Andria H

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.

thank you Carl!

Excited for the '60 wagon. I'll add my own straight six or 283 and a tar top battery. Might even make one into a proper '60 2dr wagon, likely in base model trim with steelies at that

'68 El Camino '66 Dodge A100 '55 Ford F100 NAPCO 4x4 restomod

thanks all!

semi- gonna be ordering this semi-unpainted build of the AMT/Lesney Cord to rebuild my way. Any tips/tricks to help out a fellow hobbyist since I have never had a jumbo scaled rebuilder and these are my favorite prewar US classic.I am going to open up the trunk and tonneau cover, or hope to anyway, it'll be Cadet Grey or Ganges Green with stock top/carpet/hides colors and I want to make a nice effort from a likely to be damaged en route classic

thank you!

Under glass here

Finished 1/25 scale MPC '77 Dodge D200, painted in distressed Medium Green Sunfire/Jade Green with light green interior, engine detailed and equipped with a more detailed carburetor, Lean Burn style air cleaner, and petroleum grease weathering. Monogram tires/rims and missing side trim/simulated body damage. The engine firewall is detailed with electrical wiring/fittings, heater blower, master cylinder & weathering, the hood is slightly crooked/bent with simulated jute insulation under it, and simulated deteriorated bitumen undercoating is applied on the fender tubs along with a battery and a rusty tray under it.

sure has.

Tiger Shark/Python & Beetle Bus? Yes please.

thanks all! I'll just order when the new issue is out. Mods plz delete/lock

More progress.

Start on a weathered truck build based on a thrift store find missing the Rupe minibike.

Last progress note before "under glass". Due to breaking a few small parts and slightly gluebombing the engine, I glued the hood on.

Found a Revell Streetburners '70 Plymouth Superbird with everything but tires for $4.99 plus a donation for a family shelter at one thrift store. Also for 99 cents, a 1/25 scale diecast Pet Milk tanker trailer that will be modified into the Orinco fuel tanker from Pet Sematary and get a Revell Pete 359 snap kit to tow it at some point.

thanks Ira! Appreciate your comment too Noel.

getting downright nasty here in the PNW as it usually does in late October/early November. This is when I double down on weathered models and stuff with Tamiya or Testors Lacquer rattle cans that dry fast and which I can spray under the eaves on the patio and bring in to dry in a kitchen cabinet I delegated to that purpose.

thank you!

Update on my 1/25 scale MPC 1928 Lincoln Model L dealership towing/service truck conversion. Patina paint is perfected, the hood will be set up as 2 movable/posable/demountable pieces & painted flat black or grey primer, along with the crankcase/sump and cylinder barrels (cylinder heads will be same color but not patinated), front glass is installed along with most of the tow crane, rear fenders have been bobbed and fronts made jagged/bent/crooked, driver is installed in the detailed, distressed interior and is made to look like a 1940s era "zoot suiter" in a 2-tone tan suit, brown face/hands and black hat/boots/tie/goatee/face & hand details. I still have a lot to do on this before I can truly call it finished, including adding some plant growth and dead vegetation caught up in the frame/axles/etc, and more oil/gas/grease leakage & license plates, as well as the whole top-end engine. But that's the beauty of taking a highly detailed/complicated kit and making a junkyard jewel from it.

appreciate it! Will have to get me one

thank you!

Didn't get a chance to snap a pic yet... but I found a great condition original issue AMT T521 Double Header Trailmobile van trailer set & converter dolly with no missing/broken parts and lots of stuff still bagged and a nice box for $25 plus a donation to a veterans' fundraiser at a thrift shop. Am going to make this 2 separate 27ft vans for 2 separate big rigs, one of which is going to be an AMT Autocar made to look like an old Roseburg Forest Products unit, since I do not want to use up space on a double trailer unit, but will build the dolly as well so I can use it as a wiggle wagon with 1 truck or as 2 separate trucks' loads.

thank you!

Wheels are severely distressed, fitted with mismatched truck tires up front/WWII era "G.I. surplus" truck tires in back, original tires & whitewall inserts inside the truck tires to make a tube and a set of widowmaker-style split rims. The fenders have been banged up a bit and given a nice coat of faux rust, soft top is given a faux fabric effect and extreme deterioration/discoloration simulated on top of that, the color/texture of aging vulcanized rubber is drybrushed onto the floormat, the wood bed floor is made to look worn/aged and stained up, the Rajah central lubrication system reservoir/lines on the firewall are all made to look leaky and distressed, as is the steering column end casing. The Marine Blue body paint is drybrushed over with a realistic looking patina of surface rust and fade/oxidation with oil/gas seepage where it makes sense, the wood dashboard with nickel plated upper trim rail is detailed with the detailed instruments yet to go in & a detailed aged teak finish will go on the steering wheel with nickel finish hardware. All nickel plate is made to look rusty/pitted, and the engine will be made to look recently serviced to go with the aged short block & sump and such. Safety markings are added to the back with a center mount stoplight and license plate plinth and places for 2 more taillights, a scratchbuilt "fabricated steel" front bumper is fitted to the front frame horns, engine block/transmission/final drive are in, front steering/all 4 wheels are static, and I will be fabricating a manual crank-operated tow boom from tow truck model kit/diecast parts and working on the remainder of the parts, including the hood and radiator/grille shell and lights & a smattering of accessories, maybe even a driver figure in a straw boater hat and some kind of historical outfit.