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  1. When I was working in an upholstery shop we had one very close to that come in but it went back another two or three feet into the bed are before flattening out and the guy wanted to use it for a bed for two with a into it from the seating area and or the bed area that would also have sleeping arrangements, the guy was a traveling short track racer and used the truck for pulling a three axle tag along 30 foot trailer that when the car was unloaded had a kitchenette and kind of a lounge for his crew and a wife or girlfriend or two. We made a crawl through that was under the bed and went through where the back window was originally and cut a sunroof type opening in the roof and made an internal and external climb through that allowed a person to go back and forth without having to stop and it also made it so that the HVAC unit could work for the entire area. It was a lot of work and surprised quite a few people who saw it the first time, a lot called it the "Traveling' Bordello", so we lettered that on the back window of the camper shell.
  2. !Looks to me like the camper shell could be easily modified by taking the upper section off at the break above the window and using a fairly thick piece of styrene with a molded in panel lines or a Pebble grained one and shape it to roll smoothly into the sides of the kit shell. I think this would make it easier to fit on several other pickups with different heights and even different widths as fabricating a front section to fit different widths and a rear door with or without a window wouldn't be too hard for a builder with a little imagination and some knowledge of how the full size shells were built even adding a light to the inside of the shell would be a nice touch and would really be easy, especially if you used the copper tape for wiring since it is basically flat and a little flocking, pattern paint or even some light velour (velvet) or felt would make a good interior material that would efficiently hide any of the wiring (tape) and even some of the LED bulb to make it look a little closer to scale, I have several ideas for a switch of some kind for turning the light on and off without being really obvious and using a couple of tiny wafer type watch batteries to make it possible to remove the shell with everything intact would make it be a little more interesting to some people. Good luck and enjoy using your own ideas and maybe one or two of mine with some changes to fit your own build. I'm thinking of using some of my thoughts to make a red neck dog house like one my dad had for a couple of his fur babies, I fail to see how using a $1100 camper shell for a dog house is cheaper and easier than buying one of those Dogloos that are totally waterproof and easy to put a nice fur bed into.
  3. Well, I am taking thank you's for those who are happy about the Nova, I finally got hold of a body and interior tub to make a Busch Grand National race car and had to pay $45 after shipping, then a LeMans stock car kit was released that I could have used my Nova grille and front bumper to build the car I wanted and now we have a clean unmolested Nova for the right parts and pieces. Now I need someone to spend the $100+ for one of the '71 Pinto Wonder pony kits I refuse to cough up that much for one that will probably come with hogged out rear wheel openings.
  4. And again people are jumping to conclusions about something on the internet without looking closely at the remarks. The answer from Moebius said that the "fake box" showing up for years on the internet is just that, a fake, and followed that with what really should be the center of attention and that is to not think that it is something that is just around the corner. Notice he didn't say it was just someone's pipe dream and would NEVER be seen, but just to not expect it to be right around the corner. Now, being of the optimistic sort that is just a nod nod, wink wink way of saying the chances look optimistic, but don't hold your breath waiting because it's gonna take some time, but as we all know good things take time to be developed so I won't say it's NEVER going to see the light of day but don't be really surprised when you see a test run sitting on the display table at a model and toy show.😁
  5. I have a complete photo shoot that was done for an article since my shop paid for the shoot (I had done all of the glass work and paint) but in one of the many moves since 1978 they are resting peacefully in a box in the shop, a 20x40 shop that has everything I have collected over the years and my models my daughters Breyer horse and animals collection and I know that if I live long enough to get "a round to it" I'm going to find things that I had no idea I still owned them. Unfortunately it's only been in the past year or so that I got intelligent enough to write what is in the large boxes, cabinets, and dressers with a sharpie. Efficient, but takes the Christmas morning feeling out of going through the boxes looking for a particular part or kit. But my wife gets exasperated with that method because I always seem to find several kits or projects that I need to get started on again right now! But if I manage to find the photo album of things I did while in the paint business I will definitely put some of them up for viewing.
  6. I want one of the Bantam bodies and I already have the right 392to build a model of what I wanted my brother to do with the 392 out of his blown Sanger flat bottom drag boat, with the adapters available to put a big block Chevy water pump on the front and several different auto trans adapters available a Street Roadster that had a resemblance to a AA/FA it would definitely be a hit with the cruising crowd.
  7. Blazer. Could be interesting if you combined it with the Fleetside pickup for a little more detail. (Like maybe an engine and opening hood)
  8. If you want a fairly easy almost goof proof candy use a metallic that is really close to the color you want and then top coat it with the transparent/candy of choice, you can even mix bases and top coat colors to get some really nice looking different colors, personally I used a "Metal Flecks" blue for a base and their purple anodizing color for the top coat before clear and came out with a deep purple that looks like it was shot over a metalflake base. As a tip if you use the Metal Flecks or the Anodizing paints swap out the spray nozzle for one from a Tamiya or Testors that uses one that will fit the can right, the other paints are putting out waaay to much material at a ridiculously high pressure.
  9. Try epoxying the sprue into a couple of aluminum tubing pieces so they will spin truer in the drill chuck and use the tubing to start the trueing process and the tubing you're gonna just hack off anyway when you get done. Or you can pick up some round transparent rods and dip the finished light into the transparent red and some clear if you can't find red, but clear and the fluorescent colors like orange and red can be tinted with transparent red easier than the clear even.
  10. Want to add a really cool little vintage touch? Pick up a package of multi color sew on sequins at the local craft store and if you look closely in the bottom of the little bag you'll find a bunch of the little dots that are from the centers of the sequins where they punched the hole in them. Just pick out the blue ones and file a tiny flat spot on the ends of those cool bullets you turned and touch it with a straight pin point with a super tiny bit of epoxy, or clear enamel and drop on that little piece of the sequin and voila! Instant (well almost) blue dot tail lights.
  11. The blue is nice but it reminds me of a locally built 1:1 Deuce Phaeton that was the ISCA Grand Champion the it was shown on the show circuit, it was a two tone with a lighter metallic blue on the main body and about the color you are going for on the fenders and frame. My personal choice would probably be the gold or a bright green, maybe even a transparent green over the gold, or a pure yellow kandy over the gold for a nice Kandy lemon yellow.
  12. I'm going a little old school and using the wires with big'n littles from the Revellogram 1/24th scale Deuce Roadster, they are a lot like the True spokes even though I think they are supposed to be Buck wires except except the wide and widers aren't anything like something Buick released. But I think they are a lot better than the Kelsey Hayes that came in the sedan kit.
  13. Or in a lot of instances the builder went for a station wagon or van roof panel cut to fit the opening and it was even better if it had ribs or even wider grooves in it. They helped immensely with preventing "oil canning" and added to the ability of roof to absorb outside noise like rain etc. and wasn't prone to getting innocent dents or ripples from the idaknow or the notme critters.. In scale the roof from the late '70s Dodge van worked out pretty well and it wasn't as hard to get the double contours into it.
  14. Great to hear about that, because as you know the first thing is to toss the instructions in the Circular File but then when something goes wrong and doesn't fit like we THINK it should we end up in the garbage can with our feet hanging out the top hoping that the cat litter was bagged BEFORE being tossed in the dumpster.
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