Moonbilly Crawler

[Rbray47]

First time on the bench since hot weather arrived. Hard to paint with the humidity we've been having. 

Anyway, I found this kit for $10 at a small shop. Instead of building it as shown on the box, I'm going a different way. What if rednecks colonized the moon? Their buggies would be a lot more colorful than NASA's. 

I began by building a simple roll bar around the passenger compartment, then the rear bumper (with a 2" receiver hitch) The front is a parts box grill guard that will have a winch. 

Wheels are 1/20 Toyota 4wd pickup items. I haven't decided on paint. I'm leaning towards something bright and outlandish, but dirty and weathered sounds good, too.

[cobraman]

Nice to see someone making something cool out of that kit.

[Dragline]

Following for sure.

[kpnuts]

That's a great start.

[robertw]

Glad to see you're tackling this kit that originally came out of the George Barris stable of strange customs. While not always an easy kit to build it is a fun one, that with a little creativity offers a lot of possible schemes. I will look forward to seeing where you take your build.

[Modelbuilder Mark]

Cool, something that has me watching at a kit I would otherwise have no interest in!