Oliver77

Great solution to a fiddly part of this otherwise dead simple airbrush. I've just been putting up with the allen wrench all these years.

The wood in the bed looks great too!

Love the color combo. This is the better looking cousin of the AquaMochine! (search this forum)

Wow! Beautiful work!

Looking closer, it is an old truck, kept clean. Excellent!

Slick trick on that magnetic hinge! Cool aged truck showing off fresh tires!

Closer view. The bumpers and wheels are SnJ aluminum polishing powder over gloss black. Mirrors are Molotow Liquid Chrome. Hinges are Bare Metal foil.

This is the helicopter view.

I'm happy with the way this turned out. Assembly was made tedious by the 'pesky runner removal process.' Inexperienced modelers may have difficulty with cleanup of sprue attachment runners and getting parts to even fit together. Regards, Jeff Oliver

With the way the spindles mount, it looked like I could make the steering poseable. I cut the steering link from the axle, drilled the ends and made some pins to fix the ends. Then I assembled the link to the spindles. Turning radius 40 acres! LOL Regards, Jeff Oliver

I started with Hawk airplane kits and Bachmann Birds! Man I wish Atlantis could get those tools. Then the 63 Corvette came out and I just had to have one. It was built and rebuilt, added felt upholstery, brush paint, woodburning pen to melt-weld plastic (those fumes omg) and conversion to slot car body. I have a bunch of parts from early kits, ( those that escaped firecrackers!) Regards, Jeff Oliver

Thanks for looking! Regards, Jeff Oliver

Motor is wired and weathered kit flathead.

This is a cool old kit. Built a few, all fun.

Real chain on the tailgate. Scratchbuilt cart for the tanks. Dupli-Color spray paint from the (old) can.

In-progress photos and descriptions in the WIP forum.

The wire came from some old telephone wire. Thanks for looking! Regards, Jeff Oliver

More precision fixturing.

I have always been intrigued by the tanks in this kit, but what, I’m just going to pitch them in the bed? I found an image online of a tank cart, and decided to scratch one from some .010 styrene, a bit of copper wire, and some spare wheels off a model airplane.

High tech precision assembly fixture.

Starting to come together. I had some minor frame warp, corrected with hot water and twist. I was unsure of the front axle position and had to rework when I test fit the body.

I had some Dupli-Color Light Blue M spray. Turned out a little crazy in places, plenty of sanding and careful re-spray. I’m going to say it resulted in a pleasant ‘patina’!

This is the 1985 Made in USA release of this classic kit, molded in light blue. I have had it sitting around for a while. 1985 minus 1953 equals 32 years. 2024 minus 1985 equals 39 years. And I was born in 1953. But I digress.

This is such a cool kit. The fine parts that can be so vexing to assemble make for a jewel of a car!