chuckyr

May be the next commercial kit from Mobius can be a Prevost

Hey how about this idea? Why not offer a Harley division Edition Lonestar?

I appreciate the hard work Mr. Metzner. From my experience, several model subjects have made it to the mock up stage only to be lost in the model truck ether. We are still a bit of a ways off from getting this subject on to our work benches. If I might add, please don’t neglect the wheels and tires. Many a good model kit has been compromised by inaccurate wheels and tires. Proprietary International aluminum wheel pattern and low profile highway rubber would be preferred. As far as the Kenworth you mentioned, I assume you are referring to the AMT T600 kit that was offered in the early 1990s. In my humble opinion it was a bust. It appeared that it was a final gasp at AMT trying to resurrect their once proud line of big rig kits. It seemed they were aiming to the NASCAR crowd as a racing team haul rather than the big truck fan. They gave it just enough detail to satisfy the NASCAR crowd and not enough to interest the big rig fan. After your company has sold the first 20,000 kits of the Lonestar and the second 10,000 kits of the Prostar, please considered a Kenworth T700 or a Freightliner Cascadia as your next subjects!

I just saw a funky Lonestar today dressed in scarlet red with a matched Great Dane Stainless 50 foot reefer set up. I still think the Midland livery is my first project when it hits the shelves.

Skilled builds.

It appears we will be getting all of the accoutrements!

Thanks Tim!

assist Very nice! Do you plan on making her a vintage period trailer?

Those aren’t trucks. They’re cars with longer chassis.

Those Road Commodes were generally fleet trucks. I have never seen one as a o/o rig.

These sleepers really don't do much for me.

LOL!

I suspect either they used Euro trailer height dimensions or used metric measurements instead of inch/foot measurements.

Well if you want to be totally honest. Big rig models have always been just a portion of the over all model universe, even in their heyday. However try finding an Ertl Great Dane reefer van trailer model on ebay for anything but a hefty sum and you will understand that an accurate modern trailer subject is way over due! There are an enumerable amount of 1/144th scale aircraft Carrier models, Airfix has recently offer a 1/24th scale Mosquito WWII air craft model and not too mention all of those huge 1/16th scale. 1/8th scale... models. Where would you display them? The same place you display all of your other tractors, just take a few of them of the shelf and make room for a trailer or two.

I don’t agree with many of your assessments. There are many modelers who have as many years as you do on this board building and scratch building big rig kits. Notice I said big rigs and not trucks. There is a difference between building big rigs and pick ups, SUV models. Conduct a side by side comparison of a Revel or an AMT Peterbilt of any era and the Italeri 378 or 377. The Italeri looks more in scale by far than the Revell. Cutting out the door panels is much easier with a separate panel then a tub. 1/24th scale, being slightly larger allows for that much more detail and since Italeri has been the only manufacture over the last 10 to 15 years or so to offer any new North American big rig subjects as Tim pointed out, the old 1/25th scale is no longer considered the standard for big rig subjects. It may be for cars, but not for big rigs. The scale difference is discernible particularly with tires and wheels and with van trailers. However, I am thrilled and appreciative of a new big rig subject coming to market and hope there will be many more as well as accurate modern semi trailer subjects to mate to the tractor to come.

Moebius Models implicitly stated to me that if the kit sells well, there definitely will be more big rig kits.

So will the cab be a multi-piece panel set up ala Italeri, or a one piece ‘tub’ in the style if the old AMT and Ertl kits? The multi piece system, I have found to be superior. It, by its natural permits more scale detail, truer door and cab panels and is easier to cut for opening doors. I talked to Moebius and thought 1/24th scale would have been better, but they decided on 1/25th scale.

That is a nice thread Sergey. You must translate for us.

Yea and brittle!

Yes, I had them uploaded here. modeltrucks25