This started as an Arii 1957 Daihatsu Midget:
Since this was the 4th of July holiday weekend in the US, I took off an extra day to make it a 4 day weekend. I spent much of it working on this model.
The midget kit is pretty basic but not hard to detail. The stated scale is 1/32, but I'm declaring mine 1/35. I added some details, like extending the dashboard and adding a treadplate pattern to the floor (archer treadplate resin decal):
It didn't take long to finish the kit. Here it is in some pretty harsh sunlight:
I made the duct tape on the seat and canvas cover out of pin striping tape painted aluminum.
The robot was made out of spare parts - the body is from some random Japanese robot kit and the head, arm and some other bits are from one of the astronauts from the Monogram 1/48 Space Taxi kit. I made the boxes myself:
The headlight is an MV lens:
Here it is in less harsh lighting. The canvas cover straps are small PE bits from a set the Jeff sent me:
I'm working on a figure to go with this.