Smoke Wagon

I’ve still got my fingers crossed for a certain decommissioned Mount Prospect police cruiser.

I remember seeing a few videos of Teslas catching fire and becoming engulfed in flames due to faults in battery packs. Not a problem I would expect from a major established manufacturer. Although it is VW Group we’re talking about, Diesel-gate and all that...

Has anybody put a 1/43 car next to a 1/25 car to compare relative size? I don’t have the kit on hand yet, but I got the idea to turn an AMT 1/43 ‘48 Ford into a 1/25 scale pedal car.

Nothing beats a motorhome for roadtrippin’! Getting hungry? Pull over and make whatever you want. Getting tired? Pull over and nap in an actual bed. Wanna bring home a souvenir or two? There’s plenty of space for it. If that doesn’t count then I’d pick either a 50-51 Ford Crestliner or convertible, or go Rain Man style with a ‘49 Buick Roadmaster convertible.

Can’t post the good ones on here.

Congratulations sir. Only a few more decades for me

Super Clean works great for me. Comes in a purple container.

“The boat doesn’t have a leak, the water is just rising around it and somehow appearing within the hull.”

I’d like to see one too, I’d make an OSP car in the older blue/yellow livery:

You’re right, I just checked, and Dodge did make slight updates to the real thing. This car’s so long in the tooth that I thought R/Ts still came like this: In sure they’ll do a Hellcat or Hellcat Redeye release within a year or two after the initial kit release.

Did not expect to see a modern Charger in plastic. I wonder if it will include the SXT and base R/T front fascia as well.

Great kitbashing here. Nice color choice, and I dig the side mounted spare.

I’ll have to check it out. And nah, don’t say that. Every model is great as long as the builder had fun.

Thank you. That means a lot coming from an owner of the real deal. Did you post a thread of your various 1:25 late model T’s? I think I may have seen it before.

Thank you guys. Thank you sir. It doesn’t take much to bring out the detail in these T kits, AMT did a fine job with them. A word of advice, I think it’s best to mount the headlight buckets prior to paint. They’re a little finicky.

Thank you gentlemen.

Looking good.

Don’t forget to paint over the air filter, brake discs, and headlight lenses too, to bring out that real performance.

I think you did a great job on the foil. Beautiful build.

The ‘53 Ford F100 kit still comes with the metal clamp for the hood. I didn’t try to bother squeezing that thing on when I built the kit. I’m 100% fine with just lifting the hood off to see the engine.

I think it’s a funny idea. Coke bottle paint and graphics on a car with coke-bottle styling. Nothing wrong with a practical joke here and there.

Weird to think that this is a 25+ year old truck...

The AMT ‘50 Chevy 3100 pickup could be released as a 1950 Suburban if a handful of parts and a new body is rolled up. Same could be said for the ‘55/‘57 Cameo tooling, 55/57 Suburban. The ‘68 El Camino tooling could be modified into a ‘68 Chevelle sedan or station wagon.

Got the trailer subassemblies built, more parts in paint. Fourth time having to paint that hood, I might have to search the house for a voodoo doll of me with a tiny bottle of Super Clean.

That’s not a bad way to go. I could also use the pinstripe decals from the ‘53 F100 kit I did a little bit ago: There’s a lot of choices and ways to go when it comes to these big rig kits. It seems that whenever I have this one on the bench, half the time is used actually building, and the other half is spent staring at it pondering on which way to go with it.