Andria H

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An AMC V8 out of a Bobby Allison Matador or a Jeep J10 would be appropriate since I think IH used 401s in Travelalls

It really looks like a corn binder now.

Looks like the real McCoy to me! BTW Randy, the red truck is local to me out of Drain/Reedsport area in Oregon. It is among several 1/1 Hustlers I see from time to time and you nailed it so far.

2-tone gold/buff paint is Krylon main color/Tamiya accent color with silver marker trim in progress. Interior is colored with plastic trim panel dye.

Start on a popular yet widely disliked kit. I started with Revell '56 F100 rear fenders, a 429 Cobra Jet block/4 speed transmission to make a more appropriate powertrain, and a few Mobius parts. The burrs on the dash have been trimmed and the dash edge properly beveled since these photos, and I may use a wood rimmed sport steering wheel as fitted to Mustangs, Gran Torinos and Broncos instead of the 2-spoke standard wheel.

Balmy 75 degrees, breezy, humid, a touch smoggy from the Big Hole Fire, Emigrant Fire and other conflagrations in Southern Oregon & surrounding areas, but quite nice compared to the searing heat and sun earlier. Nice enough to open windows.

Rehab of a gluebomb I found thrifting and rebuilt as a Day 2 car.

Failed project. Can a mod lock/delete? Thanks

Updates. Got more to do and will work on this as a side project to my Triumph chopper trike in jumbo scale.

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Better paint and an assembled frame. The seat is not finalized since a guy on this site has a seat for me coming soon and it is a nicer seat, and I will be putting scrap black glove leather or pleather on the rear seat platform. License plate light will be detailed, and I will be working on other stuff as the project progresses. I also used the "wedge" tank from other versions of the kit that Revell AG was nice enough to include, and widened it slightly. I'm also undecided whether to use the wrought iron floorboard grates or the touring floorboards.

Start on a custom 1/8 scale Revell '53 Triumph pre-unit chopper trike. A custom cushion for the rear jump seat/deck was made to fit over the wood base, with dark saddle upholstery to fill the area, the bucket seat was cut down to accommodate the new design of the rear shell and may be replaced altogether, and the rear shell was cut down into a more typical 1970s fiberglass trike fender tub configuration. The bottom/inner liner/side scallops on this rear seat/fender tub will be painted in Tamiya Color Ruddy Brown with kit supplied silver flame decals added on to the entire shell, the Triumph Motorcycle logo will be applied to the tank sides, and the rest of the kit other than the weaponry and chains will be built out of the box, with the white letter tires detailed and a custom California license plate put on the back. The main color of this shell is Krylon dark copper with a Krylon rose-gold mist effect to simulate 1970s/80s "bass boat style" metalflake brown gelcoat.

thanks. I have one coming, forum wouldn't let me edit

Current progress. I finished the vegetation growth for the most part, created rusty inner floors, will be putting random 1/16 parts in the cargo area along with old magazines/tabloids and a corroding mag wheel on a ragged old Firestone blackwall, and even trying to make a decaying headliner from Elmer's glue and crape paper to go with the 3 nonworking interior lights I added. Suspension will be out of the box except for aging/decay simulation, and the infamous "empty wheelwells" will have simulated ragged metal to fill out the gaps. The dashboard will be possibly the "prettiest" part of the whole car. Wheels/tires will be stock with 1 hubcap hanging on and 3 ragged steelies exposed to the weather, tires mismatched and distressed,and I plan on wiring/plumbing it, adding a Hurst floor shift and not ruling out Centerline wheels & beefy tires for the rubber/rim choice, and am going to put old performance/oil stickers on the glass and firewall and the 1976 Michigan tags also distressed to suit, so it looks as if it is an old hot rod & has been sitting in a deserted dirty place in the Motor City since the Bicentennial.

Start on a distressed/weathered jumbo 1/16 scale AMT '55 Chevy Nomad in aged Autumn Bronze/Shoreline Beige with 2-tone tan & white deluxe interior and hi-po 265 V8/3-speed manual. I opened the fuel filler flap and removed the flap, added a gas cap and surroundings, will have a ragged headliner, dome/courtesy lights inside, greased up and beaten up and wired/plumbed engine, detailed & greased up shift linkage, Dullcoted windows with cracks carved in, working doors/hood, etc. Lichens and moss are simulated along with perished paint, right front/all over lower body damage, trim is starting to materialize, deteriorating carpets added on the floor along with floor rot and dents in the frame rails and the footwells roughed up. Fuel door is opened and the innards of the fuel fill compartment detailed/weathered. Closeups of the damage Engine & frame

Recent release Jada "1/24" (closer to 1/20) diecast of a '56-'57 Corvette in customized black with flames, custom bumperettes, Torq-Thrust wheels, etc. with an early Hemi and Inglese Weber intake/carbs set up under the hood, battery/fuel filler in the trunk, and customized interior. All that is left from the original diecast's appearance is the paint job, but even that I cleaned up/polished/added a blue on gold 1983 Oregon plate to.

They put anything JoHan or Aurora or Midori or pre-Ertl AMT or anything all that nice diecastwise on auction here but anything else is fair game for thrifters.

You got mail Chuck.

More of Soraya... bottom one was her in the yard, top one is her cuddled up near me on the couch

If anyone has a spare Atlantis/Monogram midget racer kit &/or the Henderson Ace bike from the MPC '32 Chrysler Imperial, I'd love to have either/or. Due to fixed income/medical issues I can either trade or pay it forward. Chopper seat found. Thanks all, Andria

sadly the project ended up being relegated to the backburner, to eventually be rebuilt as a Jimmy Flintstone '59 Pontiac Superior Criterion ambulance or '59 Superior Crown Royale hearse. I could not get the roof/rear greenhouse to look or sit right.

Gonna look for that 1/32 Cord Phaeton and do my thing with it since Fred Meyer, Lowe's, etc. carry this line.

Some nice work so far! Waiting for the reissue of the 10-4 kit so I can add my own Golden Eagle decal set and build a '79 J10 Golden Eagle with a Brahma fiberglass canopy.

Current progress. This is a design I created to approximate a Miller Meteor or S&S or Hess & Eisenhardt "coupe de fleurs", but it is a replica of nothing as far as its design goes. The roofline is slightly chopped at the B-posts/raked back with Polar Lights glass up front/cutdown and recut kit supplied windshield in back & the window glass apertures recurved, the "stainless steel" rear deck is a Polar Lights Ecto-1 top cut/filed/filled to suit, with the "dutchman panel" between the rear window ledge/where the rear deck sits on made from part of the hood/cowl of the PL Ecto kit I cut up for parts and the raised portion made from a parts bin "parade boot". The dash is AMT in a Polar Lights interior tub, with Monogram Caddy parts used throughout where originals are unsuitable to my eyes. Paint color will be close to factory Gloucester Grey Metallic with a black or lighter grey vinyl top and detailed Gloucester Grey dash with Andros Blue interior.