'62 Pontiac Catalina Mild Custom

’62 Pontiac Catalina Mild Custom

Even though I’ve long been an admirer of what I consider to be the height of American automotive design, the period immediately following WWII through to the late 60’s, and especially the work of GM’s Bill Mitchell as it was revealed in the early 60’s, I’ve never actually built models from the early 60’s This AMT ’62 Pontiac Custom kit has been in my stash for many years, untouched. Lately I’ve felt that it was time I tried my hand at these, and that it was the perfect sort of project to begin to hone my skills in candy paint jobs and epic BMF battles. So this is virtually OOB standard with the exception of the lowered stance (brought down about 3 scale inches all the way around), the Pegasus Sovereign wheels and pin-wall tires, and the Duplicolor MetalCast transparent orange over Duplicolor Metalcast Silver ground. As essentially stock as it is there’s not much to say except that this was a very different experience from my usual diet of Old School Rods and Kustoms and classic drag cars. And the BMF and paint presented real challenges to assure a crisp and clean presentation. But it was a pleasure to build it from what is a well-engineered and detailed kit. It had the desired effect of opening up a new subject area for my modeling.

Thanx for lookin’,
B.

Now that's a cool Pontiac.

That's a real neat Custom Cat Bern, I like the colours
The white engine bay works well too.

Very nice, spot on as always.

Sweet Catalina Bernard, love the color scheme too..

Looks great Bernard

Nice Catalina Bernard..........I love the look of these, yours came out very cool.

nice work mate love the color

Looks great, colour is awesome.

Thank you, everyone! It's summer here in the Northern Hemisphere and in the Pacific Northwest where I live we get rain 8 months out of the year, so summertime is the right time for paint experiments. These big 50's & 60's American cars are the perfect canvas for them. I'll have to do another one before the weather turns!