restoman

Just got this resin trans kit from Airtrax and it's sooooo nice! Well proportioned, great details and even comes with a set of recall wheels! It will be a 1/25 replica of one I owned back in the late eighties. Lots of custom touches: shaved trim, lowered ride height, full fender skirts, etc. Thinking of a deep violet paint...?

Finally finished! Lots of scratch building and little custom touches but pretty happy with how it turned out.

Now appearing in Under Glass...

Excellent! Back in '87-'90 I owned a '69 300 that I did the same to, only in 1:1 scale. Wish I had kept it, love those fuselage body Chryslers! I ordered a '69 300 transkit from Airtrax and I'll be doing something quite similar to your '70, finished in a deep Violet.

Very nice! i'm building the same kit and thought about spraying it green, but went with root beer instead. Yours looks fantastic!

Nice job on those grills and headlamps!

Restoration Garage is the only one I'll watch. A real shop, with real employees and very little drama, except for the kind found every day in the restoration business. The shop is The Guild Of Automotive Restorers, a world-class facility, David Grainger, one of the owners, knows cars, customers, employees and day-to-day life in the business like few others. And the cars... !

Very nice!

Very nice. My Dad had a '64 4dr Savoy - drove it 300,000 miles and the 225 never missed a beat. As a kid, it's the car that got me hooked on cars. I'll be paying attention to this build.

Nice job on the chassis!

Paint problems put this on the back shelf for a while... I ended up stripping it back to bare plastic. U-Tech is a tough Mother! It sat for weeks in a sealed bag of Oven Cleaner before it was soft enough to scrape off!

Love the wood grain on the dash!

Nice work so far.

I've built a couple...

Excellent timing! I was wanting to build a T bucket from the early to late forties and was wondering where to look for period info. Thanks! I'm a H.A.M.B. member but the site is soooo big, finding something specific is time consuming.

Yes, the 361. I added some HP manifolds from the parts bin and bent up some dual exhaust for it. 'Course, I had to paint the engine Hemi Orange...

Some progress... it's simply been too nice out to spend much time at the bench. The rear deck is ready for paint. Think I'll add some Dodge-style bumblebee stripes to the rear. I've got the taillights fitted, deck lights ready to be installed, ramps painted and fitted to their storage area, got an electric winch and cable made up, exhaust formed up with side exit tail pipes (AAR and T/A style). I decided to glue to cab doors closed. I just didn't like the way they fit and it's not like anyone will ever get in my cabinet and open them up. so... I'm filling some of the gaps around them and will make some dummy hinges that look more real. The cab is just sitting on there in the pics, it should be slightly lower when assembled. I'm thinking the front of the ramp deck needs to sit a little higher...?

That is sooooo very nice! I've got that kit but haven't attempted it yet. If I ever do, I hope mine turns out somewhere close to how good yours did.

I've used copper wire from old headphones and ear buds... spray it with high-heat silver paint and it looks like the real deal.

I'm not a big fan of Rat Rods but that looks spectacular! Everything about it is... right. Wow!

Very nice job!

Very, very nice! What did you use for the winch cable?

It'll be painted to match this... with gold wheel hubs, black rims and a red outer edge on the rims. Gold and Black interior. Not sure about putting any stripes on it yet.

I made 'em. I'm a bucks-down kind of modeler - I'd rather try my hand at making it instead of buying it. ... And I'm cheap...

This has been in my stash for close to 15 years. I finished up a '67 GTX strip warrior this winter and it's going to sit on the back of this old girl. Comments most welcome... this is the first truck I've worked on since I was a kid.