Joe Handley

Ok, the tub is more fleshed out, made the driveshaft hump and taped that in folate for now, also started making my own door cards and will blend them into the tub sides once I get those closer to done.

This looks pretty good David! One thing I'm curious about thought, what's your thoughts on this kit vs the AMT kit?

Thanks Ray!

I agree, I need to do something for the Johan '56 Plymouth and '59 Rambler Wagon I've got ready for primer, may need to do this to those since there's no interior in them!

Thanks Trevor and you're right, it is a lot of plastic, but these are a lot of car in any scale too. I never had a frame of reference on how big they were until I saw a HotWheels 1/43 Ecto-1 diecast sitting next to one of their 1/43 A-Team Vans from their TV and Movie Car line some years back. When I was growing up, we had 2 CHevrolet G20 Beauville window vans that were the Chevy passenger version of the GMC van that was used for B.A. Barackas' van, with the 1st being bought when I was 2y/o in '78 then that one being traded in on a nearly identical '87 that year and was eventually scrapped in '06. Having those vans as a size reference, I was surprised to see that the 1/43 Ecto-1 was almost an inch longer than the 1/43 A-Team Van and about as tall once all the roof mounted equipment was taken into acct as well! From what I've been able to find in the last few days, these hearse/ambulance combination vehicles were 7000lbs+, I think the G-Vans we had were each maybe 5000lbs or less!

My condolences as well Joe, that is not an easy way to lose a parent, went through some of that 2 years ago with my Mom, though she was already not fully with it by the time the EMS crew arrived.

What's going on with that 40's era pickup?! Is that part '48 Ford and part '50 F1?!

Thanks Luke!

Thank You David, I've been plugging away at as much as possible from the time I grabbed the kit out of one of my stashes here at home last week and have been trying to maintain momentum on it since I've been knows to kind let projects fall off the map, either via a something new and shiny to work on, or winter weather making it difficult to do the paint work outside......like everything else I've posted in the last few weeks...... That said, with it being winter here in Chicago, there's not much to do outside either other than clearing snow and trying not to freeze

Got more work done on the interior tub, the floors are bonded to the remaining parts of the tub and the new side panels, added the wheelhouse covers in the cargo area, and have the back seat fit to where it just snaps in without tape, for the time being too. I’m debating on how I want to make the driveshaft tunnel, thinking about a couple sheets of .080” cut to fit that hole in the floor to clear the chassis then stacked, bonded, and smoothed into a hump before being attached to the floor. Had to modify the Eldo door panels by grinding them to clear the back seat, though I’m wondering if just scratch building those panels too might be better at this point……any suggestions there would be welcome too!

I’m a bit further along on the interior, the floor pieces are assembled and there are some .060” tub sides, I’m still needing to enclose the rear tires behind the back seat and make some sort of driveshaft tunnel between the back seats. Quick Edit, Guess I forgot to add the pics last night

Met up with my Sister, BiL and Niece for the 1st time since Dad caught Covid today. Noelle decided to get get on Dad’s scooter after we had some food but before going to shop.

A few more pics, modified the door panels from the hardtop to fit the back of the car, still need to mount the side panels and the surrounds in what is now the cargo area.

Been spending the evening working on the interior. Still have a lot of styrene to cut and fit, but here’s how it looks right now the the Revell Eldo kit’s seats back in the body compartment, with and without the body on the interior and chassis.

My friend in Michigan (Linus’ Human?) just sent me this in a Text for anybody interested! https://www.metv.com/stories/rip-howard-hesseman-dr-johnny-fever-of-wkrp-in-cincinnati

My friend's stray Linus does that if there's a chance food is present, they had a snow day a couple days ago and he sent me a pic of Linus trying to get to the microwave omelet he was trying to fix for himself

Thanks Luke, it's inspired by this beauty right here, called the Thundertaker. The far back seat is the part I'm trying to figure out , so I'm happy to have this as a reference photo!

Gotta be careful on that last one, Depending on what's under the hood, some even older lady in a V6 Camry could dust it off on the way to Bingo!

Here’s something I’ve been thinking about since 2017 and finally decided to get going on it! I’m taking one of Round 2’s reissues of the AMT/ERTL Ecto-1a kit and making a long roofed limo out of it, mixing interior and a few chrome parts from this kit and a Revell ‘59 Eldorado Hardtop kit with a crunched roof. Already smoothed the roof, adapted the tires and caps from the Revell kit and started hopping up the ambulance kit tub to start adapting the floor and seats from the Eldo kit for the back.

I was pretty lucky to begin with at this job, my office is less than 4miles away and the last 2 retail jobs I had were 6-15 miles, depending on the locations, and there was no work from home options there!

To be honest, my lunch break today around 1:15pm CST was the first time I've left the house since getting home with dinner for Dad and myself since Monday night sometime after 6pm. I work from home, so not having to leave the house to work in these conditions is a nice perk!

Drug out some old Johan repops I bought from Oakey Spaulding a few years back at the DuPage show and worked on them when it comes to getting things ready for primer, all are dropped over Pegasus wheels and narrow whites ’56 Plymouth Belvedere 4dr on the Sovereign-Ts ’59 Rambler Wagon on Chrome Reverse Wheels Chrysler Turbine Car, also dropped over Sovereign-Ts

Just imagine if they used an old Audi for this, then it would be an Innie!

Nope, it was easier to cut the GT chassis plate down then hog out the wheel openings and add flares for the GT's rolling stock.

Agreed, I'm very familiar with that kit and this is a ton of cutting for what he did!