Chuck Most

I built the tractor a few years back- it's the AMT kit, back dated to a '59 model but retrofitted with a later style Cat V8. The idea I always kept coming back to for it was to have it hooked up to a short flat bed hauling another old Ford. I piddled around with a Lindberg trailer over the course of a couple years, and got it wrapped up a few weeks back, so I had my trailer. Then the problem became what to stick on the back. After trying a few existing models and giving some thoughts to building something especially as a trailer load, I finally opted to put a '69 Ford F350 wrecker on the back. Since Mr. Jim Wolfe seems to be fond of old Fords with some backyard engineered modifications, we can assume the '69 will be his next side project.

Nice! Big metal flake is perfect for a Manx.

That's a '55.... but it would look pretty cool with a stake bed. Or if you really want to go nuts, you could make up a period service body for it.

Send a message to one of the mods and they'll delete it for you.

This is an AMT/Ertl Modified Stocker kit that I bought for parts to use in re-building a '66 and '67 Falcon, so I threw together the remainder for fun. It's a former small-town circle tracker that's been mothballed for years... who knows how long. There are a few big-name sponsor decals, but most of the graphics are hand-painted and represent local businesses. I think the plan will be for this to end up on a trailer with some various auto scrap parts. For a four-hour time-killer I can't gripe too much with how it came out

I've always been baffled at why one make will use the same "core" model name on several different platforms. Oldsmobile was the worst offender in that case... Cutlass Calais, Cutlass Ciera, Cutlass Supreme, and a few others I'm not thinking of, all of which were in the lineup simultaneously. There was even a Cutlass Supreme Calais (G-body) and a Cutlass Calais Supreme(N-Body). Today we have examples like the front-drive compact Ford Transit Connect, and the full-size rear drive Ford Transit. Examples like the Taurus and Taurus X make more sense to me (essentially different body styles on the same platform), but sharing part of the name with several vehicles on different platforms always seemed weird to me. I know "brand recognition" and whatever, but diluting that brand never made any sense.

Nice! I think this is the third example of this I remember seeing built, and that's including mine and the one on Dave's web site.

Love it! Used to have a '57 FT (F-series Tandem) 600. That thing was a brute even with the Y-Block.

If Round 2 really wanted to counter Revell- tool up a new coupe body and interior tub for the existing '29 kit. Say what you want about the Revell A hot rod kits, but the old AMT kit is still pretty nice, and you'd be able to build a stock Model A coupe as well.

I saw an Isuzu Hombre. I completely forgot that these ever existed until seeing this one.

This is the AITM cab kit, sitting on a scratchbuilt frame with C600 suspension and axles, and a scratch built early '50's ford 9' Express bed. It's done up as a long-neglected old truck dealer's rolling business card.

That makes it worth an extra grand on craigslist

The model was finished about a year ago, with an AITM resin cab set onto a frame that was a hodge-podge of spares from a couple Transtar and Paystar kits. The plan then was to do up a matching trailer and then load it down with a junked-out old highway tractor or straight truck. Recently I dug out a glue-bomb AMT lowboy that was missing the deck and tie-down cleats, so I repainted it, redid the deck, and lettered it to match the truck. As with the other Loadcraft trailer I have the plan is to eventually make some working tie-downs for the sides. I went with diamond plate for the deck- in real life you'd want to add more cross-braces to the frame of the trailer to do that, but I just added this over the existing crossmembers.

Not sure how it isn't "real"... it appears to be casting a shadow, and if it rolled over your foot I'm certain it would seem real enough.

Yep- I used some plastic D-section and overlapped it a bit over the opening, so that the clear piece would fit flush against it from the inside. Thanks guys!

This is the AITM short-nose 9500 cab kit, perched on top of an AMT GMC Astro 95. I modified the front wheels to fit the float tires from an Ertl IH Paystar, and made up mirror and exhaust brackets. All in all, one of the easiest conversions I've done in a while. Now I'm ready to order another one and the long-nose variant.

Not sure, probably a couple hundred.

Fifth wheel came from Scenes Unlimited. I did think about doing the broken flares, but then the quarters would be visible and I didn't feel like using ones from a regular bed or making my own. Maybe next time.

I finished this back in 2015, with an old AMT kit and an even older Frank Gortsema resin conversion, but recently I dug it out and did a few updates. I added the slots in the bumper, along with the bumper bolts, and added the wet tank and lines. I still need to add some grease caps to the front wheel hubs.

The model got damaged a few months ago, so yesterday I spent a little time fixing things and doing upgrades. (Harry, if you can read this in Valhalla... I still didn't add trailer lines. )I I peeled off the foil from the grille and bumper because I used that nasty Ultra Bright stuff, it was all redone in the regular Improved Chrome. And now I see the headlight buckets could still use a little touch up. I also added some bumper bolts and fog lights, as well as a spot light. I also added a couple of thin vertical bars to the grille- eventually I might make the diamonds for the center.

You, me, and everyone else who builds models and abides.

This is the AMT/Ertl snap kit, built as a junker. I added some of the inner fender structure, and a set of mirrors from a Chevrolet C1500. Other than that, the body was heavily weathered and a few dents and dings were added, and I tossed in a mis-matched tailgate for good measure, and because I realized I had forgotten to paint the tailgate until I got to final assembly. I also lowered the rear suspension to simulate spring shackles that had rusted and broken away.

This started out as a built-up AMT/Ertl snap kit that was missing the tailgate and had worn chrome. The missing tailgate was replaced with a scratch built one, and a scratch built headache rack and mirrors were also added. The receiver hitch and fifth wheel hitch came from Scenes Unlimited, and the Federal Signal Aerodynic light bar is an old Chimneyville resin piece. After stripping the chrome, I noticed the plastic was almost the exact same color as the plastic Dodge used for the 1:1 grilles, so the foil was torn and curled to represent the peeling chrome these second-gen Ram grilles were notorious for.

The idea here was a barn find that started out as a jalopy, then was being converted into a street rod, then put in cold storage. The base kit is the Revell five-window, with a few Rat Roaster bits tossed in. Power is from a Ford 300 six with a home-made header and three-carb intake. The crash bars and roll cage were made from plastic rod, and the Holman-Moody wheels and pavement tires are resin bits I've had kicking around for ages.

Love it! Still need to grab this kit.