Andria H

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.

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