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Great color! I love that short bed! Dave

Thanks Mark for your nice comment! Dave

I didn't build as many as I hoped but here they are. Dave

Thanks for all your kind comments! Dave

PHEW!!! I finished this build at the 11th hour…finally. I’m not super happy with it but I’m calling it done. Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong, paint, fitment(ugh)fenders and chassis. This was a very challenging build. Most of the model was built from scratch which really put me thru the test. I have the skills for it but while getting older I find I have less dexterity. My first career was in the trades for about 20 years. From that, besides having arthritis, I have no feeling at the tips of my fingers. This makes holding tiny parts a huge challenge as I have a hard time judging how much pressure to use holding the part so I either drop it many times or break it…frustrating to say the least! Anyway back to the build. I found the piggy bank body in a thrift store and thought that I could somehow create a BBQ truck from it. I cut the pig in half and extended it about an inch. Within that inch width I added the serving window on one side and the door opening on the other side. I dug thru my stash of truck bodies and thought the Dodge 700 cabover would fit the bill. After a few tries at scratch building the chassis incorporating premade chassis parts that just didn’t work I decided to make one completely from scratch. I needed rear fenders but had nothing in my stash that worked with the rear tires and wheels. I found an aspirin 81 plastic bottle that was the correct diameter and cut it up. Gluing it to the chassis was a nightmare as there seemed to be no glue that would stick to it. I don’t know what kind of plastic is used for these but it seems to be resistant to glue. I finally used quite a bit of gorilla glue and clamped it for a week and that seemed to hold. I tried to get the doors on the cab to fit and open but I haven’t had a lot of experience in door hinges so I am not real happy with them as they don’t work too well. Next time I will cut the hinges from a soda can and bend them instead of using plastic. The fuel tanks are made from copper pipes and scale beer keg ends. The engine is an old hemi with the radiator behind it. I used the grill from the Lincoln Futura as it looked like a good fit, and added an old modified front bumper. The rear bumper is something else I modified. Inside the cab I used two seats from some toy I got at a thrift store. I also added the beer stein shifter from the beer wagon. Home made signage and another beer stein for the tap on the side. The tires and wheels were from another toy I got at the thrift store. The kitchen was also an interesting challenge. It is all made from sheet plastic. The hard part was making it to fit inside a multi curved interior surface. Paint colors are always an issue with me as I can’t get the colors correct. I ended up using Testors Lacquer Electric Pink sprayed over flat black and a clear matte over that. I logged almost all of the build time and it came to 35 hours. This does not include all the time I spent thinking about how to design the pieces and looking for parts. Onto the next build! I hope you like it and thanks for looking! Dave

Nice monster truck! When was the last time someone saw a Chevy Luv on the road! Dave

Both are very nice! I love all the pick up truck releases! Dave

Nice job on the wrecker! Dave

Very nice! Love the Dragula! Dave

Nice color! I recently bought one of these and am looking for an excuse to move it to the top of the list. Dave

I got this at Hobby Lobby with a 40% discount. You get a lot of bang for your buck as there is a trailer included.

Also this. The pig will need some adjusting on the chassis.

I started working on the inside kitchen of the pig. It’s a bit difficult working in such a small space where I can only use two fingers.

Nice work Pat! That looks like it will go anywhere! Dave

Thanks David! Dave

Thanks! Dave

I’ve had the plastic piggy bank for a while looking to use it in a build. I wanted to incorporate it with a BBQ smoker build. I cut the pig in half in order to extend it. Then I cut in a rear door but that got in the way of the smoker I planned to put on the back. I then cut the roof off in order to install the kitchen inside and sealed up the rear door. I scratched built the smoker for the rear and made a platform for it. I worked on the scratchbuilt chassis for about 4 ½ hours. I needed some wide rear fenders and the only thing that had the correct circumference was a plastic aspirin bottle. I put the radiator behind the engine as there was no room for it in the front of the cab. The Dodge 700 cabover seemed like a good choice so I rebuild the door hinges. The pig body needed lots of putty (7 layers) as the plastic was all different thicknesses. I cut in the serving window and the drivers side entry door. I still have to design and build the interior. I will be using a chessboard pattern for the kitchen floor. The power train is of course a Dodge hemi. I’m not sure of a final color yet but that will materialize when I get closer. The BBQ truck will be called Pig Out. Thanks for looking and I hope you like it. Dave

Thanks again! Dave

Thank you! Dave

Beautiful work! Very detailed. Dave

Thanks for your comments! Dave

I wanted to make a low pickup truck with scissor doors. After searching thru all my parts I came up with this. A Ferrari Modena and the Dodge Deora. This seemed to be the only pick up bed that would combine with the Ferrari front…and that wasn’t easy. I also decided to make a mid-engine vehicle so I kept the Ferrari engine. I made the headlights and bezels and used some parts from the stash for the interior keeping the Ferrari dashboard. I used a piece of the Ferrari for the body section that went over the engine and added the clear cover. I also added the home made spoiler. The scissor doors were another challenge. I was able to mold in a piece of tubing to the end of the dash on each side and drill a hole thru the tube into the side of the dash for the swivel pin. I had to re-scribe the door latch sides as the doors were too long. I used pieces of other door panels and some flat stock to complete the doors. I also shortened the windshield height and added the top frame. Lots of hours on the bodywork! For the paint I used a combination of three different nail polish colors. Painting the body metallic silver first then laying down the tape for the stripe, then air brushing the blue over it all. I have added a few WIP pics. Thanks for looking and I hope you like it. Dave

Thank you for all your nice comments. Dave

Thanks! I saw a pic of a '32 that was red with a black radiator grill and thought I would make these reflect that. The colors are the same top color but the process is a bit different. I prime them in flat black, then depending on how red you want the finish, I spray them with a light coat of silver metallic. Not real heavy as the red top coat will not show as much. Then I spray several coats of Dupli-color Metalcast Red Anodized followed by a gloss finish. The red is a bit transparent so the lighter the previous coat of silver over the black is the darker the red comes out. The red doesn't show directly over the black and solid silver either. As far as the bent windscreens go I went thru my windscreen parts and found ones with the correct curvature then ground away everything I didn't want. Then I polished them (one had a small crack). Dave

Thanks for your kind comments! Dave