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Most of the Cummins N14 I have seen are also black, some with red valve covers. As far as I know there is no Cummins with NTD designation, I think AMT had it wrong when they did the White Western Star, it should be NTC 350 not NTD 350.

Same here, your builds are a huge inspiration.

Impressive.

As mentioned a few posts above AMT did the Suzanne Somers 1956 T-bird back in 2003. The Pharao's Custom Mercury is a 1951 and that year has never been done as a model kit, but the movie car can be done from the 1949's from either AMT or Revell as it's all we got for the "shoebox" Mercury. But a 1951 Merc is quite different from the 49-50, the rear window opening is larger and has a different shape with sharp pointed lower corners, they are rounded on the 49-50, and the rear quarter panels are longer and extends beyond the trunk wich they doesn't do on the 49-50, the 51 also have different "church window" style tail lights and they kept them on the movie car. The dash panel and gauges are also very different from the 49, they upgraded it for the 1950 model year and continued with the same panel for 51. The grille is also different on the 1951 but it was custom with just a single bar in the middle on the movie car so it doesn't matter. So to do a correct one it involves some work. Star Models has a chopped 51 Coupe in resin but it's not exactly correct as it's most likely based on the AMT 49 and has the 49-50 rear window shape for the opening with rounded lower corners and it has to be modified further to more resemble the movie car. In my personal opinion the 1951 is my least favoured "shoebox" Mercury of the three followed by the 1949, and I like the 1950 the best, it would have been nice if Revell had done a 50 instead of a 49 as AMT allready had one.

The rear end of the chassis on the Revell Germany T600 is the same as in their K100 kits, the Revell Germany W900 is from a different tool, it has a KW Air Glide 100 suspension as the K100 has but the W900 shares nothing with the K100's. It looks like you have some progress and it looks good...the yellow Cummins engine stands out a bit and should originally have been beige.

The springs are separate but the front of the frame is different from the 359 and the bumper mounts are molded to the frame Here are the instructions for the 352 https://public.fotki.com/modeltrucks25thscale/truckkit_instructions/amt/t502_peterbilt_352/ Wich 359 frame are you using?

Great work there, you got my attention.

I think it's supposed to be a 8V-92 and that goes for both the Chevrolet Bison and GMC General.

I built the AMT 58 kit some years ago and glued the doors shut because they don't look right anyway and the kit is not that bad...the most demanding job was to foil all the trim as there are lots of it. The Revell kit was originally a diecast and they shot plastic in the diecast tool to do a regular model kit from it so it's a little thick here and there but it's not bad at all, one thing that goes for it is that much of the trim are separate plated pieces so you don't have to do so much foiling.

Whaaat...the 58 is my favourite. My other favourite Impala years are 61-65.

Yes you are absolutely right, the line on the kits are too far forward and too long, here is how it should look.

Interesting. It seems like you are doing good there and I following this.

Same here.

I allready have this one from Italeri so I think I'll pass. I got a double bunk sleeper from the FLD 120 on ebay a while ago as I have plans to do the Pork Chop Express sometime in the future...I just need the decals for it.

I have four of them and miss the Black Max and Cobra Trikes so I'll wait until they come, otherwise it's only three Big Rigs I'm going to get from this months releases.

Yes they could of course do that, but in that case they would be missing out on doing the other two versions later then.

Only three kits on my list from these releases, all trucks...the Malone trucks and the General.

It would be horrible if the kits in the stash ran out...better get more. I'm following this.

Close, Very Important TruckER. It will be interesting to see what you're going to do with it.

And the COE as well.

I see three kits I'm going to get.

Cool video from the time the cars looks very much like the care they were supposed to be.

The dry sump setup for a Boss 429 would be a nice thing to be able to get as the NASCAR cars used it back in the day, I don't know if anyone has made one because I don't think I have seen any on the aftermarket. They used a dry sump setup on the FE 427's in the GT40 Mk II and Mk IV too, slightly different to fit the FE but very similar to the one used on the Boss.

You can also built the 1958, 59 and 60 from relatively recently issued kits if you want to build Impalas from the very beginning.

1967 was the last year Shelby American was involved with the Shelby Mustangs and I know they did the "Shelby Drop" on the 1965-66 cars to lower the center of gravity and change the geometry in the suspension some for better handling on the track, I'm not sure about the 67 but I think they did it on them too. To do the Shelby drop on a 1967-70 you drilled new holes and mounted the upper control arm one inch higher so it would lower the stance some from a stock Mustang and the Shelby sits slightly lower. 1968-69 and 70 the Shelby's were all built by Ford in house and I don't know if Ford did the drop. One thing I can say is that I think the 1967 Mustang and Shelby model kits stance is a bit too nose high and the tail drags a bit too much.