lordairgtar Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 i'm all agog with giddiness for this. Do want!!! Will get!!! I've known about Meng because I was considering buying their Toyota truck in 1/35th just to have that with my 1/32nd cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk11 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Sure happy it's an '08-'10 and not the gaudy grilled '11up. Great to have a scale 6.4 powerstroke finally; probably won't be long before resin copies hit the market. mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddyfink Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 First Moebius does a new tool vintage Ford and now Meng is doing a new tool newer Ford! Truck people! Rejoice! These are the good times! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 More than a thousand views in less than 12 hours. Like Mike said, how could this not be a good seller?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Smith Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Here is one of my crew trucks…Juniper Dunes ORV park in central WA…yeah, it's a rough job. It's a 2009 F250, my other is a 2012 F350 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaronwert Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Really looking forward to getting one of these...my local hobby shop carries the 1/35 meng trucks, hopefully they will get this one in as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitownbri Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I hope not. We'll get the least popular version with the least options and have to buy three kits to get the version we want. I had never heard of Meng models before today. Looking at their test shot and parts layout, I'm impressed. I keep coming back to this thread and pouring over all of those parts. Personally, I sure won't mind $40-$50 for this kit. not to mention the grille and bumper being a one piece unit! but this new kit should look pretty sweet next to the monogram f250/350. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayabusa Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 A big, but pleasant, surprise to me! Really looking forward to this kit. As I also build AFV´s I know Meng quite well. They produce wonderful kits with a high level of detail but engineered to make them easy to build. Moulding quality is very high and fit is excellent. Personally, I think Meng is like Tamiya but with more detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailer Trash Kustomz Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I worked up my 99f350 resin kit from a diecast crew dually I have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent G Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 A big, but pleasant, surprise to me! Really looking forward to this kit. As I also build AFV´s I know Meng quite well. They produce wonderful kits with a high level of detail but engineered to make them easy to build. Moulding quality is very high and fit is excellent. Personally, I think Meng is like Tamiya but with more detail. X2 I see an NHP commercial motor vehicle enforcement truck, an LVMPD SWAT truck, an SLMPD Mounted Patrol truck with horse trailer, LVFD Haz Mat Unit....................... Oh Meng between this and the new Achzarit and Bradley you want all my money don't you? G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim boyd Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I hope not. We'll get the least popular version with the least options and have to buy three kits to get the version we want. I had never heard of Meng models before today. Looking at their test shot and parts layout, I'm impressed. I keep coming back to this thread and pouring over all of those parts. Personally, I sure won't mind $40-$50 for this kit. I kinda understand/sympathize with the sentiment here. But based on Revell's new '70 'cuda kit and all the factory-correct options that single kit includes, I don't think one should assume that a newly-tooled Revell Ford pickup kit would cover only one version, and/or that it would be the least desirable version at that. And while I have absolutely zero insider knowledge that would suggest such a project is under consideration, I would love to see Revell do a kit of the all-new, aluminum-bodied 2015 Ford F150. If they did, wouldn't it be cool to do a "fight to the death" duel/comparo between that kit and this new Meng F350? TIM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveM Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Looks great. If it was 1/25, I would already be sending Paypals to anybody named Meng! I have just been trying to purge my collection of 1/24 kits, but this would really look great with a Galaxie trailer and updated Monogram sprint car. Lots of light commercial and scratchbuilding opportunities with a 350 too. Lots of these are used for parking lot maintainance and snow removal up here with a plow and salting equipment. Lots of contractors use them for everything from electrical to plumbing. I see a nice welding truck here. I also could scratch a utility box for it. I'll have to see the price, and decide if an off scale kit is worth it to me, but I really like what I am seeing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Barrow Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) For those not familiar with Meng and what they do, here's a peek at their booth at Nuremburg. As I said before, they're easily the best of the Chinese companies and seem to me to be almost on a Japanese level of fit and precision. So far they haven't been plagued with the shape and dimensional errors most Chinese kits seem to have. I must admit to having a bit of a soft spot for Meng, as I played a small role in landing them their first US distribution deal (well, I found out their e-mail address and gave it to my boss at the time, that's all I did, but in a way I was the person who first "discovered" Meng Models in the US) http://www.themodellingnews.com/2014/01/meng-models-they-are-at-nuremburg-toy.html Edited January 30, 2014 by Brett Barrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan White Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I will say that their '99 Silverado was a good kit and well detailed. Of course as with the older f250/350 kits, the downfall was not offering them as a 4wd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Kourouklis Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Meng is bad-a$$. Their 1/35 vehicles are gorgeous, and if this 350 is anything like those - and the trees indicate it will be - it will easily be worth Meng's asking. But be ready for something steep. Based on their aircraft, I wonder if something in a size $70 is a more likely price... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelson Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I've never heard of Meng until yesterday,but the quality of the tooling looks impressive!,i'm glad to see Meng stepping up and offering a kit the other companies aren't interested in doing,hopefully we will see more of this in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim boyd Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 IF that happened, Revell would certainly die a quick and almost painless death. Sorry, but Revell has been out of the pickup game for almost a decade and a half. When they were in the game, they were a mediocre team at best. I'm not going to suggest that Revell would win, but the company/team you are describing has moved on considerably over that decade and a half. My guess is that you would find them to be a very formidable competitor. TB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Barrow Posted January 30, 2014 Author Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) Better sprue pics here: http://www.primeportal.net/models/thomas_voigt8/meng/ And yeah, based on the ballpark figures from Meng, a $70 US MSRP is probably about right. But they haven't given a final price yet. Looks like April/May is the new target date, BTW. This kit is pretty far along. Edited January 30, 2014 by Brett Barrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) I'm not going to suggest that Revell would win, but the company/team you are describing has moved on considerably over that decade and a half. My guess is that you would find them to be a very formidable competitor. TB Revell US needs to up their game regarding accuracy, given the flawed recent new tool kits they've put out. Revell of Germany, though, I could see potentially producing something w/ this level of accuracy. Edited January 30, 2014 by Rob Hall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randx0 Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 All I can say is WoW . I'd complain about the price but if all that comes in the same box it's worth it. I mean the possibilities are endless..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luc Janssens Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Better sprue pics here: http://www.primeportal.net/models/thomas_voigt8/meng/ And yeah, based on the ballpark figures from Meng, a $70 US MSRP is probably about right. But they haven't given a final price yet. Looks like April/May is the new target date, BTW. This kit is pretty far along. Even better news, hopefully they also look into the possibility of a wrecker truck based on this kit, that's a hint Brett ;^) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustym Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) beauty is in the eye of the beholder. 2013 f-450. I would sure love to build this. Edited January 30, 2014 by dustym Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Well, upwards of $70 is a concern for somebody that would buy several. Wonder if Ford Motor Credit will finance case lots at a reasonable interest rate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim boyd Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Revell US needs to up their game regarding accuracy, given the flawed recent new tool kits they've put out. Revell of Germany, though, I could see potentially producing something w/ this level of accuracy. Again, not my role here to defend Revell, but a number if people who've built their '57 Ford Custom or the '50 Olds Custom would suggest that those are among the best new-tooled kits on the market at the moment. Not to mention that they are selling for 1/2 to 1/3 the price of 1/24th scale newly tooled imported kits. But it's nothing more than a theoretical argument at this point anyway, because Revell hasn't announced any new light duty truck subjects that I am aware of....TB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilbenny Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Long overdue kit. Thank you Meng. Where do I send my money? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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