Andria H

Found an AMT Ecto-1A kit for cheap and decided to chop it into a "coupe de fleurs", aka funeral flower car. Ended up incorporating lots of Polar Lights and Monogram parts in.

Heller you say? Gonna get a 1/16 scale Citroen DS19 to build in December

264k miles and still kicking on its original head gaskets & transmission. 2004 Subaru Outback.

Al & Larry, thanks so much!

A buddy bought me a 1/16 AMT '55 Chevy Nomad since I expressed a desire to delve into 1/16 and greater. Will be here first week of September.

Woodie trim is on the outside along with a bit of chrome.

Thanks, definitely seems to be the pics

Impressive! That Nash motor is similar to a Morris Minor or Austin-Healey Sprite piece in real life, those have been swapped into Crosleys & Bantams & Nash Metros to make a surprisingly snappy performer in clown car's clothes. As it is, you did a great job of working with what's available. I have contact info for Ron at RMR, if he still has the IH D-series COE truck molds I'm intending to order one, and put it on an AMT Freightliner SD or Ford Louisville frame with a Mobius Hudson Hornet engine made to look like an IH truck engine.

mine attempts to groom me, leans in for pets/cuddling and stays close to me most of the time

thanks everyone!

Started with a horrible looking partial Revell '49 Mercury Eight woodie. A sought after kit but not able to be built stock. I stripped/washed/dried the body here and painted it in Colonial Red Gloss Rusty-O rattle can. The interior will be a combination of the dash cradle/floors and everything but the door cards and rear seat from the AMT/Ertl '49 sedan donor kit interior with the Revell rear floor panel, seats (AMT front seat may be reworked into a third row seat) and door cards/tailgate panel, chassis/interior will be standard stock '49 Mercury fare with wood trim painted in Tamiya Color Buff with brown paint marker to fill in the darker panels, headliner will be fully detailed as well, and wheels/tires will be as usual for a '49 Mercury woodie. To be continued.

Finished 1/25 scale kitbash of a '47 Ford Marmon-Herrington 4x4 COE "patina special", parts bin 4x4 truck chassis on wheels/axles/transfer case/PTO from an old Ertl Dodge Power Wagon diecast, Jimmy Flintstone Studios cab, and the balance from the parts bin or broken/played with diecasts and a scratchbuilt jib crane on the bed. I even freehanded and weathered over the Weyerhaeuser logo on both doors to create a fading labelscar. This build has been a ways in the making, gone through different iterations, finally made something I can like from it. Photos are made to look like a legitimate forest/mountain find left at a logging camp eons ago and photographed years later.

thank you!

86 degrees, smoggy, windy, thundershowers, humidity is off the charts. Feels like Florida rather than Oregon.

thanks!

understood, fair enough given that everything has skyrocketed in the past decade and a half.

Kitbashed this rendition of a "hooptie" 1975 AMC Matador Coupe together from a Bobby Allison donor kit, bits and pieces of 2 or 3 different original issue "street" or "AMT/X" Matadors given by a friend, and filled it in with a gluebomb MPC Pacer X engine from the same friend & switched the Pacer intake/air filter to Matador specification to replicate the "anvil tough" 258 six. Replicated some damage to the body, aged the heck out of interior and engine, made the paint look like original paint on a Nevada car, and rounded it all out from my parts boxes, even a 1975 Nevada plate on it.

that might have been a 1/48 or 1/32 Renwal kit

As continued from previous

this is a custom 1/25 scale diecast of a weathered, lightly rusty retired Civil Defense ambulance with battered brown interior, worn white steering wheel, mismatched tires on worn steel wheels, aged chrome, and 1980s Texas license plates. This is what I started with. Continued in next post

1/24 Fulvia will have a home with me. I'll build it street spec

More shots of my fluffy girl Soraya.

still got this? I'd love to trade for it or send you a postal money order

She isn't liking the heat too much around here. 5 days worth. Seeing as how that fur is so immensely thick year round (and not supposed to be shaved/clipped), and 100F out, and that a neighbor's Blue Heeler that she isn't fond of is nearby, explains her doggie resting mean face. Back to the air conditioning she went soon after this

Finished 1/25 scale custom diecast of a 1928 Chevrolet Capitol pickup truck, set up as a distressed Sinclair Oil tow truck with a Weaver Auto-Crane style hand cranked tow unit in the bed and sun-burned. surface rusted paint, over a distressed brown interior with basic nickel plate hardware and a partial, parts bin 1/35 WWII deuce and a half dash was made to look close enough inside. Unlike many of my previous distressed customs, this one looks about ready to go back to work! Fresh gas, tubes/tires/belts/hoses, and a new battery will suit it fine. 😁 This was a Spec Cast bank from St Vincent Depaul when I started on it