DanielG

Since the engine will be more or less visible, I thought that I had better add a few of the more obvious details.

Sweet!

Spent time on the inter-web getting interior and undercarriage pics. Managed, I think, to re-engineer the body to allow easier construction by cutting out the bottoms of the doors and making them one piece (like they should have been from the start!). The engine and radiator will fit with a bit of lengthening. Now to search out some pics of the Buick engine.

I am no expert on Fords but I know that my wife would not like it!(the real thing, not your model) No side door or communication with the driver. Nice looking scratch-build though.

Roger that, 1/18. I have a 1/24 jeep (plastic) that I was going to scavenge for odds-n-ends but could not find a suitable vehicle in 1/24 to build.

The model engineering is terrible and the detail (example: engine) also sucks which is why it is cheap so I had no qualms about bashing it! Nothing is finalized yet but I am thinking along the lines of a .50 Browning on a ring mount and some more chopping and added 'armour' panels. (I am only doing this for something to do while the paint on the 'El Camino' cures!)

The basis, a crappy pajero. First, tear it apart! The so called 'engine', not suitable for post-apoc lifestyle! Old Buick Fireball 8, more suited to low-tech post-apoc. Does it fit? No, but it will!

I'm sorry, but that is more about photography than model building, BUT, they do look really nice, don't they?!

Nice build, Wolfy!

Tres bonne, mon ami!

Cool, will have to kick around this idea in 1/18. Thanks.

Good save and restoration of what looked like a well used 'toy'.

A quick update (because I just know that you are all waiting...), having trouble getting the paint job finished, one heartbeat away from cleaning it off and starting over!

That brought back a memory, I remember building their little MG, seems I had the flu and it was given to me to keep me busy, probably five or six years old. (maybe; I'll have to check the history to see when that kit came out, may have been later!)

Funny how memory works, I can remember my first, over fifty years ago but I couldn't tell you what came next.

As well as the Firebird they also did a '68 GTO wagon, lots of possibilities out there!

Do you remember your first plastic model kit? Mine was a simple model of a Voodoo, three parts; fuselage, wings and tailplane; cost was two box-tops from Blue Bonnet margarine. Must have been around 1953/54. Don't remember what my first car model was but was probably one of the AMT heavy plastic kits; wire axles and one piece under-body and body and extra add-ons, louvres and such, pretty basic and I must have built tons of them (I think each kit weighed about a pound!).

Good grief, wear a mask, you don't want to inhale any of those parts! Looking good so far.

I have ordered a '79 die-cast to convert. I will be watching this to plunder any good ideas!

I agree.

Define 'soft metal'.

Actually, there are worse kits, 'Z' scale photo-etch kits. I have never tried any and can only imagine the nightmare!

Great paint. Looks like you took the pic outside or near a window?

What they said, good job!

I had to dress up the whitewalls on the tires of the '58 Impala currently on my bench. I used white acrylic and turned the wheel in my fingers. You want to have the paint as wet as you can and still have it adhere, it then dries smooth. Most tires have a ridge moulded on the sidewall somewhere and that is what you want to paint to. To paint a very thin 'whitewall' I think that you would have to mask to get an even line.