TarheelRick

Both are beautiful builds and to be complimented by another artist of that caliber is just icing on the cake. I really like the way you carried the weathering into the floorboards. I have seen many who ignore this most important area of a rust bucket; usually the floorboards are the first to go.

This is a candy scarlet over a base metallic red.

Beautiful weathering on this old beauty. Looks like it is ready to drag into the backyard garage, tear apart, and recondition into a beautiful street machine. Love it.

If you really want to build this kit, buy it. Before using the decals put a light spray coat of Testors Decal Bonder, which is available at most hobby stores or big box craft stores (Hobby Lobby, Michael's, A. C. Moore, etc.). Of course you will then have to trim each decal closely. Hope this helps.

With all those compound curves in that roof line and the C pillars, it will require a lot of cutting and piecing back together. To maintain the smooth curvature it will also have to be very carefully sanded. I would suggest finding some side, front, rear, and top views, printing them off and study where the cuts can be made with the least work involved in getting it back together. Than carefully cut the pictures to see exactly how it will look. It will take some work, but then it is only plastic and you want know until you try. Good luck. EDIT: Seems like Ace got in about the same time I did, that Chevelle looks pretty good.

AAARRRGGGHHH!! I may open a post and it pop immediately, maybe two or three times, then on the next post it will take up to 45 seconds to load. Really frustrating. Oh the pain we must suffer to enjoy this hobby.

Not to take away from this build, but I went by the old Pioneer Chevrolet place a couple days ago and the building has been razed. Oh well, time marches on.

Oh man, that is too pretty, needs to be dripping mud. Nice conversion and a clean build I like it.

My 50th will be in October of this year. I have been away from this area for the majority of my adult life, 21 years in the military then later 12 years in ministry, so I grew up differently and away from all of them. I have made it back for a couple reunions. Since returning 5 years ago I have been in contact with a few members of my class, we get together once or twice a year and have dinner. In high school it was The Beach Boys, Jan & Dean, and the Beatles. In my early military career it was Grand Funk Railroad, Iron Butterfly, and Black Sabbath.

Good stuff, I kind of like the "John Deere" Audi.

Beautiful build of an outstanding truck. As others have said, it could easily be mistaken for a real one, excellent work. And it is a FORD, so, all is good.

May be just a visual thing, but it does look to be too shallow. The length seems proportionally alright, but I think the tank itself needs to be a bit taller.

Thanks for the info. May use that idea on a future build.

Awesome work on a somewhat of a 'pig' design. I built one into a short-track car and have another and was wondering what to do with it. This build is giving me some inspiration. Can you give us some details on how you did the fenders? Those are really beautiful.

Good looking restoration and even the box also - wow!

Excellent work, especially like the mud around the cow's feet and on the farmer's pants. And yeah, the "recycled field grass" does add just the right touch.

Beautiful weathering and nice overall build. Now if you had a couple sacks of cracked corn and a sack of sugar back there with all those mason jars, you would need to keep an eye out for "revenoors".

Good looking build. That is one of the funkiest looking Ford bodies I have seen in awhile. That grille looks more like a late Packard than a Ford and the "fins" on the rear fenders are way out of proportion. Still, all in all you did a good job.

Good looking kit and I like where you are going with it. Of course my mind's eye is seeing it with an injected small-block Ford and some 10.5 slicks out back.

Excellent build. Lots of fine cut and finish on that body.

Would really like to see this one back on the shelf. I had a '74 regular cab and a '78 King Cab, loved both of them. The '74 was sideswiped from the door back, insurance paid fairly well, so I had the cab fixed and installed a California Step-side kit. Shortly after reenlisting in the USAF I traded the '74 for the '78. It should be fairly simple to take an extra body and turn the regular cab into a King Cab.

Beautiful bodywork. Your scratchbuilding skills are outstanding. Love the looks of this one.

Not really sure if you are painting the chrome with a regular chrome-type paint or if you are using Alclad or one of the Molotow chrome pens. If regular chrome paint (Testors, etc) than clear over the top of it is ok, however clear will take the luster off of Alclad and I have heard will cause the Molotow chrome to run. Hope this helps.

Looks like a really well-worked shop, except the floor is way too clean. Looking for updates.

Really powerful looking rig (but then, it is a FORD). Really like the scratchbuilding you are doing. Just wondering what is going to be put in the two holes right behind the cab. I hope that is not for an acetylene bottle, acetylene bottles do not really like laying on their side; it causes all sorts of problems with the valves and other nasty things can happen.