Resin T Turtle Decks

[Jon Haigwood]

Are there any 1/24th Resin "T" turtle deck or short pick up beds available ?

Thanks

[Art Anderson]

I've never seen any, more than likely due to the fact that only a couple of T-bucket hot rod kits have ever been done in 1/24 scale--Monogram's Green Hornet and their Li'l T are the only ones that I can think of.

Or do you mean for use with AMT's '23/'25 Model T kits? That series of kits has been done with both a separate turtle deck and a shortened pickup box as separate parts--and are actually quite plentiful, so likely no resin parts as you seek have been done, at least by any main-stream resin caster.

Art

[Jon Haigwood]

One of our local hobby shop is closing and I picked up a Lindberg 29 T Rod kit. I know it was not a great kit and has issues but for $9 I knew I could find some use for it or parts of it. It only has a fuel tank behind the body and I would rather have a bed or turtle deck if I can find one without buying another kit.

[Art Anderson]

One of our local hobby shop is closing and I picked up a Lindberg 29 T Rod kit. I know it was not a great kit and has issues but for $9 I knew I could find some use for it or parts of it. It only has a fuel tank behind the body and I would rather have a bed or turtle deck if I can find one without buying another kit.

I always chuckled at that kit! Consider, by 1929, Model T had been out of production for nearly 2 years--discontinued by Ford in early June of '27, replaced by the Model A in late 1927.

That said, the Lindberg kit was never a very popular model kit with modelers looking to build that "awesome" model, but was originally offered as a bargain-priced model kit aimed at kids lacking the $2 (back in the 1960's) for a more sophisticated AMT, Monogram, Revell, JoHan or MPC model car kit. It's been reissued a few times since the 1980's, mostly as a nostalgia piece, and as such never really generated enough interest among modelers, and certainly the model car aftermarket to spur any sort of resin parts for making "that different version".

Art

[Jon Haigwood]

I figured mostly as a box of kit bash parts