JTalmage

I think I know what kind of car I'll be entering this year... but it all depends on when I get my resin engine from Clearly Scale for another project... I'm going to mock it up in the vehicle I "think" I want to use, to see if it will even work for me... if so, I'll post it up, if not, back to the drawing board.

LOL thanks guys! white courtesy phone... that's a good one!

Considered it. Even went into researching old Sinclair stations. But, I have no room to keep a diorama so that's about as far as it went.

Wow. that thing is ridiculously clean. Great job. I'm quite jealous. Now I gotta get this kit!

I finally finished this thing last night. It was a long time coming. I started this build back in late 2014 (I had to go back and check the picture dates!) and had brought it back out of the box a couple different times but had no patience and no inspiration to complete it. I finally busted it back out of box and made myself start on it again. I became re-inspired when I found some old decals from the Lindberg '34 Ford Truck kit. The truck was green, the decals were green... it spoke to me. So I decided it needed to be a retired and abandoned service station truck, a rediscovered barn find if you will. So I built it as if it had been rediscovered and the tires had been aired up and rolled out of the barn ready to be restored or preserved. I studied several pictures of base model 3100 Chevy's and where they got rusty, and then added my own twists to create a truck that looked like it had a busy life before being put out to pasture. My vision for this truck was one of a vehicle that was used for roadside service on the long dry stretches of the southwestern highways of New Mexico. So it had a fuel tank fitted into the bed to supply fuel to travelers who had ran out of gas before making it to the next fueling station. I also put a toolbox in the bed in case of roadside repairs are needed, along with a spare wheel and tire in case a traveler had a flat. I added the Sinclair decals on the doors and on the auxiliary fuel tank in the bed. And added the "Tires and Tubes" decals to the front fenders. I weathered this thing pretty heavily I think, but it turned out really well. I had also added heater hoses, throttle cable, wiring on the firewall, and a M.A.D. distributor. Along with a fuel line and throttle return spring. I washed the engine, transmission and rear axle with black to simulate oil leaks, and used weathering powders throughout the whole truck. The only thing I am still going to do with this truck is hit it with some flat clear to preserve the weathering I did to it. Whenever the weather clears up and warms up. Truck was painted in many layers of paint. A red/brown base, red oxide primer, white primer, then green. Before the white and green I applied my sophisticated finishes rust solution then applied rubber cement over those areas. Painted the truck then used tape to pull the rubber cement off. Then rusted the truck and touched it up here and there to perfect the look. Also if you notice, I hinged the toolbox with brass tube and rod. Hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think. This last picture was taken before I washed the trans and rear end. For some reason that picture did not take. But here's the bottom anyway.

Neat! It sounds like it will be a whole lot nicer than a replica of the '55 caddy from his song on his album Ignition! Lol

I'm going to think long and hard about what I want my entry to be over the weekend...

Seems like a pretty cool idea so far! When I saw your thread title, I instantly thought of this song

I like it!

I can't particularly name any names... but I like Spanish classical guitar driven music... and I normally listen to Rock/Classic Rock/Blues-Rock/Metal/Surf/Rockabilly/Psychobilly Only name I can really think of off hand is Segovia.

I like my wheels to roll if possible. I think for me it's just because I like everything on the kit to function as it was engineered to. Plus, if the wheels have spokes, or if the tires have whiteletters, sometimes I like to re position the wheels for photos as certain wheels and tires look better in another position, and especially if the kit can steer.

You do fantastic work. Great looking builds!

That is going to look so good in black. I've hesitated to pick one of these up yet just because I don't know when I will get around to building it... but it looks like a beautiful kit.

Cool ending. I wish I could have had more time to finish the Bronco. See you all next year... hopefully. I'm 0 for 3 at this point so who knows.

Just ordered mine this morning too after checking Ebay on a whim.... This is definitely going to be a hot item for a while!

Man... I've been checking Ebay every day since I learned about this thing... I have two Bronco kits... One of em needs to be a half cab!

I didn't finish a lot this year. I had been working mad overtime from last year up until about late September/October. Then just ran out of motivation. I normally could build 12 a year. But anyway, here's what I managed this year. This is the AMT Clear display trailer I built as part of my Mustang race team Here's the truck I built to haul said trailer Here is the Mustang that is part of that team Tom Daniel's '60 Chevy "Street Fighter" Testors/Fujimi RX-7 Monogram Porsche 911 Carrera

Nice work. I really like the paint scheme on that Chevy II

Nice work. I've been seeing more AMX's pop up. I need to build mine.

I really love that truck. Super cool. Clean and great work

Beautiful work.

Sweet hot rod! And the sophisticated finishes rust solution is THE WAY to go. I use that for everything. My '55 Chevy truck on the work bench right now has liberal amounts of sophisticated finishes on it lol And if I wanted to add a hint of more recent orange rust to it, I dab a little tamiya weathering powder on it! Looks great!

Thanks guys. I'm really inspired to finish this one now. When it had slicks and cragars on it I was just not feeling it at all. But I really like it now. Hoping to get it done really soon but not skimp on detail. I forgot to take pics of the auxiliary fuel tank in the bed and the spare wheel/tire. I have a few details I will be tossing in the bed too, to accompany those parts. It's going to get a New Mexico plate from the late 50's.

Beautiful!!!!!

Last time this thing was on my work bench, it had cragars and slicks on it... but I just wasn't feeling that vibe. It was way too weathered to be a hot rod truck in my opinion. I felt it had another calling in life. That's when I realized I still had some old decals from the Lindberg '34 Ford truck... so since this truck was green, it needed Sinclair fuel decals. Thus now the backstory to it is that it's a retired service station truck from Rt 66 in the southwest. Years of surface rust but no holes, which fits this thing perfectly. So here's a few updates for it... Here it is when I found a set of wheels and tires that were more fitting w/ the new theme After I applied the Sinclair decals and weathered them. Weathered my bumpers a little And was able to weather the bed floor to look like it's been used and abused for years of oil and gas and tires in it. Hoping to have it done for a club meeting for my local club in January.