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WOOHOO, FIRST IN ON THIS ONE! I guess it pays to get up early! The spokes on the wheels and the bumpers just look too real. Now watch, I've been doing good when I don't post my answer, so Harry will probably fool me Friday saying it's a large scale model!

Thanks, Jeff, I'll have to look into them. I just love the realistic hose ends on them, and also found using shoelaces was a big pain!

Niko, one tip I have to offer you, even though you might not want to worry about it since you already painted the "Chevrolet" on them, but you really wouldn't find chrome valve covers on the real cars. They are usually aluminum, Revell just chromes them for the added "flash", there is actually very little or no chromed parts on a real NASCAR.

Welcome Jeff. Where did you get the hoses from? I have a couple of the Trumpeter ALF's just screaming for some!

X2! It still looks like it would be just right for the wrecker boom, too!

You should have no problem using the 1/25 scale engine in the 1/24 scale truck. There are some here that would say 1/24 and 1/25 scales don't mix, but I disagree with all of them! There is so little difference when it comes to small things like engines, a few hundredths of an inch difference is nothing. Even with larger builds like I build like tractor trailers, I mix 1/24 scale truck and 1/25 scale trailers all the time. This is one I have in progress with a 1/24 scale truck and 1/25 scale trailer, and it looks alright to me. And this is a wild idea I have had as a WIP for almost a decade, and the engine is a 1/25 top fuel engine and the kit is a 1/24, and I still had to cut the fenders to make room for the engine!

You're welcome, and sometimes talking to myself is the only way I can have an intelligent conversation!

I'm working on it mate!

What little symbol, the one by your name? If that's the one you're talking about, that just shows you are online. If you are online it's green, if you aren't it's gray. As for why it wouldn't show in PMs, I don't know why it wouldn't show and I doubt there would be a setting for it, since it shows your online status. Also, if by chance you mean the little envelope symbol for sending PMs, you will not see that on any post made by you, since it to PM members, and you shouldn't have a reason to PM yourself. It only shows for other members other than yourself, and you do have that envelope icon on my screen under your regular avatar picture.

I don't phyically mark them with my name or anything, but I picked up an idea once that I do include when I did attend and in case I ever do attend any shows to safeguard someone else claiming my hard work. I had heard this idea at a show when someone else was talking about someone trying to steal one of their models from a show, and have done it ever since. I will add a detail or modify something in a way that is not noticable but is still able to be seen easily without taking the model apart. That way if one of my works tried to sprout legs and walk off, I can say that is mine and if it comes to needing proof, I can point out my "signature"!

I have to agree, I think it is more an interest in the subject rather than knowledge, especially when it applies to a beginner modeler. I know when I first started building a little over 25 years ago, I couldn't tell the difference between a camshaft and a crankshaft, let alone tell you even where one would be on a car, but as an 8 year old boy growing up watching the Dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider, I knew I liked cars. My older brother was also a gearhead, which helped, and he also would build the occasional model, which got my interest in modeling following. As the years went by, I also found interest in fighter planes, thanks to the movie Top Gun, and I started building a few of those, but most of the old collection I had in my youth were still cars. The time where knowledge started becoming a part of my model building hobby was after I had built enough that I started knowing my basic way around a car, and that led to me having interest in working on the 1:1s. The knowledge I started picking up from working on my 1:1s started filtering into the model hobby to making more realistic models by detailing like brake and fuel lines, ignition wires, etc. Even though nowadays I don't do the level of superdatailing I once did because of getting burned out sweating over every little bolt and nut, which made building feel more like a chore than a hobby, I still look at things I have knowledge of and question if it looks realistic or not. By the way, I still have an interest in planes, ships, and military vehicles, but the about 10% of my collection they take up are my rainy day "fun" builds. I don't have the knowledge of them to superdetail them and would not even build them as a show entry, but just a shelf model for me just because they are interesting.

Let's hope they do!

Plain and simple, I'm taking them with me. I'm going to have to have something to do with all that free time!

Me too!

Really!?!? I really hope that's right, I could finally build the wrecker I drove, now to do some research on the NRC body it had. Unfortunately I can't get pics of it anymore, after I quit working there, one of the other drivers burned up the brakes and flipped it at the bottom of the hill not more than a mile from the shop, and as it flipped and came around the curve at the bottom of that hill, the nose of it went through the front of a bar. It just so happened the owner of the company fequented that bar after work, but not after that!

ME LIKEY, ME REALLY LIKEY!!! Are those a set of his one ton tires on them, too?

X2. I think I at least started the frame in one of mine, but I'd have to look to make sure.

Thanks for the info, Bill. Now I just hope this is one AMT reissues!

I'm hoping you share some inside pics! I'm open to any extra lightbars too!

Wonderful work as always. I'm wondering, is that truck near a 74 model year? I drove a 74 White Western Star wrecker that looked very similar.

I'll be waiting! Good luck with the XJ too, I just hate when those bolts magically appear in the tires! If it wasn't a monster sized bolt and something the size of a nail, you should be able to just get a patch or plug. That is if it wasn't in the sidewall, too.

Sure thing, I'll try to get them for you either later tonight or in the morning, going to be watching "Lizard Lick Towing" and then "Top Gear" in just a few minutes! Just keep in mind they will just be parts pics, I haven't gotten around to this one yet.

Any chance one or two of these will follow you home? Maybe for some pics of what's in the box?

I can't help with any pics, but I have one of the similar Ford Destroyer monster trucks (the 79) of that era, and there were actually some of the stock axle pieces and parts in the kit, too. Maybe you might get lucky and have the same true for the Dodge. By the way, I don't know how different they are, but I could take pics of the stuff in the Ford, but it's not assembled.

Yes, I believe he did show up in Victory Lane.