Oldmopars

Recently I have been trying to get into spraying craft paints through an air brush. The main reason other than cost is that there is no smell. I normally do my painting outside in a shed, but right now we have 7 inches of snow on the ground. Temps have been single digits. For those of you that have paint booths inside the house, not in the basement, can you spray enamels, lacquer's, etc.? I assume the exhaust hose goes out the window. How is the smell? If your wife was sitting outside the room you are painting in, would she complain about the smell? How bad? How long does it last? I have no basement, single level home, my office hobby room is on the same level as the main living area. I am looking for a painting solution that will work all year long. My craft paint experiment is not the perfect solution, I'm just not there yet. Any suggestions would be great.

I enjoy hearing how everyone does it different. I have several pairs of nippers, Cheap HF one to nicer "Hobby" ones. I also use cheap files. I do a lot of scrach bulding and modifying. I have a rack of Evergreen by my hobby desk. I guess my only input would be, know how you use your stuff, how you like to build and buy what fits your style, not what works for someone else.

I like it, I like it a lot. i don't build many "Hot Rod" types of vehicles, but this could also be usefull for building roof racks, tube bumpers, truck ladder racks, etc. I always love new suggestions like this.

I don't drink wine, just not a fan, but I love using alternative items for models. I have a drawer full of different items I have scrounged and use. The foil tops from potato crisps tubes has a nice texure for the insulation used under semi trucks hoods, aluminum food trays are great for all knds of things, including simulating damage. Ribbon for seat belts, the list goes on. I think the straw may not be easy to use for a show truck bed, but may be perfect for an old worn beat up bed. While I love and support our aftermarket vendors, sometimes paying for an item, then the shipping for an item, plus the wait for that item get to be too much, if I can find a free readily available item to use, I will. Feel free to share more of these kinds of things.

I had not thought about it. I will look into it. If you have any links, post them here for me.

Very cool. I like it. I remember seeing the Stool Bus when I was looking for pictures. Yours came out great, good job on the decals. I built a shorter version a few years ago for the Cannonball run. I had to scratch make the "Tank" and all fittings. They are an interesting subject and very rarely built.

This year for the Cannonball Run we are doing Year of Birth. I wanted to do a Land Rover, but the Revell kit is a Series III and they did not make those untill 1972. So, I am making my SIII into a 1970 SIIA. The good news is that there is not a huge difference between the two. The biggest changes were the dash and the grill. SIIA for 1968-1971 had the headlights moved out to the "Wings" or fenders to comply with export requirements like to the USA. This stayed the same for the 1972 Series III. However the SIII did get a new plastic grill, the SIIA had a metal wire grill. The SIII also received a new dash. This moved the guage cluster from the cnter of the dash to ether the right or the left depending on drive side. It also was padded and a completely different dash than the SIIA. With these changes in mind I started with the grill. I carved back the kit grill area and cut it open. I then made a new bulkhead out of sheet and cut out the correct opening. I then glued that inplace over the old one. I found some aluminum windo screen at the hardware store to create the metal SIIA grill. The dash was more work. I had to create it from scratch. The kit dash is so different that t can't be used at all. I used mostly .250 strip and some thin sheet. An 1/8 rod for the steering column and the kit steering wheel. I still have more work to do here and details to be added, but it is getting close. I also added wiper motors to the windshield frame like the SIIA has. Last picture is an SIIA

I got some work done on this today. I had seen somewhere that the cabs on these delivery trucks were lower. A few pictures seems to confirm this, so I had to lower the cab down. This is not an easy job. I lowered it 1/4in. However this meant moving the body mount, lowering the engine, locating the power steering pump, chopping the front of the frame down, modifying the radiator and several other things. However, in the end I like the look and think it was worth the trouble. I am waiting on some frame parts to lenghten the frame. So, at this point there is no cross members in the rear half. I also did some 2d drawings in our companies CAD software to calculate the wheel base and get some plans for the Cola Cargo area. Slowly moving forward.

So, this year I will be building a Coca Cola Deivery truck, the kind with the side racks for all the bottles and cans. (not the short hauler kit). Here is the pile of parts I am starting with:

I'm in tooo ,will be doing a LN8000 Coke delivery truck from a snowplow kit. I will post up WIP shortly.

Cool, I prefer the old beat up look, junkers, etc. With so many factory polished muscle cars, I just pass them by, but this has my interest.

Cool, I am going to try that. That is kind of how they get the designs on Hot Wheels. They refer to them as Tampo's. Inked rubber stamps.

I have thought about this. I think for me, if I was retired, I could build models and sell them. I would not do it to make a profit, but sell the models for enough over the cost of the materials to allow me to keep the hobby going. It would never be profitable when factoring in my time spent, it would just allow me to keep restocking the stash and supplies. Being retired, the idea would to be to keep me busy and my brain active. It may also help fund bigger personal builds. I would look at the time spent as an activity like Golfing, something to enjoy doing. My body is getting more and more useless. I hope to be at 100% VA Disability before I retire. So, building real cars or sky diving is not happening. But, I agree with everyone else here, you could never make building models a full time job, with a profit that paid the bills. A self-sustaining pass time at best.

I know the AMT Jeep (Daisy Duke, Godzilla, etc.) all have a 4 cyl. The Revell CJ7 has a 304/360 looking V8. All of the military Jeeps will have the 4 cyl.

I remade the hood in brass, made a transfer case, new springs for the new driven axle. I added a brass door to the camper.

I found my new kit at an antique store, they are out there, but $300 when you do. Happy hunting.

PM me and we can talk privately. I will also send pictures of what I have.

If you are interested, I have evereything that you need. I had a complete R685ST that I stole the cab from, and used it on my DM800 frame. So, I have a DM600/800 Cab, interior, R685ST Frame, engine, etc. However, the hood is a R hood, the DM800 was "steel". I'm sure you can Ebay the hood. PM me if you are interested in it as I may be robbing an axle out of it, but if you want it, I won't.

The flat head comes with the 32 kit, at least the 3 in 1

I finally got the Shipping container kit in the mail. I spent the day cutting and modifing it to fit the truck. I have some new wheels on/tires on the way and will be making a driven Rockwell for the front. I used the hold down clamps used on the trailers to make a frame to hold the box to the truck. This allows me to get it set in place, and then pull it off to do the paint and detils. It also replicates how it would be held down in real life. More to come.

If you go with the Chevy truck idea, don’t forget to shave off the drip rails, 1973 was the only year that didn’t have them. I think someone makes a 73 grill. I say do it. It would be awesome.

May be easiest to just postthe link. No ROPS, but otherwise captures the idea. I had to use the F2674 as the 4070A had not been reisssued yet.

Now that is cool. I actually posted that very picture a couple of years back when I did the same thing. However I did mine with a 4270 IH. Same red fire theme. If you want I can send pictures of my build.

I built this one a few months back. Loads of custom work, several kits involved. I had to scratch build a lot, used parts from at least 4 donor kits and the main kit is the Lindberg Big Red Rod.

The Ford Triton V10 is just a 5.4L with 2 more cylinders. You could build one out of 2 5.4L engines. The new F150 kits should have one, maybe the lightning?