kingiguana

Thanks for the comments guys. The wheels and tires are only for mock up / pics. It will find its way on to a slot car chassis after my friend pics it up this evening. I have a few other kits here I'm doing for him in a rusty crusty barn find look. I haven't done a shiney one in quite sometime. He likes them crusty since the track glue gets on them anyway, so he would just end up spending all his time cleaning and polishing them.

Thank You gentlemen.

Very sweet build, and great color choice.

And yet another one done up rusty but trusty. My friend Jeff will drop this on a slot car chassis. I added a masking tape vinyl landau top. Lots of powders, and dull coat.

After chatting with a friend I had not seen in a long time on Facebook, I found he had some kits lying around he didn't want. So I went over there today. Well, a $123.00 dollars later I came home with this. And a tote, full of parts. bodies, pieces, and misc stuff. Now its a matter of what I want to keep, and sorting the parts.

Thank You gentlemen.

Thanks guys.

Awesome, but watch stepping out of that thing in the morning, its a long way down.

Excellent all the way around. Nice scratchbuilding.

Nice, gotta favor the Ranger a tad, cause I had a 1/1 version a few years back.

OK, another one for my slot drag friend. He loves the beaters, so heres another one. I made a tonnot cover for this one, since the bed will be hogged out. the wheels and tires are only for mock up and pics.

Casey, Ok, I got it part way, but I tried to link more pics. I tried to link all six from the album on Photobucket, it said it linked all 6 but I only see one on the post. Its under the pickups and vans under glass section. 65 chevy weathered pickup. Is there an easy way to share more than one pic, without going back and forth between Photobucket and this forum ?

Revell's 65 Chevy Pickup done for a friend as a weathered beater to be used for slot car drag racing. I did two beds as requested so he can switch between them. I use the salt technique and weathering powders. I added a rag in place of the gas cap, and added caddy taillights to the stepside bed. The bumpers were just in the bed because he will have to figure how they will attached later. Sadly I weathered both bed floors, and he will end up hogging them out to fit the chassis and motor. So he will end up putting a bed cover on in that case.

Forget pixresizer, its trying to download a bunch of add ons. I don't need that stuff.

Thanks, but still, why photobucket linking wont work is a mystery.

I have been trying for over an hour now. And can not get pics to post, share, link or nothing. They are too large to upload directly it seems. I up loaded them to Photobucket, and tried to link them. Nothing !! It keeps locking up after I paste the link in the box. Ive tried using the image and the lnk icons, nothing !! it freezes up everytime. I haven't posted in a while, so maybe things have changed ??

I see that Opel as a gasser too !!!!

A woodless woody.

Yea, its a silly movie, but a classic. One of those flicks every car guy loves, and quotes lines from, Not like the car movies today with a bunch of ricers.

Looks like Mr. Trucker got himself a lot lizard, she's in the sleeper ready and willing it appears.

I don't get all the issues with inaccuracies. With all this computer drawing we should have kits that are a 100% accurate. They should be exact scale versions of the 1/1 subject. I just don't get fender openings that are off, body lines that are off, missing this, missing that, 7 pin distributors, 5 cap batteries, and the like. I still buy a lot of these kits, and will either live with the issues, or fix them. But its bad we should have to fix anything at all. I don't mind removing a small amount of flash, or mold lines. I got the new Cuda, and was surprised at the quality of the chrome, and the amount of flash on a new kit in 2013 ?? Revell is doing some great subjects, but let's have a tad more accuracy, and quality control.

As for the headlights, I painted up a barn find 53/43 sedan for a friend as a slot car body. I used baremetal and made some headlight bezels. And with the taillights I painted them red and white and used some silver as the trim that separates the taillight from the back up lights. Since its was done as a rust bucket I guess it didn't matter since it wasn't going to be sitting on a shelf or a contest table.

Yes, frenched lights don't fit a gasser. But the headlights should still have reflectors. You can see the front tires through them. Also, as with most of Revell's older kits, the box art always exceeded the contents of said box. They were always full of flash and mold lines even years ago. And with age it gets worse and worse with every re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-issue. I have a 56 chevy (the old one with opening doors ) that a friend wanted me to paint the body for a slot car. the thing has so much flash, if it were a real car the flash would be fins anywhere from 4 inches to 12 inches or more wide/thick. I told him use it as a demo derby car and go get the newer 56 Delray kit. Plus that 56 is so warped its beyond acceptable. Its one of the Hot Rod series cars. I wonder how many people bought these things and gave up on the hobby after trying to build one of these ?

The headlights on those 53/54 chevies have clear headlight lenses, but no buckets. They all come with inner door panels and hinges and retainers. A modeler is expected to scribe the doors open. Back in the day I believe some of the kits came with the doors as separate items. I believe I had a couple of the cars and one had the doors molded shut, and the other had them opened. Also the tail lights in these things also have no bezels or real detail.

I wonder if mine are just missing from my kit ? Skinny whitewalls and a couple drag slicks are all I got.