Smoke Wagon

The box art on the VW made me laugh. A giant corporation like Coca Cola being painted up with historically anti-establishment hippie artwork. A bit of irony in that one.

I like the light blue pinstripe on your pickup Ray. Ford offered a pinstripe from the factory for the Lariat trim level on these trucks that goes in about the same spot.

Good question. I wish they would’ve released a 4x4 version of their Silverado tooling as well.

Same cab as the F-150 SuperCrew, but with Navigator doors, front clip, interior, and a different bed. The bed on the Blackwood used the Navigator’s taillights and rear bumper, as well as having a barn door tailgate and composite bedsides patterned to look like wood, with aluminum inlaid trim.

True Blue is a very nice color Ray. It’s similar to Patriot Blue Pearl, what my ‘03 dodge is clad in:

Here in southern Oregon, online shopping is usually your best bet for getting kits. However, there are Hobby Lobbys in Medford and Springfield, and a great LHS, Eugene Toy and Hobby in downtown Eugene. When traveling north on I-5 I usually try and stop in there.

Background: Ford started producing a crew cab half-ton pickup for the 2001 model year based on the PN-96 platform. As an efficient way to cut down on development and production costs, the new cabs were designed to work with the doors from the Expedition. Interestingly enough, it had the same wheelbase as a ‘97-‘04 SuperCab/6’6” bed pickup. A new 5’6” bed was designed to work exclusively with the crew cab, it was unavailable with any other cab configuration. The new bed reused the taillights and the tailgate from the Flareside bed. This resulted in the tailgate being a few inches narrower than the open space in the pickup box. As much as 10th gen F-150s get ragged on for looking like jellybeans, I have taken a liking to them. I’ll admit my bias here: my mom used to own a ‘99 XLT SuperCab, 6.5’ bed, 4x4, in two tone metallic tan and black. The Expedition doors bring out a less swoopy look in the crew cab pickup IMO, and it makes the vehicle overall look a bit more contemporary. Side note, as any brave soul attempted to kitbash Revell’s Expedition and the Harley Davidson F-150 to make this?: Doubtful, but if Revell ever decides to breathe new life into their F-150 tooling, a SuperCrew would be a great way to go. That would give a builder the chance of kitbashing it with Revell’s other F-150 kits to make ‘99-‘04 regular and SuperCab pickups as well.

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Your work never ceases to amaze me Anton. As for the exhausts, have you considered cutting a hole behind each front wheel well and having the exhausts dump out through those? Sort of like this:

Great color choice

I dig it Mario. It reminds me of a rig I saw in a 60’s interstate highway construction documentary.

I think you’re correct in that case, I doubt that Chevelle was stock under the hood. But I’ve seen older folks pull up to a grocery store in say, a Ford Escape and do that. And I can guarantee that little Ecoboost wasn’t carbureted or blown.

Wow. Real bed chains, great weathering, great paintwork, great scratch building, great kit bashing, great everything about this build! Well done. This is the best scale IH pickup I’ve ever seen.

A few older folks do that. I’m not too sure why though. Maybe he has bigger problems on his mind than preventing his car from being joyrider bait. Not sure what could be more important though, lol.

AMT has proven they’re able to develop a highly detailed kit and release multiple variations (like Moebius does), case and point their newer Camaro tooling. Not to mention, Round2 did hint that they have a couple of current subjects in the works back in September.

It’s gonna have a real nice stance to it. That rake is just enough to give it some attitude.

Eventually, yes. But not for a while. Many new commercial vehicles still come with sealed beam headlamps. There’s also the option of LED lights that come in the same size as sealed beams, but IMO I think they’re tacky and out of place on an older vehicle anyway.

They’re common enough that it’d be surprising not to find any at a parts store, or large box store like Wally World. Keep in mind though that rectangular sealed beam headlamps come in two sizes, the larger 5” by 7”, and the smaller 4” by 6”. For instance, your ‘85 Caddy has 4 4”x6” headlights.

Looking good so far. Did your kit have a weird notch in a cab corner like my copy does?

My ‘80 F-150 Ranger project (351M V8, C6, 4x4: My ‘94 F-150 XLT (302 V8, E40D, 4x4): Replaced the radius arm bushings on my ‘94 this weekend. Was not fun. Due for a 2” lift and bigger tires soon.

Nothing quite like cruising down to any parts store anywhere and being able to pick up new sealed beam headlamps for my ‘80 Ford for under 25 bucks.

Not only that, but with lots of optional parts too. For instance, 2.3 I4, 2.7 V6, fender flares and different bumpers and suspension lift and bigger wheels/tires (for Sasquatch package), wheel options (like base steelies), and different grilles to make different trim levels.

I’d rather be a child at heart than a ornery old fart.

Year of birth? Say if a kit doesn’t show the year of the subject, but the subject could pass for a certain model year, would that be fine? Example: Revell’s Ford F-150 SVT Lightning was just reissued. It could pass for an ‘01 Lightning, but was last reissued as a ‘99. The current issue doesn’t specify the model year:

This one was so dumb that it made me laugh. What are they even advertising here?