Who does Models? Dodge & all

[DodgeAddict]

Here's some more progress pics on my firetruck "HaulerHome

 

[DodgeAddict]

The rest



The blacked out areas in the front parts will be windows with the rear open air

 

[bikinkawboy]

You must have a lot of patience and steady hands. Sometimes my hands aren't as steady as they used to be.

 

[DodgeAddict]

Eye failing,hands okay

 

[DodgeAddict]

Here's one of two more started projects Can you tell that I love the Dodge L700


Here's my mock up cab fitted with the front axle moved forward on a AMT Aero FireTruck frame with the wheel wells extended & setup for twin axle

 

[DodgeAddict]

I've got the resin body for the race car for this build right here & saving for the cab kits like the Dodge LS1000 in the pic


Here's what I'm told is quite rare the 1978 Dodge Magnum body It already has a NASCAR type mesh grille cast in it

 

[DodgeAddict]

Here's some of the trucks that I've got since my last posting

These have all been built or come from a parts box
The orange one came in a box of annuals from a yard sale along with this 68' Coronet R/T convertible

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

Do they make a 1974 dodge dart 4 door model?

 

[bear]

Do they make a 1974 dodge dart 4 door model?

Good question , I don't think I've ever seen a four door Dart model . Now that I think of it , the only four door models I've ever seen where police cars . I even looked for a while for a two door 70 Dart but the only one I could find was a wheel stander . Any input DodgeAddict ?

 

[DodgeAddict]

I've never seen one Jimmy Flintstone may make a resin kit

 

[DodgeAddict]

Here are two Darts

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

Looking for a 74 more door, seems that they do not make one.

 

[DodgeAddict]

You can build it using the front half of a Dart Sport model & the rear of a Dart like the Petty car

 

[HALIFAXHOPS]

I am a newbee to the model world so that would be a skill lever 100 to me! Just looking for a kit to make one of these

 

[DodgeAddict]

There's someone who will do it in resin I bet

 

[DodgeAddict]

Did some work on my lowered Junkyard Special today
It got a engine detail with a new set of headers

 

[LocuMob]

I've posted in a different thread, but I have somewhere around 200 Mopar and Semi models with a scattering of Furds and Chebbies.

I sold over 100 non Mopar models to a guy who I thought would just flip them for $2 a kit! (people around me are tough!) Turns out that he and his son and dad all build models together. Made me feel a lot better about the hit I was taking.

I went to an auction where the family's dad died. He built models and had a ton of build and unbuilt models. Built ones all painted with a brush, he didn't believe in spray cans or aurbrushing. Some of the nicest paint on a model I've ever seen. Anyhow, 3 collectors where paying retail for these kits and wouldn't let anyone else but them. They let each other have whatever they were interested in, but not anyone else. Hatred going to an auction to pay the same price I can at a store.

My dad helped me resurrect my modeling hobby. He got a few kits I liberated from his hoard of crap. That ballooned to 300 and I trimmed it to the current 200.

Dodgeaddict, you have the passion, that's for sure! I wish I could get those Tyrone Malone models, they always fascinated me. Got a book for some school thing when I was 9 and have loved them since. I used to deliver flowers and saw a truck show at an office I delivered to. Checked it out and one of his old tricks was there! It was repainted and the cab was on an hydraulic cylinder. I think it was the Boss truck but I can't remember. I'll see if I still have a pic of it. It was cool to see something that I read about in person. I'm surprised I never got into trucking with my love of big rigs.

I probably have about 10-12 in progress builds that all stalled out and I haven't got the motivation back. I'm hoping to find it this winter and get back into the swing of things. My biggest setback is no paint booth. I'll have to cobble up one with the old stove hood I have had laying around for about 3-4 years.

 

[DodgeAddict]

I sold all of my Tyrone Malone trucks to help fund my move home this past July
I had the Boss,Papa & Hideout trucks as restorations along with all four new in the box

 

[DodgeAddict]

Got a start again on my trucks, I'll post the before pics some of which are of trucks probably in this thread some where
This truck came in a JY of Dodge trucks that I bought on eBay

I used the tires,wheels,axles,springs, & snow plow from the Revell GM Snowplow kit

Now the interior is almost done,chassis detailed & body painted

 

[DodgeAddict]

This truck came in a batch of models a friend sent me from Kansas City.

I messed with it & painted the wheels, the painting of the wheels helped me to decide the colors for this one & prompted me to paint 8 trucks in roughly two nights a week later

I'm going to do the trim in BareMetalFoil