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Silverado1994

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My name is Joe and I've been building cars/ trucks my entire life so I'm a kid at heart at 53 years old. Through the years I've had a 66 Plymouth Barracuda, 3 1967 Mustang Coupes, an '89 LX 5.0 Mustang Coupe and now my '94 Silverado. I had a 383 stroker motor in the Silverado but now I've gone about as far as I want to go in the normally aspirated performance realm having recently installing a 406 small block in it.

I've worked in GM dealers for around 20 years and left currently work at a fleet shop for one of the local refineries here in Corpus working on Ford Trucks and various other pieces of equipment in the plant so I've got a decent background in mechanical/ electrical knowledge and enjoy helping others when the opportunity arises.

Aside from real world vehicles, I also build autos in 1/25 scale & aircraft in 1/48 scale and when I have an opportunity, I enter them at shows. I've been building these little replicas now for over 40 years and get just as much enjoyment from them as I do the full scale vehicles I build (and it's cheaper). I've had one of my trucks published in the Contest Cars Edition of Fine Scale Magazine and looks like I might have another build featured this year in the same publication.

I'm glad to be here and am looking forward to getting to know everyone, pitching in where I can and obtaining more knowledge about these trucks.

Pics of my 1994 when it had the 383 in it:

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Welcome, and awesome truck!

Post some pictures of your replicas if you get a chance, I love the detail that some people put into them. A friend of mine's father was a master jeweler and he built replicas as a hobby. It blew my mind the first time I saw a set of spark plug wires that he'd made from melting/pulling scrap red colored plastic out of a model kit.

I don't have any pictures of his models unfortuantely, but here's a picture of a Lamborghini Diablo that he carved/built all the molds for. It's about the size of a HotWheels car and disassembles into 18 pieces. This one is made of silver.

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Silverado1994

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Welcome, and awesome truck!

Post some pictures of your replicas if you get a chance, I love the detail that some people put into them. A friend of mine's father was a master jeweler and he built replicas as a hobby. It blew my mind the first time I saw a set of spark plug wires that he'd made from melting/pulling scrap red colored plastic out of a model kit.

I don't have any pictures of his models unfortuantely, but here's a picture of a Lamborghini Diablo that he carved/built all the molds for. It's about the size of a HotWheels car and disassembles into 18 pieces. This one is made of silver.

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Wow!!! That's frickin' crazy right there!!!

This is my AMT 1/25 scale 454SS dream truck that I built in 2020. It took me around 5 months to complete this one with most of the challenges being paint and the ending assembly of installing the body onto the frame. With a few pitfalls to work around it was a good kit to work with overall.



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Wow!!! That's frickin' crazy right there!!!

This is my AMT 1/25 scale 454SS dream truck that I built in 2020. It took me around 5 months to complete this one with most of the challenges being paint and the ending assembly of installing the body onto the frame. With a few pitfalls to work around it was a good kit to work with overall.



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Welcome to the party? those are great pictures
 
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