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Accurate ones would be nice X2 !

Monogram never made a '79. The kits may be copyrighted '79 but they are definitely '80up trucks.

How about an Acadian to go along with that?

Miles, you can avoid the warpage common to the multi-piece box (with the wrong wheel opening) by getting the corrected resin 73-79 box from MAD resin. Kris makes really nice and correct replacement.

As the AMT '78/'79 Wild Hoss Bronco is somewhat related to this series of trucks I thought it deserved a mention here Here's a couple of pics comparing the chrome trees and 4x4 specific parts... These parts, along with the moeb 4x4 and excellent Fireball resin F250 conversion stuff will work with all the Ford truck kits from '66-'79. ...and the instruction sheet... C'mon Round2, please reissue this one and here's a link to some thoughts on correcting the proportionally challenged '67-'72 F series trucks released a few years ago, using the amt '73-'79 cab ...

Good catch, Rex. The real problem is that the whole roof sits about 1/4" back of where it should be. Moving it forward on the quarters should return the A pillar angle back to the correct 40 degrees. Scaling up the 1/25 coupe directly should get it in the ballpark. Got one sitting here awaiting the muse to strike

That disney deal only lasted five years in the nineties; the force didn't renew the contract after that. Those Polar Graphics watermark decals were excellent. My sheets were applied to an LX mustang, a caprice and a '93 Camaro. Still have some partial ones. The last sheet I picked up was at a hobby shop in Great Falls about twenty years ago.

Fantastic work, Bill! Thanks for taking the time to apply your talents in this direction and share the results with us

IIRC the headlights are also undersized. They're supposed to be around .28" in diameter to match the 1:1 7" headlights.

True enough. It's actually patterned after the weaker smaller 8 inch diff for whatever reason. Great for a street rod or falcon/comet etc but not a Shelby mustang or any real hi-po application. More about the nine inch diff here...

The last mercs were made in the late spring (may) of 68... http://www.fordification.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=35331

Back to the original early seventies livery then ... the last chrome reissue was what, about ten years ago?

Great stuff, Chris!

You did such a great job with those other histories, I thought it was a natural fit They sho 'nuff got their money out of that tooling

Whoops, guess the A-team van was amt

You'll have to adapt the amt grill if you want stock. This kit has been reissued over the years in a few different themes; Hardy Boys, Charlies Angels, A-team, a yellow surf decaled version and maybe others. Lift-off roof and full custom interior. There was also a 1/16 version, the Big Bad Van. Maybe a good one for Chris to do a history on

and the 1231 '72 Chevy pickup

That's because it is a 2wd; note that there's no drive axle under the front. Another pretty pic from moebius marketing almost relating to the contents ... True, but all they have to do is look at the side pic of Mr Goldman's excellent build to see what it will look like, just like this current one. Could be they're trolling us with the incorrect box art; hard to believe a company in this era would be that out of touch Thankfully they refrained from including this unicorn from the prototype... ... and guess where the pic came from

Seems to me someone had a corrected resin boot for these but I can't find the pic. Great looking project, Mr G! Getting me closer to digging out and finishing my '70 johan 'bird to R/R conversion

Good to know... the unfortunate 'meh' attitude toward accuracy in this series of kits is disappointing. At least those who aren't salivating for another utility truck box know there's no real reason to spring for this issue as the aftermarket parts can be applied to any meob F100.

Looks a little better but they didn't dish the headlight reflector. They'll look like the monogram 65 Mustang headlights For my money, the rookie resin piece still wins Thanks Rob... would you perchance have a pic of the dash and door panel ?

It's possible you're thinking of the '80-up beams here. The dentside beams with disc brakes are a very popular and common swap on the slick and bump trucks. I've done a couple of transplants myself.

Details are great but at the expense of body envelope accuracy... not so much Not sure I'm smellin' what you're cookin' here, Roger. Having owned multiples of the slick, bump and dent 1:1 trucks, I've found that aside from earlier (pre '73) rear frame rail width and slight wheelbase differences, the cab floors, mounts and front frame rails are very close to identical from '65-'79.