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I bought the remastered Movin' On DVD boxes and have just gone through all episodes of both seasons, it was great to see the series again...quite nostalgic, I eagerly wait for the In Tandem pilot to come on DVD as I have never seen it.

Most European trucks ride on 22.5 inch wheels, on US trucks 24.5 inch seems to be more popular than 22.5 inch, at least on the long haul tractors, and these are for tubeless tires. Back in the day when we had tube tires with split rims the sizes were 20, 22 or 24 inch. For modeling purposes we have to have rims that fit the available tires and as Kurt say, the 1:24th scale Italeri wheels are closer to 24.5 than 22.5 in 1:25th scale, both he (Double Take Replicas) and Jamie at Mo'luminum Truck Parts has very nice resin wheels and tires that look far better than the Revell wheels, some might be out of stock from time to time but they usually returns, Auslowe Model Accessories also have nice wheels. Why we have 1:24 and 1:25 scale...well you have to ask the manufacturers, 1:24 is more popular with the European and the far east manufacturers and 1:25 is more popular with the US manufacturers...the "exception to the rule" was Monogram who did the models in 1:24th scale.

If you are doing an older Pete the engine was most likely white as both Kenworth and Peterbilt had most of the engines for their trucks painted white from the manufacturers. But of course there were exceptions to the rule.

Yes one of them has, they appearently used at least four trucks or maybe more in the two seasons of the TV series and they were not exactly the same...the hubs is one thing and if you look at the emblem on the hood side on your picture and on mine below they are not at the same place. Two of the trucks were 1974 models for season 1 and two were 1975 models for season 2 and the one with the hub you mention is one of the 1975 models, the one in the picture below is one of the 1974 models. Right now I'm in the middle of watching the Movin' On series as I just got the Season 1 and 2 DVD boxes a couple of days ago, I have just completed watching all episodes of season 1, and started with season 2 but I haven't seen much of it just yet. The truck they used in season 1 has the kind of front hub in the picture below, the Cummins VT903 are clearly visible in several scenes and I also noticed the trucks used has gold and red "bug" grille badge and gold side emblems on the hood and sleeper wich I have read was for the Kenworth 50th anniversary in 1973, this is a bit confusing as the trucks for the first season was supposed to be 1974 models, well the rest will tell more and it's fun and nostalgic to watch the series again. Back in the day I did watch some episodes on Swedish TV, but I was too young then to remember much of them as it was 1975-76ish, other than I thought the truck was cool and the AMT Movin' On truck was one of the first truck models I bought and built and I still have it.

Looks great so far.

IMHO classic US cars are not only for the US market, the interest and market for them are World wide and if the new owners of Revell should stop doing US cars...wich I doubt...they wouldn't last long. Hopefully they will continue doing some new kits per year as they are far between otherwise, Round 2 doesn't do much other than reissues nowadays and since Moebius was sold to Pegasus Hobbies a couple of months ago it hasn't been anything new from them lately either.

I don't know if he is in business anymore.

This is going to be a killer Rickard.

Nice work guys!

Remember that this decal only are on the 390 High Performance engine, the others don't have it.

Very nice and realistic model indeed. The only thing I find that could have been done a bit different is the track of the front axle...it looks a bit wide for center point steering and could have been slightly narrower for it to look perfect. But that doesn't take anything away from your build as it's very very nice and are up there among the best I've seen so far.

Yes it looks close, I think that will work fine. Remember that you need two of the same valve cover decals for each engine. I'm ready to order when they are available.

I just went through 8 pages of Jo-Han kits on ebay and the majority of the kits listed was under $100...but some were well over. But it's one thing what price you ask and another what you get...who knows if the most expensive ones ever will sell at the asking price.

Some of my pictures are also restored...for now. But I don't trust them yet so the future will tell...I have paid for a Fotki account just in case as they were a lot cheaper than what PB asked.

I just got an email from Jack at Model Roundup. According to what he wrote the distributors have been told not to expect any shipment from Revell for the next 90-120 days...so we will most likley not see anything from Revell until this fall.

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That may be, but I don't think it's the only reason...some people think they look good, at least I do...but as I said...they are way too common for my taste, I like to be different and don't use what everyone else has.

American Racing Torque Thrust in different versions are probably among the best selling aftermarket wheels around, I don't think they are ugly...but they are way too common for my taste.

Well both Revell US and Revell AG are sold to a company named Blitz 18-313 from Munich Germany, so you might be able to convince them to do the kits when all has settled down.

The Fairlane/Thunderbolt is much shorter as you say Bill, but not only that, the Fairlane is a unibody and the Galaxie/300 has a frame so it woun't work anyway. So the '60 Starliner chassis is the way to go.

Revell announced the return of the 29 Model A Roadster for 4th quarter 2017 and the kit number for it was 85-4463, the original number for this kit from 2015 was 85-4322...but that was well before the issue with Hobbico and the sale of Revell.

Why not. But first we have to see what's happening with Revell and the new owners as it still is kind of "up in the air" right now, I haven't seen any statements on this matter yet.

As mentioned before the fix for these two kits are quite easy if you want more detail. I can just talk for myself, I like well detailed chassis just because I like the challenge in more detail...and even if I don't show the chassis often and some things that don't show much at all, I know it's done and I had fun doing it.

I have the feeling that sometimes models can be selected just because of the person who built them, when the builder is a known name, and not the models themselves. I don't know but if a model is concidered for publishing the model itself should be the main reason for it to be selected, who built it is not important as far as I'm concerned.

The thing with copyright dates on the kit boxes vary with manufacturers, some like Revell and Monogram started to print the dates on the boxes in the early 70's, maybe even earlier than that, and others like AMT and MPC don't have dates until the mid to late 70's, and Jo-Han had dates on some boxes in the early 90's, not so much before that.