VINTAGE MINI BARRAGES

These little beauties were a collaboration project between Jacob and his two brothers—all in their early teens, which makes the end result that much more impressive! Jacob tells us he was getting bored with the look of the stock half-cab bodies so he bought a couple 1/24 plastic model kits—a Ford F-100 (black) and a ‘66 Suburban (teal). The

Ford has a wood decal bed that looks authentic but he felt the Chevy needed something more so he designed and 3D-printed a roof rack for it. He also added wheels from a 1/24 Pro-line Ambush to both. He’s looking at adding some other 3d-printed scale accessories to both trucks in the future, but for right now he likes them the way they are. He mounted the bodies with pins in the front, but used Velcro and magnets for the rear. His brothers built the model kits while Jacob designed and 3D-printed the accessories, and then painted and assembled each rig. He acknowledges the performance of the modified Barrages probably went down slightly with the extra weight of the kit bodies, but they look so spectacular he thinks it was well worth the trade-off.