1941 Chevy pickup - Revell 1/25

[CarlR]

I'm not a truck kinda guy but the look of this pickup really appealed to me - perhaps it's the art deco influence on its styling.

I don't have the painting skills to duplicate a worn, torn and abused example of this truck so I went the slightly easier route of creating a restored stock version.

The kit was a pleasure to build but I did run into a couple of areas that required some extra thought and attention. The attachment of the spare tire was flimsy at best and I had to modify some parts to get a more secure fit. The locations where the rear fenders attach to the truck bed do not have any positive locating/attachment points so some careful trial fitting was required. Once I had determined where the fenders would mate to the box I glued some small pieces of plastic on the box to correctly locate the fenders during final assembly.

The floor of the bed is the supplied kit decal which required numerous applications of Solvaset to get it to conform properly. I lucked out in getting a (close enough for me) paint match on the stakes on the side.

The whitewalls were surplus decals from the Revell 32 Ford kit. Again, Solvaset was required to get the decals to conform to the tire contours.

This kit was a pleasant diversion from what I usually build but I may stray from the norm yet again - I just found out that there is a kit of the 1937 ford pickup!

[Silver Foxx]

This is a beautiful build , great colours , so nice to see one built this way .

[Crazy Ed]

    Carl I'd say the result was worth the effort. Well Done!

[wayne swayze]

Very nice! I love the two tone colours you chose. Great looking model!

[Harry Joy]

Very nice.

[Jim B]

Nicely done.

[Aaronw]

Nice job, the '41-47 Chevy is one of my favorite pickup trucks. One tricky bit with this kit is there is a piece of the grill that should be body color between the upper horizontal bars and the lower vertical bars. Not a big deal on a restored truck though as it is not uncommon to see this piece chromed on many 1-1 restorations as well.

You can see the bit I'm referring to in this photo

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/1941-chevrolet-series-ak-pickup-2.jpg

 

The '37 Ford is also a nice kit, if you had fun with this one and are looking for another truck I think you would be happy with that one as well. 

[yura1961]

That build is beautiful!

[RAMBENNA]

wow fantastic build , looks awesome

[slusher]

Excellent looking model. Great paint and color choice

[unclescott58]

Looks great.

[landman]

Great rendition of one pf the nicest trucks ever built.

[Hubert Rollins]

Very very nice!!