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You might check with Fireball Modelworks, he has these in 1:25th scale and might be able to do them in larger scales as the masters were 3D printed. http://www.fireballmodels.info/

You can fill them with something like tissue or some kind of foam so they will stretch out easier and the tire bead goes all the way out to the flange of the rims. This picture is borrowed of our fellow member Bills72sj from another post on this forum and it's a great tip. His own text for this picture. Quote: Buy some 3/8" foam window "packing rod" from Home Depot for like $3. Cut to length and stuff it in the tire. It really helps scrawny AMT tires push the tire bead out to the rim lip. One bag/roll will probably do 4-5 semi trucks. Unquote

Impressive

Very nice build you have there, great job.

I don't know but I don't think you would need a hammer to get soft vinyl back to shape, so I agree with painted sheet metal.

You have to compare the nail polish colors to a sample of the real paint to be able to get close and it's not certain you will find one, kind of close yes but perfect...well I don't know...it depends on how picky you are. But I don't think you will find any paint with small enough metallic flakes to be correct scale wise for 1:25th scale, I mean the flakes in metallic paints for real cars are very small and you have to make the flakes 25 times smaller for it to be correct and they will be nearly unvisible to the naked eye, I haven't seen any paint with that small metallic flakes anywhere.

I meant the new tool 2 'n 1 kit of course, it seems like he allready had the original annual kit.

Do that, buy the 2 'n 1 kit and if you are a Ford guy you will be amazed...I promise.

AMT has been owned by several other companies, it was bought by the Brittish Lesney Co who owned Matchbox, then it was sold to ERTL who also bought MPC and all kits was branded AMT/ERTL, and then AMT/ERTL was sold to Racing Champions who later bought Learning Curve and became RC2, and now last AMT was sold to Round 2 who owns the AMT, MPC, Lindberg and Polar Lights brands. And most of the really good AMT kits was developed right before the Racing Champions/Learning Curve/RC2 era and not much has been done after that as almost all of the kits issued after that has been repops with a few exceptions, so most of the good kits are developed 20 years ago or more.

I have done some research on the subject and as far as I know the paint Kenworth used on the 1974-75 W900 V.I.T. trucks like the Movin On trucks is a Ford/Mercury color from 1971-73 and it's called Ivy Bronze, Ivy Glow or Ivy Glamour depending on year and make and it's metallic. So you can go to your local car paint place and they can mix it up for you, or buy it from Scale Finishes.

I don't think this version of the kit will ever be re-issued. This version of the DM600 kit came after the Convoy movie in 1978 and was in the ERTL catalog a couple of years after until the ERTL/AMT merge. I have one bought back in the day around 1978-79 and started building it...but as it is a DM600 it doesn't look like the RS700L movie truck at all , wrong cab and hood, too small sleeper, too short wheel base, wrong wheels and so on, so I gave up before it was finished and the only thing this kit is good for if you have one is build is as a regular DM600 or selling it on because they are sold for serious money for some reason and must be a collector thing. I will not get one as I don't think it's worth it even if it would be re-issued and costs around 50 bucks because the only usable parts in this kit if you want to build the movie truck is the bull bar, the Duck hood ornament, the air foil for the roof and some of the decals, the rest is wrong, so it's better to get the Rubber Duck resin kit from AITM for less than this kit often goes for and you will get a more correct RS700L like the movie truck is. And if you want a DM600 that kit has been out several times and the last time was 2016, so it's easy to find for reasonable money.

Yes the old Starliner did as it was new 1960. The one we have on the shelves today is an all new tool from 2000, and these 1960 Ford Galaxie Starliner kits are among the best they did and surpasses the old 60's tool kit by far, it's highly recommended as the custom and 2'n1 kits has lots of goodies for 1960-64 Galaxies and is perfect to update the older 60's tooling kits.

Yes, it started out as a correct W925 when it first was released in 1971, but the rear torsion bar suspension was changed sometime after the Challenge Mixer kit but the designation stayed on the kit boxes and still do even tho' it's wrong. The K123 is right now but I've heard it had the same torsion bar suspension at the beginning and then the designation was wrong as it should have been K125, I have never seen any AMT K123 kit with torsion bar suspension but it's supposed to have had that when the kit was first released back in 1971 and the kits with that setup must be as rare as hens teeth. Most of them are quite easy fixes if you want to do it, remember, the AMT Kenworth W925 kit originates from 1971 and not many kits had those features back then. But I'm not that keen on your suggestion on the screws, it's hard to design a kit and hide them so they will be out of site from every angle and glue works just fine. It's a static model and not a toy and most modelers doesn't disassemble their models when they are done. AMT had several kits with screw bottom chassis in the 60's as many model kits started out as Promotional Models you could get at the dealer, but most modelbuilders like to do their models as close to the real thing as possible and don't want to use the screws as they are clumsy and not needed, and these chassis are not that detailed.

Today many or even most who builds hot street and race engines use MSD distributors and coils together with a MSD ignition box like MSD 6, 7 and 8 and on the digital programmable versions you can do your own ignition curves and lots of other stuff.

The W925 kit has recently been reissued (2017-2018) but as the Watkins tractor, the kits are exactly the same except for the decals. This version of the kit is not correct for the Sonny Pruitt "Sundance" truck from the "Movin On" TV series as it's too old, the AMT kit originates from 1971 and represents a 1968-72 model, and the TV series trucks are 1974 for the first season and 1975 for the second season, both are V.I.T.'s with 60 inch sleepers so you would be better off starting with the Revell Germany W900, with that you still need some modifications to do it right but you will have the correct cab style, sleeper and frame length, To do the truck right for the first season with the Revell Germany kit you need to change to the shorter 63 inch hood from the Revell snap kit or the AMT kit (or maybe cut down the 74 inch kit hood), get a Cummins VT903 engine and torsion bar suspension from Auslowe and decals from Modeltruckin' and you are on your way, the second season trucks had a Cummins NTC engines but was pretty much the same as the trucks from the first season with some minor differences. You could build the truck from the "In Tandem" pilot show from the AMT kit tho', but it still need some modifications to be right.

I have it and yes, it's nice as most of the Auslowe things, I also have an original AMT W925 kit with the torsion bars. If you want to be picky the torsion bar suspension the original kit had wasn't really realistic for a concrete mixer truck as that suspension is for highway use, a concrete truck would have had a more beefy suspension like the walking beam either spring or rubber block, or maybe a six rod, so this reissue is more is more realistic with the walking beam.

IMHO the best place to go if you need information or instructions for model truck kits and I allways go there first, there's lots of other useful information on that place too.

The re-issue will have the walking beam, the torsion bar suspension is gone forever from the W925 kits as it was changed sometime after the first issue of the Challenge Mixer kit.

Nice. I wish the model manufacturers would do the Factory Stock and Factory Super Stock Mustangs Challengers and Camaros, I think they are a lot cooler than the street going counterparts.

Most all of the good 426 Hemi's in model form are 1:25th scale and Moebius are just that like the AMT, Revell and most of the others, Mr Mopar asked for a good one in 1:24th scale and there is the problem as it aint many to choose from as the only American model manfacturer who did 1:24th scale models was Monogram and the 1:24th scale models under the Revell name is just old Monogram tooling. But, as the 426 Hemi is based on the RB engine you can put Hemi heads on a 440 block and no one will know the difference, in the real world the difference on the Hemi vs the other RB engine blocks is cross bolted main caps, 8-bolts for the fly wheel on the crank instead of 6 and the 8 bosses for the upside down head bolts in the lifter valley, otherwise the blocks are the same as all other RB engines.

Very nice, I like the dash panel.

Maybe in your country, where I live we have lots of cars with manual transmissions, not 4-speed but 5 or 6...but not many cars on the roads anywhere has sequential transmissions. And for the tall sidewalls and 15 inch wheels...the rim diameter restrict the size brakes you can use and with tall sidewalls the corner speeds gets lower as the tire sidewall flexes more...result, keeps the average speed down so it's safer. And who says it's better with larger rims and lower profile tires, the ride is rougher as the sidewalls doesn't take up bumps as well as the taller profile tires do, the tires are more expensive and you get less miles out of them as most of them are softer rubber compounds, yes you can use larger brake discs inside a larger diameter rim, but you don't really need that on your daily driver at regular highway speeds around 60-65 mph...so it's mostly a design feature. I don't know but if NASCAR continues like this we will have cars like the Australian V8 Super Cars on ovals, rovals and road courses in the future and I don't think I will follow that.

Arias was based on Chevy big block, Keith Black was the first to base his engine on the 426, Donovan based their engine on the early Chysler 392 Hemi, after that there has been several manufacturers, JP1, BAE, AJPE, TFX and some others and all based on the 426 and as the rules are today you can't use any other than the 426 Hemi specs.

You are right Brian, the later Monogram and Revell Funny Car engine blocks does not look stock, the engine blocks in the nitro and alcohol classes are aluminum and not cast iron, they are aftermarket blocks and heads only based on the production Hemi's in specs like bore spacing and other measurements and now the blocks are forged or billet aluminum and heads are billet aluminum machined in CNC milling machines. I don't know but maybe the Hemi in the early 70's Barracuda and Duster Funny Car kits like the Snake and Mongoose Hot Wheels funny cars are closer to the street version as they used production blocks back then.

Earlier in this thread I have listed the resin engines I know of but if anything is missing and not listed please add them to this thread. Unfortunately it's not possible to edit old posts any longer so I can't update the engine and color lists I did earlier with new information as I get it without doing a completely new list in a reply to this thread.