Well since I have basically finished my summer project and am awaiting warmer weather to fine tune the engine I have been looking towards a old hobby I haven't done for years. That would be building plastic models.

I don't know about others but Ive always had a hard time finding any of my personal vehicles in kit form to actually build my personal vehicles as a scale model.

Well that changes as of a few months back. I came across this one 1/24 scale kit that I recently got for Christmas.

It is by Revel its their Trucks line up and its a Ford Ranger Pickup.




For those that can see this is a '80 - '81 F series flare side. I would have to modify the kit some to replicate my '82 flare side. Such as sanding the Ford lettering off the hood, placing a ford oval decal on the grill, puttying the doors to remove the swing arm mirrors and tracking down some car mirrors that look like mine. Will also have to take and use some masking tape to paint black lines on the rear window to mimic the split rear window.

Aside from that the kit comes with the proper wagon wheels just all in chrome not white. Also comes with some offroad tires. Nice thing is I found a company that sells 1/24 and 1/25 scale BFG All Terrain TA tires down side is they are the older KO1 not the KO2 I have now. I also did some more browsing and found that there is a company that makes the same exact floor mat as I have in my truck now in 1/24 scale.

Only thing that might be a problem is locating a 2wd twin ibeam front axle as this Ranger kit is a 4wd setup.



Aside from this kit I also picked up a 1956 Ford Victoria kit in the same scale as I found a guy online that sells a 1956 Ford Club Sedan resin body kit which I think I can take and slice the door handle off the Victoria body and glue it on the body of the Club Sedan where the rear doors would be then scribe the outline of the rear door to make my Town Sedan. Down side is the doors are molded with raised Club Sedan emblem and I would have to print out a decal that says Town Sedan since no one makes a photo etch version. Would also have to putty up the front bench seat to turn it from a split bench into a solid bench.

So it looks like I got my work cut out for me I got quite a few models I recently picked up now I just need to find the room and the spending cash to buy new supplies as my old modeling supplies have gone bad in the 15-18 years since I stopped doing this.