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Here's a blast from the past. An F150 that I built way back in 2007, when I was still fairly new to the Tamiya scene and these were still available NIB for a pretty low price. Back then the scale crawler scene was only just about to get going, so I had the slightly sideways idea of building this as a scale truck instead of the race truck that it's supposed to be. It's stayed with me for all these years, and now I have a reason to dust it off and give it a refresh, so for the first time ever it will get its own thread, detailing its history and setting out its plans for the future. Well, I hope I haven't done a build thread on this one before, anyway - it's been around for so long that maybe I have..? Now bear with me here because there's a lot of history to get through, a lot of photos and not a lot of time, so it could take me a while to upload all of this. This could be a slow-burn thread to read over the next few weeks, maybe. Let's start with a photo. Since I wanted this to be a trail truck, I painted it a flat, single colour. I was very nervous about painting back then so I didn't do anything fancy with the caged rear end - I just painted it black. These photos were taken at a place called Stockhill, which was about a 40 minute drive from where I used to live. It's got some great terrain and was a popular proving ground for my early Tamiya builds, back when I was single with no responsibilities and I could just get up and go out at 8pm on a July school night and not come home until long after sunset. Back then I was also enjoying a little bit of photography, so I took dozens of photos of this truck to try to make it look scale. There's over 200 images in this album if you want to go check it out, I'll only show the important ones on this thread: https://tcphotos.net/album/ePel This was definitely a Golden Hour photoshoot, I couldn't have hoped for better weather to show off the truck's body before it got all scratched up on the trails.