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Great conversion - still a missing gap in plastic kits - I will try to convert Fabbri/Quattroruote's 1/24 Escort Mk1 to a rally version similar to yours.

This is a mind-blowing truck model! Totally amazing!!

Customer service from Revell Germany (my own experience): Mercedes Benz SLS AMG had the wrong tires (dimension was not fitting the wheels) - I went back to my hobby shop and showed them this, we opened the 2 other kits that he still had on stock - they also had the wrong wheels (may be a whole bunch had them - talk about quality control!) RoG asks you to send them the original invoice of the hobby shop where you bought the kit, cut out a piece of cardboard from the box (with the pincode on it) and a part/copy of the instructions where you have to mark for them the missing or damaged part. Now put all these things together in one envelope and send it to Revell Germany at your cost. Then patience is asked for: after 4 or 5 weeks you will receive a small package or envelope with the missing parts.... Last year I bought their new Mini - and the tires were totally absent! The same procedure is waiting ahead - at least I have still the bill from the dealer. Maybe I just forget it and pirate wheels/tires from one of my Tamiya Minis.

For a first series Renault 4 (1961-1967) there is still the diecast option:

Very nice model of a great car !!!

Though not my preferred era, this 70's JoHan snap kits do look very accurate - at least from the outside - even if they are very simple. Here is my '72 Ford Gran Torino Sport (my only JoHan snap kit), wheels and tires come from amt, otherwise it is OOB:

Just now, they have again 18 pc. for sale: Price has risen from 89,95 to 99,98 ! (Talk about supply and demand...) Restzeit: 21T 18Std (19. Feb. 2014 10:16:44 MEZ) Stückzahl: 18 verfügbar / 46 verkauft 18 available/46 sold Preis:EUR 99,98 (inkl. MwSt.) Sofort-Kaufen 111 Beobachter

I built mine in 1986, and the tires show no deteriation yet.

Thanks, this was the very first issue that had the 2-part hard plastic tires, but I built it using the tires from another semi that already had the rubber tires. I had to hand-paint/draw the Freightliner logos back then, because they were NOT on the decal sheet (probably licensing issues like with the Mack Superliner)

Here is my original KW Aerodyne issue built in 1984: pics have been taken in 2005, but tires look the same today, although I have not exposed it to the sun, but stored it in a shady, half-dark room.

The same thing that I thought to myself: subtle weathering (rust, paint chipping, dirt and grime)looks like the real thing!

Superb model of an absolutely great car! Alfa Romeo forever!!!

saw this one on ebay Germany for 89,95 Euros (toys2day) - yesterday there were 33 left, at the moment still 17 are left ... I think they will be sold out tomorrow, if not this evening.

Absolutely - nothing beats the old trucks - yours is the best example.

was a VERY hard decision: further 5 would be: 1965 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1600 TZ2 1965 Lotus Cortina Mk I 1963 Mercedes Benz 230 SL 1969 Abarth 2000 SE 1957 MGA (Roadster or Coupé)

Top 5 on my list are: 1963 Ferrari 250 GT/L 1968 Alfa Romeo 33 Prototipo Pininfarina 1956 Lancia Aurelia B20 Coupé 1966 Fiat Dino 2000 Spider 1962 Kaiser Jeep Gladiator P/U

Well, I cannot say how the hobby is developing in the US, but here in Austria the hobby-shops disappear or they give up model kits (except Revell Germany, which you can find very easily, almost everywhere) - Italeri, Tamiya, amt, airfix, mpc and many others are more or less gone - 30 years ago it was totally different, but today you are forced to order such kits and aftermarket parts online from Germany, USA, Japan etc. I started model building in about 1969, with 10 years of age (1/72 airfix planes sailing ships and 1/32 cars - what I could afford for my small pocket money back then, on birthdays or Christmas I got Tamiya's 1/18 McLaren M8A or 1/12 Lotus 49 F1). I lost interest about 5 years later, then rediscovered modelling in 1982 - as I am a car nut since my early childhood, this time I concentrated on cars and US trucks (amt's 1/25 Peterbilt wrecker enlightened the flame once again) and have not stopped ever since. For 25 years now I'm more collecting than building (2 kids, NO own hobby room) and have more than 370 kits in my stash. I doubt that I will ever find the time to build them all - another problem which I'm not alone with. (When I was a kid, I bought a model kit, finished it, and then bought another one). Well, now I'm 54, trying to get rid off several kits that don't interest me no more (like it has been when aquired them), but at the same time I'm eagerly awaiting the new kit releases. To make a long story short, I have much more ideas than time, space and money. My two daughters are not interested in these things, and sometimes I feel a little bit like some kind of dinosaur. Even if the hobby goes belly up, I will be busy for the rest of my life; I feel like the plastic modelling hobby will die with our generation (similar things seem to happen with railroad modeling here in Europe - when visiting the Vienna modelling fair in October, almost only old man are really interested in that - it is far too sophisticated and expensive to be used as a child's toy).

superb model, Curt !!!

Roy, the 4300 Eagle from amt (former ERTL) is a great kit. While it might not look as spectacular as a Peterbilt 359, it is highly recommended: I built 2 of them almost 30 years ago - one as a daycab with a shortened frame (sorry, no pics) and the other as a Special Eagle (lengthened frame, big sleeper and special decoration, see below): In my opinion, former ERTL kits are as clean, precise and easy to build like Tamiya car kits!

Tulio, this uick just looks fantastic - and to achieve this look within ONE week - incredible! I just wanted to ged rid of this kit (I have it in my stash and don't find it very nice, but your build makes me think about it once more...)

Sure you can - look at this: truck 1/24 (Italeri Freightliner) + trailer 1/25 (amt Wilson livestock trailer)

Jason, this is absolutely stunning! The interior, the details, but most of all the paint job - perfectly suited color. This gives me a great inspiration for my two unbuilt ones (dark blue with tan int.? black with red int.?), though my first one became red with black, I prefer different colors on my Ferrari kits.

Extraordinary model, Jürgen - museum quality !!!

I woul like to show you a truck model that I was first given by my father in 1966: The Matchbox Major Pack # M9 "Interstate Double Freighter" which is a Hendrickson Coe hooked to 2 double axle-trailers running for Cooper-Jarrett of Chicago. While I lost the original about 40 years ago, I happened to find one last year from an Austrian ebayer in good condition at a fair price (with box). So I bought it as a nostalgic flashback to my childhood. Interesting thing is that Matchbox choose this one, because only 2 were custom-built by Hendrickson in 1960 for Cooper-Jarrett, equipped with 12V-71 Detroit Diesel engines intended to pull double 40 foot trailers on the Ohio and Indiana turnpikes for only a few years, then they were sold by CJ (Info from the books of Ron Adams) Matchbox issued the model in 1962 and produced it until 1966 - Not a very popular choice of truck -anyway, I've been impressed by this one as a 7 year old boy, and still am. Someday I will build it in 1/25 (plans have been drawn 10 years ago): I've got 2 amt exterior post vans, a double-axle dolly from RoG's Australian Trailer kit, an old built up ERTL IH 4070-Coe which will spend frame, axles and interior parts and a resin cab of IH Emeryville Coe which will be modified into the "Route of Relay" 10-wheeler with some scratch-building. Model is in about 1/100 scale (in my rememberance it was bigger!):