Alchemy Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) So, i was travelling with work one time to Texas and, as i had some spare time, i wandered around a flea market one Sunday morning. My eye was taken by a pile of 1950's magazines titled "Cars and the Apocalypse". They were full of ways to alter current cars to meet the demands of a 1950's imagined post apocalyptic USA which, of course, had easy access to lots of old WW2 hardware. I was particularly taken with the plans for a half-track conversion of the Cadillac Eldorado. This is my effort to recreate a barn find Cadillac Desperado left all abandoned and rusting after the apocalypse failed to happen in the 50 years since then. The base kit is the old Revell Cadillac Eldorado heavily modified. The half-track set up is from a Panther with the second engine from a Jaguar 3.4L Edited October 17, 2018 by Alchemy additional text and pictures 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Wasley Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Great bit of kit bashing,truley enjoyed,You have given me inspiration to dig out my spares box,Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorfinn Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Wow! I am in awe.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 Great job. There were some weird minds back then. Is that a '58 Eldorado? John. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alchemy Posted October 18, 2018 Author Share Posted October 18, 2018 2 hours ago, Bullbasket said: Great job. There were some weird minds back then. Is that a '58 Eldorado? John. Hi John No, its the '57 Eldorado Brougham. A truly terrible kit in really brittle hard plastic that i picked up. It had been started with thick enamel silver paint (H11 i suspect) splashed on the chromework... This seemed the best use of it And thanks everybody for the comments. Now i have had time to think about it, i really should break one of the tracks and put some strips of perished rubber around the front left wheel to finish it off and make it look totally abandoned. Alan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 12 minutes ago, Alchemy said: No, its the '57 Eldorado Brougham. A truly terrible kit in really brittle hard plastic that i picked up. It had been started with thick enamel silver paint (H11 i suspect) splashed on the chromework... This seemed the best use of it When I was stationed in Singapore in the late 60's, there was a store in the city that sold loads of American car kits in 1/25th scale. Johan I think dominated the shelves. Because I grew up in the 50's, loving American cars, I had many of them. De Soto, Chrysler, Fairlane 500 & Galaxy, Imperial, Fury and several more. They were very good kits for their time. Happy days. John. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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