Fat Brian

If you search for Coleman 4x4 conversion you find all kinds of neat stuff. The axle used in the light to medium duty trucks is their 1.5 ton unit, they also made 3 and 5 ton axles. It looks like you might be able to convert a Ford 9", especially if you can find a 1/24 one. The rear end from one of the old Monogram stock cars should do just fine with a bit of putty to round over the diff cover and bolt heads around it.

The new record set in the fall is 27 hrs 25 minutes, beating the 2013 record by over an hour.

I'm good on 71 Mustangs unless there's new parts in this one but I'll take a couple Rabbits. I will stroke him and pet him and call him George.

One of the biggest early converters of GM trucks was a company called Coleman. They manufactured their own front axle so you'll end up having to modify an existing piece.

Thanks guys! To me the camping gear was part of the challenge, finding a way to carry all the stuff you need to race across two continents.

It looks like the main body of the truck us real but most of the wheels and the rear portion of the front fenders are shopped. It will be interesting to see the source image for this.

It's been a while on that one but the 390 66 Fairlane was out recently.

Would it possible to upgrade the fan on the Testors unit? It looks like it just uses a small PC type fan, something a bit bigger might help without replacing the entire booth.

Yeah, I won't be using it again. I was stumped for a color for a beetle and asked my wife to grab a can of whatever color she liked at Walmart. It stripped surprisingly easy for something that's supposed to bond to plastic, a few hours in LA's Totally Awesome and it was gone but it looked like you dipped the part in acetone. The finish came out pretty good though, it dries really hard so it doesn't get goopy feeling if you handle it a bit.

Thanks, I'm pretty happy with it, it definitely stands out on the shelf.

I've never had success spraying Krylon or Rustoleum over Testors, it wrinkles almost immediately. They also seem to etch the surface of the plastic badly too. I had to strip some pieces of a beetle I painted with Krylon Fusion and the surface of the plastic was so pebbly I almost had to throw them away.

Ok, that's why I thought they ran it again, because you could still get the roadster for over a year after the coupe was gone. It seemed like it hung around longer than a normal run.

Okay, I couldn't tell from the picture if the seat was wide enough to go over the rails or not.

I believe there was a another small run of the roadster after the coupe run was cut short. It used the same box art as the first run and has all the same parts.

Yeah, there are a lot of different ways they want you to mount the seats. Typically if there is just a straight bar molded into the floor board and the bottom of the seats are completely open you're meant to put the front edge of the bottom of the seat just to the dash board side of the bar. I put a drop or two of glue on the dashboard side of the bar then put the seat in a bit close to the dash and slide it back to make good contact with the bar. I just saw the picture you posted, I don't have any idea about that. Check the instructions and make sure you aren't missing a part on the seat bottom, that would be my first step.

The Enterprise and Bigfoot don't exist either and they make models of them. When you grow up on Transformers and Voltron and Mechwarrior video games you get it. I was building big stompy robots out of Legos before I ever saw a model kit of anything.

Thank you, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The baja beetle idea was too good to let it die. Here a few more pics I forgot to post.

My grandmother used to tell us about how they used the Sears catalog when she was young in the 30s and when it ran out it was corn cobs.

Gundams are the hot new models for the younger folks. I haven't seen one that strikes my fancy, a little too anthropomorphic and not machine enough, but I would love some decent sized mechs from the Battletech universe. The game pieces are a bit too small to have the shelf impact I'm looking for.

My dad drove their tour bus for a few months last summer and into the fall.

I finished my P2P Beetle today. I think I might be violating one of the rules not running a front bumper but I really don't have any ideas and the stock bumper won't fit with the way I cut the fenders. I got the camping gear from a accessories set for diecasts but with a little work they cleaned up okay. I put coolers and a portable generator where the back seat would be, the silver box on the roof rack is for the tent. The set also had a shovel and a few other tools in case you get stuck or have an accident and need to rework the body in a pinch. I'm waiting on some fabric to make a cargo net for the rack but in the current situation there's no telling when it will get here.

None of the chassis's in the Foose kits were altered for the big wheels so I can't imagine this one would be either. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the bumpers will most likely be chrome as well. It sounds like this kit is meant to buildable both stock or as the F&F version so chroming them is the better option.

No, so far this kit is fenderless.

Morgan Automotive Detail has a square body long bed and there is a new company in the resin section doing 85-87 grilles. Add a Fall Guy/Deserter kit and few bits of plastic to stretch the frame and you're good.

The Lindberg F150 4x4 also has stock early mod motor.