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How about some of the 60's Plymouths, they were popular and good looking police cars.

What kit are these based on? A friend of mine bought a '68 when we were about 22-23, who would guess a car that size could get up and move. We had a lot of fun smoking unsuspecting Cameros and Mustangs, luckily we stayed out of any real trouble with it. Not sure what Cadillac was thinking though 375 hp and front wheel drive is not the best combination, not a problem in a VW but that Caddy really showed what torque steer is about. Nice job on the two you built, the red works well on the '70. Great job on the grill, it does look like you missed the Cadillac emblems on the hood and trunk though (the camera misses nothing, I've been caught by it many times ).

I guess it does have 2 doors, I'm so used to police cars always having 4 that I didn't really notice. The Impala kit would be the same basic car though, its just a higher trim level correct? Thanks for that link, old car brochures are pretty handy sometimes.

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That's the car right there, at least I'm pretty sure it is. In the photo I have it's off in the background so much smaller. That would be the 4 door version of the Impala correct?

I did not know it was illegal prior to '57-58. That would explain why everybody jumped onto that styling change at the same time. Thanks, the author musy have got his dates wrong. There should be a law that book authors must consult with car guys before publication. Cars and computers are two items that can really date a movie or photo.

There is a photo in a book I have and in the background there is a police car with quad headlights. It looks to me like a '58 or 59 Impala, but the photo caption says the photo was taken in '54. Were there any '54 or earlier domestic sedans with quad headlights? I think the caption is wrong and I now have a build for the new Revell '58 kit.

Most pressure cast resin is put under 20-40psi, the most I've heard anyone use is 100psi, compare that to styrene injection molding where I understand its more like 2000 psi (or was it 20,000 psi, can't remeber how many zeroes). Also consider that the injection molds are designed by an engineer while most resin molds are designed by some guy who has learned by trial and error where to put pour holes and air vents. I think most of the short shots you see when you do see them in styrene kits is caused by not enough styrene being injected for some reason rather than an air bubble. Between the pressure and better design tolerances air bubbles don't really have a chance with injection molds. Even without using pressure there are tricks you can use to eliminate most bubbles, pour the resin so it becomes a very thin stream, this pops most of the bubbles in the resin. Also designing the mold so any air has a way out helps a lot. Professional casters should not have issues with air bubbles and from what I've seen they don't. Its the small on the side casters that usually are the ones with lots of holes but as Harrypri said many times your only option is Joe Pinhole, and hey thats why Bondo exists.

1-1 full size as opposed to a 1-25, 1-32 etc model. He's asking if you have any interesting real cars.

I'm not sure exactly what shade of yellow you want but Krylon has several varieties from school bus or Cat yellow to some very bright in your face yellow yellows. I find Krylon covers well, and a good white or grey primer coat underneath really helps bring out the yellow. I've had good luck with Duplicolor too. I used their school bus yellow over a grey primer on black plastic, two coats and it came out great.

Thanks for the survey, were the questions provided by MRC or selected by you? I agree with you, with as little attention as the truck market gets, the medium duty trucks really get overlooked. Like you said Ford C and Louisville. No IH S1600-1700, FL60-70, GM Top Kick, Ford F600-800 etc. The trucks you see almost everyday. What I would love to see and think it could have broad enough appeal to sell pretty well for a truck would be a modern class 6 or 7 single axle eliptical tanker, (FL, IH, GM, Sterling?). A 3 or more in 1 kit, fire department water tender, construction site water truck, and a small commercial bulk liquids truck (perhaps a heating oil delivery truck). The truck would not have to change much between these three. Just some decal options and some optional parts for each. Probably emergency lighting, spray bars, dump valve and draft hose hose for the tender, some of the emergency lighting, and spray bars for the water truck, and DOT placards for the fuel truck.

This may not be the place for it but I was wondering how you seperate the main image from the background in Photoshop. One of the things I like to build is US Forest Service vehicles and I'd love to be able to place some of my models in front of 1-1 Forest Service lookout towers and fire stations. Thanks If you go by Mitchum on some other forums I've seen some of your other work, very nice. You have a fun way of displaying your work and thats why I think most of us do this in the first place.

Good to know, I was thinking it was more of a general commercial vehicle section. Since I had to go look it up myself... Light duty Class 1 - 6000 lbs or less (up to 1/2 ton truck) Class 2 - 6001 to 10,000lbs (3/4 ton truck) Medium Duty Class 3 - 10,001 to 14,000lbs (1 ton & dually trucks) Class 4 - 14,001 to 16,000lbs (Ford F450, Chevy 3500HD) Class 5 - 16,001 to 19,500lbs (Ford F550, Chevy 4500) Class 6 - 19,500 to 26,000lbs (Ford F650, Chevy 5500) Heavy Duty Class 7 - 26,001 to 33,000lbs Class 8 33,001lbs +

I'm pretty sure Resin Realm has a Monterey, don't recall the year or top style. http://www.resinrealm.net/

It seems like most of the trucks posted are big rigs but I don't think pickups are excluded. I'd post one here unless someone says differently.

Thanks, I'd appreciate that. I'll probably be retired before I ever get it started but it would be nice to have the option. I remember when I was a kid I though the Gilligs were way cooler, but now I know they were just plastic boxes, those fishbowls were a real bus.

The custom wheels are pretty big, not my style at all, but does include a set of stock size wheels you can use with a stock hub cab or a custom wheel cover. With the excpetion of the motor it can be built as a completly stock truck. If you look at the chrome tree posted, you can see the large custom wheels, then wheel covers are kind of in the center and the small hub caps are on the far side from the wheels.

I've been building one of the earlier releases of the kit and haven't had any fit issues. The way the cab goes onto the body is a little weird but it fits ok. The front fenders and the floor of the pickup bed are all one unit, with a seperate cab. Most pickups I've built the front fenders are connected to the cab.

It's a government car, US Forest Service. I was leaning towards wood but it looks so dark compared to most woodys I've seen photos of that I'm not sure. Did the stain of the wood vary based on the color of the car or are many of the restorations lighter than original?

I was thinking about building this, but I am having a really hard time deciding if it is wood sides with dark green fenders, or painted dark green over all. Just looking for opinions to help me decide which way I should go. Thanks

Are you sure its eating the decal? Sometimes that stuff makes the decals get all bubbly but then hey settle down nice and smooth. Scared the heck out of me the first time I had that happen, but it was fine in the end.

Not quite on your level but if it makes you feel better I just painted a whole sheet of decals chrome, I thought I had the clear decal film, but I was wrong. Must be a bad week for building

I just got a few of these as well, I just went and checked, no stock engine option, at least not the stock heads or intake anyway. Some of the other parts could be floating around, I just took a quick peak so I could have missed the small stuff. I was hoping they would put the stock parts back, but at least they included stock wheels, the instructions only show a large wheel cover and the custom wheels but the hub caps are in there. At least the stock engine parts are pretty simple so the resin aftermarket should be able to take care of that. Getting this and the '41 Chevy in the same year makes '07 a good year for me ( I ordered mine 12/29/07, I guess they really meant it when they said Late December).

All I could find was a 1956 M100 pickup and a 1962 M750 rollback. Not the cabover like I'm looking for but still handy for the badging. Thanks.

I don't know motors that well, I didn't know the V200 V8 was the same as the 3208. I just know from looking though sales info online I found reference to the 3208 being an option in '82, perhaps that was when it started to be listed as a Cat instead of a Ford motor?