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Great rig, JT! I take this as an inspiration for mine - I have this on my to-do list for about 10 years now: will take Italeri's Ford Aeromax and their race-car-trailer, though (from the amt traile only the decals will be used)

The stripes from the original issue (early '80's) work also very well: built out-of-the-box (the Melton Truck Lines and United diesel mudflap decals were included). The only thing I added was the headache rack from amt's KW Alaskan Hauler. Her I hooked it to ERTL's Great Dane trailer (OOB).

Super Truck, Randy!!! I have saved the pics as an inspiration for mine that I built 30 years ago as a logger, but ruined it with too much weathering - must be restored/rebuilt some day. Absolutely great what you show us here!!!

Hi, Robert! Many thanks - but there are several issues on this though I tried to hide them as good as possible. The only way you could see such trucks in Austria was in one of my trucking books (Here: American Trucks II by David Jacobs from ca. 1980 with a nice side/front view of this rig)- today you can easily find them on the internet. First I made an in-scale-drawing of hood/cab/sleeper, then I made a sketch of the eagle, transferred this to self-adhesive transparent foil- symmetrical for both sides ! After the whole thing was primered (the eagle as well as the edges of the hood are the almost perfect light tan color of the Duplicolor Auto Primer I used back then), the eagle was masked, then the orange was sprayed on (it is a bit too reddish), after masking the lower orange part, the rest was painted black (spray cans here, I've got no airbrush equipment). To make drawing of the feather easier, I sprayed matt clear, the used a pencil so I was able to make necessary corrections to the feathers. After drawing the feathers with some black marker and filling them with a small paint-brush, everything got some final shots of clear and voilà - the eagle has landed.

Posted Yesterday, 11:17 PM You did a beautiful job on that, Helmut!!!!! I made that sleeper as well and had it cast into resin and I then had a guy in Canada draw up the Eagle and make it into decals. Jerry at ModelTruckin Decals sells them now. Ben Wicker -------------------------------------- Many thanks for your kind words, Ben. I have sent some pics back then to Evan Hermel and one was published in b/w in his Model truck column in SAE (must have been in the early '90's - long before I had Internet and before Jerry made those decals. The wings of my hand painted eagles are too short - they should have reached from the edge of the sleper cab up front to the chrome grille. But when I discovered this, it was almost too late !

I just wanted to show you one of my latest (!) truck builds: ERTL's IH 4300 Eagle, built in 1989 - I stretched the frame, fabricated a big sleeper combining 2 sleepers and some plastic sheet, a third tank from a second kit, front bumper from Revell, license plates from Italeri. As there were no such decals existing then, I hand-painted the cab-hood-sleeper in a rather simple way. A few things I would make in another way today, and the truck would need a little TLC to eliminate its shortcomings, but: too many kits - too little time...

I think the fender mirrors would only be included if the Moebius kit has them, too. The sales price here in Europe is supposed to be € 59,99 (the same as the Lonestar)

Yesterday I wrote an e-mail to Ulrich Taubert, Head of the Product development of Revell Germany asking for a Greyhound Scenicruiser bus kit: I told him that - after the great London bus - this would be a big hit, especially among the American modelers and that the pic is a photoshop compilation which I found on the Internet - who else, if not Revell would offer such a kit (who would have thought some years ago that we would see a detailed London bus kit in 1/24 scale?) ? The success of the London bus obviously initiated Heller's reissue of their old citybus from Paris! Best wishes Helmut Müllner (Plastic modeler since 1969) This is what he wrote back (first german, then translated into English): Hallo, Herr Müllner, haben Sie recht herzlichen Dank für die Mail und das wunderbare Schachtelbild. Es ist wirklich ein hervorragender Vorschlag. Bereits nach dem Neoplan hatten wir eine Welle an neuen Vorschlägen ausgelöst, das daraus entstandene Folgemodell ist ebenso erfolgreich gelaufen. Ihr Vorschlag ist super, wobei ich einen Gegenvorschlag machen würde: einen typischen gelben US-Schulbus, was würden Sie davon halten? Wie auch immer, es ist sicherlich so, dass wir natürlich nicht in jedem Jahr mit einem derart großen und somit auch kostspieligen Projekt aufwarten können. Ich bin aber sicher, dass es nur eine Frage der Zeit ist, wann das nächste Großprojekt realisiert wird, lassen Sie sich einfach überraschen. Mit den besten Grüßen Revell GmbH Ulli Taubert Leiter Produkt-Entwicklung MY TRANSLATION : Hallo, Mr. Müllner, many thanks for your mail and the wonderful box-art picture. It really is an excellent proposal. Immediately after the release of our Neoplan (modern Cityliner bus) we got a lot of proposals, the resulting following model (London doubledecker bus) also has run very successfully. Your proposal is super, however I would like to make a proposal to you: what would you think of a typically yellow American schoolbus? Anyway, it certainly is not possible for us to come out every year with such a big and very costly project. But I'm quite sure that it only is a matter of time, when the next big project will be realised - you will be surprised. With best wishes Revell GmbH/Ulli Taubert Head of Product development What do you think, guys? So it looks like there could be more to come... Let's keep our fingers crossed !!!

Posted 17 April 2012 - 12:20 PM I have a Ferrari 250 swb kit in my unbuilt pile.It is an ESCI kit- 1:24. It has the decals for the Stirling Moss- Rob Walker car. I would post a photo if I was able to. Bruce, I have built 2 versions of the ESCI kit in the 80's: I have used the wheels from Italeri's GTO and done a lot of carving and puttying - still got no correct body - it is very distorted and clumsy. I tried to make a '60 race and a '61 street car out of it. In my stash I do have 3 Italeri SWB's - still unbuilt - that look really good - at least their proportions - but they also have (albeit small) issues: some parts are simply taken over from the 250 GTO (as with the California spider), but I think you can live with that. This is more easily correctable than a totally wrong body. Let's hope they still will reissue it! Helmut

Looking very good - especially in that gleaming blue color (from the 50's to the 70's a lot of Ferraris had other colors than the usual red) - nice comparison with the mighty looking 599. It does not have anything to do with Protar - it's Italeri's own kit, relatively simple to build (compared with Fujimi), main issue is the Dunlop racing tires which already graced their 250 GTO, 250 SWB, 250 GT California spider, 275 GTB/4 and 275 GTS/4 Spider NART. Helmut

Very nice build! The Lamborghini Miura is - together with the Ferrari 250 GT Lusso and the Dino 246 GT - one of the most beautiful sports cars ever (at least in my opinion). Helmut

I would think that Revell is going to reissue their 250 GTO from the 90's this time (which was a repacked Italeri GTO) because the remark "neue Form " (= new mold) is missing here. I'm asking myself why they won't release a 250 GT Lusso (my favorite Ferrari since I have owned the Matchbox # 75 car as a kid in the mid '60s); a 1966 330 GTC or a 1958 250 TdF would also be great! I don't think we need another 250 GTO after Fujimi's very good kit (only the Avon tires are a big fault!) Though I have bought Revell's Mini and 2 CV, I also have acquired about 95 1/24 die-casts in the last 3 years - mainly of cars that we will hardly ever see as plastic kits (will be disassembled, repainted, detailed and or converted) - most of them came out in Italy, promoted from Quattroruote car magazine. Some of the models I have: Citroen DS, Citroen Dyane, Lancia B24 Spider, Lancia Fulvia Coupé, Fiat 124 Spider, Fiat X1/9, Mercedes Benz 230 SL, BMW 1600-2 (Same body as 2002), Ford Capri and Escort Mk 1 and a lot of different Alfa Romeos: Giulia Super, Giulietta Sprint coupé, Giulietta Sprint Speciale coupé, GT1300 junior, 1600 Spider Duetto (The Graduate!), 1750 Berlina, 1800 Alfetta, Alfasud, 1900 Berlina, 1900 Sprint, tipo 33 stradale (1967), Montreal etc.etc... Several among them would make great kits but I don't think this will happen during the rest of my life. Helmut