Chuck Most

Forgive me if I've said this before, but I must insist... LIONS SUCK!!!!

LIONS SUCK!!!!!

Haven't really decided yet, Rob. I'm kind of starting to like the 'barn find body on a fresh chassis' look I've got going on. Of course, there will be some rust 'streaking' off the cab onto the chassis in spots, and perhaps a little bit of road grime, but I'm still on the fence as to whether I'll go all out on weathering the chassis. It is a VERY distinct possibility at this point, though!

That Chuck Most guy only contributes to Model Cars.

Some guy named John Gum built a model of the JFK hearse (or whatever), look for it on e-Bay with a price of $20,000 any day now!

Some kind of space-time paradox?

Didn't all the MPC kits around '71 include the 'Zinger' style parts? Or was that just the specific themed issue Roger is talking about? I seem to remember seeing a '71 Charger or Challenger kit (don't remember which- it was 14 years ago or so, okay!!!!) which included Zinger-style parts, but it was just a regular annual kit.

I'd love to have an '81-'84 Town Car, or '80-'84 Delta 88 in kit form. I'd love to have my 1:1's of those back, too! I also wish there was an '84-'01 Cherokee, so I could do a model of my '84 Cherokee Pioneer.

Added a bit of detail to the firewall, and some more rust on it and the cowl via Doc O'Brien Weathering Powder. Voltage regulator (AMT '62 Bel Air) with some wires and a loom...

Lions S-U-C-K!!!!

Cut out a firewall, and after a little trimming and test fitting for stance, got it weathered and installed- I used a simplifed version of the 'salt' technique to weather it.

W-O-W.... I'd love to try something like this, but I'd go all out and end up with something that would take up an entire room in my house!

http://www.ford.com/electric/focuselectric/2012/?intcmp=fv-fv-a1b07c07d000647e00f00g05h09j12k30m1nvaluep20110110 Is it just me, or do I see a little Aston Martin in that front end?

That was easy enough- after I'd attached the Willys spring to the Ford axle, I simply took a piece of 2 x 4 mm Plastruct strip and bent it, and attached it to the front of the chassis.

Think I did the same thing to the El Camino when it was hauled off. Well, what was left of it anyway.

Yeah,but besides the price, the R&R stuff these days is pretty nasty sometimes, as far as molding quality goes!

The weathering on this one was a pretty basic technique. In a nutshell, here's what I did- I started off with a coat of Krylon Rust Tough "Ruddy Brown" primer, because it has a rust-like color. There are other, specific alternatives (such as the stuff from Floquil) that more closely resembles rust, but I usually go with the Krylon Ruddy Brown because it's readily available. I then sprayed over that with Krylon Olive Drab, and covered over that with the main color- Rustoleum Sage Green. Then I carefully wet-sanded the cab, to expose the layers of Olive drab and 'rust' beneath. I wasn't as concerned about burning thorough to bare plastic on this one as I'd normally be- the Orange Blossom kit's cab is molded in (wait for it...) orange plastic, if it were white or gray plastic, then you'd need to touch up the bare spots with rust-color brush paint. After I applied the Miller decals and BMF on the windsheild frame, I applied some Rustall which helped to 'tint' the Ruddy Brown primer and bare orange plastic. The cab was then hit with a light coat of Testors Dullcote.

Love seeing non-SS, non-V8 Novas. Especially in scale!

One more update for the evening... don't you love fast-dry paints? Here's the first test fit of the cab on the 'rolling chassis'. I'll have to play around with the stance a bit yet, but this is the basic look so far. I used the Orange Blossom kit's drag link, and some unknown plated hairpins. I'll cover up those big ugly slots in the backing plates with some scoops.

Good gawd! What did they do to that thing?

With the correct tunneled backlight, no less! Though I think I'd rather start with the Revell kit. One of these days I'd like to do a General Lee using the Revell kit as a base.

I approve this model!!!!

A bit more progress! I went with the unknown Ford axle, and added a spring from a Revell '41 Willys. I'll have to dig out a drag link and some radius rods, but that's the gist. I cobbled up the frame from Plastruct, and an AMT '29 Model A tranny crossmember.

$40,000 sounds more like it! Throw in a 427 Cammer and I'll give you another $500 on top of that.