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If you look at my picture above you can see that the Greenligt Dodge trucks are bigger than the Hotwheels (Red and white 4x4 next to the yellow/green wrecker) and the Matchbox (Crewcab 4x4 in the middle) and the old Matchbox wrecker on the side is even smaller. If the Greenlight trucks are 1:64, I'm guessing the Hotwheels and Matchbox are closer to 1:70. When I was a kid, the most common toycars where from the french Majorette and they always had all cars in roughly the same size and not the same scale (they had a standard size blisterpack with cardboard on the back) so I could have something like a Mack Superliner dumptruck (in blue just like my 1:25 model that I built years later) in the same size as a VW Beetle. I'm suspecting Hotwheels and Matchbox are doing the same thing.

Yes, 1:64 is a nice size but as you can see I'm running out of space in my cabinet. I do want to buy more versions of the Greenlight Dodge pickups but then I will have to find a new place for the Mack that sits behind them?

I got 14 of the 60s Dodge pickups from Greenlight plus 1 hotwheels and 2 matchbox.

So, I have tried to read my way trough this thread and also looked at other threads about this series of kits but I don't see it mentioned anywhere. Is the engines in the different versions of the kits the same with just different intake/carb bits? Is it supposed to be a Chevy small block? 350cui? Looks like there is some fuelinjection bits on the GMC snow plow and Big Game kits I got.

Maybe beige? Sort of skin color as in "smooth as a babys butt". But I'm caucasian and think if skin color as sort of beige but if one is "differently pigmented" (politically correct term) then it can be more of a dark brown or maybe a light brown wich could be like choclate. Choclate is quite smooth both in taste and texture, so maybe smooth is brown? Maybe one should listen to Ken Nordines Colors album? My favourite is Crimson: But is it smooth?

Great build, I love these heller 1:43 kits. I got this kit my self but have not yet built it. As you say, they are quite nice kits. Your SD1 looks perfectly 70s??

Ok, cool. Here the prices for the Ioniq starts at 278 000 (about 32,100 $US) and the Kona starts at 310 000 (about 34,800 $US) Last year we wanted to get a new car and my wife went on a testdrive in the new Jeep Wrangler. We got a price for a 2.2 Diesel Sahara. Baseprice 531 430 (59,630.17$) Taxes 449 670 (50,456.12$) Shipping 9 900 (1110.85$) Alarm 5 000 (561.04$) Overland package 26 000 (2917.38$) Comfort package 3 500 (392.72$) Limited slip rear diff 3 500 (392.72$) Black electric soft top 2 500 ( 280.52$) Technology package 6 500 (729.35$) Winterwheels 40 000 (4488.28$) Trailer hitch 25 000 (2805.18$) Purchase tax 130 666 (14,661.64$) Total 1 103 000 (123,764.32$) Almost half the price was taxes. The taxes are on so called fossil-vehicles but electric ones don't have normal taxes or purchase tax so if the wrangler was electric it would have cost something like 73-74 000$ The Hyundai Kona is actually more expensive in the US than here? It is of no wonder that I almost never see a Santa Fe or any of the other so called fossil Hyundai models around here but I see a lot of the electric ones and know a few that have bought the Ioniq or the Kona.

I think it is very simple. It is a case of personal transportation. For most people public transport or a bicycle may work fine for short journey taken on a daily basis but sometimes you need a motorized vehicle that will take you where you need to go when you need it and in a timeframe that fits your needs. An example is my sister, from the place she lives and to her job, a trip that takes 10 by car is taking her 1 hour by bus. She works in a store and she works at different hours so taking the bus is not always possible even. She is now 32 and is now getting her driverslicence.

Yes, the taxes are very high over here. But what is the price for the electric hyundai over there?

Great looking build. I have not seen many built stock like this before.

I have never seen a real one but it looks like they are for sale here. Prices starts at 775 000 kroner (about 87 000 $US) so maybe I can build it as a norwegian registered car.

Yes please. I want a kit and I want the real thing?

Haha, nope I'm watching the Dakar rally, from the Saudi Arabian desert?

Looks good but do I see 7 seats in there? I started work on adapting the Santini Air Jeeps picture over a sideview profile of Monograms 1:24 CJ7 years ago but I never finished the work. I had a plan to print my own decals but I never figured out how to make good decals my self on an inkjet printer.

I'm just happy it is not me, thanks to global warming we have the mildest winter since begining of time and temperatures are just around freezing here and I still think it is to cold. Doesn't help that it is dark for about 16-17 hours a day either. I hate january ????

Yes, and don't forget the T.J.Hooker version of the Dodge Monaco: Here is the intro from that show: Now, go check out the comments: Yep, I was one of them?? I have for years wanted to build a Jeep CJ7 like Santini Air had in Airwolf. The problem is the decals: http://imcdb.org/vehicle_4089-Jeep-CJ-7-1982.html

Is that wheels?

Yes, the Armed Pickup. I knew I forgot about one, I do have that kit on the shelf. I bought the airconditioners at Hobby Search https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/search?typ1_c=112&cat=&state=&sold=0&sortid=0&searchkey=FMDiorama Sadly, they are sold out at the moment. FMDiorama looks to have several other cool diorama items aswell.

That is a great looking build, the color combo is really something special? You have also added many nice details under the hood and the pictures!! WOW!!?

Not to long ago I ordered these photoetch air-conditioners (that is my day-to-day work so I thought it could be quite funny to have some small scale once) and looks what they have done with the logos on the decal sheet: EDIT: Just to clearify, the real names are Sampo, Daikin, Mitsubishi, Hitatchi and Fujitsu. I'm not sure about the TACO brand or the TX Taixio.

Like others have said, this has been done many times over the years. Italeri has done several kits with out the Brand licence. Land Rover series 3 (Old Esci tooling) Mack Superliner Hummer or maybe just HMMWV And this has been done with many other things aswell. In the 90s my sister had Adidas track pants (you know the black ones with the white stripes down each leg) but they where not real as the logo said Abidas. They had just turned a d in to a b...?

Here in Electric-Car Land the Tesla is considered to be the gold-standard now and Musk is almost a sort of god and his fans will never talk smack about him or the cars. But I do hear a lot about problems when the cars go wrong. Only the Tesla dealer can work on it and they don't have the capacity to repair all the broken cars so the cars are standing around at the dealers for months. They are also having issues with parts deliveries and have to wait out for parts to be made and shipped. And if this thing is going to compete with Fords F-150, they better ramp up the production line. How many F-series trucks are made each day? 1000 or so? and Tesla makes about 5000 vehicles a month... Then there is the quality issues, doors than refuse to open, software that goes very "Microsoft" on the owners, motors that burn out, batterypacks that keep on dying, charging systems that refuse to charge and so on and so on. Musk may be an ecentric billionare but if he is going to get things working in the long run he has to out-compete the big boys. Most of the German manufacturers are putting out their E-SUVs these days, the Audi E-tron is everywhere around here and Porsche and Mercedes are just around the corner. The E-Jag is the best selling Jag in this country since the beginning of time and Ford is pushing big marketing money on its Mustang Mach-E (an Electric Mustang more-door SUV, that must be like selling your sainted mother as a prostitute?) As a VW fan I have read the history about the company and it was founded as a peoples car, they where supposed to make HUGE amounts of cars every year and the plant was built to have a production capacity of 1 million cars a year (in 1937 that is) and in fact the city of Wolfsburg was built to house the factory workers. A lot of the ideas behind the Volkswagen company structure was based on what Ford did. Today, VW is one of the biggest car makers in the world and Ford still is aswell. Can he out-compete them in the long run? Only time will tell. Maybe the Cyber truck is all an elaborate marketing ploy?

Yes, thats the one. 1911, my memory only missed by one year. A 1:24 (or 1:25) fully detailed steam engine could be a cool thing to put in to another model aswell.

I do have a Stanley Steamer kit, I think it is a 1912 maybe in 1:32 from Life Like Hobby Kits I think. It is a kit from the 60s but I like it and think it would be cool to see a 1:24 modern tooling with lots of details.