Mr. Metallic

Ambitious project you have going here simply because you started with the Revell 56 pickup, a tough customer for sure. But the improvements you are making look great.

I know this thread is older Jim, but I'm hoping you were able to continue on with it. @OldNYJim

Are you going to use the blue glass? I think when i get around to mine I will use either Tamiya pearl blue or pearl white with the blue glass. If not going with the blue glass I would lean towards green

Elliot, I love what you're doing with this. I recently developed a fascination with this line of AMT AWB's. I think I have all of them now in one form or another. I wish they would bring back the Tempest again, this time with the tire upgrades and tinted glass like they've added to the others. I'll be following along with this build as a template for improvements to make. It makes it look better while still retaining the soul of the original kit. note on the collectors. i love your solution. My understanding is there used to be a part for this n the kits but they deleted it for some reason? 🤷‍♂️

Any further progress on this one? I always enjoy your fabrication work, so clean. I do have concerns about the location of the seat though. Not much legroom left in that already cramped interior.

Jealous that you've gotten to start this. I had an idea for the same thing pop into my head last year and bought a bunch of parts from 3D Scale Parts when they had their black friday sale. Who knows when I'll eer get to it, but I've got the parts at least. By the way, when you have STS make decals, do you have to provide the artwork, or do they do that too?

@Rocking Rodney Rat you out there my friend?

I've often thought of doing the same thing because I love the lines of the Laguna. Looks good so far.

The Revell 37 Ford pickup (and delivery) has some really nice artillery style wheels. There are lots of kits floating around out there that have stock flatheads in them. That same 37 pickup kit has a really nice one.

I went and was kinda disappointed. The sheer volume of kits was overwhelming (stacked floor to ceiling, several aisles wide and deep) but mostly very common older stock at full retail or higher. Like stuff that would struggle to sell for 1/2 what they have t marked at any any Chicagoland swap meet. Not many new kits, or supplies. Staff was very friendly.

I love your builds, so I know this one is in good hands. I will share one thing to look out for, not sure if any other builders have experienced this with this kit, but I do know of a couple in other collections of friends with the same issue. I built this kit when it first came out, and I noticed the last time I was moving that when I went to pack it up that the rear tires had split across the tread. Knowing your ability to 3D print things I was thinking you might want to make your own tires, since the wheels are awesome. That way you don't have to worry about the tires down the road (no pun intended)

I might have to check this one out. Looks like they have a ton of stuff in the pictures.

I see what you did there 😆

So very glad to se you back on this one and giving it the proper attention it has been waiting for. Love it!

Well, the actual Blue Beetle was only molded in 2 colors, a grey/blue and a bright blue. Then the tooling was changed to make the Tom Daniel designed Boss-A-Bone kit that was molded in red. Then the tooling was changed yet again in the 70's to make more of a street rod type. It's gone through minor revisions over the years until about 10 years ago when Revell retooled a bunch of the Blue Beetle parts and released it as the Blue Bandito.