Midnight Pearl - Custom 1953 Ford Panel Truck - Linotopia
Midnight Pearl, a custom 1953 Ford Panel Truck is a mash up of a few Linotopia themes:
Firstly, the model is a clear reference to 'The Mountain Pearl' - a customised 1953 Ford pickup. This model is featured in White with red panelling, and was a Lino recreation of a famous custom original by Otto Rhodes and Bill Dickey. I recently recreated this model myself. 'The Mountain Pearl', and 'Midnight Pearl' form a handsome couple to the 7th Build Challenge, - "Night & Day".
Secondly, Lino created a Panel Truck version of the 1953 Ford for LUGNuts 59th Build Challenge - 'Nifty Fifties, Daddy-O'. Lino's model was featured in black, with a second tone of blue flames, starting from the nose.The other special feature of Lino's original model was the installation of a wheel-chair access from the back of the truck, including a ramp - this has also been recreated for this model, including Lino's original miniland figure.
Thirdly, though Lino did not build this particular model for the Build Challenge, the 58th LUGNuts challenge theme included a sub-theme to build a 'Any Bad-ass vehicle, customised to accommodate a wheelchair'. My chief issue in filling this theme previously was the 'bad-ass' bit - as most of my vehicles are indistinguishably conservative.- hence the need to go build some Linotopia models, and stir in a bit of crazy once in a while.
This Lego miniland scale Linotopia 'Midnight Pearl' custom 1953 Ford F100 Panel Truck has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 96th Build Challenge - The 8th Birthday, titled - 'Happy Crazy Eight Birthday, LUGNuts' - where all previous build challenges are available to build to. This model is built to the LUGNuts 58th Build Challenge, - "Order by Numbers" - a challenge to build a model to a selection of sub-themes. This model being built to "Any Bad-ass vehicle customised to accommodate a wheelchair". This is also another Linotopia model - in honour of esteemed LUGNuts founder Lino Martins. This meets one of the other previous challenge themes, number 25 - "I Wanna Be Like You". And, thirdly, as a complement to 'The Mountain Pearl" shown previously, this half forms the pair to the 7th Build Challenge, - "Night and Day".
Midnight Pearl - Custom 1953 Ford Panel Truck - Linotopia
Midnight Pearl, a custom 1953 Ford Panel Truck is a mash up of a few Linotopia themes:
Firstly, the model is a clear reference to 'The Mountain Pearl' - a customised 1953 Ford pickup. This model is featured in White with red panelling, and was a Lino recreation of a famous custom original by Otto Rhodes and Bill Dickey. I recently recreated this model myself. 'The Mountain Pearl', and 'Midnight Pearl' form a handsome couple to the 7th Build Challenge, - "Night & Day".
Secondly, Lino created a Panel Truck version of the 1953 Ford for LUGNuts 59th Build Challenge - 'Nifty Fifties, Daddy-O'. Lino's model was featured in black, with a second tone of blue flames, starting from the nose.The other special feature of Lino's original model was the installation of a wheel-chair access from the back of the truck, including a ramp - this has also been recreated for this model, including Lino's original miniland figure.
Thirdly, though Lino did not build this particular model for the Build Challenge, the 58th LUGNuts challenge theme included a sub-theme to build a 'Any Bad-ass vehicle, customised to accommodate a wheelchair'. My chief issue in filling this theme previously was the 'bad-ass' bit - as most of my vehicles are indistinguishably conservative.- hence the need to go build some Linotopia models, and stir in a bit of crazy once in a while.
This Lego miniland scale Linotopia 'Midnight Pearl' custom 1953 Ford F100 Panel Truck has been created for Flickr LUGNuts' 96th Build Challenge - The 8th Birthday, titled - 'Happy Crazy Eight Birthday, LUGNuts' - where all previous build challenges are available to build to. This model is built to the LUGNuts 58th Build Challenge, - "Order by Numbers" - a challenge to build a model to a selection of sub-themes. This model being built to "Any Bad-ass vehicle customised to accommodate a wheelchair". This is also another Linotopia model - in honour of esteemed LUGNuts founder Lino Martins. This meets one of the other previous challenge themes, number 25 - "I Wanna Be Like You". And, thirdly, as a complement to 'The Mountain Pearl" shown previously, this half forms the pair to the 7th Build Challenge, - "Night and Day".