Chuck Most

That's what I thought.

Tools and garage items have been the name of the game of late for me, and the saga of the junk-box lawn tractor continues....

One question... what did it eat????

Liking it already!

Maybe they consider the Revell AG version to be collectible? It will certainly be more of a rarity than the Moebius kit.

The last 24 hours of efforts... Cut open the grille area on the hood, and used a hole punch to make up some hub caps. The caps were then painted and attached, and I made up a pressed-steel style tractor seat, and set it up on a spring made from a short lenght of brass scrap.

Very cool! Love those Model A front wheels.

That's exactly what it is. Well, might be a Mercury.

Yeah... think I saw the turtle... Wonder if that old Caddy ended up there because the owner got 'rubbed off'...?

That did cross my mind, but I quickly grew fond of the 'oversized' (for this particular application anyway) front tires. I am planning a couple more of these, and I found a set of front tires from an MPC Zinger I think might work.

YES!!!! Somebody modeled Geoff!!!! Or the Hammerhead Eaglethrust i, if you prefer, right down to the mustache. Love the rest of them too.

Well... the paint is dry from this morning- so here is the chassis painted and built up. I also began work on the hood, which is made from pieces of .020" styrene sheet.

Bend up some straight pins for use as levers and pedals, and made up some side steps with a piece of scrap diamond plate.

Guess where I was all morning.

Sweet! Now all you need is a Nova with a dead Marvin in the trunk.

I built the Millennium Edition issue a few years back- I remember lots of slightly warped parts. Didn't have any significant issues that I recall regarding the assembly. the working features were pretty cool, and it was an unusual subject, to say the least.

I decided not to let Terror (Terry Iocco) have all the fun with his Deere John buildup. I'd been toying with the idea for a while, but it's his fault I've officially pulled the trigger on this project! So far, here's what I've cobbled up- The ingredients to this point consist of scraps of Plastruct materials left over from previous projects, and piece of scrap K&S aluminum tube for the rear axle. The front axle and steering column are hollow styrene tube, which in their past life were the shafts of cotton swabs. Wheels, tires, and steering wheel are from a Revell Surfite, and AMT metal axles serve as wheel locators and the steering shaft. Yeah... they need a little trimming! I'm thinking I'll use the Briggs horizontal-shaft engine from the AMT Surf Slab for power, and I'm toying around with making up a mower deck.

Well... that does it, Terry! I'm getting started on a parts-box tractor of my own now.

I hope that 'bunch of work' was locating '53-55 cabs. Cutting and pasting a '56 cab to '53-55 specs would seem idiotic, even by Hollyweird standards.

There is a silver lining- think of all the ideas you can come up with for projects between the time a kit is announced and the time it is released. I already have three solid plans for the '50 Olds, and a couple for the '57 Ford. Already have parts set aside for them.

That paint is a pretty good match for the custom mix 'F'ing Green' used on the 1:1. Now, the question is- are you going to tackle the reborn Crusher Camaro next?

Ah- makes sense. The price he quoted me was a lot more digestible for a 1:24 scale kit, I will say that!

Very nice! Looks a lot like the old MPC kit tooling.

Old JoHan plastic + '61-63 American + modern build style = YUMMY!!!!