Forgotten Dreams HQ Holden Panelvan.

Here's a HQ van i've been working on, it's still not finished but its at a presentable stage which still looks sort of ok. I want to finish of the rest of the details in the next few months.
The base is an old picture frame, the tree is something Brett donated to me it comes as a kit with 2 other trees and a base(used the wargaming?). The body is one Chris cast and it come out of the mould bodgy and full of air bubbles so he donated it to me.
The seats I cast in resin, same as the engine and rocks and I also used a heap of other spares I had lying around aswell as some detail master bits.

The basic story is that at some point it was a loved van and got a nice respray(tailgate mural included!), interior trim and chev transplant. But as the years past and the van craze died the van got passed from owner to owner. Somebody crashed it and fixed it with a Belmont guard(no GTS flutes, but a coat hanger aerial!) and a single headlight nosecone, just to keep it on the road than eventually it got parked up in a paddock. While sitting there unloved some low life stole the wheels, bonnet, carby, aircleaner and waterpump. The local kids rocked the windscreen and the LH window fell out of its runner. The hoodlining's torn and sagging and the seats have duct tape holding the rips together. It's just waiting for someone to love it again and bring it back to its former glory.

Hope you like it.
Cheers Rob

bloody top job mate

Nice one Rob, Good enough to restore, pretty straight, How's the floor pan for rust, I can imagine sitting on it's belly is not good
still got good head lights and I'm surprised the plates are still there,
what about the I.D tags, are they still there,

Shoey wrote:Nice one Rob, Good enough to restore, pretty straight, How's the floor pan for rust, I can imagine sitting on it's belly is not good
still got good head lights and I'm surprised the plates are still there,
what about the I.D tags, are they still there,

Floors are surprisingly good, if you look close at the photos you can see the compliance plates! Better have a look at them it might be a geniune HQ Sandman!

This was my first attempt at a weathered rusty car and diorama, the other idea was to see if I could build a complete vehicle using just parts that Shoey and me cast in resin. Bit of a challenge for me, but MacGyver Shoey could build a car out of 10 plastic bread bag ties and some bluetak!

That's outstanding,Rob. Great imagination and execution. The tree is neat ,too. It does look restorable,too. Regards,Bill

Nicely done on the weathering

Bloody hell Rob thats an awesome job, you sure its your first weathering?

Where's it parked??? I could use that engine.

Weathering looks brilliant. Well done.

Thats really good work.

great job on weathering it,there was a HT van like that up here under a tree untill it fell on the van

Top job man! Absolutely awesome Were'd ya score that body BTW?

Mustang_67 wrote:Top job man! Absolutely awesome Were'd ya score that body BTW?

An old mate of mine cast it, but he doesn't do them anymore cause people kept ripping him off and selling them.

Brilliant!!....................Just how I like seeing Holden's

This is a top dio mate

Paul wrote:Brilliant!!....................Just how I like seeing Holden's

That does it!......I'm lettin more Rocky dudes join the forum for sayin that!

Fantastic work on the faded and weatherbeaten paint job. I really like the shattered glass over the dash too. great job all round, love it.

checkmate wrote:

Mustang_67 wrote:Top job man! Absolutely awesome Were'd ya score that body BTW?

An old mate of mine cast it, but he doesn't do them anymore cause people kept ripping him off and selling them.

Thanks anyway mate Might have to do a TPB conversion

That looks crap, Rob! Excellent job, saw it a Tumut, very impressive!

yeh looks better in person/had me fooled thought it was 99.9 pussent finished. cheers colin

HOT EH wrote:yeh looks better in person/had me fooled thought it was 99.9 pussent finished. cheers colin

Thanks Col, I've got a mountain of more stuff to add to it yet including tail pipes, tailgate hinges and supports, battery, more/better wiring, cans, stick books, alternator, curtains and lots more bits and pieces to finish it off a bit better. Thanks for the positive comments guys.

Shoey wrote:

Paul wrote:Brilliant!!....................Just how I like seeing Holden's

That does it!......I'm lettin more Rocky dudes join the forum for sayin that!

...Go on, I dare ya

About time you posted this up Rob,but are'nt the plug leads the first thing to get nicked?

mutley wrote:About time you posted this up Rob,but are'nt the plug leads the first thing to get nicked?

Hey Dave, nar the leads arent much good mate theres 2 yellow ones and 6 red ones! I do need to make them sit a bit better though.

Checkmate' wow! that's nice. I had a HQ sedan for ny on 22 year's and still to this day wish I never sold the old girl. so seeing this great model bring's me thought's that she might now be sitting under a tree quietly awaiting my return...... as If.cheer's John.