chuckyr

Welcome Ricardo! Congratulations on the 2016 Olympics. I look forward to seeing the Brazilian Women’s Beach Volleyball team. I will be looking for some of those nice Brazilian Scania’s and Volvo big rigs models.

Dag Wicker, you have only been a member sice 2008? I thought had been on here longer. I ordered some of the oval and recieved it several weeks ago. Nice stuff for the accurately anal modeler.

Nice subject, great execution.

Nice trailer. The scale and proportions are among the best I have seen in a scratch built dump trailer. Several questions, are you going to: Make a working tarp cover mechanism? Completely plumb the brakes, hydraulics and electrical lines†And Use Alclad paints on it? What brand is it modeled after?

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On point!

To answer your question directly, there is a snowball’s chance in hell that a new International Lonestar kit will be offered in a 1/25th scale kit. There has been no new 1/25th scale truck tractor kit since the early 1990s, and that was the badly made AMT T600 kit with an old W900 frame. There is no reason for any American model company to offer any new tools. As long as they can pacify the truck molders with constant reissues of 1970s kits, they will fulfill their 10 year quota for truck models. Even Italeri will not offer an International Lonestar kit, presumably in the Euro standard 1/24th scale. I was in correspondence with a model truck enthusiast who worked for International about 15 years ago. He was in talks with Italeri about offering the 9800 cabover in a kit. The results were that Italeri won’t offer International truck subjects. So to clarify, the closest you will see a Lonestar as a model is as a diecast or the special order, special cast 1/87th scale resin body available at the 1/87th scale web group. http://www.decalprint.de/

Go for it!

I have one of the orginal issues that I purchased back in 94'. Good model not built by many truck modelers. The Aeromax was one of the most common real trucks in the 1990s. Great work.

Welcome! A fine fleet of Scanias you have there. North Americans have seen very few Scania trucks. They did sell them in the US during the 1980s, but no more. Scania does sell in Mexico, but very few of them

You’re kidding right? Which one is the model and which one is the real truck?

Great! Doesn't Alclad replicate chrome better than anything else?

How close is Howards's mesh? (KFS)

Great work! Maude was a classic show. Many TV shows of that era were brilliant. In fact, shows of that quality and political dialog only appear on HBO today. We are so politically dumbed down as far as television programs nowadays. Just a bit of trivia, Good Times was a spin off of Maude. Florida was Maude's day maid. What I couldn't understand was Maude was situated in the New York City suburb of Tuckahoe. Florida lived in a hosing project in Chicago. Now that's a hellava commute!

Great work! Please refer to this post. It concerns 1/16th scale after market items. http://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/index.p...ic=6458&hl=

The details on this one might be your best.

Several photos from my archives of a Pete resmbling your subject. Charles

Ok! I would hate for a perfect model to fall short of your skills.

Ben, I don't know where Chris got his acorn nuts, but RB Motion is still in business and they still offer the same items they have always offered.

Excellent model. Correct trailer for the year of the tractor. You are one of the few that includes the trailer hook-ups.

Your model is coming together great, as usual. The detail of the front steer rims is fantastic, but the inaccurate rear Italeri pseudo American real wheels detract from the model, in my opinion. Drilling out the hubs of the rear wheels and using more accurate American style hubs or using after market two wheels with accurate hubs would improve the over all appearance of the subject.

"On the GPS unit..it was acquired from Model Truck Parts in Australia.." Do you have a link?

Excellent work. You've captured the spirit of the actual rig.

Italeri truck shop accessories kit No. 764 (discontinued) has a nice set of bullet type roof lights. Might find them on Ebay.