chuckyr

Yes, the photo etched wipers and staples for hand grabs are an improvement. Too bad about the paint lifting off. That's why I always use and recommend top quality masking tape. Next time try #M automotive or Tamiya masking tape.

I grew up in Ohio so I know the Springfield plant.

LOL! Time to get lawyered up!

So you are an ex IH employee.

Cast a couple of them. I am interested.

The container is standard design worldwide. The trailer would need modification.

Let's see it.

Nice, is that Plaskit?

To me the inaccurate height of the Italeri American reefer trailer renders it unusable. You can take two kits and graft the side walls together, but that is a lot of work. For the skilled modeler though, the results are rewarding. A German modeler, Günter Bönisch did just that with wonderful results. Other issues are the suspension, very inaccurate; it doesn’t have a diesel fuel tank. It was an after thought included in an Italeri truck accessories kit, the king pin and the wheels. I have been lobbying Italeri for years to reintroduce a modern accurate North American styled van trailer. But of course I’m only one person

Ok, I remember that build. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.p...mp;#entry209190

AMT had plans to offer a garbage truck, but a UAW strike and the oil crisis of the mid 1970s put an end to that. An extremely talented member of the MTDG made this fantastic trash truck. I don’t remember who it was, but if you visit that site he is their.

Your technical knowledge is impressive Flatbed, but with all due respect the Italeri American reefer trailer is a bad example. It is out of proportion in so many ways. This has been highlighted many times before. The major annoyance is the height of the van body and as well as the suspension. Ironically due to its inaccuracies, that trailer would look more in scale on a 1/25th scale tractor that a 1/24th scale tractor.

Ok he did remaster it. The new resin casting is nice and thin. http://www.aitruckmodels.com/pages/kitsparts.html

I doubt if it was Dave Natale. Dave owns AITM model parts and tends to be a Mack expert. There was a business back in the late 1980s and 1990s called Pinecrest, out of western Pennsylvania that offered some International resin pieces.

Slightly larger model, more detail. Virtually all totally new truck model kits produced over the last 25 years are in 1/24th scale.

The bottom photograph

If IH had survived the 1980s, they most assuredly would have competed successfully in the SUV era 1990s.

I used authentic Detroit Diesel spray paint on mine. The guy at the Freightliner dealer gave me a can for free.

Self promoting is good.

A page from a 1976 issue of the Ertl Blueprinter

Today a table saw, tomorrow a CNC machine.

Looks like this in better days.

I/24th scale should become the de facto scale for model truck kits.

7000in5th was the "licensing and legal side" at International!

You can use any cab guard for a logger: Try this link for these items. http://sourkrautsmodeltrucks.com/?page_id=...;page_number=13