Model remodel
 

I built this a long time ago, but I recently took it all apart and painted it all up to look more like my real truck. I'm still kind of playing around with it, but it's coming along ...

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-v...0/IMG_0014.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-j...0/IMG_0020.JPG

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-a...0/DSC04995.JPG

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Craig, that's pretty cool!

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Thank you!

Believe it or not, unlike the real truck, the model kind of looks better in person than it does in the pictures. I really need to come up with a better solution for the door lettering, but I'm still thinking about it.

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Lookin' good! How did you do the whitewalls? I like both trucks...great color!

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Thanks!

I've been screwing up model kits for over 30 years. I've just got a big stash of old tires and stuff around.

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Here's some maybe better pics.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-L...0/IMG_0024.JPG
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-x...0/IMG_0025.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-g...0/IMG_0027.JPG

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Very cool. I dig the matching patina.
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Ok,I was wondering if you had a trick to do them. That's one thing I hate about the newer issues of the 60s-70s vehicles. They don't give whitewalls anymore. Ok,so they went out of style in later years,but not in these years. If you want to build a "stock" truck,the wheelcovers only look good with narrow whitewalls,IMO.That's how you always saw them...blackwalls with hubcaps and whitewalls with wheelcovers. Sure,you saw people put whitewalls with hubcaps,like your truck,but I never liked the wheelcovers with blackwalls and don't recall hardy ever seeing it back in the day. I bought some truck kit parts lots just to get some whitewalls. With a he effort to build detail into my kits over the years...and hating it when friends would slap them together without a drop of paint...now I have the idea to build a promo in a factory color they never issued. That would be totally custom! Sure,anyone could do it,but have you ever seen it? I like things to be custom,yet not look that way. Like something that "coulda" but "wasn't". I have one of the dumb '72 Cheyenne "Rides" kits with the dippy wheels I want to do that with. I'm thinking medium olive poly.I have an old qt. that may still be good

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My dad actually has a red '71 or so Chevy truck promo that he painted the white section in to make it two-toned back when it was new. You'd never know it didn't come that way unless you knew.

I've tried that on a couple of pace cars. I had a '55 Chevy coupe with a broken top, so I made a pace car out of it.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-r...A/s800/PP2.jpg

I also thought it would be neat to have n '82 Camaro pace car promo, which they also never made, so I just masked off the blue strip and gave it a quick, promo-quality shot of silver.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-n...w/s800/PP5.jpg

I'm not really very good at this stuff, but I like messing with it.