Joe Handley

There’s no reason they couldn’t offer those parts in conjunction with the Eliminator Coupe parts, or maybe even throw in parts to make a Whiskey Runner as well as the vintage goodies.

Will do, thanks!

If I can figure out how to make a file, I would be willing to take you up on that offer! I may need to find info on the real ones or find one of the ZJ's with those wheels still left here in Northern IL to take the measurements off of. I know they're 15x7" with a 5x4.5" bolt spacing and would have to measure the spare center cap I still have from the XJ for the center bore and nearly flush face to the lip of the rim, I just don't know the dimensions of those triangular windows in the wheel face.

The problem I'm running into is that it's a 1/20 scale kit that it hasn't been on the shelves in at least 25 years, I could barely find any of these kits on eBay when I looked on the way home from the last club meeting, so I doubt they are very well remembered on top of it. I don't have access to a 3D printer or know how to design for one, that's why I'm going to look into getting set up with my Cricut and see if I can figure out how to have it cut out the shapes I need for the wheel face then use the wheel backs from both kits to at least make a starting point to cast the assemble in Alumilite or something similar then using those.

That's what I was thinking would be needed, just never done it before, luckily the red and white or silver stripes would be easy to replicate on decal paper and I should be able to find pics of the license plate as I reused it on my Dodge Shadow after the truck was totaled, I'm just not sure about how I would change the color on the badging. That said, I did find a nearly suitable tire though! It's a more modern BFG A/T instead of the Wrangles mine had, but it's about the same diameter of the kit tires and kit rm pieces would be usable, but it'll be a bunch wider like the tires mine had were! https://store.rc4wd.com/rc4wd-bfgoodrich-all-terrain-k02-07-scale-tires.html

I always thought that those little vans were neat!

I have two questions related to my 1/20 Lindberg ZJ project, one of the wheels and the other is the decals for the badging. The wheel is probably a bigger issue since the kit wheels look nothing like the wheels my ZJ had. The first pic is what mine had on it while the second is the wheel design that came with both the glue and snap kits (as well as the XJ Cherokee I used to own, oddly enough). I’m thinking that I may be able to use my Cricut machine to cut out the shapes out of sheet styrene and stack them to make that design turn either make all 4 that way or make 1 and cast it in Alumilite to get the 4 I would need. The other problem is badging, the Limited’s had their Jeep, Grand Cherokee, and 4x4 badges gold plated instead of chromed and since these kits were only sold the Limited, that’s the only type of decal that was in the kits. I’d there a way to use a program like the Testors decal maker to take a scan or pic of these decals then change them over to a more silver finish? The rest of the decals aren’t a problem as I intend to paint the strips in the bumpers and side molding black vs gold and only really need the instrument cluster decal for the interior out of the rest of those. IIRC, mine also has a red and white or silver pin stripes running just below the upper character line instead of the two parallel gold stripes, but I may be able to use gel pens for those. Any suggestions on the above would be appreciated!

Ok, finished off the interior, all in Testors semigloss black enamel. I may take some Valero semigloss varnish to use on the areas that would be grey plastics to give them a little gloss, but that will be for another day. I’m very grateful to have access to images on the internet for these since I have no idea where the pictures I took of mine went over the last 24 years……..

Got the chassis plate painted today Going to hit the gym for a little while then may take care if the interior pieces that are correct straight out of the boxes after that and dinner.

Thanks and I kinda am too. The red original kit is staying as I built it +/-25 years ago, the 3 new issues will each have their own character and color scheme. I’m thinking that the one that will end up with the wheels from the ‘41 Plymouth kit will also end up finished more like a proper Fury, but in some form of Black vs Buckskin Beige. Still haven’t figured out what to do for the other two though.

I’m just now trying it, but I picked up a UV Nail Lamp n clearance from Hobby Lobby last year and trying it out on the Christine licensed AMT ‘58 Fury. It may take a while to fully cure the Bondic UV Resin I’m using on the quarters for the body mods I have planned.

I appreciate it, but I at least have all the important parts and would just need to know if somebody makes the directional wheels, meatier tires, and the graphics that are for the Laredo models instead of the Limited.

Going to add the Christine kit I’ve started digging into as well, going to smooth the sides and tops of the fenders as well as blend the chrome at the top of the fins into those too. Not sure what to do for the engine, I’d like to find a way to swap a Gen III 5.7l Hemi and matching transmission into it, if there are any available.

Here’s a couple better pictures before I take it apart to correct my mistakes.

Looks like our club’s 2023 Christmas party build projects are to be “Cars You Have Owned” and I have a problem that Dad does not. Dad has owned a ‘70 Charger 440 Six Pack, 4-Speed, Super Track Pack as well as a long bed ‘76 Dodge Truck, which we have starting points for and and just need a few resin conversion parts and some kit bashing for him to build and if we wanted to drop the money on a JoHan ‘62 Plymouth Fury Hardtop kit, we could even do that too. Myself, on the other hand, of the 5 vehicles I’ve owned if the last 27 years, only one has been kitted, the early ZJ Grand Cherokee, by both Lindberg in 1/20 and Tamiya in 1/24. I have both the glue and snap Lindberg kits and someplace, not sure where, I have a Tamiya one too. I bought both Lindberg kits in the 90’s and I think I bought the Tamiya in the early 00’s and was able to find the partially started Lindberg kits with parts missing and/or damaged parts in both, but enough for 1 whole truck! We’re supposed to start with new kits, but there aren’t many out there and I will need to do some paint stripping before getting started as well be kit bashing the glue kit’s far better interior into the snapper’s body and chassis. To Start, I don’t know where the pictures I took of mine went to, but other than the bug shield and smaller tires on the same style wheels, this one looks more or less like mine. Besides missing parts that the glue and snap kits shares, I also found these tire burns from when I was going to use the red one to make a 1/20 scale R/C ZJ similar to mine. but to show just the difference in the interior tubs, these seats are completely different and the side panels are different as well as having the handles for the transmission, transfer case, and hand brake molded separately from the console. The seats in those kits are for a Limited vs the Laredo like I had and are almost completely different, so this will be the most difficult part of the build, trying to make the kit seats that are made to look like the Limited’s leather seats vs the Laredo’s cloth seats. I will need to strip the primer off the body and the small pieces that I had painted two decades prior. Luckily the body will be the easy part once stripped since it’s just the same basic Chrysler black that Dad’s afore mentioned ‘76 Dodge truck as well and the ‘85 Lebaron GTS I also once had and the ‘12 Chrysler 200 I currently own have all been painted with textured matte grey plastic rockers that any matte grey paint should replicate nicely……I just need to get rid of that primer first. The only real problems that can’t be easily fixed will be the rolling stock and graphics, since mine had different color stripes and lettering, beside being a Laredo vs Limted and mine 245/70R15 Wranglers on it when I bought it instead of the 215/75R15’s they had from the factory as well as the directional 5 spoke wheels from that first exterior pic I posted instead of the kit supplied mesh style wheels l, which were the same ones my XJ had, only these had the insets of the spokes painted gunmetal on the XJ vs hold like the ZJ versions were. If anybody knows what might be available for this kit for fix the rolling stock and graphics, I’m all ears!

Got my 3 Street Fury’s ready for primer once the weather improves as well as have started digging into a Christine kit I bought some years back to make into a custom. Got all of the trim sanded off the passenger side by hand, think I’m going to just use my Dremel on the driver’s side when I get that started. And here’s the 3 chassis waiting to get their bodies back and the original build from the late 90’s looking over them with the Concords that are also waiting on weather for primer.

I have an iPhone 11 Pro Max 256GB and my Dad just replaced his 6 with a 14 Pro Max 256GB, both have phenomenal cameras and I have used mine to take pictures of my models and R/C stuff as well as video of the R/Cs over the last 2 years and have no complaints. Dad loves how his pictures turn out, He's mostly used it while babysitting my niece (his grand daughter), but also took those pics that I posted about a month ago of the Kitten that decided to see what he was up to over in the Cat thread. One thing I did with mine and then he followed suit on is to not get one from a cell carrier store. I got mine through Best Buy and he went through one of the Apple Stores, the advantage of that is that you can get one set up for your cell service provider (Verizon, in our case), but also not have all of the bloatware that comes with a phone purchased through one of their stores or websites, There some features I had on the Galaxies that proceeded my phone that were never used by me (I had Sprint with my S2, then switched to Verizon for my S5), but couldn't be removed without rooting or jailbreaking the phone, just blocked, and with these, we don't even have such programs on the phones.

yup, those or the 20” Sensi, they both just seem to fit the EV heritage of the car better to me.

Holes are filled, waiting at the cement to cure so I can start sanding them smooth.

Went and grabbed the latest Street Fury from the van tonight, stuck the Chrysler Atlantic style wheels and Goodyear Eagle GS-C tires from the ‘41 Plymouth kit I was hammering through last week. Gotta admit, I dig how these look on this too! I’m going to try and get the blower holes filled tonight too.

Got some of the Pegasus 23” T’s over the weekend to try on a second current issue of the kit, plus found my 25 year old, out of the box build of an early issue Street Fury! Oh, and I gave a 3rd current issue sitting in Dad’s Caravan right now that I picked up from the raffle at the club meeting/Christmas party Saturday!

The Axials are listed as 1/24, though they are closer to 1/20, so the Lindberg/AMT/MPC 1/20 trucks and vans are a much closer fit than the 1/24-1/25 kits from everyone else unless you want to build a truggy or trail rig. This past spring I built one of the Deadbolts with a 3D Printed truggy kit that included a Suzuki Samurai/Jimny styled hood and grill.

The Lexus V8s from the LS400 sedans seem to be a popular swap choice now and sound pretty good too!

Yup, very true!

Seeing as we’re doing Orphans this year for the club project, that would have been the perfect kit for tonight!