Chuck Most

I didn't notice much of what was shown, because my brain sort of shut off once I saw the Ferguson. That's on my "gotta have" list.

Drool...

Hobby Lobby won't carry Moebius kits because HL takes offense to their line of "monster" kits, or some nonsense along those lines. Moebius has tried time and again to get their products into HL, and HL continues to refuse. One more reason to avoid that place like the plague.

A couple of years ago a friend of mine told me when he dies, he wants to be preserved by taxidermy rather than buried. After I saw this video, I told him I'd do him one better and turn him into a Cory-Copter. He didn't object.

Well, there goes some more of my money...

New shoes... Factory Ford alloy wheels with lockout hubs on the front from an AMT Bronco, and Firestone ATX radials from an AMT/Ertl '93 Ranger 4x4 promo.

I've managed to jab and slice myself more than a few times. It seems like no matter how careful you are it can still happen, and if you aren't careful to begin with... One time I was using an Xacto blade to strip some insulation from some wiring. Somehow, the blade slipped and went into the side of my leg, just beside the kneecap. Actually had to go to the ER and get stitches for that one. Other than that, I've been lucky- when I get cut, I just clean the wound and grab a tube of superglue off the work bench to seal it.

At one time somebody (Scale Squads?) did conversion parts for these kits to do different variants/model years, but I don't recall if they had the proper taillights or not.

Bed has had the wheel openings "rusted", the rub strips have been removed, and it's been hosed off with inauthentic MDOT Orange...

Home of the Mackinaw.

The decals are a huge improvement over past versions. A shame I didn't use them on mine- As soon as I unearth a proper set of Work Equip wheels, this one will be finished.

Thanks guys! I realize there's one other thing I didn't do- his truck has a bench seat, but I left the buckets in this one.

Yeah... ship design just ain't what it used to be. Just take a look at Coast Guard cutters. Here's the first Mackinaw, built in the 1940's The new one looks like a salvage barge with some superstructure slapped on...

I'll give it credit for looking better than it should, but, yeah....

I'm a Yank, so I know next to nothing about the 1:1, and I've never even seen one in person, much less had the chance to examine one at length. I just like the kit.

Nah- she's a bit lanky for my tastes.

I've never built anything with such precise parts fit. Tamiya better be taking notes. The separate side trim pieces are the only things with no real positive means of location.

Three- tandem with the drop axle. About 20 from me.... I took that pic at Petticoat on 46. Some from earlier today...

First off... my apologies for the poor quality of these pics! I took them shortly after I finished the model in 2005- the only camera I had back then was a cheap little Vivitar point-and-shoot digital. I stumbled onto these images today while clearing some old memory cards. The model has been in my grandfather's possession ever since it was finished, and he's owned the 1:1 for over four decades. My skills weren't what they are now, so I just did what I could to convert the AMT kit to '59 specs, at least visually. I seem to remember robbing the quad headlight bezels from an AMT '53 F-100 custom grille, and I made the '58-'60 style side spear trim from scraps of plastic. The 1:1 has a square fuel tank on the driver's side, but I used the kit-supplied round one, and left off the passenger' side tank. The white cab/black chassis/red bed are faithful to the 1:1, it is missing the "Maple Wood Farms" lettering in red on the doors- I just couldn't pull that off at the time. His truck is a Custom Cab, so it has a white steering wheel, as all the early Custom Cab C-Series trucks did early on. I left the 534 engine and Allison trans intact, though the real truck has a 292 Y-block and a manual transmission. The 1:1 usually had solid sides on the stake bed- it was used to haul grain to the elevator, but after they stopped lifting trucks he got another truck with a hoist and this was promoted to "stock boy" duty... hauling seed and fertilizer to the field. It was sometimes used to transport old tractors- back when his health was better my grandfather almost always had an old Fordson in the shop being restored. Like my grandfather, the '58 is semi-retired now, it spends its days in a shed with some of the other trucks and tractors he's used/restored over the years.

Saw one of each at the truckstop today-

At the truck stop today...

^That one?^