spencer1984

One more vote for Master Box, they have a great balance of price and quality. The plastic they use makes it relatively easy to modify their figures if needed, it's not brittle and doesn't require special glues like some others.

Thanks, excellent work on this all around!

It looks like you opened and added the horrizontal split to the grille? If so, would you be able to post a photo from the front with the cab open? Just curious how that looks from the outside.

Slick looking Caddy, nice work!

Great looking pair, nice work!

Very cool!

Thanks, guys! Yes, that's the one! I had picked up a few of them as parts kits back when they were going on clearance, they've got a lot of great generic "large American" parts. Much appreciated, thank you!

You'd never know it was that rough to start with, you did a great job with it!

Very clean work, that looks great!

Cool, I like it!

You're not kidding about those grilles, I never did get the kit parts to work on mine. Nice job getting everything together, it looks great!

Very cool, nice to see one of these in scale!

Thanks!

Thank you! I thought it would be fun to make this as "real" as possible, applying the worst ideas and practices from the era that I could think of ?

Great looking build, nicely done!

Great looking scene, nice job!

Awesome work! Everything fits together and flows so nicely that it feels like it was always intended to look like this.

Thanks, guys! It was indeed a lot of work, but since it was all the fiddly stuff I enjoy doing it wasn't near as bad as it would have been to be doing body work! Excellent, I love it! That would be awesome.

Good looking Chevy, nice work!

Awesome piece, nice work on it!

Yes, Model Car Garage has scripts for all the early Corvettes. Their 1963-65 set is at https://www.modelcargarage.com/eshop/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=205&idcategory=0, and their 1966/67 set is at https://www.modelcargarage.com/eshop/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=206&idcategory=0

I've been wanting to add this to my TV/movie car collection for years, and thanks to Robert Burns at Too Many Projects I didn't have to radically modify a body to get it (just everything else, but more on that in a moment). Available in standard white and high resolution brown, his body comes with the main shell, bumpers, nose, roof rack, wheels, hood ornament, window blanks, and lights. The quality is good, with nice sharp edges and minimal striation (an inevitable result of the 3D printing process). Fit is generally good, though like a Moebius kit paint can throw off some tolerences. The only actual problems I ran into were the lights: the front marker lights were a tad too big for their openings, and the taillights were too short to completely cover the reverse light sockets. Both were easily fixable with some custom work. Speaking of which, everything else. The chassis and engine were modified from Polar Lights' old 1960s Comic Book Batmobile kit, which had the exact "similar to, legally distict from" vibe that I wanted. Wheelbase was shortened, floor was narrowed, and suspension was reconfigured to fit the wagon body. The interior panels are all made from styrene, with modified seats from Harts Parts Resin and a reconfigured dashboard from Revell's Cadillac Lowrider kit. Paint was TS-52 Candy Lime Green with my own custom decals for the wood panels and license plates. A full writeup of everything that went into it is available here, and as always any comments/criticisms are welcome! In the movie, it wore the "Lou Glutz Motors" ad plates all the way from Illinois to California. That didn't sit right with me, so I went for the early movie version while it was still on the lot, before it collected the graffiti, damage, and detritus of the Griswold's trip. As far as I know, the interior was a stock LTD wagon. I wanted to try to make "Wagon Queen" its own marque, so the details were inspired by several big American cars of the era but I tried to not copy anything 100%. The donut spare was made from a scrap wheel and the smallest tire in my parts box, mounted to be in the most inconvenient place I could think of. One of the more ridiculous details from the movie was the fuel flap as part of the hood, à la DeLorean, but without the mid/rear engine. So I used the frame notches from half of the Batmobile's dual exhaust system to run a fuel fill line from the engine bay to the tank under the rear floor. The engine was painted lilac with gold heads to represent Wagon Queen's mainline engine I've dubbed the "Princess Power V8." No A/C, since that would have been reasonable for a car travelling through Arizona during the summer, but everything else is wired and plumbed. Finally, a shot of the Truckster with its new friend (played here by Magnum's Ferrari).

Nice clean work, it looks great!

Had one of these many moons ago, nicely done!

Great job, nice work on the interior details!