1968 Buick Skylark

[Steve_L]

This is a model of my friend Chet Palumbo's 1:1 1968 Buick Skylark. I started with a resin kit from R and R Resin that I won in an EBay Auction. The resin kit was originally a 1968 GS 400 so I modified it to more closely resemble Chet's Skylark. I used a plastic kit of a 1969 Oldsmobile 442 as a donor. It provided the chassis and interior. The front wheels are turnable. The engine is from a 1969 Buick Rivera with a turbo 350 transmission from a 1969 Nova kit. The rest of the drive train is from the 1969 442 kit. The Cragar wheels are from my stash of wheels and hubcaps. I modified the interior to look less like a 442 and more like a Skylark. I hand cast the front arm rests, door handles and window and vent window handles from resin. I used styrene plastic half round strips to make the side trim. It and the rest of the chrome trim is covered with Bare Metal Foil. I found the paint code (13514 – Teal Blue Mist Poly) on the Internet and had it custom mixed at a local auto paint store. It is a urethane base coat that is covered with a clear coat of Future floor wax. I polished the paint with model car polishing pads and shined it with Meguiars Scratch-X polish. I created the Buick, Skylark and three bar trim pieces on my computer and printed them out as decals. I made the license tags on my computer, too. I had a lot of fun with this project and some of the things I did were a stretch.

Enjoy!

[MonoPed]

That turned out nice!!

[MarkJ]

Excellent build!! Looks like you did a great recreation of your friends car !!

[Bernard Kron]

Real modeling with a well focused goal in mind. And a great result!

[Harold]

Gotta love them Buicks. The Skylark was one of my faves, and you nailed it.

[cruz]

Wish I had one of those, yours turned out phenomenal, great color choice too!!!!

[george 53]

Your Buick looks SHARP Steve! I have the same body, a 68 that I got from Perry's resins about 10 years ago, and just recently,(last month)I was able to get 2 70 buick GSX bodies from Steve Kohler, over at Star Models! I was gonna use the 69 442 kit on these, while the 68 kit called for the 69 Chevelle as the donor. Like all R&R kits, it does need some work on it to be ACCURATE, but these are some of the prettiest cars G.M. ever designed.Yours came out GREAT!!!!

[oldstyle]

That,s turned out Nice

good Color Choice

Uwe

[bsoder]

Very nice build!!

[carrucha]

Nice Buick. Good job on the paint.

carrucha

[NYLIBUD]

Great job,love those cars,nice and rare too.

[Bucky]

A beautiful Skylark! Great execution on this one.

Reminds me of the real Skylark I owned in 1976..... except mine was a '72.... and it was red.... with a white interior! LoL

[Bills72sj]

I love how you kitbashed and scratch-built your way to an amazing result. WELL DONE!

[Zippi]

Nice looking Buick.  The color looks great.  Great job.  

[slusher]

Sharp models..

[hedotwo]

Here's a Buick you seldom see!  You did a great job with it and the color and paint job is really nice as well.

[crazyjim]

Excellent.

[Hi-Po]

Outstanding!  Job well done.

[mustang1989]

Dude!! I like everything about that build. Awesome!!!! 

[doorsovdoon]

Stunning. I love the big Buicks. Amazing colour and very cleanly done. 

This was posted in 2008! OP hasn't visited the site since 2016.

[unclescott58]

Looks pretty good. Your building skills looks very good. The kits proportions look a little off to me. 

[Mike C.]

Looks great Steve. Reminds me of a '69 GS I saw at a BOP show a few years ago. This one had been prepped by Motion and had the documentation to prove it. It later appeared in one of the last issues of musclecar review.

 

[Mattilacken]

Beautiful work! Looks very good! 

[ChrisR]

Looks great!

[TransAmMike]

Wow Steve, very nice rendition of that sharp looking bodystyle, great paint and color too?