Andria H

taurus, torino & Dekon Monza for me.

One of mine. Matchbox/M2 Machine bashup

That's Entex/Gakken/Bandai tooling. What are you looking for?

Latest work done.

Windy, rainy, chance of electrical storms/tornadoes.

Gene, there's also a '66 Cadillac. Not a bad build especially if you can scare up a Jo-Han dashboard for it to make the interior look better.

thanks!

I'm building this as a beaten-up old semi truck... this is a 27ft trailmobile dry van done up to go with this truck. Mudflaps will be covered or distressed, tires are 4 different mismatch units

Start on a 1/25 scale AMT mid-60s era Autocar-Diesel DC-9964 semitractor, backdated from the 1972 or so DC-9964B dump truck/road tractor 2-in-1 kit currently available and manufactured by Round2 Models from the classic superdetail kit tooling. Camel Trophy Yellow and satin black paint is aged and rusted lightly, black band around cab/hood is hand painted and aged, interior will be pretty basic with an open cubby for the glove compartment, rusty dash face and detailed gauges/switches, and seats will be ragged out to match what I already have of the interior. Vintage style cloisonné hood badges were made in MS Paint and printed/cut out, grille dechromed/detailed, and a parts bin CB head unit will go above the driver. Parts bin logging headache rack/running lights are on the cab back and will be aged to suit, engine will be an 8V71 Detroit Diesel in used condition with the transmission made to look like a recent swap in.

This is a combo of Monogram '55 F100, '78 K5 Pulldozer, and GMC Big Game Country parts, with parts bin additions and an AMT Y-block Ford V8/Revell winch & tool/ice chest/AMT center console. All this stuff went together great with a little bit of massaging, and the paint is vintage Rustoleum metallic from the Y2K era and went on great/dried nicely. Green instruments are drawn with gel pens.

thanks Stuart!

thank you!

Finished 1/25 scale AMT '68 Chevy El Camino. I converted this kit to a 307/TH350 powered, Burnished Brown with saddle top/interior and SoftRay tinted glass, bench seat interior, non-SS example with full stainless steel hubcaps and whitewall Firestone Supreme tires. There was no clearance for the air filter on the carburetor, so I glued the hood shut reluctantly to make a promo-style or curbside build.

I started with a horrible gluebomb mess in a taped up box sold to me cheap by a friend. Whereas most stock builds of this are automatics, this one is a 3 on the tree instead of the kit supplied pushbutton automatic transmission, with a 273 V8 engine, aged/distressed Marlin Blue paint with simulated body damage, wood front bumper, ferric oxide corrosion all over with the deepest in the passenger's wheel arch and lower door, in the cab floor, & in both rocker panels. Grille was absent from the partially built gluebomb and pile of parts I purchased for a great price, so was replaced with cross stitching mesh made to look like chain link poultry fencing, Monogram all-terrain tires and parts bin seats/steering wheel/column round out the build. Weathering done with artist's oil paints, talcum powder, ground chalk pastels, and Tamiya & homemade washes, body damage was done by steel wooling the bare plastic and heating both doors/the tailgate with a bick lighter, then using the blunt ends of hand tools to distort them & flash cooling them in my freezer. I finished it off with New Brunswick license plates to fit with the rusty, greasy, creaky look/feel of the build and can call it finished now.

thank you, Alan. Yeah I could have had the "Black Cat" edition from 1977 or a Kent 1.6 crossflow powered '72 Mk1 from a friend's private junkyard when I was a teen. No parts in the US before the internet lead me to buy a family member's Chevy Van.