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I hope you don't mind my comment but since the carburetors are such a prominent feature on this cars engine and on most race cars they have to look good in my opinion, and most kit supplied carburetors has much to desire in that department with a few exceptions, some are very bad and blob like and some has not much detail, that's allright and can work on a model with aircleaners where you don't see much of the carbutretor. But when the first thing you see on the engine is the bare carburetors they have to be detailed for the right look and it lifts the model to another level if they are and your nice model of this car deserves to have good looking carburetors. It looks like the carburetors in your screen shots are Holley 4160 series carburetors wich has only one metering block where you can change the main jets, the jets for the secondarys are fixed and there are no metering block on that side, it has vacuum operated secondarys and an electric choke...they can maybe be 600 cfm's. Most of the 4160 model carburetors have side hung floats and a hard feed line between the bowls so they are easy to pick out The one in your last picture is a 4150 series, the dual metering blocks are the giveaway, the float bowls with center hung floats are also different and there is no hard line between the float bowls, so it's a different model from the ones used in the movie. Here is a 4160 series carburetor with vacuum secondarys and electric choke similar to the carburetors used on the movie car. Texas 3D Customs has nice 3D printed 4160 carburetors with the right look. https://tx3dcustoms.com/products/holley-465-4bbl Fireball Modelworks also have the 4160 style and they are also nice. https://www.fireballmodels.info/fmr-094.html

Very very nice. The only things I would change is the carburetors to some more detailed ones from either Texas 3D Customs or Fireball Modelworks as they are so prominent, and maybe the rear slicks...othrerwise it's perfect.

The chassis is made by Logghe Stamping Co, not unusual back in the day before they changed to the more modern style and can be found in several old funny car kits.

Looks great.

If you want to do a full detail model Auslowe has a 60 inch Aerodyne sleeper you can use on a Revell Germany W900 or the AMT kit with some updates.

Very nice, great work.

No, AMT did not do a W900 Aerodyne. But Monogram did in 1/25 scale back in 1982 well before the Revell-Monogram merge in 1986, that's the snap kit we have today under Revell name. I wonder why Revell Germany didn't do an Aerodyne roof section for the 1/25 full detail kit they did in 1992 wich is based on the old Monogram big scale 1/16 Kenworth W900 kits from 1981 and came in both a flat top and Aerodyne versions. The 1/25 tooling looks to be a smaller but straight copy of the 1/16 tooling except for a few things as the parts layout and buildup of these kits are essentially the same, so adding a Aerodyne roof section wouldn't be that hard.

Seems like we all had the same idea at the same time.

I use tube glue for polystyrene models and apply it fairly generously on both sides and let it do it's thing for a minute or two to soften the plastic slightly, then I press the two parts together and let the excess glue and plastic come out of the seam and let it set, after that I brush liquid cement over the seam wich softens both the glue and the plastic and let that dry...then I sand the seam flush and I rarely have to use any putty to hide it. That's my way of doing it and it has worked for over 40 years.

Here is a picture of one of the injection moulding tool parts for a Revell car model, the tool has a positive and a negative part and can be of two or more parts that closes up when the plastic is about to be injected, and this looks to be the tool part for the top side of the kit parts. You can see the upper part of the body at the low near the camera and the rest of the body is on the other part of the tool going into the voids beside the upper section and over the 4 steel pins, it's not shown but you can see some of the ejector pins at the lower right in the picture. There can be inserts in the tool to be able to make changes to the modle kit. Here is an interesting article on the subect where this picture comes from. https://craftsmanship.net/parts-recreation/

Most aftermarket stuff fits kit wheels. The AMT tires are 10.00-20, 11.00-20 and 11.00-22 but most of them are tube style split ring/lock ring wheels but the AMT K100 kit wheels are Alcoa tubless style and they use the same 11.00-22 tires used on for example the White-Freightliner, and the 20 inch wheels for tube tires was replaced with 22.5 tubeless and the 22 inch tube tires was replaced with 24.5 tubeless. So your 20 inch rims will most likely fit in the 22.5 tires.

Look at Moluminum.com or stsupplyco.com, they have corse tread drive tires.

This is very common on model kit bodies, because these lines looks to be mold lines from the molding tool wich is at least made of two parts that can be put together and opened up to get the molded parts out. Model kits are injection molded where the hot plastic is injected under pressure into the modling tool made of steel, a one piece body is complicated to do and the mold has to be in at least two parts or more for the body to be able to come out of the mold when the plastic gets colder, and these lines are where the modling tool is joined. So you can safely sand them away as they are not supposed to be there.

I know Mo'luminum has 10 hole wheels but his wheels are marked 20 and 22 inches, allthough they are tubeless wheels and there are no 20 inch tubeless tires for trucks on the market and the closest to 22 inch is 22.5. I think he marked his wheels 20 and 22 as they fit the AMT tires and if you look at diameters on real tube tires and tubeless tires the 20 and 22.5 has close to the same outside diameter and 22 and 24.5 has close to the same outside diameter and the 20 tube tires was replaced with 22.5 tubeless and the 22 inch tube tires with 24.5 tubeless. These are the ones I'm talking about. http://moluminum-com.3dcartstores.com/22-inch-10-hole-truck-wheels-_p_42.html Yes he can be entertaining...but he needs to research the subjects a bit more before he puts out such a video and call them facts, because much of the information he puts out is not accurate, you need to protect your back on this because there's allways someone who knows more and will slap your wrists if you don't have your facts right, so you have to be able to back up what you say with facts when you do something like this. I have seen his 10 killer facts video about the Duel truck too, it's also full of inaccuracies, but less than the video of the BJ truck as some are correct. The man who I know has researched the BJ and the Bear subject most is Lance Cormier, and it's from him I got most of the information about the BJ trucks together with some other information i found here and there, he has the serial numbers on at least three of the trucks used in the series and as far as I know he can back up his statements. Same with Cam Lavin and the Duel truck, he knows mostly everything about it as he has researched the truck for a long time, he has the factory records and build sheets on the truck (and many other trucks) so I trust what he says to be correct information. So what I try to share is the information I've got from reliable sources and what I've seen for myself watching the TV series or movies again and again looking for details.

All the "facts" in the video are not correct and many of the so called BJ trucks in the video was not the ones used in the show, so don't go by that. First of all, Kenworth did away with the different chassis designations way before the TV series, so they all are K100C's. As far as I have found out there were appearently 5 trucks used for the TV series including the 2 stunt trucks used, 6 if you count the flat top used in the pilot show...not 3 as was said in the video, 2 were 1978 models, 1 was a 1979 model and 2 were 1980 model Aerodynes, and the flat top from the pilot show, I believe 3 of them has survived and Paul Sagehorn has one of the 1980 trucks serial #288162 wich is mentioned in the video, one is in Australia, and another wich is the sister truck to Pauls serial #288261 is under restoration somewhere in the US. The trucks are similar but the 2 1980 trucks for season 3 were indentical at the time as they were bought new from the factory especially for the show and only 1 more was bought new, the other 2 was used trucks made up to look like the TV series truck. The BJ trucks should have had 24.5 inch wheels as it was very popular back in the day on highway trucks, the truck owned and restored by Paul Sagehorn wich is one of the 1980 season 3 trucks does have that, Paul also found one of the original Brown trailers and restored that too. 1:25 24.5 inch wheels are not common in kits, the AMT Aerodyne kit has tubeless 10 hole Alcoas but they are not really correct as the rims on the outside to inside of the rear wheels are flat, they should have a "ditch" in the middle for mounting the tires, but they use the same 11.00-22 tires as the White-Freightliner and the parts pack tires...so the outer diameter is about the right size. The Revell Germany wheels...well I don't know what to say abut them other than they are not good and not realistic. The Revell Germany kit is the closest to the 1980 trucks, they have a twin turbo Cummins NTC475 that can be converted to a 400 if you take off one of the turbos, it has a Fuller transmission and the wheelbase is right, the interior is the correct VIT interior but the seats are wrong, it should be the VIT highback seats with diamond button tuck and KW bug emblems on the head rests, the interior of the BJ truck was speckled beige.

All Mk II and Mk IIB's has the clear velocity stacks and even the Mk IV's had the clear stacks inside the air box wich was aluminum on some and clear plastic on some, the Mk II had one and the MK IIB and Mk IV had two for the dual carbs.

I know the 1987 AMT/ERTL issue had the flotation tires but the most recent issue does not.

If you're not into get the details correct you can get this Kenworth K100 Aerodyne and get decals from Modeltruckin.com and you're on your way.

Same kit different decals and boxart...and it's not right for any of the BJ trucks used in the series. But Modeltruckin.com has decals for the BJ truck if you want to build one...just be sure to order before August 31:st. A more correct starting point for the BJ truck is the Revell Germany K100 Aerodyne kit as it has the right wheelbase, a Cummins engine and Fuller transmission. The AMT kit has a Detroit 8V-92T, Allison automatic transmission and I belive the wheelbase is too long depending on what frame rails are in the kit, the Tyrone Malone transporters Papa Truck and Hideout Truck are based on this kit and have a very long frame.

We had the same parking brake system here in Sweden, a crank mechanism pulling wires to apply the service brakes manually on one axle when it's parked. Now that's gone since they started to use Maxis on trailers.

That most likely depends on the manufacturer, but most I have seen the lines are run on one of the frame rails or if ot doesn't have a frame near the middle under the floor as that's close to where they are going, that will say the trailer air tank and brakes. Look at this ad. https://www.itagequipment.com/for-sale/2015-iti-48x102-open-top-trailer-12568104

Here is a diagram. On trailers you only have two lines, one supply line (red) wich supplies air to the trailer air tanks and one service line (blue) wich gets the air from the brake pedal and truck brake system and actuate the brake valves and brakes on the trailer, and one cirquit for parking brakes (yellow) if the trailer has maxis. A converter dolly and a trailer is pretty much the same thing and has the same setup depending on how many axles they have.

I haven't dived into that yet but here are some. Most of the US truck kits have Eaton-Fuller transmissions regardless of manufacturer. Here are some exceptions. The AMT kenworth W925 has a Dana-Spicer main and auxillary transmissions, maybe a 5 and 4 or 6 and 4, so it's a twin stick The AMT Kenworth W900 Alaskan Hauler has a Dana-Spicer 16 speed The AMT Kenworth K100 Aerodyne and the Tyrone Malone Bandag Bandit and Super Boss has Allison Automatics The AMT Mack trucks has Mack transmissions

I got #224 in the mail today here in Sweden, so I hope the troublesome mail chain will work from now on after all the problems the last two years. #222 and #223 are still missing in action tho'. So with this rate it looks like I get every third issue because the last one I got was #221.

Badman was not the first but one of the first car models I built back in the 70's and I also built the black street machine back then. I have another Badman kit wich I will build eventually for nostalgic reasons.