Chuck Most

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..

Mike- two index cards will slot under the rockers quite nicely, thank you! Mike (other one) and Al... yeah, but I'd have had to cut way, way, waaaaaaaaaay too much off the thing to make it work!

Thank you, sir! I've got some Frankenstein-like horror in mind, mixing and matching a Black Widow 150 and a '56 Nomad...

BEST one (IMHO)... AMT's '56 Vicky Y-Block. Good detail if a bit simplified, and a pretty good selection of period speed parts, to boot.

Does this kit also share some of its parts with the '56 Nomad and Belair, and the new spate of Revell '57 Chevy kits?

Oh, if anyone's curious, the paint is Krylon Fusion Olive Drab, straight from the rattle can. I think I'm going with Tamiya Dark Earth for the interior and possible tonneau cover.

I'm not even thirty, and I don't plan on being 30 for at least another year , and I plan on building models until I'm too crippled to move or horizontal, whichever comes first. So at least one guy will still be building in the decades to come... ME.

Wow... all the big guns are building rats nowadays. I might have to hang it up!

Here was my first mockup... Here is what you are seeing- a front tire/wheel from a Galaxie '46 Chevy, a rear tire/wheel from a Monogram '41 Lincoln Continental, a modified V-12 from that same Lincoln kit, with scratchbuilt finned heads and three carbs from three different Revell '37 Ford pickup kits, and a cab made by cutting down one of those shrunken Revell "Saints" '34 Ford roadsters (the body was 'shrunken' to fit the Lil John Buttera chassis from the earlier '26 T street rod kits, why, I have no idea...) I liked what I saw, so I set about connecting the dots... The frame is (wait for it...) a '78 Ford Courier piece, Z'd in back with a '37 Ford buggy spring and Banjo axle. Up front, I cut away the Courier IFS, and replaced it with an early Ford style cross spring setup with parts box hairpins. I also made up some headers for the V-12 using solder and aluminum tubing, and slapped on the nose from a Revell Kurtis Midget, with the bullet headlamps from an AMT '62 Electra 225. I also scratched up some floor boards, a firewall, and a driveshaft hump, and cut down the '41 Lincoln dash to fit the cab, but we'll be seeing those later on when the interior has a bit more to look at. Still on the agenda- steering linkage, bed, headlamp lenses, and the aforementioned interior goodies!

Thanks guys! Looks like quite a few parts I can cannibalize for the project I've got in mind. I'm always kind of leery of Testors and Lindberg kits, this one looks like it might work.

Does anyone have pictures of this kit's contents? I'm interested in what the chassis, suspension, and interior parts look like and how they're broken down. Thanks, guys!

All I can say is you've really piqued my interest with this one!

The one he's got looks like the midsize, '84 style. I wish they'd kitted the older FSJ Cherokee too, now that I think of it!

I'm thinking you're onto something!

But I don't want to build the 700 or 800 kits I have stashed! I want to build THIS one!!!! AND the upcoming AMT Manx dune buggy reissue...

I spoke to a buddy of mine today, who just so happens to be a recent ex-Chrysler tech, and he says all the ones he'd worked on didn't have the engine shroud, and some of them were fairly 'fresh', undergoing their first maintenance trip. His theroy is they're either left off at the factory, or removed when the cars are fitted out. But he did say he'd never seen one in place on a police unit in the three years he worked at the dealer after the police Charger was introduced.

FINALLY picked up a Monogram black widow! And finally picked up a couple of kits I've wanted for a long, long time... the Jo-Han Chrysler Turbine car, the MPC Indy Hall Of Fame three-pack (with the '63 Watson), as well as an Imag Beetle, '69 Corvair, '29 Model A, and a Gunze Sangyo '56 Beetle. I've been on a bit of a Beetle bender lately, I guess! Oh,and three of Big Jim's new '36 Hudson Terraplane grille shells!

Just said on the news they're telling residents of Maui and the big island on Hawaii to stay alert. FIngers crossed nothing will happen!

Clean and C-L-A-S-S-Y...

WOW. Very cool! Just a question... not sure what you're doing with the stepped back end, but I kind of like it. Is that what you're planning on doing on the actual model? This thing would look great with a '30's car hauler body on it, like the one on the Danbury Mint GMC diecast model.