Green Sportsman is SOLD OUT!

Still have a handful of copper models left, buy yours now! ---------->

1:43 Flying Sportsman

Pro Car Collectibles has a new release! The Henney Packard Flying Sportsman! A concept car that was never built...until now!  It was described as being completely equipped for the hunter or fisherman (or pro-car enthusiast?), it sleeps a party of four in individual bunks.  The model includes fold-out awning and boat mounted to the car top.  To order, choose your 2-tone color combination and click "Buy Now" to your right ------->

FINISHED Criterion models available

Ok,  I've had a couple people ask for them...so I have decided to make available some FINISHED Criterion models. They are $54.99 + S&H.  Just click the "Buy Now" button to the right or message me for an address to send a check to.

Criterion resin body kits available!

I have some unpainted resin Criterion ambulance bodies available. They come with a water-slide decal sheet and instructions. They do require a 1976 Tomica or Tomy Cadillac to use as a donor car.  I am selling them for $24.99 plus S&H.  See the link to the right ------->

1976 Miller-Meteor Cadillac Criterion Ambulance

After many years of dreaming about it, I decided to make a model of one of my all-time favorite ambulances. The Miller-Meteor Criterion.   I started off with a 1:77 scale (by my calculations it's more like 1:85 scale...) Tomica Superior Cadillac ambulance.  It's a pretty neat little diecast, so I was a little sad to cut it up, but hey, you gotta break a few eggs!

I decided not to get too crazy with it, so I didn't worry about how the original model was a true commercial chassis length.  And I decided to keep the original Superior rear door, because I thought it would look better than anything I tried to scribe in at that tiny scale.

 First thing I did was file down all the "Superior" details.  Then taped off where I would use body filler to cover the windows and add some extra height to the roof.  I did this so that I wouldn't fill over details I wanted to keep, like the door handles or window trim.

After I had the body filler sanded to the shape I wanted, I marked where I would add small pieces of round styrene rod for the lights and scoop stretcher box.

After this was finished, I built the car up on a temporary clay platform for when I poured Part 1 or my two part mold.

With my two-part mold finished I was ready to cast the new resin body.

After priming and painting the car white, I taped off the areas that would be painted orange.

With the orange stripe painted on, I was ready to stick on the water-slide decals that I printed and paint the tunnel lights and rear bumper silver.

With the lights painted and the decals added, I was ready to spray on some clear coat and reassemble the body and chassis.

Final Assembled Cars

Well, they are finished! After hours and hours of assembling, dis-assembling, re-fitting, sanding, re-painting the chassis, the cars finally came together.  I was very pleased with the results!  Enjoy the pictures, the cars in these pictures are off to their new owners.  I hope they enjoy them as much as I enjoyed building them.

   

Here is an older generation of Sayers & Scovill parked next to the newer:

Interior and final Assembly

Here are a couple pictures of a finished casket floor, complete with rollers and skid plates:

A view from the front seat, where I took out the gear shifter and put in a middle seat cushion to make a bench seat.

Now with it being time to start actually fitting everything together and assembling all the parts, I laid everything out:

Notice the handmade commercial glass windshields and partitions with glass. =)


I glued in the decorative panels, then the windows, then the interior door panels and finally the drapes over that.