chuckyr

What materials did you use to make the stinger and how did you create it?

Congratulations Convoy! They are both great kits. The bottom kit on your photo is an original issue of the trailer. The model is of a typical 1970s or early 1980s car hauler. You can still see these on the roads. I personally do not build box stock kits. I try to find an actual subject, either from magazines, the internet, photos or from subjects I see in person. To me the challenge is to make it look as real as possible. A nice tractor match could be any AMT or Ertl truck since they are of the same vintage as the trailer, the 1970s. A true challenge would be to plumb the entire trailer. Electrical wire would replicate the lines more accurately and simulate the hoses in scale. It is one of the more complicated kits. Be sure to post photos as you build it. Have fun!

Nice build. I built that kit back in the 70s. Despite not having steering wheels, the quality and detail of Ertl truck kits was showing AMT how to do it. My friend’s family won a real Scout like that at a Cincinnati Reds promotional 7th inning stretch back in the 70s.

Looks like you have scale weight.

I have several of his catalogs somewhere and even spoke to him on the phone. He was notorious for listing subjects he never offered.

That's great news. I hope Bob reissues all of his catalog!

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.