Ace-Garageguy

Looking good. With care and intelligence applied, this kit builds a beautiful model.

VERY nice. Any more pix?

Long as my new EV comes with a hamster babe in latex, I'm down with it.

First you'd have to teach them the concept of "pencil" and how it is used to make intelligible marks on paper by carefully controlled contractions and extensions of multiple hand muscles...kinda like non-digital art.

Well said, sir.

4th car on the first page of this thread...

Cool project. I love these things. A few were still in service when I was a much younger man, and our local fire department and forest service guys used surplus units when I was a kid. As usual, your work is first-rate and very inspiring.

I don't see how gluing a bunch of ugly stuff to a car is "art". EDIT: Maybe the FIRST one was "art", but it's been done so many times now, it's devolved to mindless imitation. But I don't understand why a photo of a crucifix immersed in the "artist's" urine (look it up) qualifies as "art" either. And it's just more of the "everyone's a winner" mentality, being celebrated by non-critical-non-thinkers who have to demonstrate how "accepting" and "open" and "forward looking" they are. All that's ultimately accomplished is the devaluing of real art that requires talent and skill and technical discipline to produce.

Looks like a real tank built by somebody who actually knows and understands what he's doing.

Or quite possibly it IS malicious software packaged to look like a genuine Microsoft update...as long as you don't inspect it too closely. You know the bad guys can can do that, right?

Actually, it's more that excellence...or even competence...is not politically correct. Doing a beautiful job, or even one that's just barely acceptable, is now an affront to anyone who's either incapable or lacks the motivation to get things right. And it's exactly what you should expect from teaching multiple generations that "everyone is a winner" no matter what kind of sorry mess they turn out, that self respect is an entitlement rather than something to be earned through achievement, that excrement smeared on a wall is "art", etc., etc., etc. It is also an effect of an over "educated" but still largely ignorant-of-physical-reality "workforce" that looks down on those who have physical skills, mistakenly believing the world revolves around their pathetic little universe of apps that are usually as poorly built and functional as that fuel tank mod the OP put up. Yes boys and girls, IT does make possible our modern world, but it's not the center of it. IT is nothing but a tool that replaces old-school record keeping and information exchange. The world worked just fine prior to everything being so much more-better-with-IT (with some admittedly notable exceptions where IT does in fact wonderfully streamline certain operations...IF IT'S DONE WELL). It also, of course, makes things like this online forum possible. However, it's also a potential nightmare waiting to happen, like industries being shut down by hackers for ransom. Recently the entire southeast was semi-crippled due to fuel shortages for weeks, after a major pipeline's computer operating systems were breached by hackers. Remember? And the operations of a major meat packer were likewise disrupted more recently. Nice work there, little IT fellas, leaving your oh-so-special apps so full of exploitable security holes and back doors you can drive a garbage truck through 'em. You should be very, very proud. EDIT: I've been ranting about the almost universal lack of competence in the automotive field (and the workforce as a whole) for years, but I've generally been written off as an angry old geezer shouting at clouds. Funny how perceptions change when somebody is personally affected by the phenomenon.

Distantly related to the infamous Rolls Canardly, no doubt. Rolls down one hill, canardly make it up the next.

Waaaaaaaaayyyyy back in 2013, I did a twin-turbine/hybrid rig loosely based on the Jaguar C-X75 concept car setup. Electric drivetrains are just like every other automotive power unit...they're as individual in appearance as their design team; as you say, not hard to scratch up something that looks believable.

There actually is a fair amount of stuff like you want already out there, but you kinda have to dig for it...and it's not cheap. Here's a pro-touring 4-link Ford 9" setup, for instance...at about $15 including shipping. There are also late-model GM, Ford, and Chrysler Corp engines around from time to time. IIRC "Iceman Collections" makes something... In the past, I sourced a fair number of Ford 9" rear ends in NASCAR kits that you could get for almost nothing for a long time. Same with early LS engines from the C5 kits that were dirt cheap for years. And occasionally somebody will part out a bunch of Revell Willys street rods, selling the chassis, rear end, and Pinto IFS for considerably less than a full kit. But like I said, you have to dig for the stuff....and the market isn't as strong as you'd like to think. The vast majority of car modelers are entirely content to build what's in the box, maybe swapping wheels and tires if they're really going hog-wild. It's not at all like the glory days when a lot more modelers wanted to build something unique, and even then, the parts-packs weren't huge sellers.

Nicely proportioned and well integrated design...and just plain cool.

Don't overlook Jaguar's TURBINE-ELECTRIC HYBRID C-X75

Great trades with Jolly Sipper and Paul Payne. Thanks, gentlemen.

Really cool score. Should make a beautiful model.

Probably figured somebody who'd buy an F150 had strong enough hands to do without... EDIT: What surprises me is that the opener isn't motorized, with a phone app to run it. Silly me...that's probably part of the special Urban Adventurer upgrade package.

Here you go. You can get a nice one for around 10 grand, a low-mileage creampuff for around 20. They're simple, tough, they will go anywhere, and will run forever.