I built this for my girlfriend
who is a big fan of Stephen King, as am I. Of all his
books and movies, Christine was always one of my favourites.
I believe a remake of the film is in the works, but the
original John Carpenter version still holds up well in
my opinion. Ironically, I crashed my car backwards into
a ditch on the way back from seeing the premiere in Vancouver,
though in this case the culprit was an icy stretch of
road, not an evil '58 Plymouth Fury. I think.
I used Tamiya spray paints
for the main body colours, Bright Red and White. Trim
is Bare Metal Foil and all chrome was stripped and refinished
with Alclad Chrome. Tamiya Bright Red was also used in
the interior but with a semi-gloss overcoat to dull it
down.
AMT's kit (actually a Plymouth
Belvedere) is pretty good, though the side window shape
isn't right. It should follow the line of the roof straight
back before curving down, whereas AMT have it sloping
down pretty much right from the A pillars. That and the
whitewalls are nowhere near wide enough, and the kit only
has the single carb with a standard air cleaner instead
of the dual carb set up with chrome oval air cleaners
that the car has in the film.
I lost one of the side
mirrors (and they were pretty crap anyway) so I scratchbuilt
new ones as well as the antenna.
The hood could have fit
a bit better, but for the most part everything else fit
really well.
Other than the side window
issue, it's a fairly decent representation of the evil
bee-yatch. Be sure to shave off the Belvedere logos on
the rear sides though.
I stole the dual carbs
and manifold from AMT's '57 Chrysler 300C kit and scratchbuilt
the oval air cleaners. Surprisingly, there are no hood
hinges in the kit, the hood merely sits loosely in place.
I didn't bother with any wiring.
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