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I'd love to see your Volvo and trailer

Nice work on this conversion! I've just started a similar project, looking at making the chassis look more local but it doesn't have to be totally correct for me, not much of the skeleton is visible with a container on it. Thanks for the tips!

Wow, a great start to another ambitious project! Love the brass leaf springs and the wheel details, looks like you’ll need a lot of hex heads for those! And here I thought the trailer build was awesome, never realizing you couldn’t leave it without a proper tow vehicle…

My changes to the dash: heater controls changed to freestanding knobs, radio delete cover plate and simpler instrument cluster. Knobs and trim could be done better, trying to move it along though also added trim to the edges of the headliner by scribing a groove to glue 0.020” rod into

In my WIP utility build I mention some of the 1968 details that show up in the 1967 kit, weird

F100 utility truck http://topclassiccarsforsale.com/ford/584597-rare-sears-roebuck-short-bed-utility-truck.html

Wow, great reference material and photos! Thanks for the weathering examples, got some work ahead of me!

Nicely done, looks very realistic! On Tuesday at our Zoom club meeting I was told to weather the heck out of my Moebius service truck and you just showed me how, LOL! Not sure I have the heart for it, though, my paintwork came out pretty nice for once, it figures! Again, really nice work!

Thanks, Mark! I find spray cans are fine for most work, though an airbrush comes in handy for tight corners sometimes, and then I decant some paint by spraying into a paper funnel directed into an old Testors bottle and do the tight spots with the airbrush. Didn't need that this time, the spray went right into the inside corners of the box just fine! Was this really old WalMart paint I was using, sure looks like it

Now working on decals for the instrument cluster, hood front and fender sides, with a couple options to try out, as well as my AMT Louisville build while I'm at it (Screen shot from MSWord)

My outdoors 'spray booth'

Splashed some paint on my pickup, though I had to re-do the rear of the box due to some grit in the paint, the wire I was using to suspend the part had some dried paint on it. Came out okay in the end... . Note that I tried to make the dash more like a true stripped '67 by re-doing the heater controls, instrument cluster and adding a blank radio plate. Wanted to simplify the door panels too, but too hard to replicate the scribing so I'll stick with the later deluxe door panel

Nice work! It's very rewarding when you save one of these glue bombs, and it looks like you're having a lot of fun with it to boot!

Looks even better in white! Can really see the neat joinery and the openness of the platform, as well as the overall quality. Very impressive work!

That’s shaping up real fine! Looks like the fit and proportions are bang on, great job so far and keep up the good work!

Ever try etching with vinegar, did it not help give the surface some tooth? That was a thing with brass model railroad engines back in the day. Been disappointed with self-etching primer myself when used on Hubley diecast kits

Wow, that’s a whole lotta brasswork! I think you’re crossing over to the Meccano side of modeling, or more correctly model engineering! Looks like very precise fit of the many parts, such neat soldering and everything works too, pretty fine work!

Thanks, but you want the Hasegawa kit, not this one! Check eBay, there are good deals sometime

Very nice! Great colour choices, highlighted by just enough chrome to add sparkle, took a bit of work with BMF I suspect, neatly done too!

Nice work! Clever how you did the stripes. Amazing how we waited almost 50 years for a kit in this scale!

Interior is pretty much just a flat plate with a driver's head and steering wheel, needed room for an electric motor and batteries!

No interior except for dash and front seats either! How I remember the Civic when it first came out

Thanks for the pictures! Currently working on the Moebius kit of the same

Looks great, a perfect fit! Glad I checked out your post and the responses, it’s amazing the creative kitbashes you guys have done, creative and perfectly matched, looking like factory builds!

Got the hood hinged today, this simple hinge seems to work okay, bent so a bit of drag on the underhood ridges make it stray open by itself, though I need to add some trim or something to make it look more realistic, maybe glue some plastic shapes onto the wire to hide it