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This will be my WIP of this old Revell kit. Some of the content has been moved from the forum post below. I will try to post progress each Sunday and will clean up the photos as best I can, they are all taken with my phone.

Further to my previous posting on this topic - Photos of the original truck are almost non-existent and in black and white, so I will be trying to recreate the restored car. I only found one photo online of the restored engine bay, so there will be some 'artistic license' used throughout My ambitious list of ideas to correct and detail this kit includes: - wheels and tires from AMT 1953 Ford pickup (but not the hubcaps). There does not seem to be any other parts that are usable. - drum brake backing plates from a mold of the ones from the Tweedy Pie, and then cast in resin - scratchbuilt leaf springs on all four corners (fronts are done). The kit had 4 leaves (leafs?) and photos of some restored trucks have 8 leaves. - poseable steering added, almost done - a club member has printed three sets of painting masks as I hope to paint the flames instead of using the decals - engine detail will include scratchbuilt exhaust crossover pipe, generator and brackets, pulleys replaced with machined pieces. I have already corrected an issue with the exhaust manifold in that it is too long. Using a metal hacksaw blade, they were cut in two places and glued back together. Locating pins were also added. - I haven't even thought about the doors yet

This posting is quite timely, as I am in the middle of building this very kit. Here is some of the history I have uncovered on the internet. The truck was originally bought brand new by Ed Roth in 1956 and he painted it white with the red flames, pinstriping and some advertising information for his business. The car was sold soon afterwards, repainted and then eventually sat for over 50 years. After a few different ownership changes, the car was given to Galpin Motors to do the restoration, which was completed in 2017. Below are three sites that have additional information, if you are interested. Motor Trend Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth barn find Kustomrama Ed Roth 1956 Ford truck Jalopy Journal forum on Ed Roth's truck

I have wanted to build a number of mid-60's Indy race cars - 1964 Lotus 34 (modifying the AMT Lotus 29), a 1965 Lotus 38 (from the IMC kit) and a 1968 Gurney Eagle (MPC kit). It would entail quite a lot of work correcting the many inaccuracies if these kits. One of the biggest drawbacks is that the engines in these kits are so poorly molded. There is distinct lack of detail, the size is not correct and the 'bundle of snakes' exhaust is usually a blob of plastic. I have been in touch with Mad Mike (on this forum) and was able to secure three engines that were 3D printed in the correct size for these 1:25 scale kits. Below are some comparison and test fitting photos for these three engines. I'm sure there are a variety of other kits that could use this engine. 1964 Lotus 34 - Here is the Mad Mike engine, compared to the AMT Lotus powered by Ford (Lotus 29) experimental engine. I have never seen a photo of the AMT engine, with these exhaust pipes, on any race car. The AMT engine is a bit undersized. Here is the engine, test fitting into the AMT chassis, it needs to be lowered a bit and a transmission added. 1965 Lotus 38 - Jimmy Clark Indy 500 winner, from IMC kit. The exhaust 'blob' is replaced by 3D printed pipes. Here is the engine test fitted into the IMC chassis 1968 Gurney Eagle - MPC kit comparing the two engines. The transmissions is extremely well done. Here is the engine test fitted into the MPC chassis

Here are some additional kits that would be candidates for a RHD to LHD conversion Aoshima Daihatsu Copen Aoshima Honda Beat Aoshima Suzuki Cappuccino Fujimi Fiat Barchetta Fujimi Toyota MR-S turbo Fujimi Honda NSX/NSX-R Most of these kits have had multiple re-issues (different box art, photoetch added, etc.) so I haven't included the kit numbers I have done one conversion of the Fujimi Honda NSX by resin casting the dashboard from the Tamiya NSX kit (24100), with some persuading to get it to fit. I have yet to take an existing dash and switch the halves. The other option is to find a 3D printer who would be willing to scan, flip and print out the LHD version of a dashboard. Would be quite a bit of work and would need to be able to recoup those costs.

Falcon Scale Models is a 3D print company out of Poland that does 1:12 scale motorcycle parts (chains, clutch baskets) and some 1:20 scale F1 parts His eBay name is falconsm_1 and the website is https://www.falconscalemodels.com/

Here's my story: I want to do the street legal Porsche 935 K3 that Walter Wolf contracted Kremer to produce after the Le Mans race (see photo), but there was no kit really close to it. Then Beemax/Aoshima produced the K2 and I bought it thinking that I could use that as a starting point, but it would require quite a bit of bodywork. Then Renaissance produced a resin kit (or you could buy the resin body alone). Many of the details matched the Wolf K3 (notably the front headlight/clip) and so I bought the body and would use the K2 chassis underneath. I have even got a guy to custom produce the logo and script decals for the car using metallic gold printing (ALPS printer, I believe) And now I see that Platz nunu produced the K3 Le Mans car which is much closer to the Wolf car and so I have ordered that as well. I guess it pays (or actually costs a lot) to be patient! (anyone interested in a Renaissance resin body?)

This sounds like a great idea to honour a great contributor to sports cars. This fits very well with the theme of the upcoming Kingston Modelrama contest in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on May 5 - "Rembering Carroll Shelby". Most contests have a collection category - five or more models with a single theme. I've entered a few, "5 convertible sports cars that I will never be allowed to own" and recently a "Mustangs - Then and Now" collection. This last collection consisted of 6 Mustangs, in three pairs, with each pair being an older ('60's) version and a more modern version ('06 to '08). For the Kingston show I want to enter a diorama/collection of 6 Shelby cars with the same idea - an older version and a modern version. I already have 4 of them built: Shelby Cobra 427 - built out of the box The modern companion - Shelby Series 1 - also built out of the box with the same paint as the Cobra 427 For the second pair, the older version is the GT350R that raced at 1967 LeMans - lots of body and interior modifications and the modern companion is a 2008 GT500 street legal car made to look like a racer The final pair I started about a month ago - GT500KR's from the 1968 AMT kit and the 2008 Revell kit. They've both been painted with the same Testors Ferrari red and Alclad dull aluminum stripes. I'll post the final versions once I've completed the last pair.