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Wow, Jimmy didn't mess around getting mine shipped to me. Ordered Monday about 9pm, was in my mailbox today(Thursday). This little Willy's looks great, needs the normal amount of flash cleanup work that I expect of almost any resin supplier. I'm not sure I like how the bed floor was done, but i suspect there is a reason behind it that I will discover when I start fitting it to the styrene donor kit.

Not that this answers your question. Does your 61 kit molded in gray have wide 5 artillery style wheels? The black ones should have wide 5 wheels but not the artillery style. Basically, I have been told that the first issue of this kit had the artillery wheels, and none of the kits since them got those wheels.

I have also done the stock-ish firewall from the Revell 32 Ford Rat Roaster kit. I didn't have as good of success with it. I have a useable part, but did get a little(very minimal) shrinkage as some mentioned would happen, but I also got a little bit of warping that would be easily fixed once its glued to the car body. The bigger problem I had was pin holes throughout the part. Haven't found a way to overcome that with liquid styrene. However, I do believe that any of these small molds that I have made would easily accept resin also. Which should produce a better part.

I too have experimented with this. I am using Evergreen stock melted into Tamiya ultra this glue. I made my mold from a half used leftover tube of Permatex blue automotive RTV cause I had it laying around. I started with something simple. This is the fan from the Revell 32 Ford kits. On the left is the kit piece, on the right is my first part out of the mold, not really useable in my book, in the middle is the second part out of the mold, this is a pretty decent part and showed me that this is possibly a viable method for a one off part. Your not gong into production with this.

Looks like Jimmy Flintsone already has it on their website as item NB328. Website also has a handful of pictures. Looks great. Currently has a list price of $25. I will be needing a couple of these.

Built as a modern street rod? Big wheels and lowered a lot? I'd consider a red leather interior with black accents IF the amount of gold on the exterior is minimal.

Is that bed molded to the cab?

Looking good.

Really like this red Willy's. Any more pics of it?

Thank you everyone for the comments (and suggestions). It was a fun year building these.

Thank you Dann, that's about what I thought of the pictures too. Just could not decide what I could do to make them better besides outdoor pics. I'll give a white base a try.

And molded in white. Is this the very first time this kit has been molded in white?

Wish I could get better outdoor pictures right now. These indoor pics look terrible.

Thanks, that's the info I was hoping for.

I have used Tamiya X22 clear on my last two builds with excellent results. I have only sprayed it over Tamiya paint so far though.

I thinking about building the 41 willy's street rod for this year's 24 hour build. Anybody have am building tips or tricks. Or maybe warnings on fitment issues. I know about the front rude height issues if built box stock. Fixing that probably pushes it outside the realm of a good 24hr build though. Maybe not. Any advise greatly appreciated. Thanks

Not for me, but maybe that was Art's inspiration.

Completely obnoxious. I like it. And that paint looks great.

Ya, I know, thread resurrection. Found it in Google looking at Model A trucks. Art, did this one ever make any progress?

Wow, I like that a lot.

I most certainly would be a buyer for a Buggy/trailer kit.

Id really like the dune buggy from the Mr Sandman Chevy truck kit. I think it's a Revell kit.

I sure hope it's a shortbed. ?

Very cool.