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I just got my daily driver back on the road. I bought this '92 Chevy S10 in July and after a bit of rebuilding it's ready for winter. Someone had lowered it when I bought it and it had 16" wheels with low profile tires on it. I raised the ride height back to stock (Even though it looks like front springs are cut a bit shorter, but otherwise it's back to stock height) and changed wheels and tires too. I added some under-body coating to chassis and welded a couple of rust spots on front fender and tailgate. It had a wide black stripe running over it so I painted hood, top and tailgate white again to get rid of that stripe. I also added a new exhaust, since one of the former owners had built a new exhaust that was very loud and since this car has a 151 Cid Four Banger under the hood, no-one wants to hear that engine with that loud exhaust! Now I can concentrate on doing some minor upgrades on my '60 Impala during the winter.

Thanks Gene! Now I got my 1:1 '92 Chevy S10 back together and back on the road, I hope I have some more time to work with these models again. Today I was searching for parts on this one. Because I want to mock up rear suspension to get an idea where spring mounts etc need to be attached, I started by digging out a proper set of Slot Mag wheels to rear slicks. I need to strip that chrome plating off from them and then they'll be painted Magnesium color. Inner wheels / wheel backs (Whatever they are called) are from my parts box too. They don't fit quite perfectly, but I guess I can live with it. But right now there are two problems concerning the wheel & tire combination. First problem is that my rear slicks are very rough and it would be best if I found another pair of them that was in better shape. But as those slicks can be found from old Jo-Han kits only (As far as I know at least), they are not the easiest ones to find. Probably I'll end up trying to restore those that I have, but honestly I'm not sure if I can fix them good enough or not. My other problem is front wheels. As the tires are small 13" Good Years (These Street Altereds had often quite little front tires), it's very hard to find proper steel wheels on that size. Hopefully I can find a set from somewhere though. Another part I found today was a rear axle. It's from Monogram '56 Chevy. I didn't find one that was exactly like I wanted, so I think I will have to modify one using that Chevy axle as a starting point. It needs a bit widening and a new set of leaf springs, and Ladder Bars of course. As it needs widening and new leaf springs, I cut both leaf springs away and now it's ready to be widened with some styrene rod. I hope I can make it, but this is a good axle as if I screw up, I have lots of these in my parts box so I can start over...

Very nice! Also I'm glad to see a '70 Duster rather than '71 that is not as good looking car as this. That stance together with your wheel and tire combo and Primer paint job make it look a bit different and very cool. I like it.

Looking very good so far! I like how that interior is coming together, it looks excellent so far. I'm just wondering why are you using that Monogram kit as the body is not really accurate on that (And even I can see that it's not correct !)? Is there a special reason for using that kit...? But I'm sure it will look good in any case once it's done. Keep it coming.

I had to double check if it was real or model... Excellent work with all of the details. As I rarely detail suspension parts that much, it's great to see how you guys do it. Excellent work, this is one of my favorite projects on here, keep it coming.

That looks excellent! Actually I didn't even know that this kit is out after opening the Truck's Workbench section earlier today. This looks like a true masterpiece, and even without major detailing this looks very good. Looks like I need many of these.

Fantastic looking Mack! As it's that long, I definitely wouldn't want to drive that in a city center. Very nice work with all of those little details. Building the model alone must have been a huge effort, but making that haul has taken a lot of time as well. Overall, a super nice combination.

Excellent job! Especially that weathering is done very nicely, it looks just like a real used car or truck does. Very nice work overall, makes me want to put my hands on my Chevy Titan that's laying around in my stash.

Well done Dodge Demon! It sounds like a lot of work went to the body only. Plus fitting that chassis in there must have required some modifications, too? It's a very good looking Outlaw car, and very sharp detailing in the engine bay and interior finish it off. Excellent work as always from your bench.

Thanks Dan and Johan! I like these Cortinas, too. One of the best looking European cars ever done. Today I was assembling my Chevy S10 together as the paint on its body was dry. After that I took one Gene Vincent's LP Record and put it in my record player (Gene Vincent - Rocky Road Blues) and did a little work with this. I didn't have much time to build though, but I was still able to add some tubings to other side of the frame. Now it looks like this and I believe I'm ready to start mocking up suspension parts to figure out how to continue building the frame...

Well then it should be no problem, I'm in for sure !

That Australia Cannonball would be interesting, but I'm not crazy about the Right Hand Drive thing. I'm afraid it will lower the number of participants if all cars must be RHD. Aussie-race is a good idea, but at least I'm out if car has to be RHD and I'm afraid I'm not the only one who feels this way...

Me either. Though I created my account in 2008 so it's not as old as yours.

That's a good looking paint scheme. Excellent shades of blue, red and white, they fit very well together on the body and chassis. I can't wait to see more updates, keep them coming.

Thanks so much! I was a bit afraid of how well I would do when I got back to the bench. During the time when I wasn't building models, I was building and playing with my 1:1 toys, but as all of the parts there are 25 times bigger, you can't do such a detail work as with these scale models. But luckily it looks like I still can, even though I'm a bit slow on this as there is still lots of other stuff to do (Just yesterday I repainted my daily driver, Chevy S10). But hopefully I can continue the frame work very soon....

Good looking '37 Chevy! This is one of those kits I'd like to build as well, and seeing your excellent build in here makes me want to build this one even more. Excellent work overall. Nice paint job and great color choice. That metal flake finish fits perfectly to this one. I like that wheel and tire combo as well. Very fine work overall.

Thanks guys, then I have no worries when opening a new account. I might upgrade that account some time in the future (Maybe when the one I just opened is full), but not now. Thanks.

I bought from him many times as well. Always a great guy to deal with, the internet-shop was very easy to use and all shipping costs etc to Finland were decent. It was very sad news when he shut the shop down, now I moved on to Model RoundUp, but actually I haven't bought anything from them yet. Just created an account so I'm ready to buy if they have something I need to get.

Well here we go again, a small update. Before I was able to continue adding some more tubes to frame sides, I had to do some cleanup from inside the body. On some spots there was some excess resin that had to be sanded off. I took out my Dremel and sanded those smooth. It might be that you all know this already and I haven't heard of it, but I found out that when sanding resin with motor tool next time, wear somekind of a breathing mask! That resin "dust" is pretty nasty stuff when you breath it. I still have some cleanup to do, especially in the engine bay area. I have to clean them up as well, but it's coming later. Now I can concentrate on building the frame. Anyway this is how inside of the body looks now: Now I was able to continue building the frame. I started by making some tubes to other side of the frame. Very simple and easy so far, just cutting tubes into correct length and gluing them together. Now next step will be doing the same thing to other side.

While ago I ran out of space on my Photobucket account. I bought more space on $2.99 per month and it was fine. Now that $2.99 deal ended and it means I have a free account and of course I ran out of space again. It shows that my storage is 100% full even if there is much more stuff than I'd be allowed to (So it's really more like 120% full or something like that). Now I could buy more space by taking that $2.99 deal again, but I'm leaning towards making another account and leaving the one I have as is. But what happens if I do nothing to the account where I have more pics than my free account would normally allow? Will the pics stay as they are, or are they going to remove my pics/my account? Does anyone have any experience in this? Yep, I could buy more space and it would not ruin my budget. But it would be whole lot easier to just open a new account.

I'm not sure which one I prefer. Both have their good and bad sides. AMT's problem in my opinion are those opening doors that usually don't fit very well. Though, not all of those AMT versions have this problem, as I have a couple of old builtups that have doors molded shut. AMT's Custom Parts that come with the kit are a great bonus too. There's not much wrong with Revell's kit either. Only thing I wasn't happy about was that diamond plate area in chassis around the gas tank. Revell's good thing compared to AMT is side trim which is molded as separate parts. That saves a lot of foiling, and I've never been a fan of that! But all in all, it's hard to say which one I prefer. I have built one Revell '58 Impala and I have three AMT builtups on my stash. One is going to be a Mild Custom, one is a parts car to build '58 Chevy Sedan Delivery using Jimmy Flintstone's body and one is still with no plan.

Great to see one of these being built. I have the same kit, even though it's resin cast by my friend and I'm building mine as The Ramchargers' Super Stocker. So I'll definitely follow this one. I think those wheels and tires don't fit to this body, though. If they were 15" with high profile tires and maybe white walls then they'd be just about perfect. But those oversized wheels just don't look right in my opinion. But no matter what wheels and tires you'll end up using, I'll keep an eye on this. The subject sure is interesting.

I think Swap Meets are the best place to buy kits! Sure, there are some guys who might ask high prices from their kits, but I just simply skip those kits and head to the next table. Many times I find kits that are really cheap. And when I find a kit I'd like to build for a cheap price, it's mine. I've done lots of good deals and found rare kits as well, some of them have been kits I've never seen before. I have never sold any kits in a Swap Meet, and not really anywhere else either. Only way I've got rid of them has been by trading them with some modeling friends. But if I sold them, I'd keep the prices low as well. The reason is to sell them, right?

I'll be happy with all of those suggestions except the Unlimited and I will definitely build something for that race. Unfortunately I'm out of this year's Cannonball with my Trabant. I simply had no time to build during the summer and now even if I worked full time on it, I could not get it done. It will be finished some day, though.

It's always great to see John's new project, because even before opening the thread I know it's going to be another one that has to be watched very closely. This is one of those kits that I think I'll never build, but watching you do it is a lot of fun. Start is looking excellent already. Especially that front suspension is going to be spectacular...Keep it coming!