1940 high boy Ford Truck - First Mockup

Here's this pesky forty high boy for all you truckers and pickup freaks, and the rest of ya- well heck! It is a Revell forty cab sitting on seventies GMC rails with dualies.

There was liberal use of EZ Offz and much trimming of styrene. With the right paint and accessories it's really gonna be a mofoe.

A coat of primer is going on next time the rain lets up-that will draw out the details.

The 1940 chassis was earmarked for a Jimby Flinstone Ford Sedan project, and now there's an extra Revell flathead kicking around in the jalopy parts box-Mr. Red Primer

MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY

full fendered 2

Here it is another step along- first mockup............Mr.Red Primer-happy holidays

1970 CURBSIDE PROMOS

Some of you have an attitude about curbside kits, promo kits and snap kits. It is understandable. But while you were arguing about who put the mustard in the tuna that you neither purchased or prepared, I grabbed this second Chevelle SS and added some Cragar rims sitting on AMT thinline whitewall Firestones.

Actually these newer pressings of the old annual kit from nineteen and seventy are molded in garish colors but have endless potential to be primered and finished more completely at a later date. Nuts could eventually cut open doors, hood and trunk, add interior detail, engine, sound system, furry window treatments etc etc...

For a shady touch the window on the blue one was given a coat of flat black on the backside of the windshield.

This kit was another thrifty store find that was cheap and easy. The "twentys" rims and tires will be put up on eebai prolly...Mr Red Primer

Full Fendered Beauty

One day when you nerds were probably eating tuna sandwiches in your mom's basement or maybe watching fake judge courtroom trash tv, I found this goofy thing at the local Fret Mexer for a low low price. The louver work on the hood would look nice on a fenderless highboy, but when I got the thing home, I realized the chassis is part of the fenders. So I decided to build a fendered jalopy, and switched the big-and-littles out for Firestones and pie crust slicks (if you don't know me by now...) I dechromed the steelies and valve covers with Eazyofff and started in on assembling the thing. Here is the first mockup, you will be updated on a need-to-know basis................Mr. Red Primer

FITTY FIBE

Cool eighties treatment of the iconic mid-fifties Chevy- I like how the bumpers are body color in the cover photos, can't stand the Flashdance decals though. This one would be cool done up as one of the Two Lane Blacktop cars- glad it has Revell's eighties tires instead of those chintzy seventies two-piece ones...

easy off part two

It sounded crazy to me too, but easy off really does go to work on some enamel or chrome while leaving the styrene underneath undisturbed. Just to make sure I wasn't crazy, I ran it past Emil who agreed the stuff is absolutely poison but works great as a stripper for chrome especially. These rims can now be painted an enamel color to hit with the color schemes of the car they end up on...

Boot Hill Express

This one is straight out of my child hood- we used to look at the original car through the window of George Barris' showroom / custom shop down in The Valley of L.A. Somewhere I have snapshots we made at the time. I was crazy about anything with a skull or skeleton: Lil' Coffin, Rommel's Rod, Jolly Roger and this one. I fumbled through the assembly of my own personal Boot Hill Express, fogging up the clear parts with too much Testors and messing up the most delicate parts. It was thrilling to find a mint eighties version of the thing in impeccable shape, special thanks goes to Emil. The thing is molded in yellow and chrome, with great tires: in fact the pie crust slicks on the rear rims have white wall inserts that are played down in the cover photos of this re-press, but must have been super hot back in '61 or whenever they built the first version of this creepy rod. I remember being freaked out in a cool way when my folks told me the car was a cowboy hearse, and what a hearse was.... It would be a special challenge to carefully build this thing, done up in gold enamel with wide white wall slicks and a diorama behind it. Boot Hill Express will set next to the Lil' Stogey Death Valley Dragger Wagon quite nicely......... Mr. Red Primer AUTUMN SHEDULE 2012

LeMay, TACOMA USA

Photos by Lunarre & Johnny, Tacoma, WA-September 2012

thrifty shops - undisclosed location

thrifty shops-end of summer

'seventy chevelle mockup

This 1970 Chevy joined a growing number of '70 annual car models in my shop-I have a 1970 Impala and Monte Carlo waiting in the wings and that's just the Chevys. This little number was sitting amongst the funk at a thrifty shop and was sitting on those modern tall rims. The stock hubcaps from yet another parts 1970 Impala are perfect with Johan narrow whites or tall AMT Firestones with Cragars on the other side of the car for a sportier feel. The stance is achieved using the lower axle setting, and for mere pennies the thing is a great curbside nineteen seventy Chevelle in lime green styrene that may or may not need further finishing-Mr. Red Primer 2012

'seventy dodge challenger

Something told me to go to the picked over, trendy, dirty, lowdown cheapy store since I have found some gems there like this damn thirty seven henry un adulterated. I was just about to leave the dump after looking at the same old stained, weatherbeaten shelves full of junk when I checked the warzone aisle of the kiddies area. Here was this motherhubbard ORIGINAL kit that included parts from TWO different parts kits of this same pesky Mopar. Dammit, the thing is loaded with thinline whitewall tires and slicks and rims and wheelbacks but the body was painted by an ABSOLUTE IMBECILe- I often complain about the poor quality of work on these used models but this one is the worst yet. I had heard an old wives tale about Easy Off making a great paint remover for enamel on styrene-sounded nutty but this thing was such a cool body underneath all those layers of silver under coat, some incredibly sloppy candy apple over it in blobs....it is working like a CHARM- this thing is gonna be badass for pennies-Mr. Red Primer