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You might try a Roy Rogers playset from Marx greg

I just tried purple power and like the results, Just soaked over night a model I painted in the 70's and tonight the paint is at the bottom of my container. I use a Scotch pad to remove the rest. I was an oven cleaner advocate but the purple power has sold me, It was on sale at AutoZone last month Don't know what the shelf life of using it is, but I have stripped 3 models so far and it still works greg

Ah no green windows greg

Thanks Paul. I have been scanning old negatives and came across this from one of the musters, Sorry for the misspelled name. It has been corrected greg

Now that you mentioned the die cast I'll tell you my tale. My brother and I have a mutual friend that is a black shadow fanatic. He recently had lung transplant and as a gift from my brother he thought he would build the RoG (Matchbox) kit. well lo and behold his skills weren't what he thought and gave me the project complete with missing parts. I scoured the internet looking for other kits to get parts and I came across the die casts on Ebay. I thought I could mix and match parts to detail up the model. When I got the die cast from a seller in England I was impressed with the detail but it was also missing the part I needed for the model. I contacted the seller and she graciously sent me another Black Shadow free It took about a month for shipping across the pond and when a month past I contacted her regarding the shipment and she sent a third Shadow to me. :) Now when my brother presented the model to our friend he gave him the model box with a partially built kit inside with the excuse that the model was beyond both our skills. Our friend was appreciative of the thought and effort and said he would finish it. I said no we would finish it and took it back. We did this at a breakfast get together and we had the waitress bring out the die cast Shadow with our orders and she asked 'who ordered the Black Shadow' and presented the a die cast to him. In the end my brother got back his model along with a die cast shadow and I have the third in my collection. Thanks for letting me share this here and I appreciate your diorama. greg

Very nice, nothing like a louie. Nice use of the new alf pumper body greg ATTN: Casters we need a Ford LN crew cab

No dumb questions just dumb answers right? To put your question in real life if your truck bed is 8 foot. In 1/24th scale the 1/25th bed would be 7 foot If you use 1/25th scale the 1/24th bed is then 9 foot. greg

This is your brain on modeling: Has anyone put the red wagon body on the L 700? greg

I'll throw in an old one of mine

Put these on the bench to get enthused about EMS week Base kits: AMT 1970 Chevy Pick up AMT Chevy van Revell Jurassic park Humvee greg

Very nice, Looks like you conquered resin greg

Found an old picture I believe is a Paul Koert model of a mini pumper using the old Revell Midnight Cowboy wrecker that had the modified front end in the kit. It might have also been the 'Sneaky Pete' kit I can't remember ] greg

A day late and a dollar short I just posted over on the other thread that I have the blueprints for this rig with the crane in the rear greg

I have blueprints for this rig if you want heavy rescue, yes that is a crane at the back greg

About the fisherman, there is one on Ebay, just type in Preiser fisherman. about usual LHS price, Just what he needs trees to snag his line they look great greg

Sad news regarding the Spitfire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9-D10Dg6Vo

I agree that is a sweet truck, my question did they do any Chevy Titan double sleepers? greg

Thanks for the link for the treads, I passed it on to the 'rover' link greg

That almost looks like it might be part of "Spangler dual" school of design. greg

Found this in an aviation model website that I found interesting. NASA has Humvees that they are using as 'rovers' in Mars exploration experiments on earth and this person is building one using the Revell 1/25 Humvee. What is interesting is that the real ones have Mattrack conversions and the modeler is attemping to replicate the Mattracks (remember it's 1/25th) http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=273412&st=0 I got the plans for the ambo body from him enjoy greg

Now to be really crazy make the cab work like a canopy. have the top of the cab slide back for entry or side entry like the razor back 'tangs' there's my 2 cents greg

Under the hood looks like a siren in there? Is that what came with the trucks back then or what? Is it a Mars or Sireno and how did you make it? greg

Is that the Revell/Matchbox/Airfix kit or the die cast? Boy do I have a black shadow story greg

That is very nice, I found your fisherman Available from Preiser of Germany and Walther's in the USA greg

One time at the County fair we did a model car hobby display and had 20 variations of the AMT ford pick up here are two of them These were done by my friend George who will be the last person on earth without a computer greg