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I use paintref.com website quite often when I'm looking for a color and color codes. There is one more here. http://www.autocolorlibrary.com/

I look forward to se the result.

Nice Pierre. The decals was the main reason I didn't finish the first Super Boss truck model I bought back when they were new in 1981-82, I started the model quite soon after I got it but when I was putting on the decals they broke appart and cracked, and they also didn't stick...so I gave up and it still sits in the box unfinished...but who knows...one of these days...

Nice build. I'm sorry about your friend.

Great work.

Interesting, but the Grease Mercury was a 1950, not a 1949...not much difference but there are differences, among them the front turn signal/parking lights and dash. A friend of mine needed some parts for a 1950 Mercury as he had just bought one, so we went to Papke Enterprises as he was the man to go to in SoCal when it came to Mercury 49-51, Bill had everything you could ask for when it came to these Mercs. This is supposed to be the movie car under restoration according to Bill and I took the pictures at his shop in late November 2012, unfortunately Bill Papke himself passed away about a month after we were there...lots of knowledge lost there.

You are welcome...I found them on a KW K100 facebook group when I did research on the K100 and especially the Aerodyne some time ago...I don't have a facebook account but the group is public so I could see them anyway. As I said, I had plans to do a correct Aerodyne dash myself and these pictures were for that purpose, but you got ahead of me there. I don't understand why someone on the aftermarket haven't done this dash before as none of the K100 Aerodyne kits made by AMT or Revell have the correct dash, all K100 Aerodynes had it from the beginning in 1976, later all K100 got this dash. Do you have any plans to send it off to Auslowe or anyone else to have it casted? I'm sure many including me want to have a correct dash for their Aerodyne kits.

How many do you need? Here are some I have saved for the same purpose, the pictures are from Paul Cox's 1979 K100 Aerodyne restoration from a couple of years ago.

I built this kit back in the early 80's, I still have it but it needs some attention as it has been in an accident some years ago. Revell did several Vans and Pickup kits back then and all were designed with similar construction and had the same style wheels, and I built a couple of them.

Czech Truck Model (CTM) has them, http://www.czechtruckmodel.com/index.php?id_product=92&controller=product

As far as I know the K & K Insurance cars were 1964-67 Ford Popy Red, the color is also called Calypso Coral 1969-70 and Competition Orange for Mercury 1969-71 and it's the same, Ford Code M1730, Chrysler Code DT333, PPG 60449 due to paintref.com. They look red in some lights and orange in some and a friend of mine is built a loose copy of the 1971 car for the street and did some research.

Yeah, I wish there were more 11-22 and 11-24½ wheels around, a popular choice back in the day.

I believe the width is regulated and there is a maximum you can't exceed without a special permit and I think it's 102 inches. Here you can read more: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/publications/size_regs_final_rpt/

Yes Revell Germany have reboxed a lot of Italeri truck kits over the years.

The tires in mine are Good Year's with a very faint line of diamonds around the circumference, but the two piece plastic tire is Friestone allright...I had to cut the bag open to have a look. I think I have seen Firestone's somewhere else too but I can't remember in what kit....ohh, wait a minute...I remember now, it's in the recent California Hauler re-issue...it has Firestone tires without the Good Year diamonds...one can wonder why they didn't use them instead of printing the Firestone name on a Good Year carcass.

looking real good there KJ,

I'm 55 and many of the re-issued kits are new to me too even if they are old tooling, some I have only seen but never had and some I didn't even know about. But with new I mean a new kit made by todays standards and detail level, not kits that were developed in the 60's and 70's with a detail level that was adequate for the time they were originally made...the kit making and detail levels of modern kits has gone forward a lot since then. Well let's move on.

Well some of those 90% casual builders will eventually come to a point where there are nothing new to find too. As I said before, I don't mind re-issues at all but a new kit now and then can't be wrong to keep the interest up.

I had some self awareness and realized that my last post was too much off topic wich I did complain about in it, so I must have removed it when you wrote your answer, that's the reason for the --.

Yeah it's funny, automotive modelers complain about kit prices and then buys aftermarket stuff for a lot more than the kit costs and don't complain at all about that, try to buy a kit over here where the prices are equivalent to $40-50 for a normal AMT/MPC re-issued automotive kit and see how that feels...and then some aftermarket stuff upon that. But Round 2 can't do re-issues only forever as the market will be saturated sooner or later as I don't think everyone will buy one more of the same kit just because they do new boxart, change the decals and throw in tampo printed tires, they will eventually have to do something else to keep the interest up, and a new kit now and then will for sure do that if they do the right subjects. At least I buy kits to build as I'm not a collector...and how many of the same kit do you want to have.

No I believe this is the first time. Nice boxart...but I already have this kit from Italeri so I think I'll pass on it.

One thing about Acme is that if you do more than 6 letters or numbers or have more than one space the plate gets too wide.

As I see it we have given Round 2 a break for over 10 years now, but as I said, I don't mind re-issues as some of them haven't been out for a long time and are very sought after and everyone has to do that to earn money, but an all new kit now and then wouldn't hurt. It has been about 20 years since we saw any new tool full detail car kits from AMT with a couple of exceptions like the new generation Camaro.

Okay, I have wondered about this since I learned that they changed the suspension in the middle of the run for the CO-4070B Transtar II Eagle and I still find it somewhat confusing as they didn't change it on the F-4270 as it, the CO-4070A Transtar and the early run of the CO-4070B Transtar II Eagle was the only ones they had with air ride, and the only kit they changed on was the Transtar II Eagle, yes the CO-4070A was changed to the B version so it disappeared at that time but as far as I know the F-4270 still had the air ride for the whole length of the production and it was available at the same time as the 4300. The 4300 Transtar Eagle, the 5000 Paystar and the later S-series F-2575 and F-2674 all had walking beam suspension from the beginning.

Hmm, that's not good...but one can allways find float tires on the aftermarket.