chuckyr

No. the are both originally Italeri kits. Revell re-boxed them. i have both originals unbuilt.

Italeri is going to announce some new stuff in the coming weeks.

I'm pretty sure I mean the LATEST Transtar!

Some quality builds here.

Good stuff here.

Possibly.

No engine right? Not worth getting.

You wouldn't drive a 1/24th scale Volvo VN670?

I can only speak for myself. I would love to have a model kit of every big rig truck subject going back to1890. But all my posts on all the treads on this and other web sites are coming from an economics point of view. I know from a practical standpoint that truck modeling is a very, very small portion of the overall scale model kit business. Military and Aircraft modelers are by far the largest portion of scale model builders. The obsession with war is rampant. Car modeling goes without saying is a very large market. Look at the shelves at a major hobby shop and compare the shelf space set aside for big rig kits. Further more the United States is not the largest model market in the world. Asia as a whole, is the largest modeling market. Japan being the largest single market. Europe is number two for modeling sales. The kit manufactures are only going to allocate a small portion of their capital budget to a big rig truck kit. The market is extremely small for such a subject. Not to mention, as Dave Metzner said in one of his post, a big rig model is particularly expensive to produce. A big rig kit has more parts than a aircraft or a boat kit. This is especially true if the big rig kit has a detailed drive train, something that if the kit doesn't have, the casual big rig builder will bitch and moan about, All this being said, a new big rig kit that is put on the shelves once every 15 or more years on average has to be a hit. One failure or slow seller means that the next big rig model may not be produced at all. All of these points have been said ad nauseum by others. It makes practical sense to offer current modern truck subjects. They would be the common medium for the casual truck modeler and the hard core big rig modeler. And in 15 years, they will become the vintage subjects available for future generations.

Nice job.

Their balance book show how much I enjoy their kits.

Troll? I've been a member of this site way longer than you. In fact, I said a long time ago when the administrator decided to combine big rigs and picks in to one board, big rig modelers would eventually be overwhelmed by pick up and car modelers. And yes, wanting older truck subjects new plastic is obscure. Re-read the comment by the Moebius representative.

I have all the latest Moebius and Italeri kits. I can't support these companies by myself.

All is well and good. New trucks kits are reserved for new modern subjects, not old obscure stuff.

Your only saying this because you have done a double take!

Still no info.

Well as was stated above, resin is the only way you are going to get your obscure older truck. The Moebius representative stated last year in a thread that offering older truck subjects are a problem. This question is brought up all the time.

So why are you posting on the Model Trucks boards?

But Moebius and Italeri are built on the new stuff!

They don't hear you. Most of these people that build trucks on this web site are casual truck builders any way. They basically build trucks as back drops or as a complement to their cars. There are other web sites for the serious big rig builders.

Me too!

Skills!

As for trucks (big rigs and trailers), Generally for Italeri and Revell, the new kits would be announced at the 2016 Spielwarenmesse toy trade show in Nuremberg, Germany at the end of January and more details at the 2016 American International Toy Fair in New York in mid February. I'm hoping Italeri has some new subjects to announce since it's be a while since they offered any new American truck subjects.