chuckyr

Interesting. I guess I will have to fire up my Alps!

Looks nice. Will the Thermo King unit have the proper decals? (Logo, Model Designation, control panel decals, etc)

Hey Cargostar why not do these wheels?

Hessel, Do you have a CNC machine?

Nice. I grew up in Cincinnati during the 1970s. Saw them all over the place.

Boyd Brothers! Will the Prostar have the hood mounted spot mirrors? Also just wonder can the low roof version be made from the kit.

1/32nd scale Ford CL9000

Oteri, you need to change your handle to "Day Cab King"!

http://www.gaasedal....ubber_duck.html

You're best bet is to go to a Freightliner truck dealer and take pictures and request diagrams. Why Freightliner? Because they took over Ford's heavy truck division.

All you guys with this new found interest should be aware that the kit is about $100. At least that how much it cost a couple of years ago. No doubt a reissue would be more.

Oh....Ben.

A while back, a German builder offered a Transcraft flatbed trailer kit. Does anyone remember who it was and does anyone want to sell theirs?

The picture I posted has the same reefer unit that as the Ertl reefer unit. Modern reefer trailers are similar to older trailers. The newer models may have composite materials as liners, but they are virtually the same. Below are photographs of interiors of reefers.

Excellent subject, excellent build. Momfort KWs are classics. Reefer trailers have aluminum floors. Wood would harbor mold when moist. The cold air is blown across the top of the cargo area and then when warmed, sinks to the bottom of the cargo area to be recycled. The channels as you describe allow the warmed air to be drawn under the cargo. The front bulkhead would have a rectangular opening to mount the cooling unit's evaporator. The Ertl Great Dane reefer is spot on accurate and has a detailed Thermo King NWD unit of the mid 1970s. The AMT reefer has a generic looking Thermo King cooling/heating unit of late 1960s vintage that has no detail. The AMT reefer trailer looks accurate for a late 1960s early, 1970s subject on it's exterior, but is just a dry van on the interior. Didn't Monfort use Fruehuaf reefers?

The last all new North American type subject Italeri offered,, the Volvo VN series took them 4 years to get on the shelves. It was a very good kit despite all of the complaining some have made (funny, now many wish they would reissue it), but it was a curbside kit. And from what I remember, it almost was canceled in mid production. Italeri's latest all new truck kit, the Iveco Stralis is going on 7 years and hasn't been released. You Moebius guys are turning out good stuff efficiently and at very attractive prices. Maybe their product development techniques are inefficient.

Will the headlights have actual lenses? Also Dave, how can Moebius turn out top quality totally new highly detailed 1/25th scale truck model kits and have them on the shelves in about a year from the public announcement that they will be offered and Revell and Italeri take 2, 4 or more years to do the same?

What else can I say?

Great! Like the mud flap hangers No other truck kit has that type. The things I'm gonna do with that one!

They offer MAN and Scania trucks in Mexico. If you live along the southern US, Mexico border, I'm sure they are a not-so-common site. Thanks to NAFTA.

Over engineered for North America. Euro trucks use some technologies that are beyond what North American trucks use such as diisc brakes and until recently, synchromesh transmissions. Euro trucks are too complicated for the North American market. Many Euro manufactures tried many times in the past to conquerer the North American market with their Euro designs only to fail. The Volvo F86 in the early 1970s, the Mercedes Benz L series of the late 1960s and Scania trucks of the 1980s are just a few examples that have come and gone. Euro trucks seem to be successful in South America, Australia and South Africa along side North American trucks, but some how haven't captured the interests of the American and Canadian trucking industry.

Modeling at it's best!

Any word on this stuff?