[Closed] (Pics) GADM #7 1954 Cadillac El Camino by John Arnold

Very nice!!

Looks great! The GADM models are all special, but I've never seen one as a kit. Well done!

Very nice! Are BAM tires still available for purchase?

Very Nice but Very Strange

I hope Phil Alderman can comment on this. I received and reviewed all the GADM models Phil produced and never even heard of, much less saw, a GADM model in kit form. Is this something new since finished GADM models are in very short supply? Or was this something Phil was thinking about but never did? Or maybe "leftover castings" at SMTS?
The model is great but unless this is a new approach from the current GADM, the kit was REALLY rare.

Wayne Moyer

I'm with you on this Wayne. Surprising to see any GADM in kit form

Surprising for GADM but not really concerning .....

SMTS. They have been supplying their own brand models in both built and kit
forms since they started.

I have only one GADM model in my collection and it would be easy to take it a
part and rebuild it.

Cheers Chris

Yes, Chris, you're right about SMTS

They have always offered kits and hand builts, though not always from someone else's product line. Producing and offering kits from someone else's product line all depends on the client and whatever arrangements have been made, etc.

GADM has always been known for hand built models - No kits. I know that's why I was surprised and I think that is why Wayne was as well. Maybe Phil Alderman could shed more light on this?

I remember when SMTS first started. Of the original three partners, either two or three of them left Western Models to start SMTS. I've bought and sold numerous pieces of theirs over the years, though I haven't kept any for my own collection.

I've got SMTS models that I built from their kits from the very early kits to the Stirling Moss Cooper on my bench now. Also have a few factory-built SMTS models. It's interesting that once they started using photo-etched parts there were usually p-e parts in the kit that weren't on the factory-built models. That's particularly true with their Indy car kits-- I can easily tell the ones I built from the factory-built models-- mine have more small p-e parts.
But I never saw, never saw advertised, or even heard about any KITS of GADM models until now. And I never saw a GADM box with the "kit/built" boxes on the label. Yes, it would be very easy to take a finished model apart, strip it completely, and with current computer technology, make a box label for it. An original kit would have had some flash and small mold lines on at least the lower edges. Do you recall if your body shell had any of these or was it completely ready to paint? VERY strange. Phil, please help?

Wayne

OK, I see the flash in the first photo, so this was not a built model that was stripped. Very, VERY strange.

Wayne