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Well it's not the plating that's running, it's the clear undercoat that's sprayed on way too thick wich is quite a common problem on Revell AG kits, the shiny plating itself is aluminum vapour and is very thin. The Cummins engine in this and many other of REVELL AG trucks is a NTC 475 Twin Turbo from late 70's to mid 80's.

The picture of the underside is of the restored 1970 car but the restored 1971 car looks pretty much the same. Sox & Martin had a couple of cars at the same time, match race cars and cars for the different sanctioning bodies (NHRA, AHRA) and they are slightly different. Two of the 1970 cars had number Pro 200 with chromed bumpers and Pro 705 with red bumpers and they are the most common in pictures, they used some other numbers as well, 556 with chromed bumpers and 333 with red bumpers (and spoilers) are two of them, I have also seen a couple of pictures where the Pro 200 number was on a car with red rear bumper and tail panel and a front and deck lid spoiler, the front bumper was chrome in one picture and red in another. The numbers used on the 1971 'Cudas was Pro 4 for Ronnie and Pro 44 for Herb McCandless, but I have also seen a couple pictures with Pro 200 on a 1971 car. I would go with white underside and black rear axle and K-member, blue engine (Jake King painted all engines he built for S&M Ford Engine Blue).

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One of the nicest chops I have seen on this body style, great job so far.

Nice to see that you're at it again Rickard.

I have 8 of these 1:6 scale Liberty Classic engines on my shelf. This one, the Shelby Cobra 427, the Ford 427 SOHC, the Ford 427 SOHC Top Fuel, the NASCAR Dodge 426 Race Hemi, the Mopar 426 Hemi Top Fuel, the Chevy 327 L84 Rochester Fuel Injection and the Chevy 427 L89 Tri Power. I built all of them except for the Shelby Cobra 427 wich I bought assembled from Summit Racing (I could not find a kit of it), most of the others was from Revell and the Dodge NASCAR Race Hemi came from Lindberg/Hawk. There were more of these Liberty Classics engines available, a couple more small block Chevys, and Mopar engines wich I don't have. I also have a 1:4 scale 426 Super Stock Hemi from Hawk and they also gave out another race engine in the same scale called Dodge A990 Race Hemi.

Very Nice SAR, Great Job.

As far as I know all truck glue kits from Revell were molded in Poland and they are all originally Revell AG issues. The most recent KW K100, W900 Wrecker and Peterbilt 359 Wrecker reissues were issued by Revell US, but all the plastic parts were molded in Poland, the tires were molded in China, the boxes were printed in China, and the kits were packaged in USA...so I thought it was a bit strange that they couldn't help as the cab is a plastic part and molded in Poland...and the same goes for the missing parts tree from the W900 Wrecker.

I would look for the earlier version with the red and yellow decals, they had all the parts. The problem is that Revell can't help right now, I tried to get a new cab for my KW K100 reissue kit wich came out late 2016 as the cab was cracked, the same basic cab is in the K100 Aerodyne wich came out even later, but they could not help me.

The Freightliner DD/SD kits also has the non turbo Cummins NHC 250.

Why would we do that!?!?! We can wish for whatever we want here on the forum but not much will come out of that as none here is affiliated with Round 2 as far as I know...it's a lot better to go directly to the source with our wishes, requests and questions...here's their contact information. Round 2 LLC 4073 Meghan Beeler Court South Bend, IN 46628 E-mail: info@round2corp.com Phone: 1-888-910-2889 ext. 1 Fax: 574-243-3003

Scalemates is the only one I have found...but they don't have the facts right all the time, I have seen in their product timeline that they in some cases lists two completely different kits as having the same origin.

The Ice Road Truckers series has run over here, on History Channel and a couple of our Swedish cable channels...I have seen the program from time to time but I don't like the fake dramas the TV production companies keeps up with in this and many other reality shows, for example in the IRT series they use the same pre recorded cracking popping noises and adds them on in the background as soon as the wheels of the trucks goes out onto the ice...every time...never fails, and the narrator keeps exaggerating the dangers, the fake competition and so on. So I have pretty much stopped watching the show as I have done with many other so called reality shows as I think most of them have outlived themselves after too many seasons...nothing new, just repetition of the same type of events over and over and the excitement is over.

Most likely because it did not get modified to somenthing else. Many of the old "annuals" was modified from year to year as long as it was possible and the last version can be what's left, but they modified some of them further to race cars and other things and destroyed the possibillity to do them in their original form again. The old 64 Galaxie full detail kit went that way and the version left is a modified stocker race car, the other 64 Galaxie Craftman Series kit also from AMT is an unassembled promo.

I don't have a problem with re-releases either and all companies have to reissue kits now and then and it's good for newcomers, but if you have been in this hobby for 45+ years as I have you tend to have what you want of the reissues they have put out recently and I have not bought many of the reissues Round 2 have come out with lately as I allready have an earlier version of these kits, and I woun't buy another just for tampo printed tires, other decals and new boxart and so on...but once in a while they come out with something interesting. But as I said before...I also need something completely new to satisfy my modeling needs, it's fun to open a new kit you have never seen before and look at the contents, plan how you're going to build it and so on. Most of the old kits I would like to see reissued, like the old annuals for example, the tools are modified beyond repair and can't be issued in it's original form anymore. regular guy wrote: *Okay. Here is a possible solution. A partner ship between AMT and a model maker resin caster. A model maker is the one who makes the original part. 1 AMT sends over what they have. Parts or spec's. 2 Parts get made. 3 Resin caster runs off small production run. 4 Sends them back to AMT. 5 They sell them as licensed resin parts.* I don't think that will happen as you like to think because you can't do it cost effective, if the companies thought they could do it that way and make a good profit from it it would allready have been done, and there are many resin casters and 3D printers who offer lots of parts and kits so you can buy almost all you want on the aftermarket as it is. Plus as you said yourself, you can get engines and other stuff on ebay...and buying a complete kit with parts you want is most of the time pretty much the same price as if the parts would be offered separately from the manufacturers and you get lots of parts for your spare parts bin for future use...and the things you don't need you can allways try to sell on ebay.

I tried this version from 1976 when I was a teenager and gave up....it's the same as the one above except for color and boxart and it's a modified reissue of the original Orange Crate. The Orange Crate has a flip up body and this version was supposed to have a fixed body...it did not work that well.

Yes, but at what price...if you buy all the parts from a kit parted out on ebay you will end up paying a lot more than what a complete kit costs, more like two or three. If the model manufacturers did partial kits the cost would be even more. Maybe you should read up on how the injection molding process works, what they use and how the model parts are made, after that maybe you will realize that it isn't that easy.

The injection molding process doesn't work like that, the tools for injection molding has a lot more than for example an engine so they will waste a lot of plastic just to do the engine, yes they could maybe block off the runners to the other things on the tool but I don't think they will put in the work to do that just to do for example an engine, a body or whatever. The parts for engines are often on several trees, both plated and unplated and that doesn't make it any easier to do just engine kits from a complete tool. And if there were demand for engines the Revell and AMT parts pack engines would have sold more than they did.

I don't and have never done, at the time when the race cars were painted most of the logos on the cars was vinyl stickers...and I don't believe many race cars was clear coated. One thing tho' if you are doing a car with flat or satin finish it's best to have a gloss coat before the decals and then a dull coat after as decals and flat paints doesnt react well and you will get silvering as the surface on a flat paint isn't smooth...this I have learned from my military model friends.

It's a Craftsman kit, (curbside) so to do a detailed one you need a different chassis and drive train...from a AMT 67 Mustang for example. I know some uses the chassis from the Revell 64 Thunderbolt, but that's not correct for a Comet as the 62-65 Fairlane shares chassis only with the 61-63 Mercury Meteor. For the Galaxie, I think it's about time someone did correct 63½ and 64 Galaxies (maybe based on the AMT 60 Starliner), the old issues has lots to desire.

If it only was round 2, it's round 3 and 4 for some kits.

The first version was built for Mattel by Boyd's and finished by Foose after Boyd's bankruptcy, some of my friends was there at the shop when it was built and I have seen pictures of it unfinished.

Of course Round 2 have to do reissues, everyone does and the tooling has to be paid for somehow...but reissues only...over and over and over and over again...nah...it has been 10 years since Round 2 took over after RC2 and I had thought they would have come out with a couple of new tooling kits each year by now. As they own AMT, MPC, Lindberg, Hawk and Polar Lights...and now with Revell and Moebius under new ownership...who knows how many new kits we will have in the future, old modelbuilders can't live on reissues alone as you can only have so many of each...we need new kits too.

I don't know if I think the valve covers are such a big problem...how many model kits has a big block Chevy...plenty...and you also have the aftermarket...so get hold of BBC valve covers with the right bolt pattern can't be that hard.

Well everyone is intitled to their opinion and beliefs...you have yours and I have mine and lets leave it at that.