Chuck Most

Thanks guys! I had a blast building this, and it helped to take my mind off some of the more "serious" stuff I had going on at the moment. Modeling certainly is theraputic! Just because I can, and because I had to test out my new camera (Kodak AZ251), here's another jaunty-angle pic.

Very cool! As I was scrolling through the pics I swore I could hear Richard Rawlings letting out one of his characteristic yelps.

I love the Crackerbox and LTL, but every time I look at the pics of the W everything goes into slow-motion and the chorus of "Beautiful" by James Blunt starts playing in my head. Please, please, PLEASE say you're going to let somebody cast that one, at least!

Fine, I don't. I am hearing the opening score from "Inglorious Basterds" for some reason, though! Very nicely done.

I'll keep it in mind.

This is the Tamiya Morris Mini Cooper Rally car kit, combined with the long-gone Scale Kraft pickup transkit. I used the wheels from the Austin Mini Cooper- they're not prototypically correct for a pickup, but they're about the closest thing to a plain BMC steel wheel you can find. I used the knobby tires from the rally kit on the drive axle and the regular tires in back. There are still a few doodads I'd like to add, but it'll pass for finished for the time being.

The flanks on this kit can be wavy enough to induce mild seasickness, but that slick black paint job proves you managed to take care of them.

Double ditto.

I remember reading about this one- the rear window is the stock Starlight piece, flipped backwards and vertical. One of the guys who build it did that saying that "Nobody will ever guess what kind of car the back window is from".

Off to a great start! The seat and engine x-member look killer.

I'll be keeping a close eye on this one. With this kit available, I doubt my 1:16 Heller kit ever stands a chance of being built...

The J is still inching along. Mirrors still need to be cleaned up and painted.

Best buildup of this kit I've seen to date!

Love it. Looks like the imagery of a '54 Hudson ad come to life.

Wouldn't hurt to ask, though.

The Parts Box used to sell a complete Lincoln V12 which included finned heads- I don't recall ever seeing them individually. You could make your own using grooved styrene stock.

Basic build of the 2001 Buyer's Choice issue, with Blueprinter parts pack Halibrand wheels and pad-printed AMT Goodyear tires. It's also one of the few models I've built with a small-block Chevy engine, which I think came from an AMT '66 Nova. A modified S10 Blazer air intake was used in order to fit it under the hood with no cutting. I wanted the car to appear mostly stock.

Quite the tire swing setup you have there.

This was supposed to have been a quick slump-buster. That was back in 2012. Around the time I started it, I got the news that my father had had a stroke and was going in for open heart surgery. So... that kind of killed that idea. My father made a full recovery (or at least as full as you can make after two strokes), but even so, every time I tried to work on this thing it kinda took me back to that period of time. So to say the least, getting the car finished wasn't a priority. A while back I started working on a J30, and that finally got me motivated to finally finish the Q. So, what was meant to have been a quick project four years ago ended up being my first completion of 2016. I may add a few other doodads and touch ups here and there later on, but I'm calling it done for now. The shocking thing is that, even after all of this time, I still remembered more or less everything I originally had in mind to do with it! Which is all the more amazing, seeing as how I'm the kind of guy who will get off the couch and walk to the dining room, only to forget why I went out there in the first place, all in the space of about 20 seconds. All told, I'd say the model has a total of about a week's worth of evenings into it total. Just spread out over a few years. Anyway...

I'm calling the Q close enough to call finished. Pics in Under Glass shortly.

No photo-worthy updates on the J, but I did lay some pipe on the Q. I see I may need to do a little more touch-up to the red stripes, as a little bled under the tape and down the trunk cut lines.

Well, they ain't gonna finish themselves, no matter how politely you ask, right?

The Q now has an oil cooler, front plate, and a chip on the corner of the bumper, which I think I just might keep. The J is cleared, and the side window trim has been foiled. Next up will be painting the windshield and backlight trim, door pillars, and windshield/backlight borders.

Well, that shut me up.