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This looks great, I got these kits myself and I'm tempted to start on one. Looking forward to more updates

Things are slowly coming togheter. I have painted the benches and since I have to glue the roof in place I have installed lighting in the roof panel. Made from 3mm diodes and some custom headlamppods from unknown source. The kitchen sink and stove have also been put back togheter. Getting closer now.

I don't see anyone having posted this before. Firestone Deluxe Champion from AMT 66 Buick Riviera. Looks very nice with separate whitewall insert and nice sidewall and threadpattern. Even the rims look very good. I never had the kit but got a set of these wheels in a trade. Had(and still have) plans on using them on a 55 Suburban.

Thank you for the comments guys

This looks like a well done build, great job

Very nice, you have done a lot of work on this one and it has turned out as a gem.

Super shiny and smooth paint job, really nice. I'm guessing this is the old Monogram (later released under Revell name) kit? Anyway, you have done a great job on this one

Some pictures of the buildprocess:

Not sure if this is the correct section to put this in, it is not a truck but is also not a car and light commercial is probably the closest category for it. Some of you may have seen this on other forums, I built it back in 2012 for the themeclass at the Norwegian Challenge modelcarshow as the theme for 2012 was 1932 Ford and I did not want to build a hot rod (like everyone else did). I was wondering for a long time what to build, was thinking of a complete factory stock build but realised that is was difficult since there is no kit that is made to be built stock. Then I got and idea as I saw ads in a magazine for different types of machinery (loaders, dozers and such) and was thinking of building a fork lift, or a loader or a tractor but never found any suitable wheels to build a tractor and then I found toy bulldozer I had as a kid with rubber tracks on it. That gave me the final idea. And the idea is that this is a vehicle that started out life as a 32 Ford car but was later proffesionally converted to be used as a supplyvehicle of some sort in areas where there is no roads and the terrain may vary from hard to soft (hence the skis on the trailer), maybe there is snow and ice in the winter or soft sand because there is desert or maybe marshes or other types of wetland. Started out with the AMT 32 Phaeton (the one with the Victoria interior tub in it) and bit from the MPC Swithcers tudor/phaeton kit. Shorthened the frame so the wheelbase would fit the tracks, engine built straight out of the box with no details as the bonnet would be glued on but did make a exhaustpipe from one of the sidepipes from the AMT 49 Mercury kit. Headlights come from both AMT and MPC kits and windscreen is from the AMT kit I belive. The body was cut of at the front of the doors so only the firewall and dashpart was left. I put the seat in the middle of the floor, put throttle and clutch pedals in it aswell as a grearstick and made brakehandles for each side (that is how one would steer this thing). The box on the back was scratchbuilt from styrenesheets as a toolbox with opeing gate at the back with a chain on it (from one of my wifes necklaces) and light on top of it from Italeri truckaccessories kit. I made a resin cast of the jerrycans in the Revell/Monogram Datsun pickup Offroad Adventure set and made holders for them from 1mm steelcable. Made mudgaurds from sheet styrene aswell. Steelwheels from Revells 32 Ford 5 window kit and runnerwheels are 1:87 truckwheels from a Kibri kit. Made the suspensionparts for this from styrenechannel. Trailer hitch is from a Italeri 1:24 truck kit. The trailer is scratchbuilt from Plaststruct styrene profiles with the wheels from the AMT 32 Ford kit and the load on it is some wooden blocks I found in the shed with tissuepaper wraped over it with whiteglue/water and paint to make it look like a tarp. Some 1mm steelcable for rope around it. The base is a board that I covered with some pebbles and some grass flocking from Woodland Scenics.

Does the AMT 34 Ford 3 window share anything with the 34 5-window and tudor kits?

Well, I see that most of you (including me) are putting kits back in to the box because of faults in some way. I have however put kits back in to the box not because of faults but because they are just too good. I got the Mercedes 170 in 1:35 scale from Miniart, looks like a great kit, even comes with photoetch body-to-chassis brackets....and that's were I put it back. Tiny little brass parts that are supposed to be bent from a 2d flat part in to a 3d part, I'm just not up to it. Maybe sometime later. I also got a 1:35 scale boat from Hasegawa, probably is great in fit and is really great on details. I even got the extra photoetshdetailupset that includes rear boom for two helicopters (yes the boat has two helicopters and two seaplanes on the deck), railings and steps and lots of other stuff for the ship itself and people and dogs and....penguins!!! In 1:350 scale!!! How I'm supposed fatten up some flat penguins that are so small that I have problems seeing them, I don't know. Sometimes, one has to admit that one does not have the skills it takes

Cool project, you are doing a great job on this Yep, but that doesn't stop people from lowering them to the ground. I know some guys that went trough rear wheelbearings in less than two weeks because of the low ride on their bugs

That is a really cool conversion, I like it

I just did with the AMT 57 T-bird, but then the reason for buying the kit was to get my hands on the custom roof in it. Had a sort of vague plane of making a semi custom out of it, with lowered suspension, nice looking wheels and a snazy paintjob but the thing just looks to bad.

Very beautiful looking truck. That customgrille looks perfect

This looks great Really cool idea.

Yours look quite good I think. How was the partsfit on yours? I tried to do the duo-tone paint scheme aswell but got to much bleed under the maskingtape.

This is what is on the IMCDB site on the CHiPS Firebird http://imcdb.org/vehicle_26635-Pontiac-Firebird-Trans-Am-1970.html

I started building the 57 Chevy from Return to Macon County last year. Will post a WIP thread on it here as soon as I finish the camper I'm currently building. http://imcdb.org/vehicle_109691-Chevrolet-Bel-Air-2454-1957.html I also have plans to build Al Bundys "Dodge", I got the AMT 71 Duster kit and I have gotten hold of a resin 72 grille and dash plus 72 tailights. http://imcdb.org/vehicle_2822-Plymouth-Duster-1972.html And on my shelf there is a kit from Aoshima of a Toyota Hiace from a Japanese tv show called Ainori 8 I think. I think it is called the Love Wagon, molded in very PINK plastic and it has and airlineticket for the built-up model on the side of the box. I wonder if they ment for people to send the televisoncompany or something like that. It says that the ticket is issued with Ainori airlines, Fuji Televison to Tokyo / Narita. Problem is that it was dated on Sepember 28th 2001 and it says that it is non refundable It also has a drawing of a cartoonlike elephant that looks to humping the globe on the side. A Japanese acid trip of a kit I guess

I think I will have to get a Porsche 914 and that Model A sounds very interesting.

The Pyro bicycles look really cool and in 1:8 they would be quite big aswell. I guess they would fit in nice with 1:8 scale motorbikes. I got a couple of 1:24 bicycles. Not at all obscure and they are quite recent, both from Fujimi. One in the Thule Jetbag kit and another that looks a lot more oldfashioned that comes in the Tools 3 kit that they released a couple of years ago. Not sure if they have been posted here before but a friend of mine has some plastic kits of guns, in 1:1 scale. Looks just like real but they are nonfunctional. That is really strange in my eyes. I don't remeber who made them and not what guns it was either.

That looks very nice, and I guess that for that price it should be very nice But I have stopped collecting 1:18 diecasts, I still have a collection of about 60 or 70 at my parents house that I don't have room for here at home.

This qoute was supposed to be in my last reply over here, from the Wikipedia article:

Yes, and I think the reason for the factorysupplied Testarossas was that they where new cars that Ferrari was still producing at the time and the Daytona was an old model and also being a copy and not a real one. A real Daytona Spyder is very rare and expensive and was so also in the mid 80s. Take a look at this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_Daytona Here we find this: So I think there should be no case against Revell for "doing a bad job" on the kit. I do not know if the kit is any good however but I belive it is accurate in detail to the real car it was based on. It is however something else on the Magnum P.I. VW Vanagon that has the wrong wheels and the wrong decals as it says Magnum P.I. on the side and not Island Hoppers as it should. It also come with tinted glass and that includes the headlamps. But I don't think Revell has made any more bad kits than other manufacturers, a lot of the japanese kitmakers have made loads of kits that lack detail, have bad proportions or other things that are at fault. But they have also made a lot of really great kits, and this goes for MPC, AMT, Monogram, Lindberg and all the others aswell. Some kits are not very good, others are good.

You are aware of the fact that the Daytona Spyder that was used in the tv-series was a replica based on a Corvette chassis right? In that way the kit is correct I belive and I guess there is other kits out there that is correct Daytonas.