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I had picked up a bag of Cowboy parts for this exact reason, but couldn't decide if I liked it better with out without it. Fortunately, because of the way it slots into the front bumper, I can just kind of pop it into place and it'll stay there without having to glue it. Yeah, if you're going to sell one of the three Killer Bee would be the one ? I really wanted to like the kit more, but it was just so rough. Not sure I'd want to tackle it again, though I'm happy enough with the end result.

Finally, Pink Poison (originally "Mr. Deadwrench," but the unfortunate timing of this kit's release and Dale Earnhardt's passing meant Revell did a quick rename). This was the best of the three, so the only modifications I made were swapping out the wheels and replacing the cast-in lenses on the middle driving lights with proper buckets and stone guards. I also redrew the markings, as the kit had the whole white side panel made as a single waterslide. Since Killer Bee covered the desert and Alley Rat had the city, I decided to make Pink Poison the mountain goat and covered it completely with mud. Vallejo Mud and Grass, paint, pastels, and several other weathering effects were applied in multiple layers, and crushed tea leaves were used for the tree litter in the back of the truck. For Pink Poison's driver, I used one of Master Box's "The Last Bridge" post-apocalypse figures. She was modified to have a backpack instead of a baby, then painted to look like a proper woods hermit.

Thank you! Yup, I'm just slow at typing...the last one is going up now.

Alley Rat was second. The chrome was as bad as anything in Killer Bee, but the rest of it wasn't too bad so most of it was assembled box stock and detailed with wiring and plumbing. The biggest changes I made were to the armor: the kit supplied these as decals, which was bad enough...but the window decals had metal flower bullet holes in middle of the glass, and there were plates for the rear fenders but not the doors. None of this made sense, so I made my own plates from sheet styrene and new window covers from fine mesh and plastic strip. I also added a couple of plates to the chassis to protect the engine, transmission, and differential. The new body plates meant I couldn't use the kit-supplied door decals, so I made new name tags for the doors and (while I was at it) the tailgate. I also didn't like the wheels that came with it, so I swapped them out for a set of semi truck wheels with vintage-appropriate run flats. Since Alley Rat was written as a city vehicle, I figured beefy off-road tires wouldn't be as critical anyway. My last modification was loading up the back: a larger fuel tank, cargo crates, tools and toolboxes, chain, and the Honda Trail 70 bike from AMT's Bigfoot kit. Once I got it all painted and detailed I didn't want to dirty it up to match the truck, so headcanon says that it was a recent find by the team who drives Alley Rat. For Alley Rat's drivers, I chose DEF Models' "Modern Female Mechanic Crew: Jennifer" and Brick Works' "Maschinen Krieger - Female Mechanic (A)." Both were wearing coveralls befitting anyone scrounging through a post-apocalyptic city, and Jennifer had long gloves that were painted to look like chemical-resistant nitrile gloves. Yes, she still has her travel mug...but I know at least one person who wouldn't leave their coffee behind for something as trivial as the End of the World.

I finally finished all three of these kits after having them in my stash since the days of Kay Bee Outlet stores and their wall 'o models. I liked Revell trying out their own unique IP, and treated them as if they were any other TV/movie-based kits that were "close enough" for selling but needed some extra attention (think AMT's Beverly Hills Cop Nova). Killer Bee was the first one I started working on, since the kit was in a very sorry state. Terrible flash, malformed parts, two-piece vinyl tires, the works. Its writeup said that it was a dune buggy built for desert terrain, but the low ride height and grooved tires were all wrong for that. Since part quality meant I was going to have to scratch build a new suspension anyway, I moved it closer to the description: tall ride, wide paddle rear tires, skinny front tires, etc. I also stripped out anything unnecessary to save weight, leaving the interior with a single seat and gutted dash. Decals were from the kit, over faded yellow and black to represent a sun-damaged finish. The lights were all replaced with parts box or 3D printed items, and the engine was wired, plumbed, and upgraded with proper 3D printed Weber carbs. As I was working on it, I decided I wanted to add a figure. Nuts Planet had one listed as "Belford" with a decent post-apocalyptic look and cybernetic left arm. This lined up perfectly (literally and figuratively) with the bullet holes in the door, so she became the driver. A sniper perch and quick-release steering wheel was added to the Bee's interior, and the figure was modified to have a canteen instead of the kit-supplied tool bag. Since she was smart enough build herself a new arm, I decided she was a former MIT student and gave her the appropriate T-shirt.

Nicely done!

I missed this the first time around, glad it got bumped. Nicely done!

Same here on the first group of pics not showing. That's my build third from the bottom, I used a modified Obi-Wan Kenobi head for the hood and scratch built whistle for it if that helps your search!

Very nice, I like your take on it!

Very cool, nice work on this!

Awesome job on this!

Excellent work on these!

Nicely done, I still like the C4

Thanks!

Thanks! Awesome, thanks for the link! Somehow many of these threads get lost in the shuffle of the forum, so it's nice to be reminded of them. Really like your interior mods, though I also appreciate the warning about masking the body.

I've been weighing a few options, at the moment I'm leaning towards the application of some decals with fresnel lines to both knock off some of the brightness and add the correct texture.

Nicely done!

Thanks guys! I'd never actually built the PL version, after doing this though I really want to take a swing at it! Pretty much everything here is straight out of the box, the only thing I added was the tire lettering. To compare the two, the dashboard of the new Aoshima kit by itself has more individual parts than the entire interior and back deck of the Polar Lights kit. It's wild how much they included in this!

Wow, awesome job on this!

Looks great, nice work!

Very nice!

Thank you!

Very cool, nice work!

That turned out great, awesome job on it!

Thanks, everyone! The Part I kit just had a second run and Part II is due out in December, so you should have some options! The shape of the body is definitely better - it's subtle, but the angles look more "correct" - especially the side slopes. Along with the Part II (and likely more) release, Aoshima is also dropping a version of the kit as a stock DeLorean at the end of this month.