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Another Starbird show car Ultra Truck aka Orange Hauler Gseeds


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 starting with a sealed 1990 issue of the orange hauler show car but as the first version the ULTRA TRUCK, first I googled pics of this truck and tried to figure out what color this would be , not many pics to be found , I found a few color and a few more black and white, color pics not a lot of help, best as could figure would be a mix of candy orange, flake, and a lot of silver pearl, so that’s what I did plus adding a pearl white fade on the motor cover, topped off with 3 coats of clear, same color I added to the interior parts along with pearl white, The Ultra Truck version also had different tires than the later monogram Orange Hauler version, this is another kit over the years I’ve never built but I’ve only used for it parts , glad I finally did build it , this is a super awesome kit , I’ll probably never build it again but very happy to have it in my show case !! Hope you like!

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Gee you have a clean building style, Gary!  I have one of these built in my collection, but not my build as it belonged to a dearly departed friend of mine.  His was closer to the box art so it is nice to see your earlier version.

Cheers

Alan

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Nice build of an ancient Monogram kit. Does anyone know what happened to the real one? I remember ads in the model car magazines back in the day ( like a half century ago ) it was going to be given away as the grand prize in some contest.

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On 1/17/2021 at 10:22 PM, Danno said:

Very nicely done!  Beautiful paint work.

(This blue was Darryl's favorite look for the Predicta. Monogram insisted he repaint it red for promotion of the model kit.)

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On 1/18/2021 at 8:22 AM, alan barton said:

Nice to see the blue variation.  I have the original dark red plastic version and it is simply to nice to paint!

Cheers

Alan

 

On 1/18/2021 at 9:23 AM, cobraman said:

Super nice work.

 

On 1/18/2021 at 9:50 AM, ChrisR said:

Very nice!

 

On 1/18/2021 at 4:56 PM, doorsovdoon said:

Very nice, what a great looking colour! Super nice build.

 

On 1/18/2021 at 7:52 PM, PappyD340 said:

Beautifully done!

 

On 1/19/2021 at 3:43 PM, Beamerman said:

I can say my heart beats when i see the old classic kustom cars of this wonderful era...i love your model..i hope to catch one a day and build one for my shelf...great work...

 

On 1/20/2021 at 12:56 AM, slusher said:

Super nice..

 

On 1/17/2021 at 10:24 PM, Danno said:

Nice job!  I like this color better than the 1:1 was. 

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On 1/18/2021 at 8:18 AM, alan barton said:

Gee you have a clean building style, Gary!  I have one of these built in my collection, but not my build as it belonged to a dearly departed friend of mine.  His was closer to the box art so it is nice to see your earlier version.

Cheers

Alan

 

On 1/18/2021 at 9:25 AM, cobraman said:

Very cool !  Love to see these old show cars built up.

 

On 1/18/2021 at 9:40 AM, ChrisR said:

LOoks great!

 

On 1/18/2021 at 3:58 PM, styromaniac said:

Nice build of an ancient Monogram kit. Does anyone know what happened to the real one? I remember ads in the model car magazines back in the day ( like a half century ago ) it was going to be given away as the grand prize in some contest.

 

On 1/18/2021 at 7:53 PM, PappyD340 said:

Very nice!

 

On 1/18/2021 at 10:05 PM, Scott8950 said:

very nice

 

On 1/19/2021 at 3:44 PM, Beamerman said:

So cool! I love it...

 

On 1/19/2021 at 6:43 PM, Dave72 said:

Very cool! Nice job! 

 

On 1/20/2021 at 1:56 PM, slusher said:

Wonderfully done!

Thanks guys for the comments!!

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On 1/18/2021 at 3:58 PM, styromaniac said:

Nice build of an ancient Monogram kit. Does anyone know what happened to the real one? I remember ads in the model car magazines back in the day ( like a half century ago ) it was going to be given away as the grand prize in some contest.

From what I’ve seen on the internet the car is now owned by starbirds grandson and is being restored.

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