correctly.