Andria H

thank you!

Great model of a not so great car!

Start on an antique mall find. Paint is Rustoleum Spa Blue Gloss (Dullcoted inside to simulate leather) with Krylon silver paint marker for the chrome and a very old bottle of Illinois Bronze craft paint for the carpet and vinyl top. Chassis was oversprayed in flat black, engine block will be GM Corporate Blue with cast iron finished transmission.

Looks great Gene, and thanks for the comments!

thanks all!

and only getting hotter.

Ford parts company in OR? You mean Westcott Fiberglass in Boring? Or Bob Drake in Grants Pass? Will need this kit but will probably paint/weather the plastic tires

I'll need the Fiero, the LUV, the J10, and all the GM square bodies.

thanks Carl!

agreed. Akitas look like wolves or feral dogs (like jackals, dholes or dingos more so than coyotes) and your bull terrier reminds me of the Bud Light beer ads with Spuds MacKenzie. Your terrier seems like they were a sweetie, Soraya is a big teddy bear but has quite the bark to her.

My '53 C800 Big Job "Super Crew". Jimmy Flintstone cab on most of an AMT F100, upgraded to a 2 1/2-ton truck using axles/springs from an LNT8000 and GMT400 Silverado dually rims.

thanks!

I found a spare frame with leaf springs already glued on and the pickup style gas tank excised, for an AMT or Lindberg '34 Ford truck kit. Naturally I had to assemble that with the parts I already had made, and added a rear counterweight, removed the brittle plastic headache rack, and put a fuel tank in the center of the chassis under the bed. A filler pipe will be fitted underneath the dump bed with a chromed plastic cap on the end. This gives me an extra '34 truck chassis and assorted other bits, that are all probably going to be used for a rusty doodlebug tractor build with a Weaver auto crane tow unit that would be used to move cars around a junkyard. Always nice to get 2 cars/trucks and a bunch of parts out of one kit.

I nicked this off the 'bay for a low price (helped that it was in my state) and am waiting for it to arrive. Since I can't just leave a kit alone and not mess with the thing, I fabricated/kitbashed a bunch of stuff to help convert this to a 2-ton with a low-walled dump bed and heavy duty rims/tires/axles. I'm also going to add beefier, longer/taller leaf springs. This is a Heller 1/35 GMC deuce and a half troop carrier bed that I trimmed the walls of down to what was a common style of dump bed in the 1930s and it is currently drying outside in matte deep grey Krylon paint with the crooked bumper taken off. The hardware and headache rack will be detailed when dry & I will be fabricating a framework and in-cab valve/handle for the dump bed. This will not be hinged/articulated for the sake of not overdoing things. Stouter axles and widowmaker split rim wheels with old-fashioned balloon cord tires. The tires were made to look lightly aged, and wheels will be painted to fit with the cab/fender colors, which will be light blue on a black frame with dark blue fenders/running boards. Some AMT and Revell flathead parts will go on the Lindberg block to comprise a proper 1934 truck block's appearance, and the parts-bin diecast rear axle will have scrap sprue put in the top recesses along with a top cover for the worm-gear differential & I will add bigger rear brake drums to look like a period correct "juice brake" conversion, as fitted up front. Stay tuned for more

As seen previously in the WIP subforum. This is a rescue of a thrift store find, started Revell kit (old Monogram tooling) that I grafted a Blazer tailgate and MPC Vic Hickey winch/brushguard on, added a less popular stock color scheme and mid-range interior/body trim, and made to look old, worn and used. I didn't like the Grant GT steering wheel in the kit in this application, so put what seems to be a tractor or wheat thresher steering wheel in its place. I also added a brake booster under the hood & detailed both batteries to look like it has a backup 12V cell along with a typical single starting battery.

thanks all! It's ready for under glass now

thanks everyone! Rusty 2-tone lime green/jade green paint over stained/frayed jade green interior with Bondo at the edges is pretty much final, with floor shift for the 4WDiinside, and I'm going to put a 4 on the floor and a CB in there before I button it up for good at the time I put a rear glass in it. Grille has been opened up with an X-acto and file and given some damaged bars/slats and detailed GMC logomark. The no-name Monogram tires are aged with more aging to come, the driver's side saddle tank was carefully excised with no damage to the spring perches or frame, and a 1977-81 era GMC tailgate was adapted from a wrecked Pulldozer model kit given that the kit was a thrifted find with no snowplow, no tailgate or glass, and crispy decals and a faded crispy box. (Pulldozer front glass was also used here) I have yet to install bumpers (1990s era Shelby County Kentucky plates are on front/rear and it will get a "Don't Tread On Me" rear window sticker and a cartoon face sticker next to it, from a Gofer decal sheet. And I also installed outer floorpans and a spare tire carriage from a wrecked Revell '64 Chevy stepside pickup, so it looks finished underneath. My next pickup truck build will be an AMT '82 Dodge Ram D50 in Nightwatch Blue with a 1977 Perris Valley cabover mini-pickup sized camper.

Current progress on my 1/25 scale kitbashed '89 Lincoln Continental MkVII LSC. Chassis is a heavily modified AMT '71 Ford Mustang Mach I item with Monogram Goodyear metric tires/mesh weave wheels. I will be using a Monogram SN95 Mustang bulkhead, Revell '32 Ford 5.0 engine/transmission and a bunch of Revell '90 Mercury Cougar items with Lincoln gauges/door cards/steering wheel/dash in medium matte grey. The padded "Florida Special" top on it will be painted grey to match the interior and will get gold doubloon medallion trims added to the C-pillars. Wheels are part of an ongoing trade with a buddy, I will get JJ's wheels out with extras ASAP. Paint on this is factory Twilight Blue Metallic after a trip through the purple tank and some remedial bodywork, and will get chrome Lincoln trim and stock Lincoln light lenses. Texas license plates will be fitted when finished.

Start on a weathered 2-tone Lime Green/Medium Lime over worn Jade Green vinyl interior, Revell 1/24 scale '77 GMC Sierra K10 shortwide 4x4. A 1980s era fuel injection system to improve the reliability of the OPEC era GM truck V8s is supplied in the kit, and will be used here with appropriate detail and aging/staining. The whole frame will be painted Krylon matte black and weathered with shocks made to look like 4 new items and installed separate, and the engine done up in weathered GM Corporate Blue with oil seepage as needed. I also took out the superfluous drivers side saddle tank while leaving the leaf spring mount & not affecting the frame. The kit was a thrifted find with no rear glass/tailgate and crunchy decals, so I did my own thing with it, used a Pulldozer body for the tailgate and will make my own rear glass from clear scrap plastic sheet.

86 degrees and chances of a thunderstorm at half past 9pm. My fluffy girl Soraya is wearing an improvised thunder shirt to keep calm, plus I am offering plenty of physical comfort

Bought this as a rebuilder from a friend, coated in dust and nicotine film. Some wiping with a Lysol wipe took care of the mess, I restored the chrome work and amazingly the original 30+ year old Bare Metal foil on the door handles & front/rear glass survived but the side window trim didn't, so I painted that. Interior was cleaned/repainted/detailed and reinstalled, engine bay with a period 289 V8 swap and wired dizzy ended up staying (battery was relocated to in the hatch...) and put on a set of billet wheels from an AMT/Ertl '57 Ford with parts bin Goodrich TA Radial tires. While I didn't carry out the whole build, I saved it from the brink of destruction along with a '94 Dodge Stealth promo model (thread to come) and added my own touches.

Nice. I'll have to try one. I actually love this era C3 but don't fit in any Vette easily.

the build took like an afternoon. The weathering took a week

Thanks Gene!

Can't wait. I have decals and a paint code in mind to make me a '79 Golden Eagle J10 and cut windows into the shell.