Andria H

thank you!

Current progress.The hood has been opened & made positionable to show the detail under there (which includes a battery, steering column, master cylinder/booster, radiator, and a bit of the engine), the grille is dechromed and detrimmed with the front bumper bent/dented to conceal a short-shot molding on the left end of the bumper, rear dirt tires/standard front tires are fitted, the front glass is in and distressed to match the rest of the model, and the frame is test-fitted but not yet detailed/weathered. I am using a Monogram Chevy Luv V8 swap air filter on this build to replace the crude chrome air filter supplied in the kit, and may switch out the rocker covers for the custom items from that engine. The engine will be painted in GM corporate blue to look like a 1980s/90s era replacement crate engine, with a black air filter and dechromed timing cover, hubcaps will be Dullcoated and dinged up, a first aid kit and shortwave receiver will be fitted inside along with a black & woodgrain dash panel, black steering wheel with gold bowtie logo, & scratchbuilt wood engine cover console, and side/rear door glass will be made from scrap materials. The battery may receive a Union 76 gas station logo to look like an older gas-station battery, and oil/parts logos may go on the glass, back doors & firewall.

you are 100% correct Alan! thank you for that

Fairlane and flipnose Bel Air for me.

Another one I got from Rattle Can Man. Rustoleum Spa Blue paint was aged/distressed with artist's oil paints and sandpaper & tamiya panel wash, panel lines are highlighted, emblems/front window glass trim/side marker bases/etc are all detailed, interior is set up as a hauler van with a Bostrom air-ride driver's seat and 3-passenger sideways facing bench. I added some 70s styled commercial logos to the sides and back door & will be adding a stowed spare tire. Interior walls will be detailed, with a vintage Budweiser Beer mirror sign in scale to go above the side facing back seat, and the inside of the body is detailed where paneling will not go. Inspiration from this 1/1 '77 G30

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Got this from @rattle can man. Thanks again for this, and I finished it with close to factory trim, engine, underhood details, etc.

Doubtful anything is left of the logbook after 50yrs underwater. I too am fascinated by the Big Fitz

thank you Dennis.

Ordered one of Hooligan Scale Models' '68 T-bird chop top custom hearses designed by Nahuel Gomez, as shown below, and put together a chassis and powertrain and wheels/tires from spare bits, emphasis on 60s era FoMoCo. Even the casket table/rollers are in back, with the package tray to be cut out to accommodate both a rear seat and casket table. Wheels are since changed out for all 4 Joseph Ertl diecast Weld/Centerline style mags off a Model A bank on big & little AMT tires & proper track width. This will have custom acetate front/rear glass made, will get the interior rear deck cut down to fit the casket table/rollers in the back, which are made from junk kit/diecast parts, the engine is an AMT 429 Thunderjet with Weiand valve covers and finned headers and an oil cooler fitted in with most detail shown underneath due to a sealed hood that cannot be cut out easily, and the chassis is a narrowed/modified AMT '65 Continental piece done up to suit the 3D kit proportions. The stock rear mufflers were excised and replaced with Lindberg '34 Ford truck baloney-cut exhaust pipes while retaining stock center resonators. The paint color will be aged black primer with light rust, aged chrome finish bumpers, black/chrome tube "Glory Grille", orange turn signals, simulated chop seams on the A-pillars, with license plates from the decal stash and detailed taillights and landau bars. The interior will have custom gauge panels made and will be detailed all around and made to look like a ratty stock interior with custom gauge/switch panels. . Chopped down/narrowed 1965 Lincoln chassis with a 429 Thunderjet and casket table. The back of this is a giant void so I don't need to show a whole lot in there, plus it is a curbside. Stay tuned for more.

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Under Glass thread here

https://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/203222-1979-ford-f350-dually/ Build thread. Finished kit can be seen here. This is an AMT "Super Stones" highboy 4x4 turned dually, painted Krylon Warm Gold and Tamiya Buff over Rustoleum Nutmeg interior and lots of Mobius leftovers used to replace so-so AMT parts.

thanks all! Time for its under glass thread.

Pic is not the greatest, but is a tacked together interim solution before I fabricate the perch for the suicide spring and AMT Double Dragster tube axle from junk plastics. This is a kitbash of all different brand items around a cutdown Revell Dan Fink Speedwagon frame/rear suspension and AMT front axle/spring, intended to go around a poorly started, 40+ year stored original issue AMT '32 Vicky.

thank you!

Update. Engine is mostly together (still needs alternator, air conditioning pump, battery, wiper fluid reservoir, air filter & a few other things), cab is on the frame, interior is together, and glass is in. I will try to salvage a CAM2/Diehard decal from a Bobby Allison Matador decal sheet to use on the back window along with a couple of other contingency decals there & under the hood, and have yet to put together the driveline/transfer case/exhaust system, or put on the bed. For such a reviled kit, I really don't think it's so bad, no worse than the Deserter/Sodbuster or Warlock/D100 reissues or the IHC Scouts AMT inherited from Ertl.

A gallon of motor oil... part of owning an old Subaru with numerous small leaks

Finished build of the 1/16 scale AMT '55 Chevy Nomad, this is a "field find" weathered car complete with simulated vegetation growth.

Latest update.

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.