Best pickup kits for crewcab

[olschoolkid]

Hi everybody, I am thinking about building a crew cab pickup and wanted to know what you think would be a good kit to use. It can be Ford, Chevy, Dodge, or anything else. I just want a kit that would be easy to build into a crew cab.

[BigTallDad]

The Dodge Dakota from Lindberg might be the way to go. While it's a Snap Tite; this is one of the best Snap Tites I've seen.

 

 

 

[stitchdup]

meng do a ford f350 crewcab, not built mine yet but it looks like a good kit but a little pricey. the revell 65 chevy truck is not too bad to extend with the body lines helping a great deal. I did one with a revell front and amt 60 rear to the cab but in hindsight using 2 revell kits would have made extending the chassis go better.

[426 pack]

The revell 91 Ford dually. I did a crew cab and it turned out good.

theres a revell 1999 Chevy that would probably be a good conversion.

Meng makes a 08-10 Ford F-350 crew cab long box. It a very nice kit.

 

[explorer2770]

It's not too hard to convert the Ford Raptor kit into a crew cab.  The hardest part is to resin copy the door handles and scribe the rear door line. 

20180202_225908 by Brandon VanNess, on Flickr

As you can tell, I'm not quite done with the crew cab.  The nice part is that you can get a regular cab and a crew cab out of the conversion. 

20180202_230414 by Brandon VanNess, on Flickr

Not much to do with the regular cab, I'm thinking about using a utility box or making a long-bed.

20180202_230518 by Brandon VanNess, on Flickr

[LDO]

I have no idea how easy it would be, compared to other models, but I think Revell's 1/16 '73-'87 pickup would be awesome to stretch out. When I was a teenager back in the '80s, Chevy 4 door dualies were popular among ranchers in north Texas. Some had pretty cool custom paint. If you're going to stretch it, may as well go nuts with it. Yeah, I would love to have a 1/16 6-door Chevy.

[Ben]

There was a guy on Facebook selling resin 70’s Chevy crew cabs, dually fenders and a Suburban conversion kit. I’ll see if I can find the post.

[dieseldawg142]

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Edited May 9, 2018 by dieseldawg142

[Ben]

6 hours ago, dieseldawg142 said:

is this the guy on ebay that goes by the name "redlinerestorations2015-8?

he has crews and a sub

looks like he is using the mpc deserter gm, it is one of the easier ones to convert, one I have done and would recommend.....I bought a '70's chev crew cab from RMR resin off ebay 10 yrs ago, is pretty nice, but have never received a reply back to many emails I sent wanting to buy more since then, and haven't seen any more of his crews on ebay... the resins crews are nice, but sometimes you can make your own crew cheaper with 2 kits

 another fairly easy conversion is the amt line of '88-'98 chevy trucks.

they came in all diff body styles, ext-cab, std cab, sb, lb, stepper, they are like the lego of model trucks... they easily convert into any body style you can think of, there still pretty plentiful and cheap, and they come in glue, snap, and promo,  all interchangeable

redlinerestorations2015

 

Yeah, that’s the guy.

[Ron Hamilton]

I have a couple of promos of a 87 through 99 Chevy 3500 crew cab "dooleys" that I may open up and put a 454 and Underwood detail in. Be careful of some of that resin, as it is hard to get right.