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Well I'm very glad to get one in the done column. It's been a year or more since the last. This one I built straight through, in four months. That's some sort of record for me. ANyway, this is of course the AMT '50 Chevy 3100. To get the look I was after, the cab was channeled just a smidge (removed the mounting bosses and trimmed the fenderwells) and the front suspension was lowered the same smidge by sanding down the mounting points. The bed was channeled to get the bed down level with the bottom of the cab, like the 1:1 example, which would raise the tops of the rear fenders on the bedside. I don't really do a lot of replicas of anything, but there was so much I liked about the 1:1 truck that I just had too. I regret not using the sky blue as my base color. I'm lacking a deep contrast in the build that I think the blue would have brought. I moved the rear axle backward about 5 scale inches to enhance the rake a bit and give it a longer look. I was going to add the bedside support like on the 1:1, to replicate a 3/4 ton bed, but by the time I rememebered it, it was already painted. ? The engine is an AMT 409 from the '57 Chevy kit, with a couple of strombergs replacing the sidedrafts. I thought quite hard about buying an aftermarket turbo diesel which would really fit the theme of the build better, but in the end I just couldn't justify spending the $30 when there were good engines in the stash already. The wheels are eight lugs from the Monogram Poison Pinto kit and the tires from the Monogram 4x4 Ford. The bed, running boards are scratch built and yes, the exhaust is running out the opening in the running board. Likely not a smart idea in reality, but happily this is just plastic. The seat cover pattern was printed on thin fabric. The rear fenders are hand formed from aluminum sheet. I had a blast with this one. As always, comments, critiques and discussion are welcome and appreciated. I only improve as a builder if someone points out what I could have done better. Thanks. A big thanks to my local club members, Chip, Lee and Rob who provided parts to make this happen.

Well I figure it's far enough along to post now. Lately posting has been the kiss of death on my projects, but all the bugs are worked out on this one. The rest is just paint and assembly. The first pic is the inspiration. So I started with AMT's '50 CHevy 3100. First I moved the rear axle back about 3/8 of an inch by stretching the chassis. I wanted to give it just a bit longer wheelbase as the inspiration truck is obviously a 3/4 ton or better, but the bed looks like it's been shortened after the rear fender. I fabbed up some motor mounts and channeled the bed so that the bottom is even witht he bottom of the cab.

My good friend asked me to build a model of his sisteroutlaw's logo truck for her Bday... I couldn,t say no..... Ugly mold lines and pin marks It'll be screwed down to a base with glass over so....... her logo truck has a spare mounted above the rear fender,drivers side so..... used up all of my flush moonies so I guess I'm sanding and Alcladding 5 moonies for this one HaHaHa