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PERFECT!!!

One of my favorite kits. Nice rust, how do you do yours?

WPDH in New York plays it every year too, I love it.

Amazing job! Is it 1/24 1/25 scale? Diecast or resin?

My father gave me this cool old decanter.

I helped a friend put a roof on his camp a couple weeks ago. Yesterday I helped finish up the porch roof & clean up. He knows I wont take any money from him so he tossed this bottle in the tool box of my truck. I told him he had to come over to help drink it some weekend. Having a drink with a good friend is more important to me than a few dollars.

Nice truck! Great conversion!?

Great weathering and I love the diorama too.

Thanks guys, I have something else I could use your help with. I hate doing interiors so I usually just go black with little details. Any suggestions on color for the floor, seats, dash, well I guess the whole interior? I don't want to go crazy with it but more than just black blah. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Welcome aboard Todd! Lots of great stuff & people here, have fun!

Looks good to me.

This is my favorite Torino, 1970. Your paint looks great to me, I'm definitely following this one. Back in 1989 I had a 1970 Fairlane 500 which was basically a Torino with different chrome. It was white with a black vinyl top, 351w with a 3 speed on the floor. One of the fastest cars I've owned, you had to slip the clutch to get it going, it was high geared but you could get almost 100mph out of 2nd. Thanks for the memories!!!

Oh, I see what you mean, DUH on my part. I didn't think you meant anything bad by it, I just had a bit of a brain fart. It's been one of those weeks. Seriously though, I really do need to clean up my bench so it doesn't look like such a mess. Or find a cleaner place to take pictures.?

I finished the tailgate up & added the bumperettes. Still need to paint the bumper and do a little more weathering. If we get a 1/2 way good day again I'll get the interior painted. It was 65 degrees yesterday and when I woke up this morning we had an inch of snow. Tis the season!

Thanks Steve, I added some bumperettes to it. We'll see if it looks right after some weathering. Ya, I got a little carried away with the rust in the bed.?

Good looking little hot rod. I like what you've done so far, keep up the great work.

Well, the decals are on and the wrecker boom is in the parts box. I hacked off the running board brackets because they looked funny with the truck being so low, plus I'm getting lazy and didn't want to build them.? I narrowed the Foose bumper and after I weather it a little that will be done. Now that it will be a regular pickup I had to make a tailgate. I hacked up the resin one and made a simple one to fit, nothing fancy. The letters on the resin one aren't right for the truck but I cut them out and put them on it anyway. Little by little it's getting there, thanks again to everyone for all the interest and comments!

Thanks Jeff, now I just have to figure out what to put in the bed for "rust proofing" stuff.?

Good luck with that!?

Happy Birthday Carl!

Thanks Jerry, I'm going with the decals. I hear you Francis, rust on my 1:1s sucks & there is plenty of it here in N.Y. Thank you for the compliments, it's crazy to me that you and all the other amazing builders here think anything I build is impressive. Thanks Carl, it's getting there. Thanks Bob, I cut down the Foose bumper & it looks pretty good. I was looking for gas station decals & saw those Rusty's ones & figured it would be funny on one of my rusty junkers.

WOW! everything looks great. Keep it up, I can't wait to see it finished.

I haven't had much bench time lately, been busy with getting ready for winter and for the last 2 days I helped my friend strip the roof on his lake house and reshingle it. This afternoon is cleanup day, YAAAAAA!? Thanks for the advice on the bumper everyone. The more I look at the bumper the more I think you guys are right, it's just too big for this truck. I do think it needs something so I'll revisit that later. I did manage to ruin more on the paint job and started building a wrecker boom. I'm not positive I'll be using the wrecker boom or not but I'll build it anyway because I can always put it in something else. If I don't put the boom in I'll be using these decals for the doors.

I really like all your scratch built parts. It's all coming together nicely, great work.

Thanks guys, I did a little more weathering on the front and every time I look at it, it seemed like it was missing something. I found this old 56 Chevy bumper and it fit the curve of the truck pretty good. I tweaked it here and there and painted it white. I still have to weather it but I think I like it. I'm not sure if it's going on the truck or not, I'd like some opinions from you guys. What do you think, with it or without it?