Vitamin 'C' -  Dave McGowan
 

Coming atcha' from the "Land of Fruits & Nuts"!

When I joined the Revell Master Modelers' Club, I was devastated to receive an airplane kit as a premium, rather than the "T-Bone Stake" kit I'd fallen in love with as pictured on the membership form.  Twenty some-odd years later, I finally got one of these little beasties partially built, and I started putting together my own version - the way I'd built it in my head hundreds of times in the intervening years.

The fenders were immediately ditched, along with the Corvair-sourced rear suspension and drivetrain.  A Lil' Van donated it's entire rear chassis section, engine and transaxle, while a Barris T-Buggy gave up it's front suspension for the cause.  Wheels and tires from the Mysterion found a place
in the mounting pile of parts, along with the payload and rear roof section from a somewhat rare Fruit Wagon.

Fruity paint used includes Tamiya Candy Lime, Testors Citron Yellow and Go Mango, along with a whole mess of acrylic hues to pick out the fruit details and interior surfaces.