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Chuck Most

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  • Birthday 04/08/1982

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  1. This little pile was nearly a decade in the making. I began building the Academy Hyundai Excel back in 2016, with a mind to build a junky pizza delivery car. While attempting to replicate collision damage, I ended up actually destroying the body. It just took me this long to find a replacement body. The chassis and interior are out of the box, with the interior dirtied up and cluttered. It's hard to see through the weird green glass, but a Little Trees air freshener and peace sign medallion hang from the rearview mirror. The body had the bumpers reworked to resemble a US market 1989 model. I had planned to replace the headlights with sealed beams to make it a US market 1986, but the modifications didn't work out so well last time and I didn't feel like pressing my luck. I think the decals are from the MPC Barris Buggy. So, here it is. I might dirty it up a bit but as it stands I'm just glad that what I originally thought would be a quick project is finally finished.
  2. Friend of mine had a '72 F250 in the same color that I should have bought when I had the chance. This model takes me back. 😁
  3. To say that this kit leaves a great deal to be desired is a huge understatement, but you got a great looking model out of it. This is one of those subjects that cries out for a more modern kit.
  4. First one I built was a preproduction sample I did in Chrome Yellow and Oxford White. When Dave Metzner saw it he said he wished he'd used that color combination on the box art model. 😁
  5. Absolutely not. 🤣 It's basically the Matt Hay Pro street Thunderbird with a shortened Lincoln body.
  6. Somebody beat me to killer diorama, so I will simply say it looks like you had a blast constructing this infamous bit of history. I don't know what triggered your inspiration to build it, but I'm glad you did it. I'm really digging the stretched sprue used to create the muzzle flash. That's creativity of the highest caliber.
  7. Maybe they're adopting "surge pricing"(back in my day sonny we called it "price gouging" 🤣), and since I don't see a surge in demand for scale modeling supplies anytime soon... Well, there you go. 😂
  8. This is a Morgan Automotive Detail grille, cab and bed meant for the AMT kit. The only AMT parts I actually used were the hood, windshield, rear window, tailgate and taillights. The rest is mostly from a Moebius '68 F250. It is painted Tamiya Camel Yellow and Pure White, and has F250 emblems from Ray's Kits Decals.
  9. Now that this one has finally been reissued, seemed like a perfect time to tear into an original 1990 kit. I did use some decals from the reissue, along with a supercharged DOHC Mod V8 from Jay's Resin Wheels 1948 on eBay, and grafted in a radiator and core support from a 1990 Mustang, along with a parts box electric fan. It also has an Iceman Collections air filter. I wanted something subdued for the paint so I went with Testors Bronze. Needs a little foil touchup around the taillights and on the bumpers but overall I'm happy with how this "slam it together and get it over with" project turned out.
  10. Ever since the Moebius '65 and '66 kits came out, there are two projects I've had in my mind. A model of my grandfather's '66 F100 and one of my father's '66 F250 Camper Special. This is.... Kind of a practice run for the second version. Base kit is the '65 Styleside long bed, with a '66 grille and 3/4 ton running gear from the '68 kit. The front wheel opening are opened up a bit but otherwise what you see is more or less straight from the three kit boxes. Paint is a random Krylon turquoise that looks to be a good match for the real truck's oxidized Tahitian Turquoise. The real truck was wrecked in 1994 and Dad was never big on photographing his vehicles, so I'm going by memory. The truck lacks quite a few things that the real truck had. Green running lights up front, a hole over the driver side headlight, a dent in the rear quarter that was shaped suspiciously like the lower peninsula of Michigan. At various points the truck had side boards, a saddle toolbox, running boards. The model also lacks the side compartment, demountable rim front wheels, and tie down cleats the real truck had. And while it did have a mismatched tailgate (a black and white one as seen here, later replaced with an orange one), both replacement tailgates were from sixth generation (Dentside) trucks. And so on. So no, it's not a replica of my father's old truck. But it's 95% of the way there and I think the actual replica should shape up pretty well.
  11. Awesome buildup of this kit. It's always sucked that Ertl screwed the pooch on the wheels but a nice set of aftermarket five spikes are hard to beat. If this were lowered and had solid spokes it could be a scale doppelganger for a red Lightning that used to run around my area.
  12. After an afternoon soak in Bleech Wite, here's where I am. There's that weird tangerine resin I was talking about. Certainly not Modelhaus quality. The kit in the background will provide replacement parts. The flares came off in pieces. Due to glue marks and the overall quality of the casting, a little bodywork is certainly in order. Got a running start on the chassis. I don't intend to use the Rides Magazine wheels and tires, but I did use the suspension parts from that version. That means I still have the stock and lowered suspension from the original kit. Which might come in handy... Since the '51 is also AMT '49 based.
  13. Finally located the one I had in mind. Old built up resin 4-door conversion, caster unknown. I bought this for eight bucks in the condition you see from a local hobby shop closing down, along with a '49 Ford, '51 Mercury, and even a '53 Studebaker. All are cast in a weird tangerine color resin. And all but the Studebaker had stuff oozing from the tires. The wheels and tires don't appear to be resin, wondering if maybe it's the adhesive used. Anyhow, those will be replaced. As you can see, it looks terrible now, but I think with a little work, I can get it up to looking just bad. 🤣
  14. I could, but it would be easier to just visualize a .040" styrene rectangle painted semigloss black. 🤣
  15. Like I said, the Douglas way. 🤣 They knew the DC-10 cargo door didn't like to latch but nothing really came from that until that defect actually killed people. Boeing seems to be copying from their playbook.
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