[spideyman]

Hello all,
I thought that it was high time that I share with you something that I have been working on. Though I am not working on it full force. This project is something that I pick at while I am stuck with down time on other current projects. Plus it gives me a break when I get too frustrated with the others.
This kit is an AMT 1950 Chevrolet 3100 Deluxe Pickup. Its an older kit that has been out of production for some time now, but I got lucky earlier this year and tracked one down. The idea that I have with this is to build a magazine cover, show stopper style street truck.
Hope you guys will enjoy this build as much as I am looking forward to building it, however like I said it will be a slower build since I only pick at it here and there.




Here are a couple of pictures of the cab. Like I said earlier this is an older kit and it really shows. Many hours has already gone into just “massaging” the cab strait. For some reason (ease of molding Im guessing) the lower parts of the cab are in three separate pieces. But none of the pieces fit, not even close. Other flaws included a lot of flash and very thick mold lines. Though it has been all sorted out, some putty will be needed to finish it up. Other modifications also include shaving of the door handles, gas filler, and the molded in wipers.



Here is MANY more hours of work. I took the time to smoothen out the fire wall of all the molded wire, resistors, and other fire wall mounted items.





A ruff mock up of the cab and bed of the truck. The color that I have in mind, will be a bright pearlescent yellow. Here you can also see that I shaved the center spine trim off the hood to give it a more smooth one piece look.





No Stovebolt strait six here, this truck is getting a big block Chevy instead. I did a quick mock up of the motor with new resin parts. Parts include a pair of high lift valve covers that I will be reshaping, a single plain intake manifold, and a Demon 850cfm carburetor to top it all off.




I will be using a Detail Master aluminum air filter housing. Since the bottom is hollow, I had to make a bottom piece out of Ever Green. At some point I will also be scratch build the K&N style filter element as well.




Here is a mock up of the big block in the engine bay. As you can see I will be have a great time fabricating headers to fit in between the engine and inner fender.




This last picture is just for the pure fun of it. After I finished mocking up the motor I happen to notice the difference in size between the big block and my motor for the Mini. I don’t know, I thought that it was funny.

Well thats it for now, Ill post when there is progress made. I always enjoy hearing what you guys think.