oldcarfan

Wrong section. Sorry.

I like to build in pairs, so I did these two... One stock and the other a shop truck. Nothing fancy, just curbsides..

It's a homemade body, made one afternoon when I was long on ambition and short on money. I searched the internet for a profile of a P38 belly tank and printed it out to scale. I carved a body half out of Balsa, I didn't have any fiberglass cloth, so I stretched a piece of old T-shirt tightly over it. I had an old can of Bondo fiberglass resin that was still good. I made two halves and bonded them together. A little sanding, smoothing and painting and some scrap parts and I had a belly tank. I started a 1/10 scale version to see if I could make a radio control version and go really fast, but moving put that on hold. Maybe some day I'll get back to it!!

Posted these before, but here's mine converted to a step-side. The other is a ModelHaus copy.

Love it!

Somewhere a long time ago, there was a guy on here who turned the 460 in Monogram's F-250 into a Power Stroke diesel. It looked pretty accurate to me. You could do that, or maybe one of the Chevy big blocks could be transformed? Don't know, just a thought.

I might get the Flame Out just to use the steam engine in an African Queen style boat...

A while back I was in charge of the Pinewood Derby for our local pack. After helping so many kids build their cars, I decided to build one for myself. In a box of old model car wheels, I found an original set of pinewood wheels from the 50s so I built my pinewood car as a Soapbox Derby car just to be different. It wasn't super fast, but it was fun to build.

I built this in a couple of hours after coming across my old comics with Gyro Gearloose in them. I think he was called GIzmo (?) Anyway, he was always in the background helping out Gyro...

Maybe for the same reason that we get mad about our Ford or Chevy needing service once in a while, but when a Ferrari or Mercedes breaks down everyone just says that's normal?

This is great!

This is my attempt at a belly tanker. I shared it in the wrong place earlier, so I have put it here now. It's a curbside (saltside?), I never finished it inside because we moved, but maybe someday.

This one came from the Posie's diecast. It was built by Todd McWilliams, who passed away a year ago. There are a lot of wagons possible if you look at promos, diecast and resin. For instance that Studebaker Conestoga was done in resin. I have one of those too, somewhere. I never got around to building it though. That looks really good!

The engine I used was out of a 1/24 40 Ford truck so it was really too big. The one out of the midget would probably fit really well.

IThe wheels and tires are just generic ones I had laying around. I had one Chevy hubcap. I'm not sure where it came from, but I made 3 more with a Hobby Lobby casting kit. The Revell Black Widow Chevy would have been a good source if I had had one .

Thanks for the looks! The bare metal was done as an experiment. After priming and fine sanding the body, I painted the '34 with Krylon Dull Aluminum and polished it smooth. I then heavily globbed on some acrylic flat black and then partially wiped it off before it had a chance to dry very much. It comes out looking pretty good.

I love trailers and have built quite a few, but these are the only ones I have photos of. The orange one is modeled after the U-Haul one that came with the original AMT Chevy Nova. The purple one was converted to stock from the Monogram '36 Ford street rod kit and the teardrop is made from model airplane Birch plywood, stained and clear coated. They are really so simple to build and add a lot to your collection.

That's the one! It also came in a different color. I bought one of each. Now I wish I had bought more! One of these days I want to do it up with a roof rack and a bunch of camping gear in the back as if it's headed for Yosemite for a family vacation.

Not sure exactly what category this fits, but figured this might be the closest, so here goes. It's one of the old Lindberg or Hawk(?) 1/32 scale cars that had rubber band power. The body is close enough to pose as a 1/25 car, so I built a crude chassis and put a flathead in it and called it good. One of these days I'll figure out how to do decals.

Here is my '57. It 1/25 and started out as a Jesse James diecast that I found at Walmart years ago. They came with a custom paint job and were lowered with hydraulic stuff in the back. I turned it into a basic Chevy family car. I stripped it and repainted it in the closest thing to a stock Chevy color that Krylon makes.

Happy happy joy joy!

First, I apologize for putting these in the wrong category, they should have gone into the Trucks section. Second thanks for the compliments. The red and white one is a Modelhaus kit. The black one started out as an Ebay special. The bed section wasn't in very good condition and I prefer stepsides anyway, so I cut it off and used the 53 Ford bed and various other parts.

The green Ford recently went through an unplanned gravity test. Yep, gravity still wins. The camper shell survived at least.

I have been following this site for a long time and wanted to put some of my builds out for everyone to see. I used an iPhone, so forgive the quality.

I always wanted to do one of the Monogram Lincolns as the car Sonny Corleone was driving when he stopped at the toll booth in Godfather. Decided it was too far beyond my abilities.