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History of MPC's Dodge D/W Series Trucks
Luc Janssens replied to Fabrux's topic in Truck Kit News & Reviews
Not sure but think they came from their 1/20 scale 'Vette's. -
Will they ever re-issue it? MPC Dodge truck.
Luc Janssens replied to 426 pack's topic in Truck Kit News & Reviews
It's probably more about finding inserts and in what state they are and what state the main tooling is in, cuz it has been run and modified from '72 up to the the early 2000s IIRC. Then there's probably the matter of the side trim, which has been removed, at first on the cab in order to market the uteline's, and second on the bed to get more mileage out of the sweptline's, through the Thunderstruck and Monster truck releases. But is the side trim a necessity to bring the sweptline back? I remember a talk with a former Jr. Amt/Ertl engineer, that when they were looking into the re-release of the Li'l red truck in the '90s, they couldn't find the inserts for the side step plates, so they re-did them, once the kit was in production, they did find them, Doh! In a perfect well organised world, where tooling goes from shelf, over to configuration, test shot, check and production, Round-2 could produce something not ever done before, a faux '79 anual Dodge Power wagon truck. But I'm not holding my breath, so through the years I bought the kits needed to make the conversion myself -
Is the 1957 Chevy the most kitted ?
Luc Janssens replied to Greg Myers's topic in General Automotive Talk (Trucks and Cars)
What about the VW Beetle? Revell Venice Revell Germany IMC Amt Gunze Hasegawa Tamiya Imai Airfix -
My next door neighbor, held a parcel while I was away on vacation, on opening it contained a mpc Datsun P/U, Moebius '61 Cat and a Revell Cutlass FE3-X, on vacation I found a Simil'R Ford Focus WRC on sale at a small seaside toy store, 50% off
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New tool (2000ish) P/U with vintage go kart?
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1/25 AMT '94 Ford F-150 Lightning Pickup
Luc Janssens replied to Casey's topic in Truck Kit News & Reviews
All original parte restored? -
That one was by MPC
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SOME CURRENT ROUND 2 INFO TODAY...
Luc Janssens replied to AC Norton's topic in Car Kit News & Reviews
Maybe it's à licensing thingy.... -
À couple of new players who (to my knowledge) did do it right: - Belkits - Beemax - Nunu again, it's all about geting the right people on board, als à newbie there's too much you don't know about that can and Will go wrong, Am I a "mister know it all", nope...not by far, but through the years I met people who do know. It's à real pitty their first release isn't à homerun, I for one sure hoped iT would have been... pick yourself up and try again....
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Turned 50, last tuesday, the months prior I was a bit down, like so soon, it seemed like yesterday that I,was 25, visiting the USA for the very fitst time....it felt like Play time was over, and have to take life a bit more seriously now, but when the big day came, the feelings went a way, it’s juist a Number, I’m still a kid at heart,
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Revell '76 Ford Torino
Luc Janssens replied to ranma's topic in Model Building Questions and Answers
They all want one, but only with the 40% off coupon, or discounted. C’mon Casey........you should’ve known that -
Anyway you look at it, the second gen Charger is one heck of a beautiful vehicle, and your build does it justice.
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while the years have flown by, I remember it, as it was yesterday...
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It was 2010, and we probably did, cuz picked up a toy truck for my then 2 year old son, in '15, I was again in Chicago and we again went to one, remember we were checking out the camper kit from the Breaking bad series,..
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Believe me, when I say, that I know how you must feel, cuz a year or so ago I passed the old GM Plant-2 here in Antwerp where I worked for over 20 years.....it shut down in the winter of 2010, in it's heyday 14.000 people worked there, the biggest annual output was 240.000 units.
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New Revell Germany kits, got more expensive (by €5.00) in the past months and cost about the same as amt kits over here (€29.99 Revell - €33.00 Amt)
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They also released the '90s Ford F-150 club cab, but again these are versions for the European market, if a US distributor picks them up and sells them in the US, of course they're going to be pretty expensive, compared to Revell kits produced packaged in and coming directly from China. BTW this is nothing new, cuz remember when visiting my friends of VLS (later bought by Squadron) back in the early nillies, they too had re-boxed by Revell AG, Revell-Monogram kits on their shelves, and yes they were also expensive.... Still to early to know what's going to happen, and furthermore with recent trade wars between the US and the rest of the world, no one knows what's going to be the best way to get non US produced goods into the US in a economic way.....only the guys in wall street know and will play on that knowledge, to make lots of money, Joe Average world wide will pick up the tab.
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Revell Germany orders Revell-Monogram kits as bagged shots from China, which then get repackaged together with a euro instruction sheet and decals by Cartograph in a Revell Germany wrapper, in their production facility in Poland, to be sold in the European market place. If US distributors order these euro spec US kits, then of course they will be much more expensive then those produced and marketed by Revell-Monogram.
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Platz/NuNu Hobbies BMW M6 1/24 scale plastic model kit
Luc Janssens replied to Junkman's topic in Car Kit News & Reviews
Yes the Falken version is new.