1969 Ford C700 Stake Bed

[Cornbinder]

This is an original T596 kit that I bought a couple of years ago. I just love that old rigid plastic. 😁 The hardened vinyl tires I could do without but hey ... That's the tradeoff I guess. 

Inspired by the box art I used that and a Purple Wave auction listing for a 1969 C700 as my guide. The paint is Tamiya Camel Yellow overall, with the bed finished in Krylon Scarlet. The chrome was stripped (no thick nasty undercoat in 1971... Another plus for the old kits) and refinished in Krylon Colonial Ivory, which is a decent match for aged Ford Oxford White. The Speedy decals are from Gofer Racing, I changed the location from Chicago to Detroit with a section of old Fred Cady graphics. Wheels and underside were lightly weathered. 

The box art showed the door emblem above the character line, 1968-1970 style, while the actual cab has it below, 1971-1990 style. I sanded off the original emblem and replaced it with the Moebius 1967-1972 F100 hood emblem. There's a "bonus" set of these in the 65 and 66 kits. Speaking of, I modified a 65 F100 bench seat to use here.  

The crates were painted Tamiya Flat Flesh and dusted with weathering powder. 

[vincen47]

Nice work. Great era and model-specific corrections and upgrades, including the bench seat for the C-700

With these trucks, AMT unintentionally created a mashup of features specific to various truck models and different production years.

I guess that’s part of the hobby - having to sort out, correct and customize the builds - and the AMT C-Series is one of the best canvases for creating unique scale model art because of all of the ways we can build them.

[Johnny M]

I love this truck -- super job!

Johnny

[jpage]

Very nice job! Neat truck!

[Brian Dutz]

Very clean build! Excellent!