Luc Janssens
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Still, remember when they first came out, a guy (think his name was Francois, but everyone called him Ludo) built one and showed at a monthly meeting at Verlindens Model World shop, it was beautiful, Lost contact with him, but know that he later started building automotive display models for Tamiya Europe, remember seeing them at the Tamiya stand in Nürnberg. I too built on back in the day, but it's landfill now...maybe just maybe there's still a polaroid pic of it somewhere... Anyway...beautiful build Jonathan!
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Oh well...
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Wonder if the C-Pillar area left to right is symmetrical now, cuz the kit I have shows a serious misalignment of the side cavities to the roof cavity. I can't make it out on the video, only see big parting lines.
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It was the box-art that sold me their Plymouth NYPD kit, But soon regretted that I didn't open the box in the hobby store before buying it, the Mpc kit is much better. IMHO Round2 can milk the Monaco tool a bit more, by looking at what Yodel marketed, some new wheels, hubcaps, light bars and decals of prominent worldwide know agencies.
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1971 - 1978(or even later year)... Dodge van undercarriage(chassis) color?
Luc Janssens replied to crowe-t's topic in The Truck Stop
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Hmm the skeleton view shows there's much work to get the suspension accurate. maybe a job for Fireball models?!
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Alternative closed trailer, I'd suggest the ones Galaxie LTD released....available as pull-along and goose-neck.
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Too bad, IMHO besides great box-art, it's always good to show how the finished product can look like when built (by a professional ) Anyway.. again thanks for the heads-up Mike!
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Just took this photo of the ones in my collection, but realized after I shelved them all again, I forgot to add the Thunderstruck kit, DOH! Anyway, I'm glad I was able to find them all before the collector prices went way up there, now I couldn't spend the money. So the kit will be a long box sweptside, can't wait what the boyz did in the form of decal artwork....
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As Rob hinted at above, I wonder if it's the leaf springs and axle parts which were lost when the Ram Tuff version was created. Casey: IIRC the molded-in on the chassis bed floor isn't as wide as on the earlier sweptside models, most likely changed due to the uteline beds, starting with the Warlock. Mike: good to hear, hopefuly the powers at Round2, soon will give premission for you to show your (box-art) build (asuming you did one)
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yes!
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But the big difference was (is) inside the box, cuz the actual model is a '79! Wonder where those inserts are (hood, grille, and cowlpnl) It's the only one still missing in my collection of mpc Dodge trucks, but can't push myself buying one
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That's what I'm hoping for too.
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Most likely because the side trim is gone, and would be hard to re-engrave cuz then the utelines can't be released again. Also there's "talk" that the bed "could" be a short bed, instead of the standard bed, could be the reason too that the box-art is labeled as "preliminary" by Casey. Anyway just thinking out loud, we won't know for sure, till the kit hits the marketplace or a online preview is released by the folks at Round2
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Like the box-art very much, it was kinda like an instant flashback, me as a 10-year-old again going thru new automotive brochures..... Darn that nostalgia sales pitch really works