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Eric this looks amazing! Very well done my friend.

Fantastic work as always Jim! Please extend my Happy Holiday wishes to your wonderful family! - Mark

Carl, this is an awesome ! I always love a nice lime-gold paint job. Plus your scratch built Lightning Rods and the trunk lid reinforcement structure are well done. I like to see Pro Street cars slammed to the ground but a reasonable stance sure makes your car more street friendly than my 1:1 Nova in my Avatar. Great build my friend! -Mark

Agreed!

Alfred this is a fantastic and wild combination of kit and diecast pieces! Very neat looking machine. Build on Brother! -Mark

Rock on Ken! Beautiful build and paint.

Excellent Harold! No mean feat…that paint job. I need to learn to tape as thoroughly as you did. I can only imagine how much bleed under the tape I would have all over the white base coat! I really need to practice. Anyhow nice looking Pro Stocker

Right on Dave! Even if it isn’t an exact replica it looks convincing as a period flip top racer. I love it.

Marty this is very cool! I love it.

Man this is magnificent CI!

Thank you. The original builder did most of the work. I wish you a great weekend!

Man Fred this is beautifully done! Nice work-Mark

Bob, this is a fantastic build! Very nice work – Mark

Very nice work as usual James!

Great job identifying it Nolan. The only thing I had to offer was that it looked like an Imai 1/12 kit. It looks like it was issued a number of times with later issues having different front wheels. And Jeffrey you got a cool piece to restore. It’s fun to breathe new life into a previously built kit. It looks like you’ve got most if not everything. If you need any parts I have a few 1/12 motorcycle pieces in my “junkyard” so perhaps I can help but my parts may not be from an Imai. Anyhow I’d love to see it redone your way. Take it easy guys.-Mark

Very well done Pat! Great camouflage.

Very nice Keith! Well done

Cody it looks really nice! The American mags suit it well. Nice job on the molding of the scoop too.

Al, this is a nicely done tribute!

I bought it as a built up at a swap meet and liked the color the builder used. I just cleaned up the interior a bit and changed the rolling stock with tires and wheels from my spare parts. I added an exhaust system made of solder with some spare parts box “Sonic Turbo” style cans.

Holy cow Steve , that looks like a monster but simultaneously classy with the orange pearl! Nice work as always.

Very nice Helmut!

Lastly…no the doors won’t be opening. I have cut the doors open on so many projects over the years and love the way it enables a better view of the interiors. I know how much extra work and time it adds to a build. That said it figures that when i actually build a kit with opening doors what do I do?…..glue them shut! The method to my madness though is that with all the extra cutting I was going to do on the cab I just thought it would be too anemic to handle the stress…..especially that vintage Revell plastic. Can we say brittle?! I hated to glue them closed but I believe it was a wise move (at least for a klutz like me!

I will take another shot sometime minus the distracting box in the background. I thought it was a cool idea when I saw other folks on here do the same but their photography looked much better than mine! Also all that masking tape looks awful!….Sorry.

Hello friends, back in March one of my best friends passed some 1/25 and 1/24 kits and parts to me. Included was a Revell ‘29 Model A pickup which he had chopped ages ago. I have been fiddling bashing it with the bed and fenders/running boards from the AMT Ala-Kart. Said parts have been rather modified mostly by shaving trim and tail light blisters off the bed and removing Ala-Kart’s rear fenders and just piecing together new ones out of fenders from other kits in order to get them bobbed high so as to slam the ride height. Another friend gave me leftover parts from a Watson race car so I am using 2 of the tires from that kit for the rear rolling stock. Front tires are the often dreaded vintage Revell 2 piece units found in many of their funny cars and gassers. I have yet to settle on an engine and the floor of the cab must pretty much be scratched or bashed in order to channel the chassis up high. I’m thinking of scratching some quick and dirty compressed air bags for at least the rear suspension. I am thinking of using a frame from one of my unbuilt Revell 29 Pickups but it will have to be seriously modified. The way I have it set up now is I scratch built the rear frame from Plastruct and Evergreen rectangle but it is attached to the fender portion! From the rear frame rails forwards will be glued under the cab floor later. In other words the frame will be done in 2 sections….i kind of got myself in a bit of a pickle. I wish for the frame rails to be a different color than the fender assembly. I think I will just shoot the whole shebang whatever color I put on the fenders/body and then after the painted frame rails dry I will paint them by brush something easy to match like gloss black. Then I can spray paint the other frame piece which will get glued in later gloss black and it should match up pretty decently. lastly I’m leaning towards a steel color to represent bare metal. I may try to put a welding bead around the whole cab where it was chopped. I have some Archer weld bead resin decals but I think I want to try crimping very thin gauge solder to try to make it look like a weld. I’d probably have to epoxy it onto the cab. I don’t know for sure yet but I have long wanted a crazy looking A Bone pickup. Hope you like it and happy building friends!-Mark