Doug 1061

Woo hoo!!!! Been hoping for one of these for years. Actually I'll be good for 2 of them. I built one back in the 70s and remember it going together very nice. That's one I wish I hadn't blown apart with fireworks.......

That looks great. It gets easier after 4 or 5 times. Do a 50s car and after that it wont seem so bad. Sometimes I get it good the first try and other times I gotta do it over a few times. Eventually you'll wonder how you ever got by without it.

Would like to see a good 73-79 Ford Truck kit. Preferably a factory Hi Boy version. Also a modern day big rig of some sort.. A garbage packer would be nice also.

That's a great looking bunch. Really like that logger. Like others, I wish Round2 would scare up the tooling for that CO4070.

I know the feeling. Once you tear into it you're in deep. It's like, what did I do? That is a huge improvement and will be well worth the effort when finished. Looks like you're off to a good start here, gonna have to follow this build.

I finally made a bit of progress on this. Got the cross members in the subframe and fabbed up the landing gear. Of all the pics I found of these, no two were the same as far as the landing gear setup went, so I guess any way you make it is accurate. I'm thinking a lot of these got busted up on the job and got rebuilt in the field however the fabricator saw fit. That's my story and I'm stickin' with it....... So now "all" I have to do is suspension/ brakes and tailgate assembly and should be able to send it over to paint. Should be a bit more straightforward from here, as always comments and suggestions welcome.

I built this about 1.5 yrs ago. Box stock except for decals from Model truckin and headlight buckets that were in a Pete 352 kit. Never did like the square headlights.

Beautiful work there.

Sorry, my mistake. Mostly it was that multi piece body that I found tedious as could be. Don't care to do another one. Never could get the top to work. I think part of it was when I corrected the body to get rid of the cutouts behind the trunk lid. That made it look better but after I could not get the linkage for the top right. It didn't help that the guy I was building it for started asking if it was done yet, causing me to rush it a bit more towards the end. I did end up getting it back, but then I dropped it. I need to spend some time on it one of these days.

Lee, there was the usual sloppy fit of some of the parts. Biggest thing for me was the cab and hood sat too high. To remedy this I cut through the rear cab mount with a razor saw so the cab would sit down on the frame rails, dropped it roughly 1/8 in.. That required having to cut the front cab mounts down to match. Then had to rework the hood hinges to match. It kinda snowballs from there a bit since I had to grind a bit of the frame out where the radiator mounts and whittle some off the bottom of the radiator and sand some off the top of it to clear the hood. Also have to alter the exhaust since the stacks are now a bit lower, and I believe the steering linkage. Can't remember on the battery box, think it was OK. Biggest pain was the hood hinges/radiator fitment. Pretty much whatever I had to do to make it work. Also the small vertical part of the air intake tube in front of the intake turbo.. It was a good bit of extra work but I feel it was worth it in the end. Hope this helps.

You had a good year. Nice collection.

Nice wheelbarrow..... That came out very nice. Good color choice, like the dirtied up look of the top of the seat and door panels. Had to do a double take on the wheels, good idea having different wheels on each side. Are those resin tires or did you cut them flat to keep it from driving itself off the shelf?

To say this kit sucks is a bit of a stretch. I picked up this W925 at a swap meet at my LHS. It's an original from the early 70s. That tool was pretty sloppy even back then. I had to walk away from it several times, I like to keep 2 or 3 builds going at a time so if one gets frustrating I can work on something else. Build a Revell '59 Ford Skyliner then nothing will seem difficult. The only reason that one didn't get kicked under the rear tire of my truck and peeled out on was cause it belonged to a late friend and I was building it for him. That W925 comes up nice with a bit of patience and perseverance and a set of Moebius big rig tires. I am happy with how mine came out.

looks like you can stop searching for that perfect paint job. Beautiful foil work also. Superb job all around.

Very nice work. That Pennzoil car must really pop out in the sunlight.

That's a nice collection. Looks like you never lost your touch. I really like that 57 Ford and that Merc. I took a twenty some year hiatus from building back in the late 70s. Got away from it when kits were getting up to $4.50 USD in the late 70s and figured they were getting entirely too expensive. I had a couple kits I started back in the early 80s and put them aside. 20 years later I had a place with a spare room and started tinkering with those two kits and I was hooked again. After I stumbled across this site my builds started looking much better. I have learned a lot from everyone here. The internet truly is the best tool for building models.

That cleaned up nice. Looks good.

I know. My lady friend has a 94 XJ with 260,000 mi. Its in great shape. I would be good for a few of these if they ever kit these up. That, and my favorite Jeep, the full size Cherokee. Don't recall ever seeing one of these in styrene.

This is the best build of this kit I have seen so far. I have one of these in the pile, have to find something suitable for cable housings. I remember when these bikes came out in the late 60s. I wanted the white Cotton Picker, but couldn't swing the $110 price tag. There was an Orange Krate at a local bike shop a month or so ago, minus the front fender, they wanted $3500 for it. Crazy.

Super nice work on all these. I really like the Notso Special, just something about it.

These all look great. Your sister should be tickled with that beetle. I have always had a soft spot for air cooled VWs. My pick for favorite would have to be that Impala.

Very nice.

These are all top notch, but I like the T bird the best. Always a good feeling when you can get a black paint job to come out smooth. Plus with it lowered makes it look sinister.

That turned out nice. These Revell snap kits are nice, adding the round headlights is a nice touch.

It's that time. I managed to complete 10 models this year. Not likely that I'll get any more finished by years end. I know it's not all cars but thought it would be easiest to put it all together. Did a Revell 1:12 Shelby GT500, 1:12 Tamiya Honda 125 Monkey, Revell 70 Charger RT, Revell 70 Mustang Mach1, Revell 77 Firebird, Vendo pop machine from AMT Tip Top Shop kit, Moebius 65 Ford long bed aka The Italian truck, Great Dane extendable flat bed trailer. AMT 519 Kenworth W925, and a 1:72 Airfix P51D.