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Clever idea and great execution! Dave

Very nice Impala! Dave

This is looking great! I love the seat cover design! Dave

Anything with a handle means WORK!

I've been fighting this for years. My model work bench is in the garage and whenever I drop a part (which is often) it either bounces under the middle of the car or it seems to disappear forever! Ii have swept up the floor and still not found the part. When I moved from my old house I figured when I move the model bench I will find all the missing parts.....buy noooooo!! There must be a parts gremlin.

Home made salisbury steak with mushroom onion gravy, mashed potatoes a salad and a glass of Rioja wine.

Great little cabover with nice weathering!. Dave

Thanks for all your nice comments! Dave

I started with the Ford F100 kit with trailer. This is a really nice kit with lots of chrome. I was originally going to build it all stock but that didn’t last long. I ended up shortening the bed, chassis and the trailer. Two tone paint - burnt orange and silver. I couldn’t just have an empty trailer so I decided to build a trike for it. I’m not sure where the trike body came from but I think it’s some toy I got many years ago. It was originally a car. I narrowed it and cut off the front, then I built a frame. I used a shortened fork from the Tiki trike and a scratch built seat frame along with some wheels and tires from the parts box. Powered by a Honda 4 engine. Thanks for looking and I hope you like it. Dave

Thanks espo! Yes there are many parts from many different kits. Dave

WOW! A lot of work but a great save! Very impressive! Dave

I had finished this a month or so ago but didn't take any pics until the other day. As I had written in the WIP thread, I had bought an AMT School Bus that was a total mess of a glue bomb at NNL East about 15 years ago and it sat in my parts box since then. Quite a bit of it was unsalvageable due to a huge amount of glue someone used. Much of the plastic had melt marks from the old glue. I took apart as much as I could but the plastic was very brittle so I was only able to save parts of it. Since I retired four years ago I have been going to coffee with a bunch of other retirees. Most are car guys and they love my model creations. We call ourselves the OGCC (Old Guys Coffee Club). I decided to build a courtesy bus model to honor the members. I took what I could salvage and altered it quite a bit. I added part of the roof from the Tom Daniels Street Fighter and the front from his Paddy Wagon. The headers, rear tires and wheels are from the 1/12th scale Popcorn Wagon they seemed to work. The engine needed to be large so I used a Ford 426 and the criss-cross carb set up from the Paddy Wagon. I scratch built the coffee mug on the top of the grill along with the rear bumper and taillights Thanks for looking and I hope you like it. Dave

Very nice work! I love the color and the engine detail! Dave

Nice work! I really like what you've done so far! Dave

Wow, amazing weathering! I love seeing your work! Dave

Nice work! I love it! VW's are so versatile! Dave

Interesting weather in Prescott. I live in Dewey which is about 15 miles away and a few weeks ago we had the worst monsoon ever. 3" of rain in a hour with 2" of hail. Some of the hail was 1 1/2"! About 100 homes in our development are getting roofs replaced this week. Mine has some pock marks but it held up.....I had it replaced last year. Dave

stavanzer, Thanks for the nice comment. The grill is from the Lincoln Futura. Dave

I have Exactos and they are great! I also have a couple of those cheap ones and the blade keeps loosening. I will try your fix. Thanks for the tip! Dave

Here's another one. Its a shortened van.

Here's my '53 with slight modifications.......

No I dont. Just use either water based or acrylic paint.

I've used very thin foam plates from the Dollar store they seem to work fine. The plate bottom is very thin and you can do a tuck and roll, diamond pleat or any other design. If you think foam is too thick you can grind some of the seat down smooth and add the foam. Paint with acrylic paints as any oil paint will melt the foam. Dave

This is my daily ride.

Thanks for your comments! Dave