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Yes please! I got one but almost don't dare touching it because I will never find another one if a break something. I did make this one on the Revell Share your dream site: http://ideas.revell.de/ideas/item/5257/ Maybe voting for it will help? The work on this one looks spectacular, the rust is very realistic

Very wild design. That would look great in my dream garage But I do wonder how Colani had planned that to work. Would it have front wheels that did the steering or would ti be hinged in the middle like a wheel-loader?

I am not and have never been a huge Nascar fan but I do love motorsport. I have watched the world rally championship, formula 1, dakar rally, Le Mans and many others since the mid 90s. I have in the last few years lost interest in watching many of these series. Formula 1 is just a "Lewis and Bernie's party" and WRC has been dominated by "The Sebastiens" (Loeb and Ogier). The dakar rally moved from being Paris-Dakar to a offroad race in south america that has no reason to be called Dakar rally anymore and due to the timedifference has become more difficult to watch. 15 years ago Tamiya had loads of WRC kits and Formula 1 kits but they don't have that anymore. Maybe it is a global thing. For me personally it is about the kits them self. I think the reason I don't have many race car kits is the same as that I don't have many military/aircraft/armor kits. I like to look at a kit as a blank canvas where it is up to me and my mind to dream up want I want to do with it and up to me and my skills to make it happen but a race car (and so many aircraft/armor kits) can only be built in to one thing. All I can do is to add more details, because it has to be in that specific color and I have to use the decals like it says on the box. Another thing is that a race/rally car looks at it's best when it is in racemode. It looks at it's best with the driver inside of it with his foot on the floor and nuckles on the steeringwheel and engine roaring, tires squealing and a bit of dirt and marks from "race incidents" all over its body. Building a static model that is shiny and clean and has no driver figure and then putting it on a shelf jus does not make it look as good. One could build a diorama out of it but that would be a lot more work and take up a lot more space and if one does that with Nascar one would have to buy and build several cars that all race togheter and build a part of a track. It could look like a 3d picture from a race but it would involve alot of research and scratchbuilding to do so.

Yes a suburban would be really nice but it would render my R & R resin body useless

Yes, very nice. I really like the effect of the paint that has flaked off

Interesting with a 66 fleetside. Will have to get that one

The van in the back looks like it does not have any chains on at all. Looks like it must have spun around and hit the lamppost one can see in a the second photo. I wish that was bigger. The last one of the two in Bills post above looks serious, could have been a fatal perhaps?

Really cool idea of making a crashed car. It looks very convincing

Anyone know if it is possible to order a set of corrected decals?

Yes, the 67 Impala sure looks cool http://www.lewinindustrialdesign.com/portfolio/67-impala/ But what year is the best? I'm not sure.

Fantastic idea, I really dig this one. I don't want to spoil you fun but a guy in the Norwegian IPMS did make a race transporter out of this bus a few years ago. Here is a picture of the diorama he made at the 2012 IPMS show. He called it "A lord and his lorry"

This is true, I have built a couple of 1:72 car kits (one with photoetch parts) and they where easy to build and I finished them quickly. Not a lot of parts and not very much details. I did own the 1:8 Monogram 82 Camaro at one point but sold it. I was not stunned with the details in the kit, in manyways it looked a bit like a up-scaled 1:25 kit so that could be easier to build with poor eyesight I think. The problem with it is that one would be tempted to add more details and that will be in smaller and more parts. I have also seen what is in these Pocher kits and in my opinion this will require a very good set of eyes and a lot of steady handwork. Maybe snap kits is the answer to old age?

Oohh....I like it a lot. Garbage trucks are a missing part of the models that are available as kits. You have done a fine job on converting a toy in to this. Do you have a link to what toytruck you used as a donor?

Again, one of your builds looks like real and is a very pleasing sight. You have a lot of patience to stack all those coffesticks Fantastic job!!

Thanks for the news, I will be ordering some detail sets for the moebius ford pickups

I don't have the Volvo p1800 kit myself but I have seen pictures of it. It is a Palmer kit, that really says it all. A google search gave me this link: http://volvo1800pictures.com/mini/palmer/mini_id_458.php

This looks very good and it really is nice to see one of these built

Fantastic job you have done on this, on the outside photos one could easily be fouled in to thinking it is a picture of a real truck

I voted for the AMT kit for much the same reason as Martin says above, all the extra goodies. I got both kits, I have not built any of them yet but I think they both have good and bad sides and it is difficult to really pick one that is best without having built them both.

So how are the cubs doing then?

Yes, I belive you end up with some nuts if you do that anyway But, I wonder (it may have been up in this thread already) if I can order a set of wheels from some company even if I don't have a 3d file?

Yes yes yes yes, please!! i got the Modelhaus resin kit but a plastic kit would be great. I would buy just as many of this as of other pikcup kits of the same agegroup. I got Fords and Chevys from the 30s all the way up untill the 90s but why is there only no Dodge trucks? Well, I'm saving money to buy a 1:1 like the one in the picture now. Maybe by the time I get saved up enough to buy the real thing there will also be a kit? I also made this: http://ideas.revell.de/ideas/item/7379/

Really cool build, I have always liked Lego and it always amazes me what someone can do with it.

Love this one, very cool looking and an excellent idea

Nice paint job, I really like that. Very cool looking truck