[Revell 55 Chevy Bel Air]

Must be a traveling paint guy that likes red and white, hmmmmm. Your looks great, i like the rear suspension set up on it. The same guy didn't get ahold on my Vert, It got painted Testors Lime Ice.

[Revell 55 Chevy Bel Air]

The mini tub was just deepening the stock wheel wells to the frame, then just add some styrene to fill in the new part of the wheel well and done, easy except with this car the stock leaf springs run inside the frame and coundn't be used. I used the suspension from the Revell 32 highboy for this, Here is the underside of the car and a stock chassis for the convertable i am building.

Thanks again for looking and the compliments

[Revell 55 Chevy Bel Air]

Thanks evryone, This is the first model i named, Candy Kiss, thats what the decal on the trunk says. It was a great build, i have the Convertable next, just triing to decide on a color for it. Thanks again for looking.

Dave

[Revell 55 Chevy Bel Air]

This is the end result of a 2 week build, mini tubbed the rear and added a ford 9" rear end, wide low profile tires on 23" sleeves using the kit custom wheels, used a TPI from a 90's Camaro on the kit engine and parts box headers and air intake. paint is Duplicolor Med garnet Red and Tamiya white.

Thanks for looking,

Dave

[Another Hobby Shop Closing]

American Eagles Hobby in North Seattle will be closing is door for good around April 9th. I think they are the last haobby shop in the city of Seattle. Right now everything in the store is 10% off or more and they still have a lot of models and supplies left at this date.

[Accurate Minatures Corvette GrandSport]

I Bought this as an incomplete kit for $4.00 at the last show we had in Albany, Oregon. It is missing the frame, suspension, engine and the photetch parts. I decide to build it into a prostreet car. So far i have opened the doors and trunk, made the door jamb for one side and fill in a few things. I still have to fab a frame and suspension, and have plans on using the Dobbertons J2000 prostreet for the engine, once i find one. Here are pics of the progress so far..........

And the inspiration for this build is this 3D generated picture

Thanks for looking,

Dave

[Dodge Ram VTS]

I dont remember how many pieces are in the kit, i dont think its a high parts count.

Nick the bumper sticker came from the dodge magnum kit

[1/18th scale 50s MIDGET]

This is a great build, The pictures do it little justice. This Midget has got some great detail and resin added to an old original kit. Nice work Gary!!

dave

[American LeFrance Car Hauler]

Hey.. that's looking good.. those big round pods gonna be taillights, or jet exhaust?

Those are gonna be the taillights, didn't want to go with the standard square taillights, but they do look like little jet exhaust, lol, paint it all back and it could haul the batmobile.

[American LeFrance Car Hauler]

Got some more work done this weekend on the car hauler.

I got some white promer on the cab for checking the bodywork, so far so good, a little more work and its done, ;D . Spent most of my time working on the bed. I got the angle trim all around the the top edge of the bed, the engine cover done with latch. ficed my misscut on the wheelwell, got the taillights cut into the back panel and finally started on the ramp storage slot.

Here are a couple pics for ya guys and also THANKS for all the great comments!!!!!

Dave

[American LeFrance Car Hauler]

Thanks for the pics of the Mack, Somebody did a nice conversion on it.

I got a few more things done over the weekend, I cut the engine access and another area for storing chains and straps towards the end of the bed top. I also found a small mistake in the cab, it was 2mm shorter in length and highth on one side, so i had to do some cutting and refilling, glad this is plastic!!! Here are a couple new pics, Thanks for all the great comments, and thanks for looking,

Dave

[37 Ford Pickup]

37 Ford Pickup that i decided to throw some paint on while i'm working on the car hauler, need a break from watching bondo dry. This is mostly on OOB build except the white walls and 5 spoke mags. Paint is Garnet Red with Testors wet look clear.

Thanks for looking,

dave

[American LeFrance Car Hauler]

Jim, I am using the Ladder Cheif frame for this build, I also have some parts from the pumper and the frame is about 4 3/4 inches shorter and is closer to a standard box frame. This truck will have a driveline about an inch long and full access from the top of the bed. I have to make a trip to my parts guy to see if he has any semi kits I can get some wheels and maybe a turbo charged engine.

Dave

[American LeFrance Car Hauler]

A couple pics without the bed for you Jim. The frame is the stock frame from the kit except the notches cut out for the motor. which is getting moved back closer to the rear axle so the cab will have a lower floor and won't have to be tilted up for engine access. I also have one side of the bed done except the door on the cargo box.

Dave

[American LeFrance Car Hauler]

I did end up changing the dove tail area of the bed. I reduced the angle of the breaking point and also angled the lower portion of the tail area of the bed so if the truck were driving up hill it wouldn't drag and get stuck. Here is a picture with the bed sides done.

Thanks for looking,

Dave

[American LeFrance Car Hauler]

A friend at work bought a box of 3 partial American Lefrance firetruck kits mixed together in a box at a yard sale for $2.00. He didn't do anything with it and gave it to me. It contained parts from two ladder trucks and one pumper truck. The first time I saw one of these on the shelf i wanted to build one into a car hauler, but they are a little expensive so it never happened till now.

I used pieces from all three cabs to lengthen and raise the cab to make a sleeper area out of it. I still have to build the interior, going to make a bed, refrigerator and some cabinets. The engine will get moved from under the cab to under the front of the bed. The framefrom the ladder truck will work with a few modifications. The bed right now is thin cardboard so i can decide how to start cutting plastic.

Thanks for looking,

Dave

[WORK BENCH SATURDAYS!!]

Heres my disaster area and my Chevy pickup I'm working on.

[Chopped Chevy Pickup]

Here is the project I started this weekend, It started out as the AMT 1972 Chevy Longbed Pickup I built several years back. Yesterday I decided to cut it up. I started with chopping the cab and sanding the side trim off. Today I shortened the front and rear of the bed.

Plans so far are to shorten the stock chassis and lower it down and add Pegasus wheels. I have an original 1970 pickup grill for it and also install a big block engine.

Thanks for looking,

Dave

[Dodge Ram VTS]

Here is some more pics of the A100. Built out of the box with the Hemi, Pegasus Chrome T's, flocking, and BMF.

Thnks for Looking,

Dave

[Dodge Ram VTS]

I got this a few years ago as a bagged kit (zip-lock-bag) with no instructions or decals. I started it and put it away for some reason. After a couple years I was digging through the stash of kits and parts and came accross it again and decided to finish it up. I painted it Testors one coat purple and applied some silver stripes on it. Its basicly built out of the bag, except a set of Pegasus Magnum wheels and opened the grill.

And a picture of it and its older twin A-100

[Olds Aero Tech]

That does look real good in yellow, you did a nice job on it. I was thinking about painting my long tail version different than the grey colors and looking at yours i think i'm gonna do that. Nice job!!!

Dave

[Olds Aerotech]

I had to trim the rear intake scoops a little. The main fit issue was the rear cover, I think I'm going to be gluing it down also. I mainly left it unglued to take pictures. Most of it went together really easy, just wish there was more reference for this car.

Dave

[Olds Aerotech]

Thanks everyone. Like I had said ever since I had seen the kit I have wanted to build it, and it was a fun build. I have everything I need to build the long tail version which set the world record closed coarse top speed at 278.357mph driven by A.J. Foyt.

[Olds Aerotech]

I normally don't build racecars, but have always liked the looks of this car. I built this mostly out-of-the-box, had some fit issues, but not too bad and added a few wires and its painted German Silver and Graphite Metallic. Detail pictures for this car aren't easy to find, so a lot of this was a guessing game.

Thanks for Looking,

Dave

[3 1950's Custom Pickups]

Pictures of my 1955 Chevy Cameo and 1950 Chevy 1500 along with Fletch's 1950 Ford pickup. I took these pic's 2 weeks ago at the Bob Paeth Show in Portland. The three trucks looked great side by side and had to get some photos taken. Enjoy...........