Mike C.

Sorry if these are too big. I still have to figure how to reduce the size.

I gotta say, this Paint comes out really nice. Also seems to cure in no time. I forgot to mention, I got the ground hawgs to line up the correct way (they were directional) but using wheels from that other '84 Gmc pickup kit (I think it's monogram). I actually got a buck that first year. 15 years old. Using my Dad's hand me down Winchester 30. 30 like the one on the rack. 😄

I felt the rear fender was a little strange looking so I shortened it a d added some styrene stock I had laying around. It's also strange that there are no breaks at all. Many people built them without front breaks back then, but there is a foot pedal but no disk or drum to that I could find. Also what's up with the missing throttle cable? I guess I'll have to make one from old phone wire.

There were many things I liked and many things I didn't like about this one. Loved the skinny rear tire. (Npt a fan of thr Beach ball rear tires) a Panhead would have been nice but the Shovelhead was the next best thing. The handlebars are perfect and the retro geometry is great. Air cleaner was a compete dud so I gave it a velocity stack. Big fan of those. This thing didn't have any foot pegs so I drilled out the frame and put the highway pegs where the forward controls should be.

I painted this thing in an orange but it just didn't look right so I decided on Testors Extreme Laquer. Root beer brown metallic. When I was a teen My Dad my Uncle and my cousins would all pile into my dad's 1971 Chevy Caryall [suburban) and would head upstate north of Penn State to go buck hunting. I though it was the coolest thing. That Chevy was that same metallic brown. So it's kind if a tribute. I could never convince my Dad to lift it and put on the massive Ground Hawgs.

My finished model.

Tom Danels Grim Reaper Chopper

Hi evreryone. newbe here. Mike C. from Norristown PA . I'm 56 I've building mostly 1/24 and 1/25 kits since I was a kid. I took a 3rd place trophy in a model contest back in the 70s at a (now gone) hobby shop called Herbs Hobbies in Doyelstown PA. My entry was a '72 Boondocker Blazer with raised suspention and those bigger Formula Desert Dog Tires. I had been kit bashing before I even knew it was a thing . Looking back, It was a little rough. I think they just appreacated the creativeity of the thing. I think it might have been my first attempt at spraypainting . It was Chocolate brown metallic and I even put in some real shag carpeting my aunt had given me (it was white, it was the 70s). Not sure what ever became of that trophy. Some of the models I can remember Were that big T model T hotrod with the Daisy mags on the rear, That Big Chevy stepside pickup, a dukes of Hazzard '69 Charger that I made into a Dirty Mary Crazy Larry clone and all kinds of kits that family would buy for birthdays and Christmas. A few years ago, I started to build some of these kits again. I spent many years collecting and modifing 1/18 scale diecast cars. After I figure out how to post pics, I'll post some in he appropreate sections. I have recently completed my version of the Revell Big Game country GMC, and I'm almost finished with the Tom Danels Grim Reaper chopper. Stay tuned..............