steel_tiger1 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 As the title says the Kenworth 925 will be available around June 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonye66 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Where did it say this? Ive been looking all over all morning to verify this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extmcdriver Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Looking forward to this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapazleo Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieselhead Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 While this is the Movin On truck, I can't help but think about doing a Snowman rig.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren D Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Figures. Shelled out big bucks for the Watkins kit for a "Snowman" rig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim B Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Looks like the "long lost" Kenworth molds have been found. Wonder if it will be the W925 (torsion bar suspension) or the W923 (spring suspension). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Force Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 As I understood it AMT altered the cab and hood tooling when they did the T600 back in the 90's so maybe Round2 has re-tooled the cab and hood...that would be great.I have plans for more W900's in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badluck 13 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 WOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!!! Soooooo glad to hear this news!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonye66 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Oh man, almost fainted when I read that. I've never been so excited for a re release. Going to run up the cc when that comes out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High octane Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 I sometimes think about gettin' back to buildin' big rigs, but I just don't have the room for them. i haven't built one since the early 80's if I'm not mistaken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodwrench3 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 As the title says the Kenworth 925 will be available around June 2017 Holy cow !!!Send me 6 of them !!!!!! yeeeee Hawww ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k100 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Be nice to see them bring back the Alaskan Hauler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gray07 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 bring back all the old cabovers, I will pick one of these up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Force Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 The AMT W925 Movin' On truck is a conventional truck, the Kenworth COE from AMT are the K123 and K100 Aerodyne, the K123 was out a couple of years ago and the K100 Aerodyne is out right now as the Tyrone Malone Papa Truck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevjoh Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Can't imagine it being the Torsion Bar version, they were only ever available on the first W Model, plus the cab over and the Challenger cement mixer. The torsion bar suspension was such a nightmare to construct that AMT pretty smartly dumped the idea and replaced it with the Hendrickson suspension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bennyg Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Wow. I won't be getting one but am glad to see them back. Looking forward to more Mack gear.Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Force Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 One can wonder why AMT went to the Walking Beam when they dropped the Torsion Bar.Kenworth had other suspensions to choose from other than the Torsion Bar and Walking Beam, they also had the 4-bag Dual Air Spring and the Big Six Six-Rod Leaf Spring for the dual drive, they also had the Page & Page and Monkey Motion suspension for the single drive with push or pull axle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieselhead Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 One can wonder why AMT went to the Walking Beam when they dropped the Torsion Bar.Kenworth had other suspensions to choose from other than the Torsion Bar and Walking Beam, they also had the 4-bag Dual Air Spring and the Big Six Six-Rod Leaf Spring for the dual drive, they also had the Page & Page and Monkey Motion suspension for the single drive with push or pull axle.I'd figure its just due to ease of casting. Walking beams are pretty simple and the molds would be cheap to make as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Force Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 (edited) The reason I wonder is that the first truck kit AMT did wich was the Peterbilt 359 "Small Window", and the 352 and the later 359 1100 cab all had a more complicated air ride suspensions, and the other truck kits from the same time period had other types of leaf spring suspensions...so I don't know if simplicity was a factor.The Torsion Bar can be done a bit less complicated and easier to build too if you change the layout and parts a bit. Edited January 19, 2017 by Force Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotnitro? Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Very exciting time to be a model builder ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim boyd Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Very exciting time to be a model builder ! x10!!!! TB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Driver Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Maybe third times' a charm for me on building this one. Redemption for trashing an original kit and a later version is in the cards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodwrench3 Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Now if they would only put the right sleeper on this kit ! The original AMT kit had the short "coffin" sleeper which was not what the "Movin' On" Kenworth had in the TV series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dad vader Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Now if they would only put the right sleeper on this kit ! The original AMT kit had the short "coffin" sleeper which was not what the "Movin' On" Kenworth had in the TV series. However it was the sleeper they used in "In Tandem" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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