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The engine is just a parts box flathead. I think it may be from the 53 Ford F100. I made an air cleaner, but I don't think I'll keep oit, its too big.

I just set up a Photobucket account and am trying to figure out how to post with it. I'll try posting more when I get it worked out.

The body came from a Muscle Machines diecast from 2004 or 5. They pop pretty often on auction sites. I have a second one that I wish someone could turn into a resin kit. It was originally painted up and sold as a Jesse James West Coast Choppers car. It was lowered and had a bunch of hydraulics stuff in the back. It also has a really nice straight six in it!I stripped it and redid it with a few parts from the Revell kit. I really like wagons and mainstream cars!

Lately I have been building two of the same kit, but in different ways. I have a lot of duplicates and have a lot of time on my hands, so I decided to do something. These are both the from the Lindberg 34 Ford kit.

This is my attempt at a belly tanker in 1/25th scale. It is strictly curbside for now, but I might open it up at some time in the future. The body is fiberglass built over a carved balsa wood plug. I used it to make two halves, then glued them together. The actual material I used is from an old T-shirt that I stretched over the plug, then coated with fiberglass to get a thin, strong shell. It came out about the thickness a vacuformed shell might be. The axles and wheels are parts box. It is painted to represent a car that might have been built by a couple of kids on a budget in the 50's. Nothing fancy.

This is something I have been working on for a while. Not too fancy, but I like it. It has an interior and a flathead so far, but I haven't decided if I'm going to detail it much past that. Still need a canopy and exhaust and a few other things. I used the Hawk/Testor's body over a scratchbuilt 1/25 chassis.

Not sure exactly where this goes. The body is plastic and diecast with parts from the new Revell 57 Chevy mixed in.

I thought I would post some pictures of some trailers I have built before packing up to move. The Mullins is modified from a Monogram 37 Ford kit, the orange one is based on the picture from an old AMT Chevy II station wagon kit I found online and the rest are scratchbuilt.

Sorry folks. I downloaded them into the computer and they were all upside down. I think it's better now!

I have been around here for a long time, but have never had the courage to post any pictures of my stuff. I've been laid off for a little while now and we are getting ready to move, so I thought i would take a few picture before putting everything in storage. I've been pulling stuff off the shelf and trying to build pairs of trucks. Here are some recent ones. And now they are upside down!

I think i've got one of the '92 F150's if you want it.

I did something like this for a while a few years ago. We got contracts for museum display models and a couple of oceanographic institutes. Even built for a couple of celebrities. Unfortunately the deadlines the low pay and the all-nighters to do those unwanted last minutes changes just wore me down after a while. On the plus side, I got to travel a bit and got behind the scenes tours of the Smithsonian and National Geographic museums among others, so that was cool. I also got to build a 1/12th scale proctoscope machine with Mattel style packaging for a Doctor Barbie that went to a Doctor in NYC as a joke gift from another doc! That was interesting....

If someone decides to cast these again, I could would love to have a couple sets.

It's hard to narrow it down, but for new tooling here goes. 1) 1957 Ford pickup 2) 1971 Ford Pinto 3) 1976 Ford Gran Torino (Starsky and Hutch)

I'm looking for some thing that may not exist. A few years ago I seem to remember a transkit to turn the AMT 55-57 chevy pickup into a GMC. At the time I didn't care. Now that I want one I can't find it. Am I imagining this? I've checked websites and come up empty. Any ideas would be appreciated.

I don't use an airbrush, so I always use an enamel spray for the base interior color, then use acrylics or cheap craft paints for details. They don't attack the enamel, so there is no running. Also if I make a mistake, then it is easy to wipe off and do over. After I finish, a coat of Dullcote evens out everything and hides streaking. I have some gel pens from Hobby Lobby that work pretty well for details. They also make a white one that works well for whitewall tires. Speaking of coupons, I go to the Hobby Lobby website and get their 40% coupon and save it on my phone to get the discount. Also Michael's stores at least around here honor and match Hobby Lobby coupons.

I just discarded the can a little while back or I would be able to let everybody know what brand it was. The only reason I think it was Krylon is because I use that brand most of the time.I used an airbrush years ago, but in an effort to simplify and after having kids to take up spare time, I quit building highly detailed models and now just build for enjoyment whenever I get a little time to myself. Of course being laid off a couple of weeks ago has added to my free time quite a bit as I now have 3 finished out of the box models built, just clean the seams up and do a good paint job and put it together......

Just wondered if anyone had tried these? I use spray bombs for all my painting. A while back I bought a can of water-based paint to try. I think it was Krylon. I sprayed it over my usual Duplicolor sandable primer with the usual prep. I put it back in the box and forgot about it for quite a while. Later I noticed that it didn't seem to stick very well and didn't respond to polishing very well either. I will stick with my regular paint, so it's not that big a deal, just curious more than anything. I live in west Texas and the humidity is usually in the 25-55 % range. In the summer it's like living in a giant paint dryer. Regular oil-based Krylon is dry to the touch within an hour or two, though Rustoleum of course never seems to dry completely.

I can't find the link right now, but I read a while back that a lotof the companies that have been sending jobs to China are looking at bringing them back to the US to improve quality and response time. Seems that labor is like everything else, you get what you pay for. Also anything that they ship over there to get built gets copied and ripped off.

Hey congrats! My wife finally had lap-band last year and she has lost almost 100 pounds. Now she wants me to lose 20 or so pounds!

I voted for the pickup, but I would love to see them start re-issuing all the previous versions but with stock and maybe also vintage speed parts added. How about some vintage Bonneville/drylakes components? It would give me a whole new reason to buy more. I have started to buy more of them at various times, but the modern day components always stopped me.,

Love this car! Color is great too. So good to see cars that look like hot rods that could be driven. I like Chip Foose and all those guys, but there cars lack personality. They are sort of the Toyota Camry of hot rods, competent but bland.

I currently have 233,000 on my Focus.

I would love to see the MPC 70's annual kits reissued, Pinto's, Vegas, Monzas, Volares etc. Oh and the 1976 Datsun pickup with the stock parts back in it. The '68 parts back in the Chevy pickup.

Though these were mass-produced vehicles, through time and attrition, they are no longer easily found. Just like endangered animals, the pool of availability is ever shrinking. My personal pet peeve is when Chip Foose or someone else starts with a pristine vintage car and then proceeds to tear it down and customize it. Like they say, "It's only original once." I always hope to see the original unrestored cars cared for so our grandchildren can see them. There are many projects that need a little work in junkyards all over the country that could be used instead. Just my opinion.