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  1. The only engine options for the present 2017-forward VNL series seems to be the Volvo D11, D13 and Cummins X15 from the factory. But under the life span of the VN series wich first came 1996 the engine options has been Caterpillar 3406 E, Cummins N14, ISX15, Signature 600, Detroit Diesel Series 60 and the Volvo D11, D12, D13 and D16, I don't know what engine options were available wich year as the option list has changed. The Cummins N14, ISX15/Signature 600 are available and the latest Cat 3406 E looks pretty much like the newer C15 wich also is available, all done in resin from aftermarket casters, the Detroit Series 60 is available in the Italeri Peterbilt kits. The Italeri Volvo VN 780 kit is a 2004-2016 so depending on year you can choose from any of them. But if you want a Volvo engine your only options are the M&G Mouldings D12C or the D13 from the latest Italeri Volvo FH4 as I think the P&B engine is out of production and all other Volvo engines available in truck kits are too old.
  2. I just rememberd M&G Mouldings has a resin Volvo D12 C.
  3. The old original decals were often bad, one set I tried to use for one of my original issue Super Boss broke appart when I tried to apply them and was worthless and stopped the build that time...it's still not finished by the way.
  4. I agree, it's about 14 years since the Beall Tank Trailer was out the last time, the Auto Transporter was out only 4 years ago.
  5. You got my attention KJ because I'm gonna follow this closely. Any chance the wheels are going to be available for purchasing, I must say they look really good.
  6. P & B Models from Poland had a Volvo D12D engine and gearbox in resin but I don't know if the status of the company or if it's still in production. https://www.facebook.com/pracowniapandb/ Otherwise one could rob the engine and trans from the recent Italeri Volvo FH4 wich has current versions of the D13 and gearbox wich should work for the VN truck.
  7. Very nice model KJ, you have the ability to get the right look.
  8. Nice progress. The blue engine made me react...Ford didn't start to paint the engines blue until late 1965 for the 1966 model year, 1962 it should be black and the round decal on the valve cover says it's a HP engine so gold or chrome was the color for the valve cover and air cleaner.
  9. Very nice KJ. You have really nailed the look.
  10. Yes Revell did put in other tires and they did not hold up well over time, the Italeri version had two piece plastic tires. I have a couple of old Revell builds where the hollow rubberfront tires collapsed under the weight of the cab.
  11. You did a good job on it Jason. This is one of my favourite kits and I have several of them in my pile. It's a good kit but it has a couple of things that need attention, the rollbar is too wide and need shortening at the top for the side windows to fit, and the front suspension is a bit simplified and needs more detail to look right. Here is my version of it built about 10-15 years ago, not an exact replica as I hadn't seen any pictures of the real car when I built it...I have better references now so I will build a more correct one sometime.
  12. I don't think Revell ever had the molds, the Revell issue is most likely a straight rebox of the Italeri kit. Revell Germany has issued several Italeri kits over the years.
  13. I don't think Coca Cola have any own shipping containers.
  14. Bridgestone owns the Bandag brand. Hopefully the licensing issues will be solved before the kits are released...otherwise we have to rely on Jerry at Modeltruckin'
  15. Maybe we should talk to Jerry at Modeltruckin', he could maybe do the decals. I have one of these planned too.
  16. Unfortunately the container trailer is a European style with spread axle bogie and the kingpin quite far back and not the American style wich would have been more suitable for American trucks...but that can be changed.
  17. The exhaust manifolds are the ones used on the "Mystery Engine" MkII Big Block and the air cleaner is a NASCAR unit so it's perfect if you want to do a 1963 Chevy Mystery Engine Impala.
  18. I built this kit several years ago, sometime in the mid 90's. and I don't remeber any big issues with the kit, it's kind of regular AMT old truck kit, the instructions hasn't been a strongpoint for AMT as they can be quite vague. It's not a big surprise that the chassis and drivetrain looks the same, they are the same as the T600 is based on the old W925, the difference may be if your kit has the early torsion bar suspension wich was replaced with the walking beam quite early, otherwise everything is the same...so it's not really correct for the more modern T600. I don't see anything wrong with your model and I think you did a good job on it.
  19. I think the latest regular Peterbilt 352 Pacemaker without the Coke decals came in 2012-13 and the Coca Cola kit came 2017, something has happened with the kit prices the last 5-6 years. Labour and material isn't free even in China and the transportation has gone up and then you have the exchange rate and how it is at the time the kits arrive and what margin the wholesaler has and the LHS will also take out a margin so they can make somekind of profit and stay in business. We have the same problem in Sweden.
  20. The AMT 1960 Ford Galaxie Starliner was developed in the late 90's and issued in 2001 in two versions and was one of the last new tooling kits AMT did together with the 1958 Edsel Pacer, 1970½ Z/28 and Baldwin Motion Camaro's, 1962 Thunderbird Convertible, 1957 Chrysler 300C, 1971 Plymouth Duster and some more, all this was before Racing Champions bought the ERTL company who owned the AMT and MPC brands...so the mid to late 90's and early 00's wasn't bad when it came to new kits, but we haven't got much from them the last 17-18 years. I don't know but the last kits ERTL/AMT did before RC2 could have been done by computer assisted design as it was widely used by then in many industries. We will most likely get used to higher prices on the kits because the labour and materials isn't free even in China, and you have the transportation wich has gone up the last 10 years.
  21. I don't. All this negativity will not help to get anything and this hobby will for sure die sooner than you think if this keeps up...if you don't want any new kits and feel that what we allready got is adequate, well that's fine by me, I allready have kits enough to last me a couple of lifetimes so it doesn't matter. Here I try to be positive and wish for a new kit, give creative suggestions on how it could be done and try to get support from fellow modelers for it but allmost immediately got sabled down, I don't care to try anymore as it seems to be a huge waste of time because not many who wrote in this topic seems to be interested in getting new tooling kits of anything...at least that's what I read between the lines. Haven't you seen what public pressure can do, you only have to look at the 69 Boss 302 Mustang, the AAR 'Cuda and the 69 Pro Modeler Charger kits from Revell and the 61 Impala kit from Lindberg to see what I mean...without it Revell and Lindberg would not have cared as it was a lot cheaper for them not to do anything and leave the kits as they were...the AAR 'Cuda got three attempts and it's not perfect yet but a lot better than the first try and a new body tool was cut for the 69 Charger and 61 Impala.
  22. There is also nothing wrong with trying to get them to change their plan. Yes they can continue reissuing old kits with some small additions for a while but the market for that shrinks even more with time, I don't know if anyone wants to buy the same kits over and over if that's what we have to get used to, new boxart, decals and pad printed tries doesn't make the 50-60 years old kits any better. If they are putting the tooling dollars into the Sci-Fi market may be because they ask for more, if we don't do that too they might think we are satisfied with what they give us and I thought they would have done a few new tooling automotive kits by now 12-14 years after they got control over the old RC2 brands. It also seems like they may have hit the bottom of usable old molds in the tooling bank as they are starting over with some of their earlier reissues and what they have announced lately is not the best they have, for example the 63 and 64 Impalas and the 69 Camaro. Maybe some other manufacturer will step up and do new kits of the 1963-64 Galaxies...there still is a questionmark for Revell but Moebius maybe.
  23. Well if we don't push the manufacturers and ask for things we will never get anything new, that's my opinion.
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