Chuck Most

Settled on some rolling stock- the Goodyear floatation tires from an Ertl IH Paystar, with the front wheels from an AMT Ford C-600, because I nabbed the REO spokes for this to use on a White Road Boss. I used the C 600 rear wheel rims so they'd be wide enough to work with the Goodyears. In the back, I used the Paystar's 5-hole steel wheels wrapped with some AMT Firestone tires. For power I went with a Detroit 8V-71, still a tight fit under that stubby hood even after some radiator and firewall clearancing. Still a ways to go, but getting there...

Looking really good, and making this kit look good is no small thing! I have one of these I'm about 95% finished with and the thing fought me every inch of the way. I'm just hoping that'll make seeing the finished product that much more satisfying.

Just got an AMT/Philco promo today, mine's a '68 T-Bird in pretty decent shape. Not sure if I want to restore it or leave it as is, but I do want to find out if the radio still works.

Thanks, guys! This was a relatively quick and easy project, but it was the most fun I've had building a model in quite a while.

Just a little project I'm throwing together for giggles, using mostly spare parts. Modified the grille to represent an earlier style. Cut just a hair over 20 scale inches out of the hood, and added some raised details to the new grille opening. And of course the fenders needed to be modified- I just held them up to the shortened hood and determined where to cut them. I also added a new/old paint job to the cab. Of course, the rear suspension/axles were moved forward, and the frame was shortened behind the rear axle. Not sure if these are the wheels/tires I'll end up using on it, but they'll keep the chassis up and out of the dirt for now anyway.

Cabs on both are now painted.

Thanks- I have a feeling that will come in handy pretty shortly.

More good options for light truck rolling stock, and Joseph's quality is top notch. Looks like I'll be putting in quite a few more orders to Fireball.

I've started on one with a grille like the one shown in the pic on the left in the first post. I found a decent full-on front image online, blew it up to actual size (in 1:25 scale) on my screen and traced it out. The existing grille holes on the kit piece (one row along the top and the two vertical rows along the sides) can be filled in with putty or covered over with thin styrene or metal sheet. I've since puttied this one, but I think if I did it again I'd cover them with sheet. I still need to find some etched mesh for the opening and add some grille trim detail.

Glad I stumbled across this thread! I've got a short nose DR in the cards, but couldn't find any concrete info on hood length or anything like that. I believe Evan Hermel did a short-nose Diamond Reo for the other magazine a couple of years back, but of course the second I want to try the project myself, can't find that particular issue, if in fact he did it at all...

Here's a definite answer- all Ford C-Series tilt cabs built in model years 1958, 1959, and 1960 had quad headlights. The first year '57 model had single headlights, as did all '61 and newer examples. The adoption of quad lights for those three years was really the only thing Ford ever did with these trucks that you could call a major styling change. Other than changing the badges over the years, differences with the wipers, and the like, there were no other minor styling changes to speak of either. A famous composite photo- showing the first C-series tilt cab ('57) on the right and the final year ('90) on the left. This pic pretty much shows all the differences between early and late two-headlight Ford tilt cabs.

I'm just seeing this kit for the first time... now I want one!

The most obvious things are quad headlights (I'm using some leftover Diamond Reo bezels and lenses for that- they aren't the best for use on a C-Series but they'll do), fill in the lines for the wiper motor access panels, and change the side badges. I'll probably leave off the side badges. Also, a round lamp has been added to each end of the grille- all 1957-1965 C-Series had lamps there, '66 and newer ones have the "plugs" with the four-pointed star design like the AMT kit has.

Progress? Yeah, sometimes... Got a little more work done on the tractor- it'll be backdated to a '58. I also added a big front bumper with some tow hooks, just because I can. The driver's side mud flap is from an L-Series kit, the passenger's side one is, well, no longer with us. That's the air compressor from the C-600 kit's 534 Super Duty gas V8 on the Cat- it's shorter and slanted to one side, so I'd hoped that would buy me a little engine room clearance. It probably did, but I still had to cut a hole for it in the floor of the cab- no bother, the bench seat I plan to use should cover it up well enough.

Here's the thing- a buddy recently got a bunch of Corvette built ups, and this one has been nagging at him. Note that the model has no gas cap detail on the deck lid- while every other AMT '63/64 he has does. There's no evidence it was removed from the body, and he's never seen one with a separate cap. So the fact this model doesn't have one has been baffling him- I know next to nothing about Corvette kits, and it has also stumped a friend of his who is VERY knowledgable about early Vette kits. My best guess is that they may have added one later on in the production run. Anybody know what's going on with this one?

I won't rule out that possibility.

This is one I've wanted to do for a while- what turned out to be a fairly simple kitbash of the AMT Diamond REO with the Ford L-Series snow plow. Hamilton Township never had their own plow trucks (Gratiot County handles that) and even if they had they likely would not have used Diamond Reos, but hey, it's a model, and I can live in fantasy land if I want.

Just got one today- I'm already messing with the idea of doing it as a 351 Michigan Special the way Tim A. did with one of his.

Love it. A local propane company had a similar paint scheme on their tankers for many years.

Ouch!

Fantastic job on this!

Update for those who were wondering- this truck is no longer at the scrap yard, it is now parked alongside a building at a local wrecker facility. So this one is not getting scrapped just yet.

Beyond cool. I'd love to have a 1:1.

Newest from Morgan Automotive Detail- a body, bench seat, and interior door panels for the Revell '57 Ford Custom- just the ticket for a cop car or taxi project. As with all the MAD products I've seen, it works with the donor kit as well as the original kit parts, and the casting quality is top notch. So far it has not put up any fight with any of the Revell kit parts, but I expected that much coming from MAD.

I think you were thinking of the 427 Cammer- that was FE based and had a single cam in each head.