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11/08/2023 10:43 pm
This is a 4-door Chevrolet sedan as done many years back by Solido. Here, it is done in blue and because Chevrolet's still had a center bar and two-piece front windshield, I should add a chrome-bar divider to the front windscreen to probably make it a bit more correct. It still looks good and is quite inexpensive if you come across one.
12/08/2023 12:20 am
Just love these inexpensive but accurate diecasts to work with. First photo, convertible, Belair, club coupe/business coupe. Second photo, sedan delivery, Provence Moulage transkit station, wagon, convertible before color change to maroon. Where are the 1949-52 Plymouth diecasts??
John F. Quilter
Eugene, Oregon USA
12/08/2023 4:39 am
@mikedetorrice Excellent photography and scenic manipulation. I collect old contemporary images, and sincerely hope you don't mind; have saved your city scene as it looks so real and nobody would ever imagine the blue Chevrolet was not, originally, there.
@john-quilter Really impressive craftsmanship.
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12/08/2023 2:27 pm
Lol, no problem at all, Charles ! Solido did a nice job with this '50 Chevrolet which allows it to perhaps even appear contemporary,
12/08/2023 2:54 pm
I continue to be impressed by your wonderful blending of models and photographic images, Mike.
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12/08/2023 4:35 pm
Thank you, David ! Because the model cars of various scales are so nice, they can seem to appear in a real scene.
12/08/2023 5:15 pm
I bought this model for my father many years ago.
His first new car was a 1951 Chevy in a darker blue. It ushered me home from the hospital when I was born in 1955. Mom and I cried when he traded it in in 1962.
The model's been in my possession for almost 20 years now, and as I type this, I look up and to the left and think of Dad.
Retired in Dunedin, Florida.
12/08/2023 6:48 pm
Is that a Stratocruiser? Great old photo - did you insert all four cars? I can't tell at all? 😉
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12/08/2023 7:36 pm
I bought this model for my father many years ago.
His first new car was a 1951 Chevy in a darker blue. It ushered me home from the hospital when I was born in 1955. Mom and I cried when he traded it in in 1962.
The model's been in my possession for almost 20 years now, and as I type this, I look up and to the left and think of Dad.
Those are great old memories ! One of the first cars I remember is my Dad's 1953 Chevrolet. Automobiles can almost become living in a way, can't they ? I also can think of him when I look at my models or see old cars, especially since my Dad had some involvement with the automobile industry.
Is that a Stratocruiser? Great old photo - did you insert all four cars? I can't tell at all? 😉
You're right that is a Boeing Stratocruiser, Karl ! The Model 377 was kind of a very cool passenger/transport version of the B-29/B-50 airplane. The airport bridge is at New York Idelwild Airport, later New York Kennedy International Airport. Sergio has done some great Pan American World Airways vehicles in 1/43.
The only automobile in that scene that's actually a photographic phony is the Solido 1/43 Chevrolet 4-door sedan.
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