Travis T

In looking at the pictures, I have decided to square off the top back corner of the doors as well. I looked at a few real custom extended cab pickups from this era and the rounded corner of the door just looks goofy and out of place on the real ones I saw. The corner was rounded to fit the cab originally but the door will look better I think with all corners square.

I think it is probably a Street Demons issue spare cab due to the age on the plastic. The white truck is the Roth issue of course. I have a built Street Demons issue from when I was a kid and one of the blue trucks with the yellow and green graphics built also and two of the big back window stock pickups not yet built. One thing I have noticed is that the hood changed over the years. The Street Demon issue has a very thin front lip whereas the Roth truck and the big back window truck both have a thick lip which doesn't look right. That's why I've chosen to use the red hood, that and it fits better but still needs tons of work.

Thanks DRIPTROIT71, It's still VERY rough and will need a lot of work but it's something I always wanted to try. By the way, just noticed where you are from, howdy neighbor!

That is what I have seen too, though everything says it should be green and occasionally I hear it should be bronze. I'm not doing a perfect restoration (I have a 255 Mercury from a 1953 car going in it now) but I'd like it to be close to right.

This is going to be a really slow build and won't be finished anytime soon. I started on it this weekend after receiving two extra cabs from a member here, one of which had the doors partially glued to it. I separated the doors and started reworking them for the extended portion. Then I sawed the kit cab and the extra cab and joined them together temporarily. Then test fitted the new panel. I decided it would be easier to flip the back "door" section from side to side and deal with the rounded off corner at the top as opposed to building a new jamb on the cut end of the door. No firm idea on where it goes from here, but it will probably be a mild 50s style custom when done. I would like some input on what types of glues would work best to bond this thing together, my biggest fear with it is breaking it during the body work phase. I know it probably needs some rocker panels fabricated and installed to make it more one piece. I started thinning the driver's side door post and broke it while cutting the roof. Would it be best to have this cast in resin so it is one piece? I've never done anything this involved before.

Somewhere in my stash of books I have an assembly line picture of a 1951 Ford car and the flathead is most definitely bronze. I've been researching it quite a bit trying to get the right color on my 1950 F-1 engine but as far as I can tell, all signs say my pickup came with a dark red engine. I am starting to think there was no real rhyme or reason to what color each vehicle got.

That's interesting. Maybe this weekend I'll stop in the local Hobby Lobby and try a bottle of the MM gloss black before I make a trek to find a different brand.

Except for a couple of bottles not available in anything but MM, I have always bought the little square bottles. I always figured it was the same paint and the MM bottles go bad before I can use all of them. Is there indeed a difference?

I'm happy to see Motor City Resin has released this. My mom bought a 1967 Galaxie 500 hardtop in 1968 (her second car) and she still has it. Even has those wheel covers on it. Very nice build.

Nice to know it is not something I'm doing wrong. I built a car back in 1994 and used the flat red for the interior. Two coats covered perfectly. Now, I have one and the flat red has taken four coats and still has not covered. I suspect I didn't stir the paint enough on that one. For spray paint I've been using the Duplicolor stuff, my first two experiences with that weren't very good but I am pretty sure that was my fault. Going to find out soon enough! Now I know why I quit 21 years ago haha.

I knew they had changed as they just smell different than they used to. It's been 20 years since I finished a model and I've bought paint off and on and worked on some in those years but never have been happy with anything I have painted. I'll have to look around and see what else I can find, seems real hobby shops have all gone away.

I ran into an issue on the one I am building that the hood fit the cab perfectly until I glued the firewall in. I had to clearance the back edge of the hood to clear the firewall in addition to sanding on the top edge of the firewall a bit. My 69 cab had that issue, it looks like the 71 I have may be fine.

I haven't built anything in a really long time and I have noticed that the paint has changed. Used to be when I didn't know any better I could brush on a shaken bottle of Testors paint on parts that weren't even cleaned and the paint covered well and left a really slick finish. On the new kits I'm working on, I'm having a problem with coverage. None of the darker gloss paints seem to want to cooperate be it red, black or blue. This is after stirring them very well and cleaning the parts before painting. Is anyone else having this issue?

Very cool. I still need to grab one of those LX coupe bodies. Don't I recognize your name from FourEyedPride?

I own a 1950 Ford F-1 pickup and the flathead in it is a darker red. My grandpa bought the truck new. The engine had been changed, however the accessories that were moved off of the old engine to the new on were also dark red. My understanding is a 1950 Ford car got bronze engines and the pickup got dark red engines. I have never seen a bronze engine in an unrestored pickup.

There are pictures of a 1970 grill up on the Facebook page of the guy that built the model for the box for the 1969 kit. He's building the box art 70 model now I think, it's supposed to be a short bed.

I'm liking it and I normally don't like fenderless cars. Couldn't care less about the Nailhead since I'd be swapping a flathead into one if I build it. So many years passed where no new kits I wanted came out and now there are tons of wants out there.

Thanks for the welcome guys. As soon as I can get a couple of kits built, I'm going to get back on the 1950 Ford F-1 pickup kit I bought to build a copy of my truck that my grandpa bought new. Then I want to find an old 67 Galaxie to do my mom's car and I'm waiting for the 1972 version of the Moebius Ford pickup to do dad's truck since one will finally be available! VW93, thanks for the information. I knew about the February event in Salisbury, a good friend of mine used to be there every year but I never could remember to go. I may have to check out the Clemmons event tomorrow, I was thinking about going to the Parkway Ford show in Winston anyway.

Hey everyone. I found this website after buying the two new Moebius Ford pickup kits. I've been building off and on since I was a little kid but I don't think I've finished anything since I was 19. I primarily build Fords, trucks, pickups, Mustangs and older cars since that's what my family has always owned. This is the last model I can remember finishing, 21 years ago now. Seeing some of the models on here the past few days while I was looking around has inspired me to get busy again with a hobby I used to really enjoy.