So even though a few projects got sidelined temporarily for this build, I enjoyed it immensely (why else bother?). I have lots of other modelling projects on stand-by and a few are already underway (and a couple are long overdue) –not to mention new painting projects for 2018– so it was a complete surprise to me that I should watch Beverly Hills Cop, do some online research, and then decide to build it within just a few months (of very sporadic work). I really like the look of classic American cars from the 1950s to the 1970s (and have done several watercolour paintings showcasing this interest) and the Chevy Nova from the '70s is a model I've admired since childhood. Beverly Hills Cop II, was an okay follow-up.and the less said about number 3, the better.īecause my mind is always engaged in coming up with ideas for paintings and, now for the past few years, modeling projects, I started thinking about the Chevy Nova that Murphy's character, Axel Foley, drove in the film and wondered if anybody had built a model of it.
I found Murphy as charming as ever and the comedy (and even the action) holds up very well and its very re-watchable and very entertaining. I don't think I'd seen the movie since then (it would have been 1985, probably summer, since the movie came out in late 1984) and I became curious to see if it still held up.
We liked the movie a lot, both of us fans of Eddie Murphy from his Saturday Night Live days. The summer of 1984 was a special time for us (having created a strong bond in school since Grade 6 a few years before), going on biking adventures around the 'burbs and into the city, etc., and home video played an important role from then until I moved to the opposite end of Scarborough just before we started high school. I remember first seeing Beverly Hills Cop on video at my friend Chris K's house, 'cause his family had a VCR and we'd watch tons of movies (and record music videos) together.
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