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Great job Scott!

Folk Art Thicket Green craft acrylic.

A replica build of our 1:1 C/10 we owned in the early 70's to pull our 64 Winnebago trailer. Base color is Folk Art Thicket Green craft acrylic with Tamiya clear. Interior is Folk Art Bark Brown satin craft acrylic. Build progress is in a post in the WIP section. This project is a two step build with the second part trying to replicate the colors on our trailer onto a diecast Greenlight Winnebago that started life with gold trim. Ours had red striping. I'll try and post a short WIP on the trailer as I go along too. I've included a pic of the trailer here after I stripped the gold. Thanks for looking.

Hard finding time to do the remaining work but I was able to lay down the base color onto the Mr. Surfacer gray primer and then final assembly. I'll put a few pics in the Under Glass section. Not much to see here for this last entry... and the order I've posted photos throughout the thread isn't very good either.

Good job! Those are some wide whites for sure!

Nice weather = not enough bench time. Even when retired. But, I did make some progress with the interior and resin grille. I started out with the plan to just cobble up a bench seat to replace the buckets and not be overly concerned with factory accuracy. From looking at pix on google it seemed as though the base c/10 had a couple different patterns and neither were very fancy. My old memory says ours may have even had a funky cloth or vinyl seat cover. So, I began with the front bench from a 67 Chevy Impala which I widened and then sanded off as much of the pleating as I had patience to do. I ended up removing probably 80-90 percent of the pleating but I think it looks ok for this build. The door panels and dash were left alone. I just didn't want to look in and see buckets. I got around to doing the resin grille (fits perfectly in the MPC body) by spraying with Molotow and drilling out the headlights and replacing with clear lenses. On the backside of the grille I used Molotow to chrome the surfaces of a strip of 020 that would end up behind the headlights and then attached. I really should try and paint the CHEVROLET lettering black but I know my limits with small painting. For me it's often better to skip accuracy to avoid frustrating redo's ?. Thanks as usual for looking....

Not wanting to keep this thread floating, but based on what I've been following here I went ahead and ordered a pack of 001 Chrome online just now. Lately I've been using some of the BMF Matte Aluminum and found that it was similar in adhesive and thickness of the "old" BMF chrome. It'll be great to go back to the original (fingers crossed)....

In addition to what Bill posted, these might be of help too? I've had these saved for a long time... back when I used to get into small detailing ?

Cool project idea! I'll watch this one for sure once you start ?

Thanks!

If anyone out there has the Maisto Explorer with the rims shown in the pics above could you measure the OD of the tire/rim combo and the OD of just the rim? Just wondering if they'd be too large for the 1/25 Ranger. Also, I just scanned ebay listings for Maisto Explorers (assuming those are the only ones offered with those rims) and found a few listings for complete diecasts. Not sure I want to pay for a complete model to rob the rims so I'm hoping either a junkyard offering comes up or better yet, just the rims. Thanks

These are the closest I've seen to what I had... now if I could find them "cheap" ?

I'd have no idea who'd be able to do this for me. I appreciate the offer though.

Long bed but not an extended cab. Salesman tried to talk me out of that cab and get the extended but I didn't listen. When winter came and I started wearing my heavy coat and misc it became pretty cramped. I remember the seats were really big and comfortable for a small truck. I'll see if I can locate a set of those wheels... thanks a bunch!

What kit is the pic of Rog? I can't tell ?.. shortbox F150?

I had a 1:1 '93 STX and am happy there is an AMT kit of it, but the included rims aren't what mine had. The pic shows what I had (actually mine was black just like the pic). I know I'm probably going to end up using the kit rims but thought I'd ask first. Thanks

Made some progress on the step bumper. Started by cutting the lower half of the stock bumper away and then fabricating a replacement from strip stock. To attach to the upper portion I filed the face of the bumper flat to give a good mating surface. Our 1:1 license was printed on heavy paper stock and then attached to a 020 piece of sheet and then to the bumper. The hitch ball is the head of a pin. I'm happy with the result. Thanks for looking

From everything I could find it looks like the plain C/10 emblem wasn't part of any kit. Unless I missed it.

From what little I know these MPC Chevy's had single molded exhaust for a year or two? I know this one began as a 70 MPC and this is what it came as. As for the trim on the tailgate it got removed along with the rest of the non-base trim on the cab and bed. File/sanding did it. Unless I'm misunderstanding the question ?‍♂️

The transfers are to replace the Custom C/10 emblems that were on it. I removed them because our 1:1 was a base C/10 with just that marking. The transfers were about the only way I could do a resemblence to a plain C/10 emblem. I will use the white 2mm high lettering and hopefully it'll pass well enough. I don't have access to a color printer that will print an opaque silver on a clear backing so decals in my case are out. The font used in these transfers isn't exact to what Chevy used but they're close enough. The base paint will be a darkish green. The lettering is so small I don't have many options. Be nice if there was a PE option for the emblems, or even 3D.

Finished up the topper. Red running lights are half round styrene with the ends rounded and painted a burgundy. Screen mesh is from an aftermarket vendor but can't remember which. It's scale anyway. The window tint film was donated by Petski (thanks again Peter) and turned out pretty good for my liking. I don't have a final pic with a lift handle added but it'll be seen when this project gets finished. Now that the topper is finished I'll move on to adding a bench seat to replace the kit buckets. Nothing crazy, but it'll be closer to our 1:1 than having buckets. From there it'll be easier with engine assembly and body painting. When all that's done and the C/10 is finished I'll move onto the trailer itself. Thanks for looking.... Here's are few pics of a test I did applying film.

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I have a few different riffler sets and this set, and another I have that's finer, are my most used. Like most things, you get what you pay for in the way they cut. I use rifflers more than standard files I think.

I have a number of riffler files that I used all the time. I'm pretty sure the one in the pic came from Amazon in this set but it says it's not in stock. This set is fairly coarse but works really well when you want to take it down quickly. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009PJWPK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Next up was to attach a roof section and make templates for the side windows which will have both tinted and scale screen windows. Unfortunately the best photo I have of our topper, but my memory can fill in the rest.