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I grew up with a junkyard behind my house and that was a common site. It was our playground. We had a huge fort complex in the tire pile, and the car stacks were our tree houses.

This is what I tried to post and it wouldn't post here either.

I tried posting is this thread, and I get a 404 error. Model Cars Car Kit News & Reviews 1/18 MPC Hydro-Vee Boat

The funny part is that at my local Ollies the kit of just the truck was the same price as the truck with tanker and the truck with flatbed and 40 ford coupe. $26.50

Pre Walmart there was very little in the way of internet sales or even mail order. Internet sales went up substantially in the Walmart era. Post Walmart there was a recession. I fail to see what effect losing Walmart had on Revell. I'm willing to bet that a lot of manufacturers wish for Walmart to drop sales of their product type across the board. As a manufacturer would you rather the market dictate your product range, quality, and retail price or would you rather one single retailer dictate your product range, product quality, wholesale price etc..? Yes if a Revell employee only knew of the product quantities shipped to Walmart as compared to quantities shipped to other retailers then they would "think" losing Walmart would devastate the company. But Walmart isn't an end user, therefore, the demand is still there for the product. It would be interesting to me to see a complete list of New Revell tooling(only of the type carried by Walmart) released in the 10 years prior to the Walmart era, new tooling released during the Walmart era as well as new tooling released post-Walmart.

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Yep. I caught that. And he didn't seem to be wanting to reproduce the referenced car in 100% perfect accuracy either. My reference is to a kit, IMC/Lindberg "Mustang II", that covers an actual pre-production concept car in kit form. If it's not the style he wants then so be it, I just thought it would be nice to show the design concept idea stage ("Mustang II") compared with the pre-production custom (Mustang III) which was built from a finalized production design.

Beautiful build!

My L700

Lindberg did the 63 Mustang II

That as well as any of the racecar (transporters) from AMT. All the same trailer.

Walmarts site is just like a Google Shopping search result. He who manipulates the search engine optimization the most gets the best position. I rarely ever look at Walmarts site just because the details of an item are so generic that weights and dimensions are nearly always for a case of the item. Walmart is as much of a digital dinosaur as Sears.

Did it seem like the ink was softening the paint? I've had silver Sharpies do this with water based acrylics that weren't fully cured. The Molotow is an alcohol base and therefore will likely soften fresh paint and this would be more noticeable when using the tip of the marker(rubbing) as opposed to airbrushing.

Of course a kit would be great. As a kid I had a toy Pepsi delivery truck and it came with a full load of bottles on pallets, and toys like that were really popular then. (reference pic from ebay.) With the success that I assume the Ford Louisville kit has had with Coke livery and the lack of trailer kits on the market, I think one of these would be a success. Any branding could be added, even local distributor branding, that makes for a kit that buyers would buy multiple copies of. They could also re-tool the Louisville as a tractor to go with it.

It wouldn't be too hard to scratch build. I bet I have enough unused rear roll-up doors from the Ford Louisville kits to make all those narrow roll-up doors. Then either the Coke decals from the Louisville kits or the Coors decals from the Bill Elliot hauler. Parts of the Louisville box and parts of the Elliot hauler could be used for the body, frame and gooseneck.

This is what I would use that bed as a base for.

No sir, there are plenty of single rear wheel trucks with utility beds. The bed in the original post is built to go on an F-100. A bed for a dual rear wheel truck has deeper toolboxes.

I NEED this bed, it will be so simple for me to modify that into a copy of the Northwest (astoria) body on my 1:1 2002 F250.

So the AMT super Stones truck was based on an F-150.

With some custom decals and slot mags you could build a replica of this one. This is the version Jeff Dunham chose when he restored his Cruising Van to go with his Pinto Cruising Wagon

To find the amount to add you have to first measure what you have. If the kit frame is 6 inches from the back of cab to end of frame then multiply 6(real inches)x25(scale inches in one real inch)= 150(real inches) 150 inches divided by 12(inches in a foot)= 12.5(real feet) this is the length of the frame you have to start with. You need 24 real feet so 24-12.5= 11.5 feet, This is the amount that would need to be added to the real truck. To get that in 1/25 scale you can start by dividing 1 inch by 25, this gives you the size of 1 scale inch= .04 inch, multiply that by 12 and you get 1 scale foot= .48 inch. Now you need 11 feet 6 inches(or 11.5 feet) so you multiply .48 x 11.5= 5.52 inches. 5.52 inches is the amount to add, but 5 1/2 inches would do just fine as the extra .02" is a scale 1/2" (some perfectionists would cringe at this, then again they don't mind using what amounts to 3/4" spark plug wires) This is all assuming you use a 1/25 scale truck kit. You just need to plug your measurement into this and it will give exact results. Measure twice and cut once... 1/24 scale is much simpler as 1 real inch is 24 scale inches or 2 feet, this means a 1/2 inch is 1 foot, 1/4 inch is 6 inches, 1/8 inch is 3 inches, 1/16 inch is 1 1/2 inches, 1/32 inch is 3/4 inches, 1/64 is 3/8 inch. And you can always use the same exact math as above for 1/24 scale just substitute 24 in place of 25.

Torque Thrust D's have bolt on center caps.

I can't wait. I need an 85 Olds 442/FE3X.

Off to a great start to what I'm sure will be a beautiful finished build! @Ballroad, the side trim are separate chrome pieces and look great straight off of the tree. These kits are excellent.

This is a kit that I completed about 10 years ago. It's never been posted so I dusted her off and snapped some pics. Just before I was ready to click submit topic I realized and zooming in I spotted a defect, I never installed the turbo. So I had to take 45 minutes to dig out the box and look for it. But alas no turbo to be found, I even checked the box for my mixer kit with no luck. I decided to include one engine picture anyway. I absolutely love these kits. I've never done the tractor version but this version and the Rex mixer version are amazing kits. Someday I'll take another stab at this dump truck, I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out but more could have been done in the detail department.