Ben

Hands down, a Cat D11R with three tooth ripper! An excuisite all brass model of one was made my Classic Construction Models in 1/24 several years ago. Sold for over 3500.00 when new, now fetches over 6000.00, IF you can find someone to sell theirs. Their production run was sold out. Sadly.......I don't own one and probably never will . I do have blueprints to build one from scratch though. At the rate I build, you'll be able to "wish" giant piles of dirt out the way before I could finish it! LOL

Doesn't Gunze Sangyo already offer a Daytona coupe? I thought someone else mentioned a new one coming out as well, I'm pretty sure it Accurate Miniatures. Or did they go out of business?

Something I'm sitting here pondering is, why is it that Revell chose to produce the Atomic Power Plant, Shell, North Cormorant, off shore oil rig and the bucket wheel excavator kits? These are all very large and I'm sure, very expensive kits to produce. What was the deciding factor in these kits being produced? I have a very hard time even considering there were petitions of thousands of signatures begging for these kits! Or maybe it was more of, the minds of a few that feel as I do about a modern construction kit and had the ability to make it happen....

I think that if frogs had wings, there would be 99% decrease in them bumping their butt when they hop! Do you agree? LOL

I don't get it, that EB110, to me looks very similar (to me) as a Lamborghini Diablo and there's several kits of that car???? Are they just biased to the name brands?

I would think with that car being what it is compared to the other super cars (wasn't it the fastest production vehicle at one time?) That there would be at least ONE kit of it being as the Lambo's, Ferraris and others get produced so often.

A new kit of a first gen would have be done very well, in my opinion to have good sales as they have been done to death. I've heard many car modelers even say "how many Camaros can you build?" And this is coming from the owner of a 69 Camaro

Richard, you have nothing to be sorry for. We are simply dicussing models. Nobody is upset with anyone. Each person is offering what they know about the subject.

What about a new, fully detailed kit of a Bugatti Veyron in 1/25 or 1/24. Do you think that would sell well? Pretty impressive car!!

I actually have a kit of that but it's only 1/87 scale. I would LOVE one in 1/24!!! that or a Cat D11R!

Yes, but in order for me to bear the cost of materials and labor time, I would have to charge ten times what a kit manufacturer could sell them for and that simple fact alone would drive away 90% of potential customers.

Well, actually my point was the simple fact that there IS interest in a dozer kit or NO dozer would have ever existed. Let me get this straight.......By issuing that kit six seperate times (including the combo issue), AMT incurred NO additional cost in the manufacturing, packaging, change of box art, instructions and decals, right??????

Dear AMT, don't ever make a dozer kit because nobody will ever buy it!!!! Oh wait.....you already did???? And you released it five times and once with a lowboy kit??? Oh, sorry, my bad, I must not have a clue of what I'm talking about!

Ok, be sure to tell us what you WOULD like to see tooled up so I can do the same.

As popular as the Gremlin kit is right now and for what the original Pinto kits go for, do you honestly believe that a newly tooled Pinto kit that's of much better quality and detail than all the previous kits, would not sell well???

I am just one man, if I were to scratch build and cast a dozer (of which I am doing exactly that right now) I don't have the capabilities of a large company or the mass producing potential. You guys keep mentioning specific vehicles in your comparisons but I am saying that I think ANY TYPE of any brand of Construction equipment would do well (as far as excavators, dozers, scrapers, rollers, etc.) Being that you do build another one of my favorites, I believe a modern, fully detailed Motorhome or travel trailer would sell well as well!

I was just thinking, how do we know, that all over the world, there are not car modelers that look around and then carefully sneak into a dark room with a flashlight and a book on bulldozers and then sit in a corner muttering to themselves, "Oh Sweet, sweet bulldozer model kit, why do they deny us our love for each other????"

First off, why in the world would you send a petition to a model company with people saying they would not be interested in something??? And Second, why would you start said petetion on a forum dedicated to Model Car builders first and foremost??????

Yes, I see what your saying.....it would kind of like, if they brought back some goofy car like...lets say a Gremiin! Oh wait, they did, even two different year models! Scratch that, lets say a Pinto or a Pacer oh wait......there saying they are!!!! I know the Pacer is at least.

Hey Bob, they were both purchased off Ebay. The D9T was completely built from scratch with the exception of the tracks. (much more accurate tracks are being made for it right now). The excavator is technically a "toy" but it has been disassembled, a large plastic handle removed that used to reside on top of the boom, then it was painted with Cat paint and reassembled and detailed out. What makes it even more interesting is to my knowledge, only five of them were ever produced. It is an exact copy of the Bruder, 1/16 Cat excavator but it was made by a chinese company with no Bruder logos anywhere on it or the packaging it came in (this was told to me by the seller) He told me he was searching though some type of market when he found a box that simply read "1/24 digging machine". There were five in the box. He bought all five. I bought the last two he had.

And you make up the vast sum of .......one. Yes, the numbers do back up those kits being manufactured but they had to be initially produced at one time and I'm sure nobody back then, knew they would always be good sellers. I even hear car guys complaining about many certain car kits being produced so often, they're sick of seeing them and asking for something new.

It's actually more like trying to sell an Eskimo an ice building kit that takes weeks to assemble! LOL

But if we don't do anything, they'll never even know that there are many people out there interested in this type of subject.

And the point I keep trying to make you understand is that, just because you have no interest in building a model of a bulldozer means nothing. How do you know that are not many, many car builders that would love to tackle something different???( I never said it would just be the guys that build semi trucks, I do believe they would purchase them first though.) That's how this thread started! You keep saying that a new construction equipment piece would NOT sell well because of the modeling enviroment you have been involved in all your life. I am saying that I think a new piece of construction equipment WOULD sell well. You know what it all boils down too? Neither one of us, for a fact, knows if it would or if it would not.

I'm just have a discussion. I'm not trying to convince any model companies to produce anything on here. However, our groups of truck builders on other forums are in the midst of getting petitions together to send to the model companies.