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My vote is for Tamiya. I think the Academy is a reboxed Gunze. They've reboxed Italeri stuff too, like the 250 Cal Spider, but other than the wheels this looks like Gunze.

Great build/paint/detailing. Nice honest truck. Fun. TY for showing.

They forgot paint overspray and brush swipes, and something glued to a finger

Tamiya is decent, interior nice iirc. Curbside, electric motor ready. Not a ton of choices out there, so Heller bash with Tamiya may be OK. Stock kit has the sweet TRX's these had new. Love the cars, won't pay stupid money for resin R5 Maxi that'll join hundreds in the queue. BTW, cigarsinternational.com, no affiliation, happy customer, yadayada. Killer stuff. Try Punch Diablo, and Oliva V's for fun. Saves $ for more toys.

Looks great Kurt. I've never seen the Heller unboxed before, just Tamiya. Looks workable, you're doing it up nicely. Great view there, hopefully you smoked the box empty of those Acid's. Great pastime waiting for paint to flash, just not in same place.

Nice little truck. Interior looks factory.

+1000 on the color. Tamiya? Really shows the curves of this great truck. Dark colors cool, but this makes the hood/cab/fender curves look pretty amazing.

Maybe pull rear wheel stance out a little? Just since it looks pretty mean and not lifted. Really like it overall, great color. Love shortboxes, esp low ones.

Golden Commander HT is great looking. Mostly stock body, many builds of S/S cars are posts. Love cars like this, preserve some, but full trim needs to be kept as well. New guts, stock HT best of both. Sweet pickle green needs to go though. Good find.

Nice work on the fenders. Looks good, like the color.

Many of the Japanese vending sites have pics of instructions and kit parts. Search here too via google, lots of builders of these here. Price check them too, US MSRP is pretty high compared to what price is including shipping from JP. Can pick up at swap meets for less too if that's an option. Usually fun to build, but check. Avoid Arii, not common anyway. Fujimi Enthusiast series are pretty killer kits, mostly Ferrari/Lambo/356 and pre-95 Porsches.

You realize the pile is probably worth 1-2 1:1's. Cool. I've got a 68 great box art. Took driver's test in a 66 Monza. First car of many I spun.

One of the parts guys on eBay has had MaviComet parts lately, and I've seen resin. I'll PM ya if I find it Rich. Good hit on Elky

Even if there's no thread, someone will tell you whatever is worst. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah.

Does Art Basel have 40% coupons?? I'm waiting for Cattelan's commode re-issue in platinum. Way better than a tiny box, new decals, and blue glass. Or a banana.

The smiley faces on the lights are actually correct. KC Highlites I think used them. Buggies at least aren't prototypic. Truly the C111 is awful. Arii reboxed Otaki and LS stuff, so those are ok. Some great airplanes from them (Pitts, BD2J). Soryturd and Drug Racer are awesome names. I need the kits just for the boxes.

People buy multiples/cases of new issues at say, $15-20 each. Retail is $30. So original Coronet for price of 20-30 new kits, or a few cases of new kits is ok deal. Add in the hours spent hunting, which is fun, but many people can't do that. Figure $5/hour to hunt? So, if you can bypass that, don't enjoy the hunt, have the $, fine. Time isn't replaceable. Lots of us enjoy the hunt. I've got 68 and 69 Coronet ht and cv minty builders that took years and luck to get. I haven't bought a lot off eBay, don't really need much. Most I've paid for kit is $400 or so for rare resin kit. Glad the guy made money. Consider if that's his only job, he has to pay bills like everyone. LOL. I was trying to remember a kit I have with shrink wrap on it. One. Kenworth Challenge Mixer, bought new, above my pay grade but too cool to pass up. Maybe a couple of "Why did I buy thats" and a couple parts kits, but I agree, they're to be built.

AMT/Ertl Prestige kits IIRC. Late 80's, since display car is a 84-up Corvette. Series had 63 Galaxie ht, 63 Impala ht, "69" Corvair ht, 65 Lincoln convert, Silhouette show car, and the 55 Benz 300 SL gullwing that I recall. Yeah, now I recall it was Customizing series. Sorry. What they said

Amazing paintwork and masking. Just beautiful.

Here's some wheels from Top Gear Patagonia special. The Ronal bears came out in 77-78, pretty popular in JDM https://www.grandtournation.com/thegrandtour/clarkson-hammond-and-may-a-long-history-of-sausage-jokes-mh1211/

Nice! We don't have Rite-Aid, just CVS (nothing) and Walgreens (usually nothing fun). I need one. Actually like the hip on it, wrong as it may be.

It's big, may have been in what'd DC you get today. Like the Ken-Fu (props to Snake)

Looks pretty nice, I've only had Fujimi and Tamiya Countach's. Wheel wells look better, I'm still a narrow body/periscopo guy, but 80's has to have flares. Watching another comparo, strong work sir. Toss some pearl in that white, it's prototypic. Maybe silver wheels though? That's a LOT of white lol.

That is a tribute I believe, Howard. Lots of different details, wood, engine, steering. Car went through auction not too long ago. It is currently in Speedway Motors museum in Lincoln NE. Pics from various sources. Drag pics fun. There are 3, the original, the drag car, and a runner. Virtually identical save for fiberglass on the #2,3 cars Great build of cool kit. https://www.museumofamericanspeed.com/boothillexpress.html

Such an epic car. Nice build, like the paint.