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Great looking wrecker! Nice combo of those two kits. can you put up a few more pics of the tow boom? It’s such an odd looking thing, I have a couple of those kits in my stash, would like to see more of the actual boom/bed layout, thanks .

Thanks for the input guys, always appreciated. The gas pumps do seem a bit large, but I’m going to run with them for now, too many other things have my attention at the moment, lol. I had some time today to putter with this, and decided to make a transmission bench, I’d already built the bench ( from one of the kits I’m using), but today I made the transmission ‘hanger’, it looks very close to the ones I use at work, although not ‘dead on’, i think it conveys the look, enough for me anyway. I also have an almost dry parking lot, will need work, but it’s a start. Again, thanks for looking.

I just love tuning into this thread, fantastic stuff!

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Poor paint on an otherwise cleanly built model. I know painting is a learning curve, but I have seen some well built models at shows with super detail in the engine compartment and interior, but the body looks like they used 1:1 undercoat as primer ........

Chains are from hobby lobby jewelry section, not sure where I got the hooks

I scratch built this one out of mostly nothing

Thanks guys, I’m glad I finished rather than sticking it back in the box .

That’s looking sweet!

You sir are making magic! Great looking build so far, amazing as usual!

Looking good! You’ll be out of control before you know it, haha. The kit I’m using has a plastic base, I found some gray paint I’m going to use, I like the way it looks on my sidewalks after some weathering.

Got a little more done on the sidewalks. The edges are slightly curved, not rounded, but corners knocked down as well as I could without it looking strange ( to my eye anyway). I added expansion joints and dirtied them up in what I figured would be high traffic areas. Thanks for looking.

Thanks, they are slightly rounded, still need more work, still roughing things in to get an overall feel.

Thanks for the encouraging words? the rest of the sidewalk is roughed in..., finally..

So, all along I’ve been thinking that the base of the actual garage was missing something, that something is the sidewalk like area that usually skirts the building . I started making those today, still have one side left to do, but these little guys have chewed up a lot of time today.....

One problem at a time......., haha. no idea......

Ron, that's looking good!

Well, I went and got some plywood to make the base of this growing out of control project, lol. Ended up with a foot print of 4 feet wide, 33 inches deep. This lets me position things like I wanted, also leaves some room behind the shop to put some stuff . More pics of the rough layout and how it will kind of look .

Thanks for the input. I’ll have to find some and see what it looks like , then go from there , thanks again.

Thanks, I used the same kits to build that one. Yours looks great as well.

Great looking elky, I built its twin in the coupe version years ago,

Breath taking........ wow that’s gorgeous!

Thanks so much for the info, I’ll have to look into getting one of those. It’s not my normal kind of purchase, and most stuff I see like that is in a much smaller scale, so I was completely unaware such a thing existed. Thanks again.

They had a great turnout, did anyone take pics while there?

It’s a touch small for what I have planned, but I think it’ll do. I didn’t realize you could get/or there ever was a 1/24 scale chopper....