Chuck Most

Looking for any sources for these types of graphics, water slides or adhesive back. I've tried printing a few with my home printer, but I've never been happy with the results.

The Jag has a tentative name now... "Limey Samurai". I have a firewall fabbed up, still considering flares or maybe even a wheel and tire swap. The idea is to have the outside rundown looking. Chassis still needs a little fine tuning and I need to make a new exhaust intermediate pipe, but it's getting there.

A little more work on the Dodge.

AMT kit converted to four wheel drive with parts from the MPC 1982 Bronco, painted with Duplicolor Ford Toreador Red.

Idea I've had for a while. Jaguar Mk II infused with a little R32 Skyline GT-R goodness. The Jag's original inline six with end up in a hot rod of some type.

Basically a bunch of spare Moebius parts built up with a scratch built ladder rack and decorated with Halloween themed stickers. It's driven by a skeleton from the Rommel's Rod kit. Eventually it might end up as part of a roadside display advertising a haunted hayride attraction.

Built this for the Power By Ford Community Build. AMT kit built as an airbagged ratty hauler with a DOHC Cobra 4.6 V8.. The bed is scratch built and carries an Iceman Collections milk crate and fifth wheel. The door lettering was done with Woodland Scenics dry transfers over Colorshot Kale, weathered with Vallejo acrylics.

AMT kit with Moebius mirrors, door handles, and rear bumper. Intake and carburetor came from my spares stash. The front plate came from Best Model Car Parts and the rear one came from Three Inches Under. It's finished in weathered Rust-Oleum Summer Squash with a Revell USA full coat. The red trim accents were done with a Gundam marker.

Fujimi kit, lifted and fitted with Aoshima Bridgestone all terrain tires. It has a scratch built top panel and half cab and it's has a gooseneck hitch for pulling a sprayer. Maybe one of these days I'll make the sprayer setup to go with it. Paint is Testors Diamond Dust.

The Moebius '68 Mercury M100, lowered on AMT printed tires. It has a parts box floor shifter and '66 Mercury Park Lane valve covers. The 427 and Mercury script decals came from a Model King Cyclone NASCAR. Paint is distressed Rust-Oleum Ink Blue.

Roswell New Mexico resident Larry Fernandez spent a dozen years and about 70,000 miles behind the wheel of his Flathead V8 powered 1978 Ford Courier. When he finally sold it to a guy in Michigan in 2021, he decided it was time to get back to his other Flathead project, his V-12 1950 Ford F-1. Purchased by Larry's grandfather, Eligio "Lee" Fernandez, in 1969, Larry got the truck upon Lee's passing in 1996. Repowered with a 1953 vintage Flathead V8 and given a cosmic refresh in 1973, it was treated to an even more extensive restoration in 1994. It was Larry's "main secondary" vehicle all the way up to 2015, when the retrofitted, twice rebuilt Flattie spun a bearing. It wouldn't be until the COVID 19 shutdowns and Larry's subsequent voluntary early retirement that he really got serious about the project. He'd procured a 1948 vintage Lincoln V-12 in 2011, and had all the parts needed for a rebuild. He also got some aluminum heads and a triple carb intake. Said V-12 was thusly rebuilt and painted in the shade of matte green he'd chosen to retain from the 1994 restoration. It's channeled through the same floor shifted four speed manual that's been in the truck since 1973. The chassis had been fitted with a Mustang II front suspension and a four link rear during the 1994 rebuild. Larry freshened the chassis and installed an adjustable air suspension. The interior was basically left alone, just thoroughly cleaned and the seat was recovered. Larry left the weather-beaten fenders as-is, but went with a matte version of the truck's previous shade of green. The truck finally hit the road in the late spring of 2024. Originally it had a set of 18" Torq Thrusts, but after a while, Larry wanted a change. Around the same time, his buddy Jason was also looking for something different for his yellow '49 F-1. So eventually, the friends switched rolling stock... Larry's '50 got the flipper caps and wide whites from Jason's '49, and Jason's '49 got the 18" Torq Thrusts from Larry's '50. Larry might repaint them in matte green. Some day. For now, he's too busy running it every chance he gets. The kit is, of course, the Revell Monogram '50 Ford F-1. The green is Rust-Oleum Satin Moss Green and the fenders are weathered black primer. The wheels donated by Larry's buddy Jason are yellow because that's originally the color I had in mind. It's lowered by... basically a LOT of cutting. ? The engine is a resin part from The Parts Box of Australia. I wired it and used different carburetors and air cleaners, and used the stock Ford oil filter. Yes, the engine is 1:24 scale and the truck is 1:25, but I wasn't concerned about scale fidelity for this one. It was just an idea I felt like I needed to attempt. Now that I've lathed the idea into existence, I guess I'll have to build Jason's yellow '49 at some point. Anybody know of a good set of 18" Torq Thrusts in 1:25? ??

Got a start on something. It's a '78 Dodge chassis but it may or may not end up with a Dodge cab or power train.

Not a lot to take in here. Box stock Tamiya kit, finished in Tamiya Mica Blue and Krylon Slate. The seat decals broke apart and the rear Isuzu letter decal silvered but overall I'm pleased enough.

This was built from the American Satco kit in 2014. The one finished recently inspired me to dig it out and take photos. It is lifted, has a solid front axle conversion, and Mickey Thompson tires from the Revell Jeep Wrangler Rubicon. The paint is Duplicolor Grabber Green, and the mud is airbrushed Tamiya Flat Earth. I was going for a "just blasted down a wet dirt road" look. It was definitely one of the first models I weathered in this fashion, if not the actual first. The wheel arches were also radiused, but seeing as how I built this a decade ago I'm certain I'm forgetting a few things.

When Mike Slaughter turned 16 in 2017, his parents Mark and Sherry asked what vehicle he'd like. They never expected "Uncle George's Pathfinder" to be the answer. George Agosti bought the black 1992 Nissan Pathfinder SE from his boss in 2000, and used it as his "outdoor adventure" vehicle and winter transportation until 2012, when a workplace injury and the Nissan's budding transmission troubles put it to pasture. Mike had many fond childhood memories of riding in the Pathfinder to various hunting and camping trips, and felt like it deserved a second shot. Mark and Mike got it running, and after thoroughly going over the braking system, discovered the transmission was still slipping. Mike used the Pathfinder as a subject for two Auto Mechanics I semester exams... The first time when he rebuilt the transmission, and the second when he and his buddy Cory Dufrene addressed the rust and refinished the SUV in Line X and olive Drab. A father of another student donated the driving lights and brush guard, which he'd taken off his '91 Nissan pickup before he'd sold it some 20 years ago. By the time Mike graduated in 2019, he got a "hand me down" truck from his father as a gift. Said hand me down was the 2013 Raptor Mark had bought new. With that, the Pathfinder once again became the backup/beater/camping/fishing vehicle like it had been for George. A role it continues to this day. The model is the American Satco boxing of the Aoshima kit. Basically this was an LHD version with US market graphics. Satco offered a set of stock alloy wheels cast by Modelhaus, which this particular kit had. Satco offered a few different wheel and tire combos as extra cost options, and the kit was also available with a 1992 Pathfinder dealership brochure. The kit this was built from had the wheels and brochure, but not all of them did. The kit is 100% out of the box in that regard, then. Textured Krylon was used to simulate the Line X look. I scribed the door lines deeper so they wouldn't be lost under the textured coating. Then the entire body was hit with black primer, then Tamiya Olive Drab. This was a quick, lazy Sunday project that was a lot of fun. I'm not 100% pleased with it but the enjoyment to time spent ratio is hard to beat. Pretty soon Mike's Mustang will be locked away in the winter paddock, and the Pathfinder will be on full time duty.

Very nice! Strange you posted this right around the same time I dug this same kit out of my stash (Along with an Aoshima kit of the same subject).

A while back you might have seen Fat Mike's '97 P71 "courtesy car". And you might have been made aware of the source of the wheels and tires it wears. Here's the car that (temporarily anyway) loaned the rollers. Mike Slaughter bought the Grabber Orange 2014 GT from G.R. Wilson Ford/Lincoln in March of 2022. It was a one owner car and had 112,000 miles. Mike hasn't done much with it other than put on a set of Foose wheels and new tires in the summer of 2024. When he bought it, the hood vents, mirror nacelles and door frames had been painted to match the car, and it appeared to be lowered a couple inches. All Mike plans to do is drive the wheels off of it whenever the weather is nice, and keep it looking halfway presentable. It's occasionally dusty, and there might be the odd crumpled Combos pouch or empty Schweppes bottle in the rear foot well sometimes, but it definitely sees more care than Mike's other driver. But that's a story for some other time. The model is the Revell kit. After stealing the engine and a few other parts for other projects, I built it as a curbside. Wheels, tires and brakes came from the Foose '56 F100. The paint is from an ancient Model Master rattle can, Grabber Orange, obviously.

When you call Fat Mike's Towing, and you don't need a tow but rather a jump start or lockout service, you are likely to see an old pale blue Ford sedan done up like a quasi police car arrive on scene. That car is, in fact, a 1997 Ford P71 Interceptor. It was an Ashley Village Police cruiser (unit A3 to be exact) until 2002, when "Fat Mike" Agosti bought it. At that time it had 150,000 miles and Mike got it for $500. Being a good pal of the Ashley police chief has a few perks. It still had the push bar and spotlights, as well as the rear seat partition. Mike kept the partition but removed the Plexiglas, replaced the front red and blue strobes with amber lenses, and strapped on an old Federal Signal Twinsonic light bar. Yes, it's functional. So is the siren. For the last 22 years, the old Vic has served faithfully, having racked up nearly 400,000 miles over it's near three decade life. Along the way it's been repainted (again, most recently in 2015), has had an engine and transmission rebuild, has had it's rear quarter panels replaced, has been maintained religiously, going above and beyond what the Ford factory guidelines say, and has responded to hundreds, if not thousands, of situations. These situations of course include the aforementioned jumps and lockouts, but it's also been pressed into service to ferry stranded motorists. Sometimes the passengers displaced in an accident outnumber the available seats in the wrecker, and the Crown Vic is brought in so everyone has a ride if needed. In 2008, this car's replacement came up for sale. But the '97 proved so reliable that Mike opted not to replace the car with the 2003 model Ashley Unit A3. Sadly, Fat Mike wasn't around by the time the 2008 A3 was available, but by then the '97 was so intertwined with the business's image, the thought of replacing the it wasn't even considered. In the summer of 2024, the old cruiser was treated to an appearance upgrade, when it was fitted with a set of wheels from a 2014 Mustang GT. It was mainly a matter of the car needing new tires and Fat Mike's grandson, Mike Slaughter, having a nearly new set of tires on his Mustang when he did an aftermarket wheel swap. Prior to this he car had worn a set of Cragar S/S wheels in the summer (starting in 2010 or so), reverting to the factory steel wheels in winter. And the car serves another, somewhat less "practical" purpose for Fat Mike's Towing... The car is something of a mascot. The entire fleet of Fat Mike's Towing consists of blue Fords, but this particular blue Ford stands apart from the rest. Everybody in Gratiot and surrounding counties has seen the "old baby blue cop car" with the Fat Mike's logo out and about. And it's going to keep on being visible for the company for the foreseeable future. The kit is the Lindberg Ohio State Police cruiser, built out of the box with the exception of the light bar (AMT parts pack), wheels and tires (Revell '14 Mustang GT), brake rotors (parts box), and decals (Gopher Racing). I think the paint is Tamiya French Blue but don't hold me to that. I painted this a while ago and all I remember is it's sanded to expose gray primer and covered in Revell flat clear coat. I wanted the look of a car that was well cared for but certainly showing it's age.

I doubt it. This was a cab I bought ten years ago and it was probably ten or fifteen years old by then.

Other than the rocker panels needed a little bit of massaging to fit, couldn't be happier with how the kit builds up and looks. Yes, I didn't notice the thumb prints and smudges until after I'd taken the photos. That's a me problem, not a kit problem. ?

I bought the AMT kit 70 or 80 years ago for parts. Turns out fate had other plans. It has the Recaro style bucket seats, spoiler, and DOHC prototype cylinder heads from the 1970 Pro Street Super Bee, tires from the current MPC '53 F100 reissue, Gofer Racing Roadrunner graphics, and a Best Model Car Parts front plate. Paint is Colorshot Emoji.

Parts from three incomplete Monogram kits and an old resin regular cab. Paint is Duplicolor Toreador Red.

This was a stalled project that got finished in The Straight Six Community Build Rides Again. This is the street machine version of the kit, with some old Plastic Performance Products six lug wheels and AMT white line tires. The engine is a 236 from the AMT 1960 Chevrolet Street Machine. I'm not really a fan of the visor, but I'm even less of a fan of the poorly fitting windshield, so it's there to hide the worst of the gaps.

'50 is done. I'll post the finished photos later.

AMT kit built as a representation of a couple of "homemade" dually conversions I remember from years ago. The rear fenders from a Sportside were grafted to the Fleetside bed, and it was capped off with a modified topper from the AMT '63 F100. Wheels are from the AMT C3500, front tires are from a Moebius '68 F250, and rear tires are from a Moebius '72 F250 4x4. The rest of the model is basically out of the box. Paint is Krylon Tidal Blue with Testors Dullcote.