Cpt Tuttle
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Wow! This looks promising.
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Found some unknown rear fenders in the parts box. Maybe 1937 Ford delivery? Works better with the new smoother flowing lines anyway, and the top got a chop.
Filed down the louvers and replaced with some chrome trim, also, filed down the hinge in the middle of the hood, I am going to make the hood sides fixed to the body and the top opening, if you have seen how it works on a Mercedes 170S you understand what I mean, looks like a traditional 30s hood but opens like on a modern car.
I had a hard time to decide the front bumper, I had a 1940 Ford which I liked the looks on but it had the completely wrong curvature. So I cut off the ends, using the horns as nerf bars but still tied together with the rail.
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I am using a sectioned 1934 truck grille shell. Since it is a bit chubbier than a 32 passenger car shell, I think that it looks better sectioned, since the sectioning only helps to enhance that look. A drilled plate instead of grille shell could always look mean, too.
I think that i found the perfect wheels now. Probably won't keep the gold on the front wheels though. I found them in the parts box, don't know source of them. Front tyres are Tamiya Citroen 2CV. In the rear cheater slicks from MPC 1967 Dodge Charger with wheels from MPC Switchers 32 Ford delivery. -
I bought some built up models, among them were a decent build of a stock model A coupé, decent as in "not gluebombed too much and covered in 48 layers of enamel that haven't dried in 29 years".
At the same time, a friend was sad that he didn't have the money right now to buy a Panhead chopper that came up for sale, since he said that it was pretty much his dream bike, as long as he had something more sensible to ride as a backup.
So, he asked me, if I could have any car or bike that was totally insane and just for laughs, what it would be. It was a hard thing to answer but something that I have always wanted is a 60s inspired Model A in a freaky, almost cartoonish style, like in the drawings by Swedish artist Staffan Runhag, you probably had similar guys in the states too, I just don't know any names, but whatever.
So, since I had a model A waiting to be cut up, why not start while there is inspiration?
Home built frame with the Model A crossmembers, a modified 36 Ford X-reinforcement in the middle, deuce frame rails in front of the firewall, and evergreen profiles (with a little kink upward) behind.
Bobbed deuce fenders molded to body. Mounted as high as possible and the lower part of the body cut to match them.
Roof insert cut out, will be replaced by clear plastic.
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Olive is my suggestion. Some really nice work going into this indeed!
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I think that shade is going to look great!
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Looking good, I like all the small details.
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So, now the interior is all finished and standing on the frame together with the body and fenders, so now it's mostly mechanical stuff left. -
MASH is one of my favourite TV series of all time, but maybe my user name makes that obvious
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Carbon fiber looks good.
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When looking at the grille, I got the idea to do a Taro conversion if I ever get one, probably could work with using for example a Mk2 Golf grille as a basis and cut out the Toyota badge and grille bars......
Or...now when I think about it, I have got an Aoshima kit of this generation, probably possible to do there too, thanks for the inspiration you gave me without knowing....
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I guess that I have to save some scrap corian at work then....
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16 minutes ago, Snake45 said:
At least it's a 2-door. I could rod it!
Swedish mini Suburban, lol......
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On 3/23/2014 at 4:39 AM, carrucha said:
My '64 Impala coupe was my daily driver from 1995-1999 until I realized that I didn't want to risk wrecking it in rush hour traffic so I got a Honda Civic to drive to work. The Impala has been regulated to a weekend car. Years later I realized how dangerous it is to drive a classic car during commute hours so not only was I saving my Impala from being wrecked I drastically improved my chances of surviving a major accident during the daily commute.
Don't know what year Civic you got, but they were improved in 1996, but before that they crumpled up like beer cans in crashes (and yes, I understand the concept of crumple zones, we're talking about the passenger compartment now), that, combined with less weight makes me doubt that one would automatically fare better in a pre 1996 Civic in all kinds of crashes, not trying to defend the Impala now.....
But the traffic sure has changed in the last 20-30 years, and also, not all old land barges are the same, there was lots of improvements in the 60s and 70s, and to put it this way, generally speaking in a sea of lightweight 80s asian subcompacts with beer can rigidity, you probably could feel safe in a 1978 Cadillac Eldorado in the 90s. In a vehicle 20 years older than that, nowadays when everybody is driving huge ass SUVs and even the weight of subcompacts are reaching the weight of a Volvo or Mercedes in the early 90s, maybe not so much. I shake my head when people are telling me that my daily driver (lifted Nissan 720) will crush everything in its path, it's lighter than a modern Volvo wagon and is basically a cracker box bolted onto a primitive frame, probably both rigid where it shouldn't be and weak where it shouldn't be, since it didn't have to pass any safety standards due to being registered as a light truck, I don't think that it even has a collapsible column, only a single U-joint that maybe will make it slightly less of a spear.
But I don't care much about that to be honest since people are riding motorcycles too and survives more often than they don't, and where I live I think that I have a higher risk to run into a moose than being in a head on collision, and there the height will be in my favour compared to a regular car where it will land on the roof and crush the A-pillars...... -
If I had to choose only one wagon, Volvo Duett! ?
Yes, I know that I'll have to wait forever, but you said regardless of commercial viability, so....
To keep it more realistic, a Falcon wagon based on the Ranchero tooling would not hurt. -
And it's so fun to do, too!
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We make lots of stuff out of Corian at work, but I never thought about implementing it in my model builds.
Interesting to see.
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Fun project indeed, I like this generation Hilux very much (as well as most other old minitrucks of course).
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Now this is something I like, great amounts of imagination going into this one. Well done!
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I like what I am seeing....
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Some more work on the body. I don't like decals so this time I woodgrained it with a brush. -
I guess my DD Datsun pickup diesel would lose at the redlights, lol.....
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Some of the parts collected in the bath. The frame was ruined by gallons of glue so I use the frame from the yellow car, also the fenders since I apparantly thought that I needed another gallon of glue to fasten the headlight bar to the old ones. It probably would have been better to use the yellow body too but the spirit of the build is in the body IMO, it's no restoration anymore if using a different body, so I save the blue one. The firewall is from the yellow one since I couldn't make it come loose in one piece, probably another gallon of glue there. The yellow one had no hood and the blue one was ruined by....yup, you're guessing right, glue. So I have gotten a hood from another builder. Most of the interior are still from the blue one, except for dash and steering column, since for some reason I had glued the steering column and wheel upside down on my old dash...
Got some paint on the body and fenders.
Interior is much better looking this time, I think that I can only have painted it with one coat of too thin paint last time, it was white plastic shining through everywhere. -
Probably blown the headgasket on my pickup.... Why does vehicles always break in the coldest parts of the winter?
Interesting to see.
1970 Ford F250 4x4 Utlilty Truck
in WIP: Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
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Not bad, many great looking small details here that really makes the build come alive without looking overdone.