Chuck Most

I believe it was this fellow http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showuser=4084

Nice! That would be the way to do it.

Yikes! It sucks that it was damaged, but it looks like you're already making great progress with the repairs. I once had a model crushed by a box falling off a shelf just above my workbench. Shortly after that happened, I took everything off the shelves and then removed the actual shelves.

Not the best quality pic, I know, but you'll get the gist... Tanks and steps are installed- I attached them to a piece of L-shaped Plastruct ABS strip so they'd mount a little bit higher up, and to push them out away from the frame a little bit, so as to clear the rear cab mounts. I've also mocked up the headache rack, mostly just to see how it will look. I'm kicking around the idea of using the rear fenders from the Black Magic kit, as well. I still need to add the fuel caps.

That's a '56 Ford.

You have my attention!

I've got something like that in the "half finished" pile. The original idea was a single-axle drag truck, but the project stalled about a third of the way through.

Nice! I think I've seen a picture of the 1:1 you based this on.

According to what I've seen on Moebius' Facebook page, HL takes issue with some of the Moebius "Monster" kits. They've tried getting HL to carry their products in the past with no luck.

And so did Mack, when they got into the pickup market for a very brief period.

I've got about four of those Western Stars planned. One with the early style front end (Illini used to cast that one), a dump truck, the Happy Toyz "Green Goblin" from Maximum Overdrive, and the one I posted previously, which will be a sort of mild custom... not a full blown "large car" trailer queen, but not a 100% factory stock restoration style, either.

IH used the A-series cab on quite a few of the heavier trucks and semi tractors. In fact, they kept using it on some of the heavier rigs up until 1977, even though the light-line trucks were redesigned for 1969. The medium duty cabs had a raised roof, and a flatter floor than the pickup cabs. Then there was the extreme example, the IH 'big cab' as used on the ACO Sightliner. And in Australia IH and Dodge used the IH A/B/C series cab for many years on a variety of different trucks, but I'm guessing that's a story for another time.

I will say... It's a damned fine looking model. And the fact that it's based on an R&R casting? Takes a little work to get one of those looking good, much less great, generally speaking. If the guy can get that much for it, more power to him. And if the buyer considers it money well spent, who am I to complain? Me? If I had that much I think I'd put it toward a 1:1 version.

I really should do something with this, too. Dug it out of the crypt last night along with the daycab Lonestar.

Very nice conversion, but he did get one detail wrong. The F8 DID have wider grille bars than the F1 through F6 trucks. Take a look at the panel with the FORD lettering- it's the same width on all models. The F1 grille bars fit between the gaps at either end, while you can see that the F8's grille bars extend past it.

You mean, you didn't enjoy the drums that sounded like banging on trash cans and the complete lack of guitar solos?

Nice!

Well... a couple of months back I managed to snag a Revell Black Magic Pete 359 for twenty bucks. Before anybody throws a fit... the cab was missing, some of it had been assembled, and the chrome was shot (uneven to begin with, and all scratched up from rattling around in the box for 30 years). As I was "carving it up for organs" (ie- allocating parts from it for other projects), the LoneStar popped into my mind for the first time in a while. As you can see since the last installment, one of the mud flaps broke loose, and I've removed the exhaust stacks. The flap will simply be reattached, but the exhaust will be refined a bit. The tanks and headache rack are from the Black Magic Pete- odds are favorable they'll end up on the LoneStar. Anyway... REALLY hoping to make some more progress on this, and I'll at least try to let this be the last two-year blank between updates.

The wheel covers (the rotary telephone-dial looking things) are separate. The wheel faces do lack the bolt detail, though the general shape and surface detail look about right compared to the real thing.

Those actually had two radiators- one behind each front wheel. Here's something even weirder- not build by or for Convoy, but still Ford F8 based. And just for fun, here's a Dodge-based carrier, which resembles the love child of a Job Rated "pilothouse" Dodge and a construction crane.

Did somebody say Paris-Dakar? This is the only untouched ESCI kit I have in the stash at the moment. This is the other one- obviously, aside from the decals and color of the body (P-D van molded in white, Hertz in yellow) the kits are pretty much the same thing. I posted a thread showing the contents of the Paris-Dakar version a couple of years ago. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=68216&st=0&p=841577

The differences between the two versions I have (P-D Canon and Hertz) shown here. As you can see, only real differences are the color of the body and the decal sheet. Sorry for the low quality and small size of these pics- I took them about five years ago, before I knew how to snap halfway decent photographs.