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Very interesting that the engine in the cabriolet is not the GTi engine. I think I must swap them over so that the cabriolet is the hot version and then make a lower spec sedan.

The ones you are talking about are the old Revell (from the 80s?) kit of the mkII Golf. I have seen som threads on these now and they look quite good. Will have to get one of each when I get the chance. I guess it will not be long before we see some aftermarket resinconversion parts for the Cabriolet to update it. They never made a Cabriolet of the mkII and therefore used the mkI body with updated bumpers and other stuff all the way up to the early 90s (looks to be 1993).

Now thats a nice tip, must try that one some day. I belive you do get brass colored paint aswell so one could strip the chrome and paint it.

Same here Still, the 1:16 kit was one of my best buys ever. Paid just 17£ for it and that was including the 9£ shipping. I have looked at it so many times and wanted to start it but been afraid that my skills are not up to it plus that I will need good space to build and paint it.

Finally!!! I have wondered why there has been no 1:24 DS kit before, seeing that we already have it in 1:16 and 1:43 and it being such an icon of cardesign. I will have to get me some of these when they come out

I'm guessing that being scared of heights would not be a good thing when driving that Ford F8 based truck and that Dodge must be great for growing vegetables in Fantastic creations, a true fuction before looks design

Yes a really cool project. I have never seen it for real myself but I followed the rescue and the restoration of of both of these Saab motorhomes. Really two unique creations.

Very interesting conversion you are doing there

This is truly amazing! Your scratchbuilidng skills are fenomenal and you are making a gem out of such an unusual subject. Fantastic!!

Never seen the movies but it looks like a great one. I'm curious as to where you got the snaps from, as the logo in the upper right belongs to the scandinavian tv-channel TV3 (part of the Viasat network). They used to send a lot of made for tv movies back in the day.

The only negative thing I can say about RoG is the boxes. The flat boxes with the opening in the end is not as good as the boxes where you can lift of the top like on Revell US/AMT/Moebius/Italeri/Tamiya/Fujimi/Aoshima and I guess almost everyone else. When I can take the lid of the box I can use both the box and the lid as storage for parts during building while the opening ends means that I have to take everything out and make space for it in the bench. Not a big issue since the ktis look to be very good, just a bit strange. The only kit I got that have the opening in the ends that is not from RoG is a 1:35 beetle kit made by AeroPlast. Older RoG kits do however have lids that can be lifted off, they are all releases from the 80s and older so I guess they changed sometime in the 90s as I rememer the first RoG kit I built was the Peterbilt 377 in 1998 and that had the style of box we still see today.

Really nice builds. I started building the latest reissue of the Westfalia Club Joker camper a few years ago and I will agree that it can be a bit difficult. I also have some earlier issues and they look a lot better. I guess the molds are getting worn out.

Stunning looking diorama you got there, top job

Cool project, do you have decals for it? If so, where did you get them?

Thak you very much for the comments guys I don't know if any team sponsored by JPS ever used a C-series Ford truck. This was purely an idea I had. But I can't say for sure because there have been JPS livery on many a racecar back in the day. Some of the decals I used for this project are acctually to be used on a 1:18 model of a BMW 6-series. I just did it this way because I have always thought that the JPS livery with black and gold looks cool

The car in the picture in the lower left looks like the front of a Peugeot 404.

That could be repaired right? Or is the estimated cost of repairs higher than the value of the car? I guess the insurance company will pay for a new car.

I find it strange that people are complaining about errors in kits that are not made by Moebius in a thread that has been started by a headguy at Moebius. If one of these faults had been in a kit from Moebius I can understand the complaints here. I would also like ask the question to everyone here, what is your definition of a gross error in a kit? For me personally it is badly fitting parts, lots of flash and wrong parts in the kit. A few years ago I bought a MPC 72 Pontiac GTO (I guess this is an old kit beeing reissued) and the floorpan was longer than the body. I needed to cut of about half an inch. Another kit I built a few years ago was a Airfix 1:72 plane, this was in a so called Starter set with some paint, glue and brushes. Another old kit beeing reissued and the halfs of the fuselage was not the same length and the wings where at different places. Being sold as a Starter set and then maybe bought and built by someone that has not built models before this could easily put them off building more models. Now, these examples are gross errors. I'm thinking of myself when I started builing models, I was 12 years old and built a couple of airplanes that I had gotten as a Christmas gift. I used a complete tube of Humbrol glue on one airplane and the wings almost melted. I guess that the most important thing for me at the time was that I got it togheter and not how accurate it was in the details. Thinking of the kits that have been new tools the last few years, how many has bad partsfit and lots of flash? Maybe the roofline has been off or something else had been a bit off but you can put it togheter without to much problems right?

What amazes me the most is that someone that acctually work on designing kits are on a modelfoum and taking feedback from potential buyers. That must be a truly unique situation. So thank you very much Dave!! I don't have to many Moebius kits yet, only the 53 Hudson and 55 Chrysler (and I have not built them yet) but what I have seen from looking in the boxes are pleasing me. Lots of crisp details and it looks like it got good partsfit aswell. For me, crisp details and partsfit are the most importent things on a new kit. That is NEW as in new tool and not reissue of an old kit. I have plenty of old kits that do not have great partsfit and crisp details and are just as happy to build them aswell but It's great to open up a brand new kit and look at all the parts and see all the little details that are there. If it's a 100% accurate or not is not that important as I can always rectify things if I want to when building (after all, I am a modelBUILDER and not a modelASSEMBLER). I sure hope that Moebius are making good enough money on the kits to keep releasing new stuff. From what I have seen so far, things are looking very good. As for the prices of kits, I can't complain as kits have always been quite expensive here in Norway compared to the U.S. and in my eyes quality always costs money. A Rolls Royce was always a lot more expensive to buy than a everyday Ford because it was a much better car. The same goes for everything else in life aswell, you can't expect quality for bottom dollar. And the modelkit hobby is lot cheaper than other "hobbies" like Golf or 1:1 motorsport...I guess there are guys on this forum that may have been trying their luck on a racetrack at some point....."Did you blow up that brand new 20 000$ engine this weekend?" And, as a suggestion to Dave. How about a kit of the second generation Ford Econoline (68-74)?

As others have said, when the licenceplates are on, it's done! Or, as Jonathan just posted, when I feel it is. I will always strive to finish my models (as many others I have several that are not finished that I started on years ago) and I have found that to finish a model I must accept that it will never be perfect. There will always be something I would like to do differently, details that are missing, paintsmuges, gluesmuges and lots of things that I will not be a 100% happy with but very often the fix for this problems are a complete tear down job. If there is something with the paint, I will have to put it in the brakefluid bath, clean it up, maybe do some filling and sanding again if filler has come of and start the paint procedure again. Many times have I done this and many times have I ended up saying "Sod it, this will do" because something always happens. Even if I get a good finish there may be dust somewhere on the body, or a small mark that will not polish out. And many times have I failed in the detailing after the paint has cured. Maybe the knife slipped when I was foiling or the paint bled under the masking tape when I was doing the exterior trim. Maybe the paint got a little thick in places and covered up some details or the the emblems got a littlebit wonky. Maybe the wheels are not sitting 100% straight and I realise that it's due to the suspensionparts not being as straight as they should be. Sometimes because of badly fitting parts (often the case in old kits that have been reissues many times) or maybe I have been a littlebit inacurate when fitting them. Maybe I have modified something aswell and that is the reason that a part is not fitting aswell as it should. But if I should go back and do it all over again on every model I build I would never get any finished kits. I know a lot of guys that get bogged down in faults, trying to rectify problems and then getting bored with the kit and tossing it away. Start a new one and end up with a huge amount of buildtime and nothing to show up as a result. When they then go to a show, they will not bring any models because they have not finished anything since last year they where at the same show and they will complain that there are not enough models dissplayed. They will also post on forums but never show any work and the forums die out. Much better to accept that it's not perfect and just say that it's done. Take some pictures, post them online and put it on the shelf and then start a new one, try not to the same mistakes on that one instead.

Great work!! I love these Dodge trucks (my childhooddream was/is to have a 65-67 D100 1:1) and I was in the sky when I last year discovered that Modelhaus had a a 65 D100. I got that and it looks like a very good kit and seeing your crewcab built makes me want to order one of these aswell. Stunning job, yours looks almost like the real deal

Very well presented model, you have done a sterling job. The Convoy movies was for me a love-at-first-sight moment and your model really looks like it was part of the movie.

Thank you very much for the comments guys

Here is atleast some photos of the parts and instructions. http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10255299p/10/1

A guy here in Norway did build that Dora gun, I remember seeing in on the IPMS show some years ago. I dwarfed everything on all the tables. Here is a picture of it: The tanks and the truck behind it on the right are the same scale, the Hallingdal betong truck on the left is 1:24.