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  1. Cool
    But the Jo-Han Rambler is in fact a 1966, not 1969, they just used the 1966 body they allready had when they did the Hurst Rambler S/C wich would have been a 1969 and did not upgrade it at all, they are very similar but the rear panel and tail lights on the 1969 are different.

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  2. 14 hours ago, Bainford said:

    Col! This will be a wild project. And yes, that trailer needs to be built, too. I wonder what he hauled it with.

    Here is the complete hauler for the Defiance.

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    After Tyrone Malone bought the rig and added the thing behind the cab and the air foil, it looks like a customized International CO-4070B.

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    Defiance as it looks today.

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  3. 12 hours ago, cifenet said:

    Haha, I see what you mean here on incorrect build instructions.  

    But slow down for me, Håkan. :)  

    Let me find me a good looking Scania subject from either 80s and 90s.  I think their boxy style is at its best from that era!

    The first Italeri kit I built was the Scania T142H followed by the Volvo F1225 back when they were new in 1981-82, I built a few more among them a couple of R142H, the Volvo F1225 Globetrotter, a Mercedes 2448 and a T142H Tow Truck, all in the late 80's early 90's.
    I bought several newer kits in the 90's, the Volvo F16/F16 Globetrotter and Scania T143,  R143 Topline and the R143 Streamline, but I was so disappointed with the inaccuracies so I sold them all, in total I had over 20 Italeri kits and I now have only 5 or 6.

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  4. On 1/21/2024 at 2:00 PM, TonyK said:

    We need more racing trucks like this but I realize the market may be too small for the model companies to take a chance. They did a few of the European racing trucks and they quickly disappeared so......

    Revell Germany should still have the tooling for them tho'.
    They did the MAN Phoenix and the Mercedes 1450 LS.

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  5. 15 hours ago, Scott Eriksen said:

    I picked up Tyrone Malone's Super Boss 12V-71TT truck not long ago,, today this Englishtown pic popped up from Richard Napoliello on Facebook ,,I have that White Freightliner kit laying around that I stole some parts from for the Autocar,,didn't AMT make an Allison engine in a Parts Pack?? 😉 

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    That's more a wheelstander truck than a race truck and it ended up with Tyrone Malone who repainted it pink and I don't believe it was used much with him other than as a display.
    It's only the rear axle that's driven as far as I know, through an Allison automatic and a V-drive.
    Gary Reis in Hastings Minnesota owns it now together with some other Malone cars and trucks and it's on display at his museum.

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  6. Even when I have restricted my model kit collection to US cars and trucks except for a very few exceptions I have several hundred in my stash...I lost count a long time ago.
    And yes, I intend to build everyone and have pålans for most of them, and no I will not have time to do it before I kick the bucket and leave this planet.

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  7. I built a different version of this Datsun pickup back in the 80's and I managed to get the flip hood to open and close properly.
    With that I don't mean the old MPC kits are well engineered, they can for sure be challenging, but most are buildable.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Erock said:

    Great fitment there Round 2. This BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH is inexcusable. Gonna have to just glue the hood shut

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    Don't blame Round 2 because they didn't do it, this is an old MPC kit originally issued back in the 70's long before Round 2 owned the brand.

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  9. 2 hours ago, cifenet said:

    Hi Håkan, thanks for sharing interesting facts about Italeri kits in the WIP thread. 

    I do plan to try out one of the Scania trucks (143 Topline looks super cool), I hope to get valuable feedback from you. :) 

    And I am thinking they may not be totally accurate, but I would still like to give it a try. 

     

    You bet, I will be of assistance.
    If you get a Scania 3 axle kit with spring suspension where the rearmost one is a tag axle wich you can lift hydraulically I can tell you right now that the Italeri instructions for that suspension is wrong.
    Scania with spring suspension with a drive axle and a tag axle uses a balance beam suspension with a fixed pivot point between the 2 axles (and Volvo too with a slightly different construction) this suspension is like a teeter-totter, push one side down the other goes up.

    This is how Italeri wants us to do it wich is wrong, the arrow points at the axle lift beam and the hooks are under the spring hangers/tag axle carriers like it's drawn in the instructions.
    This will in fact do nothing other than restrict the suspension travel so it can't move freely like it can with the tag axle down and the lift beam in the correct position, and if the hydraulic cylinder piston aft of the tag axle goes out the lift beam will do absolutely nothing as it's going down because the pivot point of the tag axle lift is at the same place as the tag axle carriers...so it's drawn backwards.
     

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    The correct way is like this with the hooks above the spring hangers/tag axle carriers, the axle lift beam is up against the frame when it's not in use so the suspension can travel freely, and when you lift the tag axle the beam pushes against the spring hangers/tag axle carriers and pushes the drive axle down and the tag axle goes up...like a teeter-totter.

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  10. 3 hours ago, Carl127 said:

    I know about the different versions of the truck, I researched mine before and after I bought it, I'll have to figure out the suspension cause almost all T600s, especially the As and on, had KW 8 bag air suspension,  very very few had spring suspension.

    I know the AMT kit has its issues but its the only T600A kit I've found with the hood style mine has, suspension, day-cab conversion, filer and all of that I can do, but I needed a good base to start with.

    Yes I'm with you on that.
    You can rob the 8 bag suspension together with the more modern 10 hole wheels from the Tyrone Malone Kenworth K100 Aerodyne transporters or any other AMT K100 Aerodyne kits...or at Auslowe.
    The Malone transporter Papa Truck has wrong suspension anyway as it should have torsion bars, and both the Papa Truck and Hideout truck has wrong wheels, back in the day they had Truck Mate 5 hole wheels and later 2 hole Budds...not 10 hole Alcoas.

  11. There are 3 different versions of the T600.
    The original T600 was between 1984 to 1989 and had split flat wind screens and flat top or old Aerodyne I sleepers if they had one, the grille was a flat shiny piece at the front of the hood.
    The T600A was between 1990 to 1994, it had curved glass wind screen either as one piece or split, a different grille and has either a flat top or the later Aerodyne II sleeper with curved front instead of the angeled front of the earlier Aerodyne sleepers...if they had one of course, and the grille was integrated in the hood.
    The T600B was between late 1994 and 2007 and had the Aerocab with integrated sleeper (if they had one), a different angeled higher cab roof to better meet the sleeper, the hood was later changed from a one piece to a three piece and different "daylight doors" with a forward notch and no vent windows, the T600 was replaced with the T660 2008.

    The Revell Germany T600 is the first version with split flat glass wind screen and the old Aerodyne with angeled front (or flat top) sleeper, the chassis and drive train is more modern than the AMT kit but has some strange construction solutions where some things are not like on the real trucks like the air cleaner among other things.
    The AMT kit is the T600A version with curved one piece wind screen and the later Aerodyne II sleeper with curved front, it's not entirely correct as it uses the underpinnings from the old W925 wich is way too old and outdated, and the grille is not correct as it's separate and a chromed piece and should be integrated with the hood, but it's workable. 

  12. On 1/16/2024 at 11:14 PM, Rocking Rodney Rat said:

    One can find almost all of those items in existing kits.... -RRR

    That might be true, but buying several kits and rob the parts you need to do a traditional 32 hot rod or street rod gets expensive and aftermarket parts are not cheap either.
    So in my opinion the Revell 32 kits are not bad but could have been a lot better with more timeless traditional hot rod parts, pretty much like the recent Model A Ford's Revell did.

  13. On 1/14/2024 at 9:56 PM, StevenGuthmiller said:

    I would hope that if Tamiya were to jump into the classic  American car market, they’d go for something a little more unusual.

    Do we really need “another” ‘32 Ford? 🙄

     

     

     

     

    Steve

    Yes we do.
    The Revell 32's are good but the chassis and some other stuff are a bit too modern.
    It would be nice to get a traditional 32 with stock firewall, 32 frame rails with a 34 frame cross, a original or Model A or T rear cross member, transversal rear sping, quick change rear axle, I-beam front axle with hair pins, maybe a good 59AB or 8BA flathead with hop up parts, 39 gearbox.
    I would buy if one came out.
    Allthough I don't find it likely that Tamiya would do a 32 Ford.
    And most of the car kits they do are curbside wich is unfortunate...they do very good kits but that takes the fun out of it.

  14. On 1/13/2024 at 2:19 PM, Mark said:

    Monogram's switch to 1/25 for car kits came in 1993 with the '59 Eldorado convertible kit.

    Well Revell and Monogram was the same company under the same roof by then and I don't think they developed many new tool kits in 1:24th scale after Oddesey Partners merged both companys into one in 1986, they continued with the 1:24th scale where the kits were spinoffs based on earlier 1:24th scale kits like the NASCAR, Pro Stock and Funny Car kits wich originally was Monogram kits developed before the merge.

  15. On 1/13/2024 at 6:37 PM, jlucky said:

    I appreciate the response guys...much of that I was familiar with but it's a good summary. I guess what I was hoping to find was something like this page from an article about building AA/Fuel Altered. It gave a great overview of the various model items that was available.  

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    I have not seen a list of what's available in different kits when it comes to blowers.
    I know the Monogram, later Revell Funny car kits from the 80's forward has a Mooneyham blower with a "M" on the front cover, otherwise the blowers are pretty much generic.

  16. On 1/7/2024 at 3:45 PM, Mark said:

    Unless American hot rods become more than a niche item in Japanese culture, I wouldn't hold my breath.  Believe it or not, the items they do produce are chosen pretty much for the home market, meaning Japan.  Any additional sales are icing on the cake for them.  Besides that, in all likelihood they would go with 1/24 scale whereas the vast majority of American automotive kits are, or are claimed to be, 1/25 scale.  Monogram was the lone holdout for 1/24, and they flipped to 1/25 thirty years ago with the exception of their NASCAR kits which they no longer produce.

    1:25 scale kits from Monogram came after the merge with Revell wich happened in 1986 when Odyssey Partners bought both companys, before that most Monogram models were 1:24 scale but they did both larger and smaller scales.
    One thing is that the Monogram developed snap Peterbilt and Kenworth semi trucks wich originally was issued 1982, that will say well before the merge with Revell, were 1:25th scale and they also did semi trucks in 1:16 scale.

  17. I agree with Bill here, most of the superchargers used in drag racing are based on the GMC-Detroit Diesel design from the 2-stroke diesels and the aftermarket haven't changed much from this basic design other than some has more ribs on the case and some has less, slightly different appearence of the front and rear covers but that's it, the construction and function is the same regardless.
    The large 14-71 blowers used in nitro racing are modified versions of the original design, the case and rotors are much longer and the case is often machined billet and the original design cases for the Diesels are casted, the rotors are sealed with teflon and urethane strips so they are more efficient than the original design with no strips.
    You have two styles of the GM/DD super chargers, one style for the inline engines like the 4-71, 6-71 wish are placed on the side of the diesel engine and this style is most common in drag racing, and one style for the V diesel engines like the 6V-71, 8V-71, 12V-71 (wich has two superchargers) or 8V92, 12V-92 and 16V-92 (both the 12 and 16 has two superchargers) where they are placed inside the V between the heads and these are more rounded.

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