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WIP: GSL Common Kit: [revision] just another Model A Roadster Fresh off the bench. After looking at the pictures, will be cleaning off the fuzz, and add some road trip weathering. It's been decades since I built a hot rod, and never a Model A. The only reason I built it, have entered the Common Kit class at every GSL (they have my Porsche 911 Speedster Turbo in the 'If I Had Designed It' class ?) that I attended, and have almost always got an award. I don't expect anything this time because I expect everyone and their brother will enter all kinds of awesome builds, so I hope that my additional details that are missing from the kit will make points. I have to admit, this was fun. ? Primary paint is special order Splash paints used on my '69 Chevy pickup THE GREEN BARGE with Model Master pearl clear on the body. My favorite scratch-building material is newspaper printing plate, almost every part utilized it. There are only five parts that are turned aluminum, four turned from Corian®. Added a nitrous system. If there is anything everyone should do when they build this kit, open the trunk so you can see the fuel tank and battery, come on Revell! I should take pictures of the bottom, since many details added are there. Will take glamor "studio" shots sometime.

I'm very happy to finish this one. It's a kitbash with the Revell '29 Model pickup kit and the new '29 Model A roadster kit. I used the channeled chassis, suspension, radiator and nailhead from the roadster kit. I carved the "extra" floor from the roadster kit into the raised floor in the RPU cab. The wheels and tires are from the Sock-it-to-Me Corvette. The rest is from the pickup kit or scratch built. I wanted this to look like something that's got some salt and strip time in it's past and now it's just a cool hot rod that it's owner enjoys. I tried for a weathered bare metal look, which I think I was semi-successful in achieving. The first shots are sans the top and tank which are now permanent fixtures. The racy door panels I made from a collage of old pulp fiction cover art. The bed is stained balsa. Enough words, here's the pics. Comments and criticisms welcome.