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1948 Divco
oldcarfan replied to crazyjim's topic in Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
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1948 Divco
oldcarfan replied to crazyjim's topic in Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
I love it! Wonder how much work it would be to make a stock version? -
Here are the ones I have finished. The orange one was patterned from a picture of the one that came with the AMT 63 Nova.The red and white one was going to be a teardrop cargo trailer and the one in front is a regular teardrop camper. The purple one's body came from the 38? Ford by Monogram so it is only partially scratch built.
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Dodge is bringing back "Plum Crazy".
oldcarfan replied to Custom Hearse's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
This is funny, we just saw a pair of Challengers in Plum Crazy yesterday in Austin traffic.. -
3D printing quality
oldcarfan replied to 59 Buick's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
The printers will likely become as commonplace and inexpensive as desktop paper inkjet printers are today. I think the delay may come from the other end at least until some form of quick 3d scanner or other easy way of designing the prototype becomes available to those of us lacking design skills. -
3D printing quality
oldcarfan replied to 59 Buick's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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I like to build in pairs, so I did these two... One stock and the other a shop truck. Nothing fancy, just curbsides..
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55 and 57 Chevy's
oldcarfan replied to oldcarfan's topic in WIP: Model Trucks: Pickups, Vans, SUVs, Light Commercial
Wrong section. Sorry. -
Another straightline Bonneville car
oldcarfan replied to oldcarfan's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
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!! -
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.
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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.
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is it only a matter of scale?
oldcarfan replied to detailstymied's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
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!
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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.
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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!
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Bonneville goes in a straight line, right??
oldcarfan replied to oldcarfan's topic in WIP: Drag Racing Models
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 .