Raul_Perez

Can you post some engine and chassis pics?? I'm starting to build my Willys pickup and I'm not sure yet which engine and chassis I want to put under it.

Can you post some pics of the chassis? I can't decide if I want to use the chassis and engine from the Willys pickup kit or if I want to use the chassis and engine from one of the newer Revell Willys dragster kits...

The weathering on the tops of the fenders and doors looks great!! Not overdone, which is easy to do when dealing with a small scale model. Keep up the good work!!

Very nice looking model!!! The color is GREAT!! Is there an engine or is this a curbside?

It looks like a really clean and well detailed build!! I can see why it was "Best of Show". I really like it when a well built model without $100 worth of photo-etched goodies wins BoS!! Keep up the good work and the posts!!

Nice build and good details on a great subject!! Keep up the good work and the posts!!

Brendan, I also followed the build. GREAT WORK!! The finished pics look great!! I'm sure that your customer will be really pleased with the model. Builds like that are hard to part with. Keep up the good work and the posts!!

Mike, You got it right, it's the roof. I really struggled with this one to get the look of a cohesive design. After I installed the front end clip from the '50 Ford kit the rear of the car was out of balance so I installed the 57 Ford quarter panels. That's when it was really apparent that the roof no longer looked right. Opening up the side windows to make it a hardtop helped, but then I had to reshape the rear window. At that point it was either live with it or find a new roof, which I really didn't want to do. I didn't use the entire Mustang tub for the interior. I grafted the dashboard from the Mustang onto the stock one. That way you maintain the fit with the windshield. Then I fit and added the center console. From there I made door panel inserts that matched up with the sides of the dash. Lastly I cut out the stock rear seat and replaced it with the seat from the Mustang. I really like yours better. You can still see that it's a 49 Ford coupe. I built a 50 Ford convertible that's styled much like yours. It has the engine and drive train from the Revell 32 Ford coupe with just the seats from the 97 Mustang. I left the original dash and door panels in place. Did you see the pics I posted "On the Workbench" of my 49 Merc? I also has the 97 Mustang interior and SVT engine installed.

VERY NICE!!! All of the little machined parts are excellent!! I wish that I had the equipment to make those kind of parts for some of my models!! Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing.

Tony, I'm glad that you liked it. I'm actually on the fence with respect to the styling. My stuff is typically more subtle than this. I'm still not sold on the proportions of the design. The fins help add length to the back of the car to offset the look of the long front-end, but I think that the roof is still too bubble shaped with respect to the rest of the design. Oh well, I can always sell it on eBay when I get tired of looking at it...

Jeff, Those all look great!! Do you machine your own aluminum parts? Where did you get the carbs that are on the car in your first post? They look great!! Thanks for sharing. The model mags don't have enough room to show this many pictures of the really good models from the shows.

Thanks for the compliments, Randy. Yes, it's hard to go wrong mixing Vette components with older Chevy cars and trucks. The danger is always in going overboard with the modifications. For me, I like keeping the changes subtle. When done right, a little can go a long way towards portraying an image. In the case of this truck, the scallop does it all. I really struggled finding the right year Vette scallop to fit the truck. I didn't want the front wheel opening to be too far different from the stock one and I didn't want to reshape the rear opening. It probably would have looked like ######, (and would be a good example of too much), if I would have added a rear scallop to the Cameo bed... The wing was added towards the end of the build. It really needed something back there to compliment the Cameo bed and help balance the overall height of the truck because I didn't chop the top. At the same time I didn't want to add a tall "Daytona" style wing to a truck that's based on a Vette theme. It also makes the recessed cover easy to open... Yes, to me the SSR certainly looks like it was designed in segments by different people, each with different objectives and styles. While I like most of the front-end and cab design, I think that the bed looks like an afterthought. Anyway, what’s the Pug’s name? Ours is Otis (yes, from the movie).

Nice build!! I almost bought the kit last week, but I just have too many newer, nicer kits to make me want to spend the time it takes to make these old (MPC in this case?) kits look like something that I want to keep. Keep up the good work!!

Nicely done!! I really like to old A/FX and funnycars!! It took some serious brass to drive those things!! Keep up the good work!!

Kenny, That looks nice and clean. Sometimes simple is better!! Keep up the good work!!

Looks good!! I wish I had just a small part of the $$ that Revell is getting from this kit. Even more, I hope that this inspires them to build more new kits that the builders want!! Keep up the good work!!

Those are too cool!! I really like them both!! If those are your "glue bombs" then I'm in trouble at the local model contests if you ever show up with the good stuff!!

Thanks for the compliments, Johnathan, and thanks for the compliments of my friend Jerry Cardinal's work. His brass models are amazing. It took me a while to convince him to post his stuff, but now that he has I think that you'll see a lot more of it, thanks to the comments people like have posted for him.

Ismael, I'm glad that you like the model and thanks for the correction!! I went out to the garage and checked the box, and yes, it was an AMT '62 Vette. Yes, the dash was from a '94 ZR-1.

This is the '57 Chevy pickup that I built in a Corvette theme for the '07 Santa Clara NNL. This shot shows the side scallops from the AMT '62 Vette. I'm getting too old to remember where the front roll pan came from, but I think it was from an early '50s Vette. I added the foglights because I thought the roll pan looked too tall without them. I also added the gas door to the bed. This picture shows how the Cameo bed was narrowed slightly to fit tighter to the cab. This shot pretty clearly shows the Vette side scallops. Because of the color and lighting, this is often a difficult feature to see in the pics. This shot shows where the rear bumperettes were replaced by the exhaust pipes. You can also see the "1957 Z06" license plate. From here you can see the dash that came from a '94 ZR-1 Vette. A little narrowing and a small shoe-horn helps it fit right in... The instrument panel is a photo reduced image that I copied from a 1:1 dash that I found on eBay. You can also see the front tire through the opened side scallop. Here's another shot of the dash... Not much special in the engine compartment other than a 7.0 (427CID!!) small block Z06 Vette engine... The rear wing, bed cover and the tailgate were made from Plastruc. The lid supports are aluminum tubing and straight pins. Here's where I spent all of the money and a lot of time. I needed 2 of the '06 Z06 chassis' to stretch and widen the stock Vette chassis to fit under the slightly longer and wider truck body. If I remember, I added about 1/2 inch in length by splicing the two chassis' together. It was widened with Palstruc strips. Having the extra kit also provided the much needed longer exhaust and drive shaft parts. I hope that you enjoy this one as much as I did building it.

John, I'm glad that you liked the build. The tires are resin. They came in the kit. I'm pretty sure that he sells just the tires. If you're into drag racing then you need to check out his stuff at: http://www.scalemodelingbychris.com/page_two.htm

Here's my 49 Ford coupe that I customized and converted to a hardtop. The front end and hood are custom parts from the AMT '50 Ford convertible kit. The rear quarter panel fins are from an AMT '57 Ford. The interior is from a '97 Mustang Cobra. Here you can see where the front and rear wheel openings where cut to match the look of a '57 Ford. Here you can see the reshaped rear window. It needed to be enlarged to fit the look of the hardtop conversion. Here's a decent shot of the Mustang dash panel. The engine and most of the components under the hood are from the AMT '97 Mustang SVT Cobra. The master brake cylinder is from the Revell '32 Ford 3 window coupe. The exhaust system is from the '97 Mustang. The rear axle and ladder bars are from the Revell '32 Ford 3 window coupe.

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Thanks for the tip, Chris!! I'll keep an eye out for the kit on eBay and at the swap meets!!

I also posted this on the Drag Racing Models forum, but a friend of mine said that I should have posted it here... While I'm not very big on building resin kits, I must admit that the resin from Scale Modeling by Chris is excellent stuff. No cleanup or pinholes to deal with and the warpage was pretty minimal. In the kit, the resin body and interior pan were made from altered versions of the AMT 55 Nomad parts. The chassis, suspension, engine and drivetrain kit parts are resin casts from the recent Model King release of the old AMT Chevy II Rat Packer kit. Since the chassis floor pan was much smaller in length and width than the Nomad body, I had to spend a bit of time building filler panels to make the model suit my needs. I also added support rods from the firewall down to the front of the chassis that helped stiffen up the front end. I added the machined Moon tank, parachute pack and cabling, machined tachometer, hood pin kit, machined blower pulleys and blower belt. I didn't like the way the front suspension sat with the kit parts, so I built a new axle and leaf spring assembly from brass stock. All of the decals were from the kit. They were easy to apply, very thin with great color and registration. One coat of clear and a light color sanding covered the edges of the decals completely. I used an opaque white marker for the "A/FX" markings on the side windows and the time stamp in the windshield. It looks pretty good sitting next to my Daddy Warbucks A/FX Falcon...