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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.

I agree Chuck, just wanted to clarify it for those not familiar with the kits. I also agree that the MPC kits had the poorest representation of the windshield area of the 3rd gen kits available. The glass really should be flush. with the thin black trim strip.

Actually. MPC and AMT did all the annual updates to the models that GM did to the real cars. Tail lights, seat and door panel patterns, wheels, various spoilers, etc. I just wish they made the later wheels look larger. BTW Chuck, Side window drip mouldings were an option on 3rd gen F-bodys. My '85 T/A has them but my '82 S/E didn't. I have an unopen '82 in my stash and still have the one I originally bought back then. Both the T/A and Z-28 kits had the solid roof the first year. The T/A had T-tops from then on, IIRC the Z changed at the same time. I have an unbuilt '82 T/A I'm swapping the body with an '85 when I build a replica of my 1/1 T/A as mine's a hardtop

It is.

I'd love to have a kit of that Olds.

That's gotta be the nicest build I've seen on that old kit. I was pleasantly surprised when I opened the post, I was expecting another gasser build for some reason.