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I agree with that. A plane with sky divers crashed on an island in the river that goes through our town about 2-3 miles from where I live just a month ago and all 9 aboard lost their life, 1 pilot and 8 sky divers, a couple of my friends have summer houses about 200 yards from the crash site and was there when it happened. It looks like Dale Jr and his family is fairly ok and that's good.

I also want to thank you and all other moderators for what you do...I enjoy being here.

I am most surprised that they didn't change the suspension on the F-4270, as far as I know that kit had air ride as long as it was available and it was available a couple of years after the 4300 came.

Cool.

Well that might be true, but his contact information is at his Fotki album, look at the top and you'll find his email and website.

Nice work Phil.

I second those statements, simply the best out there.

The links work allright for me...but you must be logged in to see them as they are in his signature. Here is his fotki page: https://public.fotki.com/RaysKits/

Ouch!!

Yes he does, look at the signature under his posts and you will find links to his stuff.

It looks like they did.

I assume they are printed by Cartograf.

Who knows, a turbine option wasn't available in any GM car and if it had been I don't think they would use a Chrysler developed engine. Several car and truck manufacturers tested turbine engines in the late 50's, 60's and 70's and if you do a google search you will see that there were several different designs of gas turbine engines for cars...even Chrysler had 7 generations of gas turbine engines and the A-831 (3rd generation) was the one in their famous turbine car from 1963. Here are some of the generations of turbine engines Chrysler did. GM did tests with gas turbine engines too and here is one of the GM gas turbines from the Firebird III Concept car. But most of their testing was in large trucks. .

Ouch...it's a good thing I don't do big scale models.

The Revell Germany truck kits were a bit on the expensive side even when they were new but the prices has increased some since they were last issued, if you find something around $100 it's a bargain. Asking prices around $425-$650 on "the auction site" is not uncommon today for the Will-Do and Can-Do Wreckers, I don't remember what I paid for my last Will-Do back in 2013 but I think it was around $50 or something like that...so if I sold one now I would make my money back nearly ten times over.

I have never had any problems with ebay either...but I don't like the Global Shipping Program they use, the shipping rates are too expensive and shipping calculations overall are a bit steep...I recently saw $12 to ship a paper sheet over here...it costs less than $2 to send one from here.

Isn't the IH V-800 engine supposed to be metallic blue. I know the picture on the box side for the 4300 shows the engine red but those pictures are a carry over from the previous F-4270 kit wich had a Cummins V903, if you look closely it reads 903 on the valve cover, and I read somewhere that IH made Caterpillar, Cummins and Detroit Diesel paint the engines delivered to them red but when IH developed it's own V-800 came they painted them blue to distinguish them from the other engines.

One can wonder why MPC decided to use a turbine engine from a competitor, because it looks an awful lot like the Chrysler A-831 Gas Turbine.

Nice and tasteful build.

Nice and tasteful build.

Looks promising. ?

Nice build. I like the P51D...it's the hot rod of the air.

Nice. It doesn't have to be dead on perfect to be a good shelf model...and everyone will for sure recognize it anyway. ? East bound and down loaded up and truckin'... ?

Yeah, the Aussie KW looks good, I like the K series COE's and most of the T series conventionals, they have a massive look to them.

In that case it would be easier to 3D print the whole dash panel...it's for sure easy for those who have knowledge of CAD or some similar 3D program and the print can be done at Shapeways. I don't know of anything that looks like that in another model unfortunately.