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With a truck like that, I would have "accidentally" hit REVERSE!!!!

They are far from my favorite sports team, sorry I follow Nascar, but since I'm only about an hour from Pittsburg, PA, here's what comes to mind. Steelers=AMT's Freuhauf Flatbed (because it has a steel coil load)

Actually, Dave, Italeri made a 2000something Volvo VN Series. The kit overall is not bad, but the way it is in the pictures is what you get, take in mind this one's not finished, but there is no engine at all. The interior and cab is nice as all Italeri kits, but I'm real happy I won this in a show kit raffle, no engine is a real drawback!

I agree, decals would be best. The Power Wagon and Top Hand trucks would be the only ones that painting would be easier, but decals would still be needed for the names.

By what I saw in the test shot pics, you should even be able to build that truck exactly as it looks in the pic. I don't know if anyone esle noticed it, but it appears to me the air deflector on the top of the sleeper was taped on, hopefully meaning it is a separate piece.

Ok, if you do find a 1990 Cougar with the 3.8 Liter, let me know if it is supercharged or not. As I said, I have a 92 Cougar, and it has a 5.0 liter. Yep, seen that, thanks.

They are simiply helping me find a donor for a non supercharged 3.8 Liter for another build I have planned of my 1:1 scale 1990 T-Bird. Someone else brought up the 3.8 Liter, I simply asked if I could find a non Supercoupe 3.8 for the other build. If you notice, my build is a 1982 T-Bird!

I sort of see what you mean about looking like an exhaust manifold on it's side after looking close at the 1:1 in the driveway. I thiought it always looked more like a 5.0's intake runner. I checked both the 1990 Revell Supercoupe I have for the 1:1 and my Revell 1992 Cougar with the 5.0 Liter, both are 1:25. What MPC kits have 3.8 Liters in them?

I also ask you pass my condolences along to the family.

Nick, if you'd really want to mess with Harry's mind, you'd ask him where MY truck would go!! After I finally get the model built of my 1:1, it may look like a standard dually and is my daily driver and grocery getter, but before it got the standard bed, it was a wrecker in it's former life. It's now just a pick up, but it was formerly a light commerical!!

Does the 1992 Cougar have the 3.8 as well? I need a stock 3.8 Liter for a model of my 1:1 1990 T-bird, but not the supercharged 3.8 in the Revell T-bird Supercoupe kit.

Welcome Dave!!! I'm waiting for this kit and hope it leads to more new kits in the future. If, and hopefully when, it does lead to more new kits, are you open to suggestions?

Thanks, Rodney! I'm thinking of just closing the opening and making it a single wheel opening. I was thinking a dual dually, but my friend is already building a wedge like that, and if I'd do the same, he'd say "You stole my idea"!! In fact, that's how I got the Dodge for the wedge, I gave him an old 1:32 scale frame from a Peterbilt for his double dually wedge and he gave me the Dodge!

I hope it comes out like that!! I love all the extras, especially the added owner operator style "chicken lights" along the cab and fairings, not to mention the rear panel and air cleaners. I don't really care for the "bullhauler" style stacks, but they sort of look nice on the master!

These are a couple WIPs that I started about a year or two ago, and haven't done much with since. The first is an AMT Dodge Dually with the Open Road camper, and the second is another AMT Dodge Dually that I got from a friend that he got from a friend of ours who had lengthened the frame on for some reason. He added a part of the frame from another dually kit, and I found it worked nicely under AMT's Racers Wedge. I have to widen the wedge so it fits over the dual wheels and make some filler panels for the wheel arches. I also need to modify the front panel of the wedge to fit down over the Dodge frame. I'm planning on making the trucks match and add a race car of some sort to make it somewhat of a weekend style race team.

Tom, I don't feel that is a good idea. I build mostly trucks, even though I have more than my fair share of car kits, too. It is, in my opinion, more user friendly to have the trucks 1:1 in their own spot. You would not want to look through 20 posts on big rigs before you found a 49 Merc, would you? I also recently posted pics of my 1:1 scale 1990 Ford F350, and posted it in the "Trucks 1:1 Reference", but also put a post in the car section for the primarily car and light truck builders with a link to the "Trucks" posting.

Yeah, but sometimes here in WV 1+1=3!!

Three thumbs up!!! I put one thumb up twice!!!

Wow, Ben, you don't build trucks, do you?? My better half always tells me she feels like she lives in a hobby shop, it looks like you have your own!

That would be good, it would make them much easier to find. If you or Gregg need help finding them, PM me, I would be more than happy to help locate them for moving. I'm participating in one now that I seen when it started recently, it is for Fox Chassis Fords, I believe it is in the "On The Workbench" section as of now.

That is why I have been asking about a "Community Build" category, most I have found due to recent posts are in the "On The Workbench" section. If they were in their own category, they would be much easier to find instead of being buried in hundreds of posts and there would maybe be more community participation.

I like it Harry, even though the separate "Community Builds" section wasn't in the list.

I also like Harry's ideas, with one or two additions. I've seen it mentioned in the thread about what things other than cars do you build, someone metioned a new section for "Other Models". Yes, I do realize the name of the magazine is "Model Cars Magazine", but there were many nice models pictured in that thread, including from Harry! The other, and I can't remember what thread I mentioned it in to you, Gregg, but is a separate catagory for all Community Build Projects.

I like the sound of both options, too, Charlie.

I could help you move the ones in PA to my house!!!