dodgefever

Thanks for your comments. I was thinking pearl white for the tonneau & interior too! The colour is Peugeot Blaze Yellow from a rattle can.

I'm saying model; it may be a red herring but I can't see any lug nuts on the wheels.

I think this is the first time I've posted a build here, so be gentle! This is a rebuild of an old unfinished project. It started out full fendered, with the cab channelled and the bed slightly shortened. Then I dumped the fenders, and there it sat for about 12 years. I replaced the Olds with a Pontiac, made a new firewall, and shortened the bed a bit more. Then I chopped the grille shell & sprayed the first colour coats. This is where I'm up to now: It'll have whitewalls and maybe chrome reverse wheels rather than mags, but you get the idea. Excuse the clutter, I'll sort out a neutral background for the final photos.

I just thought of another: Revell's '34 Ford Coupe, which is horribly squished up to fit the Buttera T chassis. What a let down.

How about Hasegawas '66 Cadillac, T-bird & Wildcat kits from the '80s? I had the Wildcat and while the body was nice, that was about all it had going for it. They were expensive kits, but had no engines, wildly inaccurate interiors, no wheel or hubcap detail, crappy rubber tyres with plastic whitewalls which didn't fit...

Since I haven't posted much yet, this will serve as an introduction. My Dad built a few kits with me when I was 6 or 7 (so this would be '76-'77), but the first I built myself was a Matchbox Gloster Gladiator biplane. I remember that was the first one where I was allowed to use the Stanley knife to trim parts! I had a couple of 1/32 Mongram Snap Tite kits after that, but the first 1/25 I built was AMT's '50 Ford convertible. From then on, it's just been cars for me, with the odd truck when I was in my teens.

The Competition Resins PG looks like it's copied from the one in AMT's Old Pro '71 Nova.