mikemodeler

Kris Morgan.

You need to message Kris and ask him if he has any in stock or has to cast them. You can PM him here, as that is what I did. I got one right after Christmas so I would say yes, he still offers them. What I didn't show was he also includes the correct hood, chrome front bumper and grille and a bench seat. ( Hey Round2, you hear that? A bench seat!) The kit was either $70 or $75 plus shipping.

A wide variety of tires available here : https://www.modelhaustires.com/

MAD ( Morgan Auto Detail) offers a really nice resin 78 Scottdale long bed pickup trans kit. The MPC 84 GMC Deserter kit is the donor chassis, just need to lengthen the frame a bit for it to work. Given the popularity of the square bodies, truly surprised none of the kit companies have managed to re-work some of their existing kits to fill that void. Here's the MAD kit:

Wes at Wes's Model Car Corner should have that PullDozer and Silverado in stock by early next week. He mentioned them last night in his weekly show.

Yes, yes I am.

I'm sure Niteowl has the story, he seems to know "inside" information about the workings of the model companies.

Seeing the two "new" AMT 90's Chevy pickup kits coming, wonder if anyone else would be in for a work truck/base model grille for them? Once upon a time Jim Amato at Uptown Automotive cast a 3500HD conversion that had the base grille. He sold the masters to Jeff Ballard at MCRC and it's been documented here that Jeff is way behind in orders so with these kits coming out, great opportunity to bring the grille back, maybe even the conversion kit.

Welcome, I'm down in Charlotte and am a transplant as well. Are you familiar with the upcoming swap meet in Salisbury on 2/18? There's also a show/swap meet coming up in April (I think) in the Statesville area.

I am sure we are in for multiple versions of these kits, the curbsides are likely cheaper to produce and if sales are strong, they will tool up the engines to offer them as full detail. The dually kit was always curbside, at least this time we will have the option of adding an engine of our choice.

Something like this? https://www.fabresinworks.com/newstore2020/product/1-25th-1967-camaro-hideaway-front-grill/

NASCAR has become as predictable as WWE and half the ball sports. I got tired of the way too long yellow laps last night and watched Highway Thru H3ll instead.

While I totally agree with you, it wasn't that many years ago we had to wait for a kit to show up at the hobby shop before we could decide to buy it. And the magazine reviews were always a few months behind due to lead times. I've seen Chad at the MCACN show in Rosemont IL, not sure how much of a "car guy" or modeler he is, especially based on his videos.

This is a handy reference tool. http://www.73-87.com/7387info/7387trimlev.htm

That pickup kit is nothing to get excited about. Very basic kit, inaccurate chassis and poor details.

That was the case for GM pickup trucks starting in 81.

Uh, no. Those are short beds. No one has kitted a long bed square body 73-87 GM pickup. Morgan Auto Detail offers both a long bed in resin for the MPC Deserter as well as an excellent 77 Chevy pickup kit complete with side trim and bench seat, mastered by Tom Ellifrit (Repstock here on the forum). It has been mentioned here that Round2 plans to offer different versions of the Sod Buster (likely grille and bed difference) over time and we can hope that might include the opportunity to build it as a 2wd truck.

That looks really nice, great choice of colors. It surprises me that none of the resin casters have stepped up and offered stock front ends for this kit to build 78-87 model years.

I have two to build and have some ideas but I think one will be bone stock. What color/brand is that blue, it looks pretty close to factory.

Thanks Jim, hope Chris can either get back to where he needs to be or decides to shut down the business. It would be a shame to lose another resin vendor but more important for him to be healthy.

Chris Holthaus was casting the tires for a long time for Don and Carol. Once they finally retired and closed the business, he opened Modelhaus tires. All he offers is the product listed on his website.

Another beauty Chuck! Surprised there isn't more rust and rot, definitely weathered and dig those different colored panels.

All right, who all is going to this event? Supposed to be clear and warm(ish) so no excuses! I'll be there, selling off some old kits.

Yep, he mentioned the same thing to me. I think between that car accident on NYE 2021, Covid and the steady stream of orders, he hasn't been able to catch up. My order took about a month from when I placed it to when I got it and that included the holidays, so no complaints from me. From what he teased, he has some cool stuff coming for the reissued 78 Bronco but he didn't say exactly what.

I don't believe that Olson Bros is closed, although Chris has been absent from the business for a few months. Hope that he gets things sorted out and is able to get back to his old self and crank out some product. I think the thing to remember about resin stuff is that if you see something you like, buy it if you can because this thread has shown, there have been some great companies that have gone out of business.