e318- Tamiya Lunchbox Dodge Passenger Van Conversion 

Yeah, that’s beyond my patience level. But this is going to turn out awesome!

Ha ha ha 300 more times. Wow what a labor of love. Nice paint job Man

A good extension for a dremel is a handyshaft, or flexshaft as some call it. It runs of the power of the dremel and it is much smaller and makes working with stuff like this much easier.

Looks like it was molded out of the Tamiya factory, very impressive.

That looks great!! A buddy from high school's dad had a Dodge Van as his daily driver; it was two-tone brown. We used to call it the "Egdod Teerts Nav - which is Dodge Street Van backwards. lol The next time you glue in window "glass", you might try Mod Podge rather than hot glue or CA. You can find it in the arts and crafts section at Walmart. It's slow drying and water soluble so if you get some on the visible portion of the window, you can easily clean it off with a wet Q-tip. I used it on my '79 Bronco trail truck build and it worked great - applying a bead around the inside perimeter of each window to completely seal it into the pocket in the body. I picked up this tip from a scale modeler. Can't wait to see your interior build video for this model. I'm working on an interior for the Bronco - a combination of sheet styrene main tub and printed dash, door panels, etc. -- very much inspired by the interior in your TRX-4.

That is an awesome build. Really like the paint. Remember seeing vans like this in this paint scheme. Excellent build! I was thinking taking two of these vans and splice them together to make the long wheelbase version. Then paint it up as the Possum Lodge van from the Red Green show. MESA Airlines had two of these vans as long wheelbase 4wd windowed crew vans for the operations in Aspen and Vail Colorado. They were replaced and hauled to Sky Harbour in Phoenix Arizona. They finnished their service with the PHX hangar and GSE departments. One was sold off and the other scrapped. Alittle roof top mounted A/C housing where the sun roof portal is would not look out of place. One of those white gelcoat ones that tried to look like a hoodscoop. LOL not the airvent ones, the compact A/C units, usually an aftermarket add on done by a RV service center. Don't know the brand but the manufacturer did their best to make them look "go fast". My uncle had one of these units mounted on top of his van, just like the van you just made here in the video. I just remember my cousins and myself getting dripped on by ice cold condensation from time to time. Supposely leaked rainwater in around the mounting gasket as well. LOL! Good times.

So glad I found your channel. I use that black panel wash for my panel lines too.

Beautiful conversion van! Those came out really slick

A very sweet change, nice work!!

Now the windows look even better than the existing ones!

Always great fun the AMPRO Engineering videos. Thank you, great stuff👍😎

Wow, it looks great! In awe of your ideas and design skills, as usual!

That looks fantastic, what a great idea 👍🏻😎

This is an art. Beautiful job. I enjoy these kind of videos. Awesome 😸✌️

Complete Awesomeness.

Stunning level of detail and great tutorial 🙌🏻 I can only aspire to this level of dedication! It looks 👍🏻

Amazing my friend!!!

It made it look more real thanks for making the video I really enjoy it

Very clean

So amazing man

Nice work.

Look amazing 👍

Dam it looks good 👊🏻👍🏻

Idk what the dimensions are on this thing but lately I’ve been watching some videos of body swapped RTG 136161 trucks with WPL D12, C34, and C54 and MN D99 bodies that look great and seem to run better than on their WPL and MN chassis. The world needs more van crawlers

Love this - I wish shapeways was cheaper I have your lighting units on the lunchbox

Love the colour

When I first saw the pics, I thought you'd also stretched it out to church van length

Awesome! Love it. Any chance a future update would include a 2 piece design? Maybe an inside frame and an outside frame that would snap or be glued together which to sandwich the window opening and eliminate the need for filling and sanding?

I like to see how you did the interior that be a cool video to see

Needle file would have been better then the xacto for cleaning up those windows. Could also template out the window openings better so little to no filling is required.

Apply Super glue and drizzle baking soda on the glue !!

Absolutely stunning work! You would almost think Tamiya did this! Did you use the same black paint for the gasket to use for the panel lines?

Eliminate that first lip window.....delete the sunroof.....i am thinking ....prison van ....put a light bar top....some black and white paint...bam Or even a ambulance

what if my hobby knife is not an exacto brand...can i still use it ? thanks in advance

I’m looking for the window frame for the lunchbox body but I’m able to find it.

Any chance for an interior for a stock Lunchbox? Obviously just the front section, dash, seats, floor, and probably the door cards? How much work to get that dash to fit with the stock windshield? Would it just be sanding/removing some of the material that meets up with the windshield?

where it i can buy that balck frame for the dodge windows?

I literally was just thinking about this two minutes ago. Blam you got a vid on it. Get out of my brain!!!!!

why not to provide template print to mark the outside of the holes?

When will we be able to buy these parts from your shapeways store? Thank you. :)

Why only the window frames themselves, and not just a panel to replace the whole area? Body line to drip rail, door frame to rear pillar?