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So far the doors have been on and off the thing about 30 times and the hinges are still holding up well. It is pretty much just a variation of the folded brass and pin hinges only in styrene for the folded part. I have the 77 Cruisin' van kit that I started years ago as a beat up old 76 I owned in the early 90s but haven't found just the right material to do the fake fur walls so it sits in a box. It had been a pretty nice conversion when it was new but was pretty worn out when I bought it.

Your English is far better than my Swedish I am sure! I have the AMT Crusin Van that I will be eventually doing up as the 76 I owned in the mid eighties. The height on the chassis looks right on to me.

If you are going for a '70s van look then don't lower the whole thing. The rear should be up and the front down or bot even but rather high by today's standards. More like this:

And first gloss coat.

In primer

I wouldn't get a single thing finished!

Although I understand why it is done I am not a fan of "clones" or "tributes" of special versions of cars. This is especially bad when the cars are represented as the real thing. I once had a chance to buy a '69 GTO Judge for a rather high but still reasonable price. I drove for 3 hours and it only took 5 minutes to determine it was a LeMans with only a couple of GTO parts and badges poorly tacked on it. I read a few years back that there are now more Chevelle SS's on the road than they originally made!

Perfect. Absolutely perfect!

8 track player with 5 band equalizer and appropriate era home cabinet speakers ready to blow doors back off!

Reworked door hinges. Work great and hinges are very close to scale size. The will need some tweaking for size and shape once I get all the layers of paint on but that will be relatively easy.

From what I have seen of pictures the Jada one is pretty heavily modified and the First Gear one bone stock. I am now 100% sure that the Flintstone resin is a reworked First Gear.

Well after a brief intermission it is back to work on this. Nice pair of late 60s/early 70s, cheap, made in Japan (when made in Japan still meant cheap) resonated side pipes and the whole three scale feet of exhaust pipe that hooks directly to the headers. No mufflers were harmed in the manufacturing of the exhaust system on the real thing nor model.

I went looking for one for my first car in ‘75 but all I found were junk by then. Ended up with the 64 Impala SS convertible instead. Still all red though.

Oh great now I have to buy that kit, paint it and strip it to match your pictures so that I can model your model. It could become model inception!

I have shown it to three people and all agree it is me. The truck plate is in the right number range for the base I was on, the era is bang on and when I first started driving one of my main tasks was taking Army Cadets to training bases on weekends (the senior guys didn't work weekends) and this came from an Army Cadet "remember that" website. All the evidence says it is me. Funny to find and all because I was looking for a picture of a truck for a model car forum.

A dark wash on the bed floor and top of running boards, rechrome the windows, an overspray of Dull Coat and bingo done. I wouldn't even replace the door handles. Like you said that is just me though.

I replaced all the valves in the 235 in this: With parts from one of these that I scrounged from the repair depot: Now this is weird. That is a random picture I pulled off the internet but there is a very high probability that the dude standing behind the truck in combats is actually ME!

I would just paint the new wheel wheels in red primer, redo the windshield chrome and call it a day. You know how hard some people work to get that beautiful patina!?

Unfortunately no matter how much I play with the lighting the red does not come out right on the screen. You can sort of tell the difference by the contrast between the interior which is a true red and the body which is almost an orange.

Based upon this article I know exactly what the figure is going to be up to! https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/wwii-ground-crewmans-son-unearths-a-valuable-historic-artifact/ "It seems likely that the crew assigned to dismantling and disposing of the Mustang must have cut out parts of the fuselage and took them home as souvenirs."

The forgotten labourers while the movie stars get all the attention.

Not really a restoration. This is the recent(ish) release of the AMT kit that used the old promo molds. It is also the same kit found in the new (again ish) combo.

LOL I was really just kidding. Even making just a spinning blade is well above my pay grade.

OK I swore I was going to keep this one out of box but I MUST dig up a mirror for it! I lost sleep thinking about that blank drivers door.

Time to up the ante and get a spinning belt and alternator!