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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.

70% of earths surface is covered with water and it's in a constant cycle...and the hydrogen cycles back to water again after it's used so the water supply to do hydrogen is no problem at all...and it doesn't have to be fresh water to make hydrogen, sea water works fine. Yes you need electricity to separate out the hydrogen from the oxygen but there are more efficient ways on the way, and that electricity needed can come from wind, solar or hydroelectric power plants to be environmentally safe, the storage problem can for sure be solved, and using the hydrogen in a fuel cell to make electricity to power an elecric car is more efficient than to burn it in an internal combustion engine. So for me an electric car with batteries you have to charge is only a transition waiting for something better to come up...because it's definately not the final solution to the problem.

As far as the Convoy kit, they fetch good prices so you might as well sell it and make some bucks...because you can't build a correct Convoy Rubber Duck truck from it anyway without modifying it heavily. I bought one back in the day when it was new and the only usable parts for a Rubber Dock truck are the duck hood ornament, the bull bar and the roof air foil, the rest is wrong. You are better off getting the AITM Convoy resin kit instead if you want to do the Rubber Duck in the future.

Nice model. Jim DeFrank, owner of California Car Cover. A friend of mine bought two SS/AH Hemi's from him when DeFrank & Sons stopped racing in SS/AH, Hemi One and Hemi Three built by the late Joe Allread.

Another source is the engine in the recent tool AMT 67 Mustang or Shelby GT350, otherwise the 289 and 302 engines look the same so you can use either one.

It would have been more environmentally friendly to leave the cars as they were.

The Rubber Duck truck in the Convoy movie was a Western RS700L and the Road Warrior truck was a R600 so there are some differences between them, the main problem is that the old MPC/ERTL Convoy kit is a DM600 with a short hood and offset cab so it's completely different and not usable for any of these movie trucks if you want to do them correct. So the R685 is a better starting point if you want to do a Road Warrior truck...and Auslowe have most of the parts you need to do the truck right as mentioned before.

As I said in my earlier post, there are exceptions to the rule when it comes to Kenworth and Peterbilt engine colors, they were white from aproximately 1950 up to 1975 in Kenworths and up to 1985 in Perterbilts and Caterpillar was the last engine manufacturer to paint engines white for PACCAR...But... you can find white engines in KW and Pete trucks after said dates and engine manufacturer colors before said dates, so 1975 is not a definitive date when Kenworth stopped completely. The Papa Truck transporter is a 1976 VIT-200 Bicentennial Edition first unveiled at the International Truck Show March 24th 1976 and Papa Truck came into service with Malone in June 1976...so the engine is most likely silver. I have done lots of research on the Malone trucks over the years and collected everything I have found so far, I'm in contact now and then with Ken Harris who owns the tyronemalone.net website and Tyrone Malone and the Bandag diesel racing team facebook group, Ken worked for Malone and drove the Papa Truck transporter on the European Tour in 1989. The "fan card" for the Papa Truck on the Malone websites is a bit exaggerated, the engine doesn't have twin turbos as the card says, only one. Here is a picture of the engine in the Hideout Truck transporter wich is a regular 1978 Aerodyne specified similar to the Papa Truck but not a Bicentennial, otherwise they are pretty much the same. The "fan card" for the Hideout truck also says "8V-92T Twin Turbocharged 430 hp"...but I only see one turbo. As you can see the engine is silver in this truck.

Of course, it's your model and you do as you please.

As far as I know an electric car with batteries is not on zero for environmental impact until after at least five years after the car is made...then you have to replace the battery pack and you step back a couple of years again and what do you do with the old batteries, the materials for making the batteries are not from eternal sources and will eventually be used up, the mileage for these cars is relatively short and it takes a long time to re-charge, and how is the power you charge your car with made, to be environmentally friendly it has to be generated with a renewable source as solar, wind, water or something similar, some places in the world the cars need heaters and that takes power and cuts down on the mileage. The power main grids in the world are not dimensioned for the increased need if everyone is charging their cars at pretty much the same time frame wich will happen when people come back from work for example, so most of the the main power grid cables has to be replaced for a lot larger capacity as the need will increase a lot if everyone buys battery powered cars....lots of things to consider. No, IMHO Hydrogen is the future and it's the most common material in the universe, unfortunately the Hydrogen is bound in water here on earth. You can either burn the hydrogen gas in an internal combustion engine as we do now with our fossil fueled vehicles, or use it in a fuel cell and make your own power wich is more efficient, and the exhaust is plain water vapour as it goes back to water again, it's relatively fast to re-fuel like a fossil fueled car today so the mileage is not a problem, you can have a heater as you make your own power, it's just a matter of time until they will come up with a good solution for the storage problem, efficient and not as costly ways to split the hydrogen from the oxygen in water, and gear up re-fueling stations. If the future of drag racing is this eCOPO or other electric cars I will for sure stop going to the races, the great noice of suped up V8:s, the smell of racing fuel or nitro methane exhaust, the quick ET's and speeds, and the nice cars is the whole experience...if you take any of these things away it's nothing for me...and that goes for all kinds of motor racing. Yes the electric cars are fast and quick as you get all the torque from the motor instantly but the lack of the noise and smells makes it uninteresting. Yes I'm old and sometimes stubborn and retro, but I'm a realist and see things as they are.