I just finished building four of these kits from Inter-Action enterprises
Two I got for myself and the other two I built for a couple fellow modelers.
They're a laser-cut craftsman kit but they're pretty easy to build. I figure it would take the average modeler about and hour to build one, outside of the painting. I built the first one by itself and then the other three on a sort of assembly line to speed construction.
I painted the outside in a krylon flat aluminum color and the inside in a sort of stained wood. there isn't an interior provided but the door is cut so you can position it open or closed. I built two with open doors and two closed.
The floor and door side are glued together with an internal stiffener that bridges the two walls. I found that the stiffener was a bit short so I used something different of the other three.
The piece of basswood that I used on the other three was a bit thicker so the glue would have a larger surface to contact.
The wheels are three pieces of wood, laminated together with a two part rim-hubcap in the center. The kit even comes with leaf springs!
here's the three with the roofs in various stages of assembly. You curl the roof around a marker or pen to get the curvature, then starting from the front you glue it down a bit at a time.
All three roofs glued on and the edges trimmed
All the details added. The kit includes the screen door to glue on the inside of the main door, the top vent, tail lights, spare tire, and front jack. I made the stripes out of the evergreen 1X10 strip styrene.
Two I got for myself and the other two I built for a couple fellow modelers.
They're a laser-cut craftsman kit but they're pretty easy to build. I figure it would take the average modeler about and hour to build one, outside of the painting. I built the first one by itself and then the other three on a sort of assembly line to speed construction.
I painted the outside in a krylon flat aluminum color and the inside in a sort of stained wood. there isn't an interior provided but the door is cut so you can position it open or closed. I built two with open doors and two closed.
The floor and door side are glued together with an internal stiffener that bridges the two walls. I found that the stiffener was a bit short so I used something different of the other three.
The piece of basswood that I used on the other three was a bit thicker so the glue would have a larger surface to contact.
The wheels are three pieces of wood, laminated together with a two part rim-hubcap in the center. The kit even comes with leaf springs!
here's the three with the roofs in various stages of assembly. You curl the roof around a marker or pen to get the curvature, then starting from the front you glue it down a bit at a time.
All three roofs glued on and the edges trimmed
All the details added. The kit includes the screen door to glue on the inside of the main door, the top vent, tail lights, spare tire, and front jack. I made the stripes out of the evergreen 1X10 strip styrene.
