leafsprings

These trucks did pretty good with the basic twin I beam and rear leafsprings too!

Looks like the trailer used in the Duel movie, could definitely use in 1/25 scale!

IMO, Moebius has gone where others have ignored. This is there niche, where they shine to new and older modelers who want more than re issues of 40-50 year old kits. IMO, they'll seriously look at the '61 thru '71 Dodge pickup, if not already. The kit has great expandability potential, meaning with a little extra tooling, we could see different grills, 4wd or 4 door cab and even a 1 ton version with larger fenders and running boards in each new version. The series would need to be broken down, '61-'64 or '65-'71 since there were major wheelbase and bed changes.

With a little interior knife work, put in a Cummins 6 or Cat 6 or Detroit V8, you got a LNT 9000. Can't beat the early 70's box art!

All year grills had black trim paint to accent the design both standard cabs with painted grills and custom cabs with aluminum grills. Since we only have '65 and '66 by Moebius, these shots should help. The black paint usually fades out over time or completely lost when grill is repainted

Yes, Welly is the knock off, the duals ( 18" in 1:1 ) can be used on '48 thru '68 GM 1 tons.

Another fantastic build of an under represented workhorse. Great choice of wheels and body. Expected to see at least one dented rusty hubcap and a greasy 292 under the hood?

The factory wheelbase for the C series has been constant thru the decades 99" 111" 135" 153" 175". All kits are technically C 900's, why AMT molded 800 into the emblems and why they market some of these kits as C 600 is strange. Hopefully the kats at AMT can explain what happened someday. The tractor version was the 111". the stake is 135" the van body, 153" .

Great pieces Bill! Thanks for offering these super authentic conversion parts needed to build the heavier F series.

Great new interior items Bill! All '61-'66 F 350's used the 4 spoke steering wheel and some 4x4 models also. Most 2wd pickups had the 3 spoke wheel. Most larger than the F 350 had the large version of the 3 spoke wheel.. 132" wheelbase was the only factory length listed , any longer wheelbase was a special order or custom job by a shop. The '64 grill was never done by AMT and I doubt Moebius will ever tackle it, because they would have to modify the frames, engines and inner front fenders from the '65 and '66 kits to build a '64 . Just added a photo of an F 350 to the 61-66 truck reference section of this forum.

Rear view '61-'66 F 350

Great build! Very authentic, the way many looked back in the day, doing one of its daily chores in style. Great choice of color and trim level and tires and wheels. The stance is perfect, not to low, not to high, and all 4 wheels are placed perfectly in all 4 fenders.

That is one heavy duty looking highboy! Great choice on using the Fireball conversion!

Great job on the conversion to CO 4000 , day cab and single drive. I bet more transtars were sold to fleets, than to owner operatiors.

Too much attention for me. Are there any 1/25 resin casters interested in doing a correct late 60's WF? 1/87 guys had it for years.

Excellent job on the Astro. IMO, deleting the extra chrome on wheels makes a huge difference on what makes this build so realistic looking!

AMT had the tooling for the '60 8' styleside bed, they had the tooling for the '53 Flareside box and had the tooling for the '63 unibody, however, IMO, they were just not interested in investing another dime in reworking the cab to go one step further by offering a '61-'63 Flareside or '61-'63 separate styleside by reworking the cabs of these kits. Oh, but we got the funky camper shells and mini bikes and go carts, trailers etc. Big choice of options by Ford, no choice of options by AMT.

It is a great upgrade kit, thanks Fireball! This 4x4 kit is correct for '67- '77 1/2 F 250's.

Great job! Grand slam! Love those medium duties!

Nice conversion! I'm sure it will be a popular modification for the '66, which was the first year for the factory shortbed 4x4 F 100. 61 thru '65 factory 4x4 F 100's and 61 thru '66 factory 4x4 F 250's were all longbeds with leaf springs at all 4 corners.

Here is my Flareside conversion done with the '53 box. Used period Ford interior and exterior colors and hubcaps F 100 series.

??? This is not the same color as Lunar Green which was used in '67-'68. The color is found on a 1965 Ford Truck paint chip sheet, it is called Tropical Turquoise Received my order of wheels axles and springs, the quality is excellent. Thanks Bill !

Very creative work Gramps! The '53's are a natural for chassis and special body upgrades! Still need to finish this one, big mirrors and a flatbed are in the works.

Wow! I swear I'm looking at a time capsule from 1962! Incredible build Tom! The service body with the aluminum shell was the original SUV for nature lovers!