1983 Hurst/Olds.
- joneworlds@mailbox.org

I was pretty  happy to find this kit  at the hobby
shop  last year,  and now  that it's  finished I'm
satisfied with the results.

I'm proud that I  got all those delicate pinstripe
decals on without  busting any of them  like I did
on  my  last kit.   I  got  the glass  in  without
smudging it too  bad, and I liked some  work I did
on  the   engine  compartment  details   and  some
interior door  panels.  And the model  looks great
if you  don't look at  it too close.  I  feel good
whenever I step in the room and see it.

In  the picture,  do  you see  that funny  3-stick
floor shifter?  That's  the "lightning rods", very
unusual.

Some mistakes  to learn  from though. I  messed up
painting  the  lower   rocker  panels.   They  are
supposed to  be silver  not black.  I  should have
done  the silver  first, black  after.  I  put too
thick a gloss coat on the body, which caused weird
cracky looking  patterns.  I'm  pretty sure  I got
the two front  seats on the wrong  sides.  I think
the rear windows were supposed  to be glued on the
outside,  not the  inside.  And  I'm not  sure I'm
digging  these Meeden  paints what  I was  gifted.
Too thick, so I had to thin them and do more coats
than  I'd  rather.  I  want  to  get back  to  the
Vallejo ones I liked, they're just right.

I  just love  the look  of these  GM 1980s  G-body
cars.  I had an '86  Chevy like that once, and the
Buick Grand  Nationals or GNX were  all right, but
these  1983  H/Os  in   black  are  my  favorites.
Only 3000  were ever made.  I  remember seeing one
sometimes near a job I once had.  Maybe it was the
owner of  the restaurant down the  street, I'm not
sure.