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AMEN!

It's coming along slowly.

Wonder if the rest of the GM trucks in that series will be reissued? There was the GMC smoothside that was reissued as the plow truck, A Chevy stepside that was reissued a few years ago. A Chevy blazer , reissued once as a sheriff's truck and a GMC Jimmy. I don't think the Jimmy was ever reissued. Only kit I ever seen that had one of those cool "Hickey" hoods. It had big fender flares too. Cool thing was all the custom parts like the hoods, flares, wheels etc would interchange between all those kits.

I missed out on the last go around so I'd be in for one. The one I'd like to get is the "Horn Toad" from the late '60s. It was reissued once in the late '70s but even those go for ridiculous bucks.

Looks better. Never cared for those wheels. BTW, Cragar did do wheels like that, they called them G/Ts.

Added a little extra detail to this one than I usually do.

Nice job on the truck but wow, great job on the face of the figure, it really comes alive!

The interior is definitely '66 t-bird. Only the '66 had the square waffle pattern.

Seems to me what a lot of people are forgetting about that Foose Ford is this, It wasn't a case of Revell deciding to do either a stock '56 pickup or the Foose pickup, it was a case of which Foose vehicle out of the 6 choices of Foose subjects to choose from in the voting they had last year. They were going to do 2 Foose kits, the pickup was just one of the ones voted by the public to do.

I've been directing more of my free time to my 1/1 project lately so it's been slow going on the models. I have done a bit more on the pickup though. I added some rub strips on the bumpers with sheet plastic cut into strips and painted semigloss black. And I've done up the alternator and power steering pump on the engine. I want to add more detail to this one than I usually do. I didn't like the look of the belt assemblies I could find so I made my own by cutting the pullys free from a couple parts box pieces and making the belts with some small Evergreen strips.

Looks great!

Yea, I've been working on my 1/1 Trans Am, getting it ready to take to my uncle's garage for bodywork and paint over the winter. Got it there yesterday so I'll be spending more time at the work table now.

I've never done it but a friend told me he floats the decal in a large bowl of water and brings the tire up to it from underneath. Seems like it should work.

Thanks again everyone.

Thanks guys. I appreciate the comments, it kind of encourages me yo keep at whatever I'm working on at the moment to get it finished. Helps keep me motivated, I guess.

I wouldn't mind taking another crack at that one myself. Too bad your decals are toast but Keith Marks has them in several colors. Here's mine , built around '87 or '88. The pics were taken 11 years ago. That blue plastic never did bleed through my white Duplicolor laquer. Simple kit but can look pretty good built up.

I hope to be able to post a new finished model soon but I thought I'd repost this one I did several years ago just for fun. It's an R+R resin '70 Chrysler 300. It was quite a bear to get the body prepped and ready for paint. Door handles and all emblems were shaved off. Curbside build, paint is a candy olive I mixed myself and sprayed over metallic gold. I wanted it to be similar to the factory color available that year but with more depth. Interior is a matching green. Pegasus wheels with red line tires. Hope you like it, it's one of my favourites

A bit of putty work. Not "done" but it's getting there.

Yes, back then Ertl owned both MPC and AMT.

I see Meng is releasing a civvy Hummer H1 in 1/24 scale. Not really my thing but it looks like an incredible kit. Full detail with separate frame, floorpan etc, even the doors are separate. I guess the big thing would be the diesel engine for swapping. ,, but price being close to $100.00 CDN it would be a pretty expensive swap.

Never mind what it means, just forget you ever heard it, OK.

CB radios were deader than disco by the time these kits were made.

I also missed out on the '71 back in '87 [got a cute little daughter named Merica instead so funds were short] If they do reissue it, I hope they keep it as a '71, ,, '72?, I have mine.