Chuck Most

Those hubcaps look cool... but I expected that, because EVERYTHING on this van is turning out cool!

I picked up the Kurtis Offy Midget, a Revell 'Lightning Rods' Beetle kit, and I picked up a die cast Monster Mutt for my mom.

I want to bash one of these with the woody kit already! (and by 'one of these' I don't mean the Revell '48 Coupe. I mean I want to bash the woody with a Ken Snyder LP.)

Now I'm wondering... should it be towing a Kurtis Midget on that kit's included trailer, or should it be hauling some old derelict on the MPC tilt bed trailer? Hmmmm....

I've never seen much aftermarket for this kit in particular, but there is quite a bit of aftermarket stuff for Beetles in general out there. The Tamiya kit comes with metal transfers for the VW badge on the hood and the 1300 badge on the deck lid (hood).

Well... the short answer is I didn't have any headlamp lenses the proper size, and I didn't feel like turining any larger ones down to fit. But I had two styrene discs that were about the right size, and since I'd started building it as a drag car, I figured it did not really need lights anyway! The horn HAD to stay, though!

Uh...WOW!!!! How did I miss the WIP on THIS???? Anyway, glad to see the final result.

Second stalled project in a row I've finished in as many days! Hope this keeps up! The basic model is loosely based on an old buildup by Tim Boyd in SAE (back from 1988, I think),and the rest is all me. The De Soto Hemi was one I had lying around for years already built, plugged it in, finished up a few little minor details, and 'ere we are...

Well, George, they ARE molded closed!

Oh yeah, gorgeous! Love seeing Beetles, just finished one myself that's about 60% Tamiya '66!

This stared about a year ago, with a Tamiya '66 Beetle kit. I worked on it on and off (mostly off) for about six months, then let it sit for another six months. Earlier this week, while chopping the '66 body, I did an epic mess up, and long story short, had to find a new body. I robbed one from the Polar Lights Herbie the Love Bug kit, and modified it for the look I was after, and to fit the Tamiya chassis and interior.

Seats can be a bit of a pain to paint- one blast from a spray can or airbrush can knock them over, ruining the paint on the seat back. Simple fix? Take a thick piece of balsa wood and stick the seats to it with looped masking tape, or double sided tape. The wood acts as a base, and your seats won't try to blow away or fall over anymore.

She's a beauty, Lyle! I think I'd have gone with the Flattie from the Tudor kit if I had built it, but the 302 still looks nice, and the 'handrail' hood sides are just drool- inducing!

Oh, yeah...

I built this truck entirely as a showcase for one of Big Jim's Terraplane noses. This was the first one cast, so I felt it only fitting it be the first one used on a model! I was going for a fresh chassis draped with swap-meet body panels. The chassis is a Z'd Revell Deuce (on those big, burly tires from the Black Widow reissue), with an Olds 455 I built about a year or so ago with a Bandit Resins Batwing air cleaner housing, and the cab and box are modifed Lindberg bits. Pretty decent for a two-evening project, I guess.

Tyler- no steering box in this one at all. I usually don't add stuff like that unless it'll be visible on the finished model. Sometimes I forget the obvious stuff, too... I JUST NOTICED I never put any upper radiator hoses on this thing!

I love fullsize Fords, but I've never been a fan of the '61. But this one? This one makes me wonder how wrong I've been all this time...

Those are from the Revell 'Car Show' '30 Model A phaeton kit. Oh, and I'll have some pics of the complete Terraplane truck up tomorrow...well, later today I guess! ANd the Farmall prototype is still a work in progress.

Yeah... Motortopia and dial-up don't seem to get along too well. I'm working on it, though!

Well... it happened! And I'm building a '34 Ford shop truck just to show one off!

What happens when you take a drastically reworked '78 Ford Couirer frame, some '46 Chevy front rollers, '41 Lincoln rear rollers, a modified '41 Lincoln V-12, a cut down Revell '34 Ford roadster body, a scratchbuilt bed, a Revell Kurtis Midget nose, and throw all those parts violently at your workbench and hose it all off in Krylon Olive Green? Funny you ask...

Gonna need a big beefy skidplate up front now! And maybe a pre runner front bumper...

I've never seen the inside of the Moebius Lonestar kit, but I think I can describe what's in the box... it's got the instruction booklet, whuch probably resembles a smallish magazine, some Lonestar-shaped parts attached to several large plastic 'sprues', some tires, a chrome tree, and some decals on a piece of paper with a bluish tint on the back. Close your eyes and imagine...

Well, check out "under glass" next (probably sometime tomorrow). I'm just working on the little junk that isn't really post-worthy at this point!

BED TIME!!!! I made up the bed from styrene stock, and cut out the V for the V12 emblem. I don't know what the 1 and 2 are from, they were in one of my many junk boxes. And I cut down a Monogram Black Widow seat to fit the '34 tub, hosed it off in Tamiya Dark Earth, and plopped it in..