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Yes, the 429 and 460 has the same outside appearence, the difference are the stroke of the crank.

Looks good. One thing tho' the rear wheels isn't correctly mounted, the outer lip should be inside the tires and the wheels should look like this.

That goes for the deckplate forward of the fifth wheel too. Here is a picture of one of the 1975 trucks and I believe the 1974 trucks were the same...note the 1975 trucks did not have any grab handles on the back of the sleeper.

Ford had two different power steering pumps in the 60's, the earlier up to 1965ish Eaton pump with external reservoir either on top of the pump itself or remote mounted on the inner fender. and the later from 1965ish Ford pump with integral reservoir like the one in the pictures above.

Nice model Jürgen. But this is the "On The Workbench" section where we show our models in progress before they are finished, and as this is a completed model it suites better under the "Under Glass" section where completed models are shown.

I got them today, Thanks.

It looks like a trailer from Keystone Aluminum Model Miniatures now defunct, they did a few different versions of the "Duel" trailer, single and dual axle.

I wouldn't buy from any other than Pavel.

I would say the Aoshima kit. I have both the Aoshima and the Fujimi Enthusiast kit and the Aoshima kit is a little less detailed but looks to be easier to build.

I saw it at Nitro Revival at Irvindale CA yesterday. It even cackled at the cackle fest.

Not yet as far as I have seen...but I'm presently in the US on vacation so I haven't checked for some days...when did you send them?

I got the #221 issue in the mail today, second in a row so hopefully the delivery problems are solved now. I'm still missing #217, #218 and #219 tho'.

Same here.

All Polar Lights Funny Car kits has the same chrome tree with 2 wheel choices for the rear and 3 wheel choices for the front. But none of them resembles the Weld Aluma Star wheel wich is a more modern wheel style than these.

I think the two axle Ford C800 with a gasoline engine is way too small for the AMT Trailmobile moving van/race transporter trailer...but that's my opinion. The reason I thought the car choice was a bit odd was that AMT didn't have these kits but the competing company Revell did, even if the molds are with Atlantis now it's still kind of odd, but that doesn't matter much as one can use them for a display anyway. The AMT race transporter trailers came 1990 at the same time as the Kenworth T600A and T600A Canepa. It's not a big loss if the AMT race transporter hasn't been reissued since then, it's wrong for a post 80's race car transporter anyway. The trailer is originally the old Trailmobile moving van trailer from 1972 with an added kind of a racing car transporter interior with very long folded ramps for a race car to get access to the upper floor, and the racing teams stopped using old moving van trailers a long time ago. I do have a couple of them (one customized to fit a 90's 300 inch wheelbase Top Fuel Dragster built a long time ago) but they are quite short at 40 feet and are better as a moving van trailer than a race car transporter, and if I want to do another race transporter trailer I will probably build a more accurate 53 foot Featherlite style 2 story trailer with a rear lift gate from scratch.

The Testors HSO kits with the metal wheels and photo etch were issued in 1998-99 if you go by the date on the instructions wich is the only date on these kits, the Scalemates timeline for these kits are not correct as I believe these HSO series kits came about the same time as they have subsequent numbers, 7401 for the Olds 442, 7402 for the Plymouth 'Cuda, 7403 for the AMX and 7404 for the Rambler S/C, I have a few of them in my stash. As far as I know Testors did not mold any kits themselves so they had kits molded for them from other manyfacturers or reboxed bagged kits from others like Italeri, Lindberg, Jo-Han and others. One thing I know is that the AMX, Mercury Comet, Plymouth 'Cuda, Olds 442 and Rambler S/C tooling is missing after the last Testors issues and Testors was to issue another batch of these kits but it never happened due to that, who did the earlier issues for Testors I don't know...if it was left over stock from Jo-Han or if anyone else did the molding for them, if it was another company one would think the molds would still be there.

As some here has mentioned, the 1/24 kits first issued under the Monogram name and later issued under the Revell name are the most modern and detailed. The basic tooling is from back in 1984-85 when it came as a mid 80's Pontiac Trans Am in 2 versions and Ford Mustang 1 version, the tooling has since then been updated several times, with a 57 Chevy body wich Tom "The Mongoo$e" McEwen drove, and late 80's-early 90's Olds Cutlass bodies in 6 versions, mid 90's Dodge Avenger bodies in 7 versions and late 90's Pontiac Firebird bodies in 8 versions, the tooling was updated in the chassis and engine department over the years...so they are the best so far allthough it's not up to date today. Revell also did all new tooling for the Hawaiian and Chi Town Hustler 69 Charger funny cars in 2010 so they are the newest.

Not much available in kits. But there are similar wheels on the aftermarket...some aluminum wheels meant for slot car racing or 3D printed wheels. https://www.dancingbearscaledcomponents.com/1/25-1/24modelracingwheel-store https://www.futurattraction.com/wheels-cnc-1?page=4 https://protrackcorp.com/cnc2.htm https://www.ebay.com/itm/325220727400?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20201210111314%26meid%3Dfa3cc473466b4ab1915e84a48b7a530a%26pid%3D101195%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D255342815529%26itm%3D325220727400%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D4429486%26algv%3DSimplAMLv11WebTrimmedV3MskuWithLambda85KnnRecallV1V2V4ItemNrtInQueryAndCassiniVisualRankerAndBertRecallWithVMEV3CPCAuto%26brand%3DUnbranded&_trksid=p4429486.c101195.m1851&amdata=cksum%3A325220727400fa3cc473466b4ab1915e84a48b7a530a|enc%3AAQAIAAABYObhgc4Nk8%2BdtAwOww4FKLaj%2FQ5qqgDlQCuqZA43WcPFUWDERCUugbbOk7XQv0JXlBfqCg2xKF3WcPghxGMFw2oSlXvfExEaMYr7I7LmrHcP6czY1wIMt0ORyKiCWt95xldincyyBx3g%2BNDW%2B%2FhWUgTaBhK6xAm%2BJIbCOMehu%2BdwIZrwOWaq8F2U%2BHl%2BNQZeHlbB2vZPL%2Frq2%2FS1bu0PPw9abSo85VdumrDt8ycg0e%2BIZmt1%2FtEAsIohO0UGK88rCWm278DN2DNlaEhR8njJGghEn6sYBT5P6uLGfqkHE6ahtQ36XWAqB41u8Q6u12nmJ8vtCqCYa0uSOu2pcqaS83q3D%2BE7%2FmAkXiMGXpKlH8ZphWxIZ%2Bt6dXY2nfWREWgaiczCi0hVPhhafXVJI8wybyH3Re9USUxZdG6W6HpaMCGjVhXHqID2C9U4oF3LeZZkjiYU2sr%2B4jxxe20hdioMqXM%3D|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A4429486

Nice to see you're at it again Rickard.

The moving van trailer would for sure have been a better choise based on the decals, but I'm sure Ed "Big Daddy" Roth never had a semi to haul his cars around...so it's a "what if" anyway. Another thing, Revell did the Mysterion and the Outlaw, not AMT, and the Orbitron was only available as a resin kit as far as I know, so it's a bit strange that Round 2/AMT chose to include them on the trailer sides.

The mail delivery over to Europe, Sweden and Finland especially, seems to be very iffy and sporadic nowadays to say the least. As you can see from my earlier post I'm still waiting for #217, #218 and #219 wich I haven't recieved and out of the last 10 issues I got 4 in the mail as it should, I've got replacements for a few but I'm still missing the ones listed above wich I've never got and I don't know if I ever will. It's not only this magazine, I subscribe to a couple more with the same problem, among them Rodders Journal wich I know have sent out the two missing issues that was missplaced during their move to foreign subscribers, a couple of friends of mine got their copys back in early August...but I never got my copys and I still haven't and I don't know if they are disappearing into a black bottomless hole somewhere. So it's something fishy going on and it worked a lot better before and during the Covid 19 pandemic than it does now.

The AMT Ecto 1A has chromed steel wheels with baby moons and the Polar Light Ecto 1 version has the full original style wheel cover, both are simplified kits, that's why I wondered.

Yes...this is a '59, not a '58. I wonder wich one they based this kit on, the AMT kit or the Polar Lights kit...Round 2 owns both.

The only thing a clear coat will do is dull the BMF, I allways do the BMF last.

Yes that's right The diagram provided by Gary is not so bad...a little small, tho', here is a larger one with trailer and converter dolly. Air inlets on the brake chambers, the rod on the upper left side is tha brake rod wich is cut to length when installed, on the left side of the chamber itself is the cage bolt, nut and washer when it's not in use and stored on the chamber.