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Look at the picture of the boxart in the lower right corner..."Adult Colletible Intended For Adults 21+"

Well I will come back to it some day, I have completed the chassis with engine suspensions and all and the interior, but as the buildup is fragile in the inner fender/engine bay area I suspect I will break a few things before the body is on with the wheel fairings and all, but we'll see when I get back to it again...I will get it done some day. The curbside version is pretty much the same kit with no engine/gearbox and some other stuff. I also have a Aoshima Countach 5000 Qattrovalvole and it looks to be easier to build, a bit simplified in the engine area but looks to be quite nice. Good luck on your build and I will follow your progress closely.

I have 3 of those...you can see on my screen name who I route for. I don't think any of my funny car kits have twisted bodies, they looks to be straight.

I have the full detail versions and they are quite hard to build, but very detailed.

Very nice.

Very nice indeed. But this post would have been better placed in the "Under Glass" section as it's a finished model.

Looks nice. Hehe I might be a little picky as I do own one of these Galaxies and I see inaccuracies everywhere on this old kit. We need new tooled kits of the 1963 and 1964 Galaxies...based on the great 1960 Starliner tool would be great. You say you are doing stock tail lights...they are also wrong in the kit with a strange 3 pointed chrome blob in the middle instead of the 4 pointed star with the backup light in the middle the real cars have...but you might know that allready. I found some 3d printed tail lights that have a more correct look...I think it was from Canuck 3D parts...otherwise the Ed Roth Mysterion kit has more correct tail lights. Keep up the good work and don't mind my ramblings. ?

Great work on a fiddly difficult kit. I have a couple of them and started one many years ago but it was never finished...still have it tho' and may come back to it after seeing your build.

When the Monogram "modern era" Funny Car kits came back in 1984-85 when the Don Prudhomme's Pepsi-Wendy's and Dale Pulde's Miller High Life Trans Am Funny Cars came, they were pretty much state of the art and quite correct, then the evloution of the real race cars passed them under the late 80's and 90's as the progress and development was fast back then, so the later kits has to be updated some to be more correct. Monogram and later Revell did some updates with new bodies and some other small things but never enough to keep up with what the racers did because they did so much in a short period of time and the race cars evolved with new different and improved different looking engine parts and other things wich the kits never got. If they had updated the chassis and engine parts back then it would be quite representative even today as not much has changed visually in the last 20 years, but the bodies are changed often so they would have to be done to keep up even if chassis and engines are right. Same with the "modern era" Top Fuel kits from Revell, they were state of the art when they first came back in the late 80's, the first kit in the series was Don Garlits Swamp Rat XXX in 1987-88, then it was retooled to Joe Amato's Valvoline, Gary Ormsby's Castrol GTX dragsters in 1990-91 as the dragsters had changed, and later Revell did some updates to larger front wheels, slightly different body and the last issues were Kenny Bernstein's Budweiser King and Tony Schumacher's Army dragsters in 2002 wich was updated most...but never enough to keep up...if Revell had done the necessary updates to the kits back then they would pretty much be up to date even now 20 years later as very few things has been changed visually on the real race cars after that other than a larger wind screen and the DSR canopy some uses today. But with that said, they are quite good kits and I have several of them, I think I have at least one kit of every body style they issued until they stopped doing them.

The original movie was from 1971 and they did a remake 1997... so it must have been the remake with Viggo Mortensen as Kowalski you watched. Nice work Gustavo.

Most of the trim and brightwork on the real car is anodized aluminum except for the bumpers, cast pieces and around the windows. While you're at it, thin down the bezels for the tail lights, the are way too thick on the model...they look like they are 1½ to 2 inches and on the real car the bezels are somewhere around 3/4 of an inch, I haven't measured but it's in that region.

Yes that was common back in the 70's, look at the BJ and The Bear kit, yes it's a Kenworth K100 Aerodyne, so far it's right, but it has too long wheelbase, have wrong engine and transmission so it's not correct for the trucks used in the TV series. The Convoy Rubber Duck Mack kit from ERTL, the movie truck was a Western RS700L wich was an on highway truck and the kit is a DM600 wich was more of a costruction truck with off center cab and such...so it's not even close, and the only useful parts if you want to build a correct Rubber Duck truck is the air foil for the roof, the bumper/wild bar, the duck hood ornament and some of the decals, the rest you can do something else with. ERTL also wanted to cash in on the popular Smokey And The Bandit movies so they took the Great Dane trailer they had, did decals for it similar to the mural on the trailer in Smokey And The Bandit II, but the Great Dane trailer is wrong for that movie as the real trailer used in the movie was a step trailer with a lower rear section, and ERTL did not have the GMC tractor for it either because this was before ERTL bought AMT. There are more examples than these, they took what they allready had and put in some additional parts and decals and left it there...the least effort for low cost and capitalize on popular movies and TV shows.

Well it's the exact same kit as it has allways been since AMT changed the rear suspension except for the decals so you can relive your youth if you get a set of aftermarket decals for it wich are better than the old kit decals. I built the "Movin' On" version over 40 years ago and I still have it sitting on my shelf...I believe it was my second or third truck build ever, but I woun't build another like that, if I do one...wich I will...it will be more accurate to the TV series trucks...but that's me.

You are welcome, I had some help myself from a nice guy...KJ Humphries...who gave me the information on the wheelbase. Your build looks great so far.

For engine from kits there are a Cammer with dual carbs in both the AMT 66 Ford Galaxie and the 68 Shelby.

I have wondered about this too. Because to replicate the look on the kind of semi translucent fiberglass parts on a Posche 917K engine is not easy.

I don't know if there has been any 10.00-22 tires in any kit, the AMT 22 inch tires found in the White-Freightliner and a couple of other kits are 11.00-22, the AMT 20 inch tires on the other hand are 10.00 and 11.00 depending on from where they come, the AMT older tires are 10.00 and ERTL tires are 11.00 and have a slightly larger diameter. But 10.00-22 or 11.00-22 doesn't matter much in model form as the difference in width is small. Round 2 decided to issue the W925 kit with a different paint scheme and this kit is not accurate for the TV series anyway but I agree with you, the old kit decals was not good and there are better alternatives from the aftermarket. The AMT kit could with some modifications be done up as the pilot show "In Tandem" truck and decals for that one are also on the aftermarket decals availanble.

That's why I suggested a foil copy to capture the deeper detail, the Revell Germany W900 kit has the handles as separate pieces and the Revell snap kit they are moded to the cab.

Yes I know that and I have done the same observation and as you have, there are lots of errors and missing information there for several kits, but most of the time you will get a hint anyway. They could have done a bit more homework and the timelines would be a lot more accurate, because kits based on the same basic tooling sometimes have different timelines instead of being on one wich they should be if the kit history would be right I did a timeline here on this forum a while ago on the Revell Germany Kenworth W900 kits with the kits in correct order from the first issue to the most present, Scalemates had them on three different timelines not tied together, but they all are based on the same tooling from the beginning so they should be on only one.

Ok, thanks.

The thing is to get a good kit is to know it's history, when it was developed and first made and how many times they have been reissued, but that's not that easy if you are fairly new to the hobby, because some kits are 40-50-60 years old by now and are still on the market. Scalemates.com can give you a hint of the age of the tooling for a particular kit if you look at the timelines where you can see when the kit was new and originally issued and approximately how many times it has been reissued after that. If the molding tool is old and the kit is frequently reissued the quality nowadays is often worse than it was when the tool was new, and the other way around where the tooling is recently developed and fairly new and not used as much the quality is better, not just because the tooling but the details and buildup of the kits are too as development has come forward quite a bit over the years. So if you know a bit of the kits history you can get gems even from AMT

They are nice but unfortunately not the correct style I'm affraid, here is the 1973 truck at the Lamar's scene and the 1974 has the same door handles. Auslowe has the correct style in photo etch, the middle ones in the picture below are right with the triangle shape and lock cylinder on top, can most certainly be found at STS. The ones on top is the new style used on modern KW's CMT do also have them but you have to get a complete detail set to get them, STS deals with CTM parts too.

The website is still there but they have stopped sales for some reason. I was about to order a couple of sets but it seems like I'm too late.

Well it was not Revell who came up with this system, these kits were originally Monogram like the large scale 1:16 Kenworths and Peterbilts from back in the early 80's and before the Revel-Monogram merge 1986. But I agree, these wheels stinks even if they are done right and should be replaced with something else that looks a lot better as these are too shallow and toylike. The problem I see with the Moebius wheels are that they look way too modern for this era trucks, but if you like using them it's fine by me. I would rather like to use older style 24½ inch Alcoas...or even a set of 22 inch split ring Alcoa wheels, instead of the newer style 22½ inch wheels, but that's me.

Not hard at all, just a couple of screws and you are done ? Ohh you mean on the kit body...I couldn't resist joking around. Looks good so far.