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I’ve had it in my head for a while to do the MPC Plymouth Volaré with an AMT 1971 duster, chassis, suspension and drivetrain. it was never a question. I definitely wanted to put fireball model works Steelies on the car. It all started by making sure that the chassis line up underneath the Volaré body. Of course it pretty much lined up, but the interior was a problem. I had to cut a hole in the interior tub of the Volaré to fit the duster chassis. This was really fun and I really do mean it. I’m not being sarcastic. Seeing how the Volaré comes with no real detail in the engine bay, I decided to use the Duster’s engine bay. Also, because this was going to be a quick build just to see if the chassis would fit this model I decided to use the drivetrain from the Duster. I was quite impressed myself when I was able to get the engine bay to lineup under the.Volaré body. Paint: I have a hard time to decide what color to paint this thing I wanted it to be in the beginning just the kind of beater run around old grandma‘s car that was turned into a hot rod. I wanted it to be yellow like a banana and maybe have some primer spots or something like that. I decided to use craft acrylic paint for the color. I started with a banana yellow, and mixed in some other colors to try and shade it a little more pea green. However, I overshot the mark and added one too many drops of green to the mix and that is how we wound up with this color. 😂 Now I didn’t want it to be a show winning paint job, but rather a worn and faded look. I primed it with red oxide primer so I can have some primer and surface rest spots come through. I dig it. 😎👍🏾 Interior: I am pretty proud of the interior. As I said, I cut a hole in the floor of the. Volaré to accommodate the floor pan incorporated into the duster chassis. Only a slight modification or rounding to the tunnel in the middle of the rear seat was needed to make it fit. The dusters bucket seats were used along with its shifter. I added a few extra little details, like some reading material, a tarp, a roadkill sticker, and a gas brake and clutch pedal. I also noticed that for Volarés head shoulder seatbelts. Once I saw this, I had to put it into this car. I would’ve been mad later on if it wasn’t in there. I use some sheet plastic and cut slivers so I could slide some ribbon through it. Then I hung it from the roof of the car behind the drivers and passenger seat. I had a lot of fun with this. Engine: The engine is out of the AMT 1971 duster kit. My original idea was to put a 440 into this one, but like I said, I wanted this to be quick and to see if the duster chassis would fit this car. The motor is basically straight out of the box. I did add some 3-D printed parts such as the air cleaner and the distributor. I used Grandpa Mark‘s hobbies method of wiring the distributor. Which is going from the heads back to the distributor using Protech wiring. I decided to also do my valve covers in chrome. The whole engine has a used look because I used red oxide primer under a custom mixed orange paint that I airbrushed onto the engine. I like it. Exhaust: The exhaust is straight out of the box from the duster as well, but I changed the tailpipes. I didn’t want to see the duster exhaust tips coming out of the back of this car. I wanted straight tail pipes coming out of the back. Body: I’ve done this kit once before as a pro touring car but this time I wanted to do it a little more like an every day car. A daily driver turned weekend street machine run around play car. The first thing I did was fill in the headliner and remove lines from the roof. As you can see in the pictures below, it takes quite a bit to remove the t-tops. I like the smooth roof. At the time of this riding, the car is about 98% done. Feel free to take a look at the pictures and let me know what you think. Thank you for following. Have a great day!

Hi all! Got this one finished up yesterday, so here it is in completed form. The initial inspiration for this build came while working on my pro touring 70 Caddy. Russell C here on the forum sent me a link that sent me down a rabbit hole, and I came out with tons of ideas. Thanks again Russell!!! Then Martin Aveyard built an amazing cyberpunk car, and that was it, I had to build one. Thanks again to Martin as well for inspiration, and some help with questions I had. I totally get that this build will not be everyone’s “cup of tea” but it was fun, and something a little different. List of modifications: Body: Dodge Daytona body with rear removed, front fenders removed, raised, then reinstalled to add width, side scoops added, opened grill and hood vent, roof scoop, headlights from a Camaro. Body is Tamiya metallic orange, with clear orange, then clear. Interior: modified dash, added S10 gauges, scratch built console/shifter/and drift brake, seats from a Subaru rally car, seat belts, roll bar, radar detector, parts box steering wheel, keys in ignition, flocked floor boards under hood: fuel cell with fill tube, battery, NOS bottle, re positioned rad with hoses, scratch built inner fenders. Chassis: narrowed front, lengthened mid section, relocated wing forward about 12”, ignition wires, fuel line, brake lights, modified wheels to suit and added valve stems. Thanks to all that followed along in the WIP thread. It sounds like a couple of you have builds of your own brewing! (Anton, Martin, others?) Hope to see what you guys create. More information in the WIP thread below should you be interested. And the “glamour shots”…. Thank you for taking the time to have a look. As always, all comments, questions and criticisms welcome.

I've always loved the first gen Falcons, but no detailed kits are available. I found this old '62 and decided to give it a gasser look. It had the Styline rear puttied on, but I removed that first. Next I removed all the protrusions from under the one-piece body. Then I smoothed out some of the serious mold seams and removed the door handles.

I'm going to try and make the Mobius '65 Belvedere into a '63 using some JoHan parts but mostly Mobius. Here's the kits, and the side by side bodies.

I'm starting this '40 Ford pickup, will hopefully be an imaginary build, done in 2023/24 made to LOOK like a vintage hot rod pickup!

Good morning modellers, I'm starting a new project, '64 Malibu! 1: It's a resin kit, repop of the AMT original, so I won't be using much, mostly kit bashed. Here is the front grille/bumper and what I've done to it. 2: Cut the bumper separate. 3: Drilled out the headlights. 4: Made divets in scrap styrene with the Dremel bit shown. After I washed the grille with Tamiya black panel line wash. 5: Foiled over the divetted scraps and installed them from behind. 6, 7:Parking lights are Tamiya acrylic "Clear Orange", of course, you already knew that. Cheers

Hi guys, the AMC Gremlin I built in 2012 spent a lonely life in my display case, being the only compact car in there. In 2015, I thought: let´s build him a „brother“. I purchased an MPC (Round 2) 1978 AMC Pacer X kit and kitbashed it with AMT´s ´06 Chevy Camaro. The Camaro donored it´s wheels, seats, center console, steering wheel, engine, lower front pan, gas cap and the rear diffuser including the exhaust tips. Extra parts I added: ´90s Mustang mirrors, bumperettes, scratch built fuzzy dices, speakers in the door panels, NOS bottle in the flocked trunk and an additional exhaust pipe under the frame. I had to cut the in halves (at the height of the bumperettes) and insert a strip of styrene before gluing it back together to enlarge the wheel wells and to tunnelt he frame, otherwise the Camaro wheels and the front and rear parts wouldn´t fit. The last picture shows it with it´s older brother, the Gremlin. Hope you like my little goldfish bowl. Thanks for looking, comments are always welcome.