Chuck Most

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Loved it the first time. Still do. ?

This is the Sportside kit with a frame stretch to accommodate the Moebius service body. The 8 bolt wheels came from Scenes Unlimited and the bucket was cobbled together from Evergreen strip. Some accessories from Hobby Gear fill out the bed.

This was an idea I've had for a while- the go-fast parts and touches from a Thunderbolt applied to an F-100. The engine, rear shocks, and traction bars were swiped from a Revell Thunderbolt, as was one of the bucket seats. I added the test equipment from the AMT '65 Grand Prix, and the slicks are from a Moebius Satellite. I also gave it a Hemi Dart scheme- gray primer on the steel and black gelcoat on the fiberglass. The battery was moved to the back and sits on an aluminum floor. Unneeded items like the rear bumper and passenger's wiper were omitted to save weight.

Yes it does. I know that's off-putting to many modelers but I've had far worse-fitting plastic rails.

It's there up until the late '80's Customizing Series version of the kit. The later versions (gray box art and later) lost the piston/con rod and pistol grip shifter in favor of new hop up parts for the Flathead.

So, what do you do if you have a '78 Subaru BRAT that's too rusted out to restore? Well, I'd chop it down to a three-window coupe body, fab up a new chassis, and stick the engine out back with a VW transaxle. But maybe I'm weird like that...

This is the Moebius kit done up as a bagged beater with a turbocharged Cat V8 diesel, which was originally built for a '70 that stalled about 1/3 of the way through. The wheels are the centers from a USA-1 monster truck and wrapped in tires from a Tamiya Nissan 300 ZX.

A while back I printed off a sheet of decals. One of the graphics I had was for Leatherface Tree Service. So, I felt like a rundown old junker wearing another rundown old junker's face would be just the ticket to put the graphics to use. The main kit is the '70 F100 4x4, which was fitted with a '65 grille and fenders, AMT '79 hood, and an AMT '95 bed, with the backup lights done '87-'91 style. Stickers of "Winston Hoyt for Sheriff" and "Leatherface 2020" were added to the back window.

I wanted to do a backwoods beater from the BRAT reissue. To that end, I fabricated a lift kit, used some MPC Desert Dog tires, and wheels from an MPC Cavalier. I also added a turbo to help turn the big tires.

After I swapped the grille and engine from a '66 Flareside into one of my service truck kits, I used the '65 grille on the '66 kit and repowered it with a 302 from the '72 Sport Custom kit. It was lowered and fitted with Pegasus deep dish Cragars, most of the badging and handles were shaved, and a roll pan and bed cover from an AMT '53 were used. The whole thing was hosed off in Testors Star Spangled blue with white accents.

In short, it's the old Ertl kit built box stock other than the air conditioner, aluminum smokestack, and decals. I also made new spindles as the diecast parts in the hit refused to cooperate with me.

When AMT reissued the BRAT, I naturally had to nab four of them right away. Molding quality was decent, except for one kit, which had a pretty badly warped body. So I opted to have a little fun with that one and did it as a long-suffering but now-retired veterinary vehicle. Other than the decals, which were printed onto Micro-Mark carrier, it's box stock.

Don't know how I forgot that when I still have two of the two piece wheels from Dad's '66. ?

This is, of course, the Moebius '65 kit. I swapped the grille for a '66, and swapped in the straight six and three speed from that kit as well just for kicks. I visually converted it to a 3/4 ton with Scenes Unlimited wheels. I also used Scenes Unlimited mud and snow tires on the back. The front hubcaps are in the kit, and were used to complete the 3/4 ton visual conversion. even though they're one generation too new for a '66. My dad's old '66 had a set of C8UA-1130-A caps added later, so it was something that could have happened if the original caps were lost. The "Ted Nelson Plumbing and Heating" graphics are taken from one of Tom Servo's jokes on the MST3K episode highlighting The Incredible Melting Man. I also used a 1977 Michigan tag as a nod to the year of that movie's release. I also threw together a ladder rack from 2mm styrene strip just for fun.

These were built from the Moebius kit- the "business coupe" from the stock Belvedere I, and the street machine began as the Butch Leal drag car before the stock Belvedere came out. I prefer the stock kit- not only can it be built stock (naturally), but Moebius modified the molds and the door and trunk lines are much deeper and better defined! The business coupe was done up as a delivery/errand car for an old thrift shop. I used the rear seat panel from one of the Leal kits to do a "back seat delete", and modified a '68 Roadrunner bench for the front seat. The Slant Six is one from Motor City Resin Casters. The car was made to look like a green car that had been repainted white at some point. I don't know where I got the front white walls, but they came from either the Comet or the Satellite kit from Moebius. The street machine was built around the engine. It's the blown 426 from the Revell F&F '70 Charger, with the valve covers from the Foose Charger. I built the engine ages ago and threw the '65 together for a place to house it. The stock Satellite back seat was swapped in, and I used the big and little tires that come as options in the stock kit on the Leal kit steel wheels.

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Years ago, I saw a very beaten SSII which had it's rusted rear quarter panels patched in with replacements from an S10. For years the image stuck in my mind and I decided to try it on a model. I didn't have an S10 kit in the stash but I had a junk Ranger snap kit bed laying around so I used that for the quarter panels instead. The real Scout I remember had the soft top, but I decided to add a "junkyard" hard top and doors. I left the trim on the doors to suggest they're off another Scout, and added some body and rust damage. The hole under the driver's headlight was a last-second addition, after I saw a Scout online with a similar hole. The winch came from a Deserer GMC and it sits in a homemade bumper.

So, you have a beat-up Chrysler 300C from a sleazy dirt used car lot. It was used and abused pretty hard, and combine that with the fact that every Chrysler engine with a displacement that ends in 7 is basically a ticking time bomb, it stands to reason it's going to be a little rough and the engine likely isn't long for this world. Why not swap in a V10 and six speed from a wrecked first-gen Viper? Sure, it's doggy compared to a newer Viper mill, but it was cheap and available, and there's something to be said for the kink factor of such a thing. And since you're doing this the cheap and easy way, why even bother plumbing an air intake? Nah... open throttle bodies, maybe we'll slap on some Autozone generic cone filters at some point. It would be quite a sleeper if you weren't so afraid of driving such a dilapidated wreck.

This is the new reissue of the AMT kit. Since this thing is a it of a boat, I struck upon an idea for a nautical kind of theme. An AMT boat coughed up it's bow light, and a Lindberg Owens coughed up the horn, anchor, and hatch cover. Yes, there's also a hitch from the AMT boat kit, and yes... eventually there will be a boat hooked up behind it. The Crystal Lake Marina can either mean the lake about 20 miles east of me, or the one made famous by a certain undead slasher in a hockey mask. You pick.

This is a '53 F100 cab set up on a '97 F-150 long bed chassis. The wheels and tires, and both hitches came from Scenes Unlimited, and the rear bumper is from a Moebius kit. I got rid of a spare '97 parts and ended up with more spare '53 parts.

No problem with the thickness of the plastic. The only problem with the six in the 4x4 chassis is that it sits up a bit high- notching the oil pan may cure that.

I'm just going to call it done before that damned black side trim drives me nuts. It's the old MPC kit with Pegasus wheels, all the nutty IMSA-style body add-ons, and a turbocharged Oldsmobile Northstar V8. One of these days I'll get the trim touched up. A less-conspicuous muffler may also end up on it.

This was built from leftover '97 XLT, '99 Lightning, and 2000 Harley Edition parts, and powered by a 2007 Shelby 5.4 engine. The decals came from the MPC Dodge pickup, and the Harley is a diecast '58 FLH Duo Glide from Maisto. I had a little fun by mistmatching the interior door panels- the driver's side is the '97, while the passenger's side is a '99. In real life this truck probably has a salvage title.