Chuck Most

I remember he did one that was styled to look like a Nash Metropolitan. Seems weird the guy who built The Shark would have such a fixation with Metros.

I'd have to agree with that, Lee.

Jimmy Flintstone already casts such an animal- it's a full on custom Airflow with a sealed hood and the windows cast shut called the Rareflow. It was also sold as a Testors/Model Master kit. It has a really goofy looking roof, but if you replaced it with a more conventional looking roof it would work great for a custom Airflow.

Love it! The Beetle is my favorite Tamiya kit, hands down.

Why is it called scratchbuilt or built from scratch, when it's made of plastic or metal, or some other material other than scratch?

A certain Canadian fellow? Yes, I'm awaiting a response to that as well.

Not sure where you are seeing that- out-of-box the kit has one battery- on the passenger's side, with the coolant/washer solvent tank on the opposite. If you wanted to model a dual-battery truck you'd need to relocate the tank and put a second battery in its place. That's basically what Ford did on the diesels. Sucky part is, being a Monogram kit, both the battery and tank are molded to the inner fender/core support structure. I've seen a couple of gas-powered F-series trucks from this body style with dual batteries as well, but I can't tell you for sure if Ford offered dual batteries on gas powered trucks or if those were owner-installed setups. I heard Ma's Resin was working on a 7.3 IH/Ford diesel, but I don't think it's available for sale yet.

Never thought I'd say this about a Citation (1:1 or small scale), but that looks great.

X2. Tim's advice on not using superglue on (or near the vicinity of) clear and chrome parts is valid, but if you prefer that method, using Future on the glass beforehand helps make the fume fog easier to remove if it happens as the glue sets up.

Well, specifically I meant my particular kit is incomplete, as it is missing the tires, lamps, dash, and quite a few other key bits (it was cannibalized at one point to repair a broken older build by a previous owner). So incomplete above and beyond an untouched kit.

The Motormax Super Cruiser would be the closest thing to an F-750, for an '07 you'd need to update the grille and (maybe) interior. No idea on a Cat C7, I know I've never seen one in scale, but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist.

I don't think it's an actual model- it might be one of Harry's design renderings. But yes, it is a Merc.

Nice one. Revell needs to reissue these. Like, right now-ish.

Starting to look a lot like the Transtars still in service in my area. Nice!

Gee, if I can count my father, uncle's and grandfather's vehicles as my own, I've got about 20.

My grandmother had a '62 Buick Skylark 2-door hardtop- white with a blue interior. Wait, what do I mean had... she STILL has it! She's one of those 'if it ain't broke don't fix or replace it" kind of people.

This one's got 'why didn't I think of that' written all over it. So obvious and effective... once somebody else points it out! Fantastic tip.

Awesome! So want one of these.

Just to clarify- only the most recent issues of the kit come with two engines- the earlier, separate stock and custom versions only come with one engine each- four bbl in the stocker and a choice of three twos or dual quads in the custom version.

More than likely- the front tires stick out past the fenders quite a bit more than I'd like, and it's high enough off the ground that running boards of some sort will be needed.

I think Moebius has the quality part down pretty well, so at this point, I'd have to say I'm also more worried about when it'll come out than how accurate it will be.

I actually stopped buying AMT kits during the twilight years of the RC2 regime, because I was so tired of the endless reissues of the same five kits and the ever-dwindling quality. I'm glad to see RC2 taking steps in the other direction- yeah, they're still reissuing some of the same kits, but they are actually making an attempt to repair or replace tooling when needed, box art quality is improved by leaps and bounds, and their curbside kits of late model kits show a lot of promise. Not only that but the kits they are reissuing now are kits that I'm sure RC2's management never even bothered to look around in the warehouse for- like the Phantom Ford van, the AMC Gremlin, and a few others soon to be released. Even if all they do from today forward are reissues- there's more than enough stuff in the AMT, MPC, and PL tooling banks that hasn't been seen in years (if not decades) to keep a lot of people happy for a long time.

Ever wonder what a Hudson medium-duty truck may have looked like? No? Well, uh... yeah. Anyway, here's my interpretation of how one may have looked. Hudson did in fact build pickups until 1947, and they did a 1/2 ton pickup prototype in 1948 based on a cut-down four-door car and a '47 Hudson bed. I built something similar with the '53 Moebius kit, but I still wanted to take it a little bit further as Hudson never did produce anything larger. So... I started out with the '52 kit, which is identical to the '53 Club Coupe with NASCAR specific parts- not that that'll matter for this project! The Step Down Hudson was a unibody car, so I did retain some of the stock frame and spliced in the rails from a '55 Chevy. Suspension parts were dredged up from the spares box. The car body was cut down and a new rear cab wall was cut from .030" styrene. I sprayed the body in Rustoleum Oregano, and robbed a set of 8-bolt dually wheels from everybody's favorite dually wheel donor- Monogram's '91 F-350. Here's the still in progress frame- you can see the Hudson's lower unibody frame in place. I figure if Hudson had really tried such a thing, they'd have tried to retain as much of the unibody structure as possible, to lower costs, and as a selling point for the truck. "Car-like comfort, structural rigidity, etc..." The majority of the car's brightwork was removed, and I added some fender-mounted signals from an AMT clear amber sprue. I'm still thinking of adding some cab clearance lights. Not sure what kind of body I plan to use- I'm thinking of a wrecker or dump body. I'm designing the truck to aproximate the specs of a 1-1/2 ton vehicle, so it won't have anything too extreme back there. The engine I may use is another what-if, it is an 'industrial' prototype Hudson six with an OHV cross-flow head.

Cool!

'Bent eight' is just a slang term for a V8. I think you might be reading a little too far into it... even though when you think about it your explaination makes sense.