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Nice job, Mark. I would like to offer you a little help with the photography, though. First, are you using a phone or a real camera? If it's the phone, try a regular camera. You can pic up even a decent cheapy at Walmart for $30 or so, and probably outdo my nearly 10 year old HP 5 megapixel camera (since I know there are even phones with more megapixels these days!) I spent over $100 for back then! Second, the second set of pics look clearer, but could even be clearer still with the help of using the macro setting if you're using a regular camera and better lighting and the camera flash (most of the time) will give you clearer and brighter pics. When I was more active here before life threw me some curve balls, my work bench (which was were I took all my WIP and completed build pics) was lighted with two 18" undercounter compact fluorescent light strips and two daylight type bulbed fluorescent desk lamps.

I WANT ONE!!! I think I would be able to mow my small lawn in about 30 seconds with that!

I live about 5 miles away from the plant where that can was made.

Very nice work Harry! i do have to ask, though, are the valve stems correct for 1904? When did the first pneumatic tire come out? I know it was sometime in the first part of the century, and not really "up to date" so to speak on the early iron, only knowing it wasn't until maybe the 1920s or early 30s when pneumatic tires where used on trucks, and even that knowledge is from very limited research on a 26 Mack I have.

Is there an echo in here!?!?

Yeah, I seen that earlier today. Is coming through Hobbyeasy quicker, though? In the description, Hobbymaster says it is preorders and delivery is not expected until late April or early May.

And how do you figure it would be illegal to operate?? All I was simply stating was 7 takes 2 GB of RAM to run properly MINIMUM, and as you said, you only have 512K, so it's quite obvious that anything newer than XP would cause your machine to puke! It's not "needless bloat" as you say, but then again, I like to get the most of my machine, by playing games, using it for creative projects, and more than just surfing the web. Even some of my simplest photo editing software would make you computer throw up!

Never, and I handle the updates that download myself, but I don't use any of Microsoft's antivirus programs either. I use Avast antivirus and have used it for years on all my machines when they were running XP and now that all run 7, and only had one virus problem, and that was just by accident. I had accidentally clicked on an email that was sent by an email account of my friend's that was hacked instead of deleting it and it crashed the system. That's also the reason I never open attachments to an email if I don't either know the sender or know what I'm opening. Oh, and that was when my systems were running XP.

They need it for the operating systems! Obviously you can't be running anything newer than XP, 7 takes 2 GB RAM minimum just to operate. My current machine was an office throw away Dell Optiplex mini tower with an i5 dual core 3.1 (according to properties) processor and 8 GB RAM and running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit and 360 GB (338 usable) hard drive. It runs better for a freebie than the one my friend built for me I've got over a TB of space combined running three hard drives, two DVD drives, and gaming quality video card. It's only draw back is the older mother board, it's maxed at 2 GB RAM, can only support a single core processor, and an outdated network card. I'm just waiting for my friend to upgrade his so I can get his better mother board and network card! That is also a plus of having a very good friend that is a big computer geek, of the two towers and five laptops (two are my girlfriend's, three are mine) in my house, I've spent maybe $100 for all of them and maybe $300 in extra parts I wanted in the big tower over the past 10 years!

Actually, with a little research, this is the first kit offered by Dave and Model King in the 1990 to 1993 range.

I could be wrong, but wasn't the actual van used in the series (and in the newer movie) a short wheelbase version? The body from this reissue looks mighty long to me compared to B.A.'s real van, and even though it has been many, many years since I had the original issue molded in black that I lost in a fire in 1997, I thought that original issue was a shorter wheelbase like the Revell 70's Chevy van too.

I think that is a big player in the whole Revell-Gearz-Rat Roaster relationship. That really makes me wonder too, just like some of the new Foose branded Revell kits and the American Hot Rod/Boyd Coddington AMT kits, if they may have built or still build (in the case of Foose) and if some of their ideas may not have started in plastic form.

I could be wrong Jake, but I thought I read here before when the "Long Hauler" version of the 378 was reissued a few years ago, the only part of the kit that actually got the larger sleeper was the box art. Inside, I thought it was said it was just the same small sleeper as the original one.

Never noticed that on mine, but it was one of the few I started almost as soon as I got it. Of course, it never made it much farther than the pic though!

So, bad photo or not, why is "Dave's" car the only one that looks like something that would not even pass as a bad box art drawing? Kinda funny it has a windshield and the only car the driver (who looks like a cartoon too) is clearly visible in. Sorry, but I'm throwing a BS flag on this one! EDIT: By the way, I'm not trying to knock Dave or Model King, if it wasn't for him and his company, there are a few kits I've wanted and never knew existed until he released them. I just think that pic is not what it says, that car looks fake and Photoshopped in!

I'm figuring maybe the only reason Italeri does that is so that the trailers fit in the same size box as the trucks, either to take less shelf space or keep shipping size down for the exports form Italy, who knows?!? I do agree, an opening hood and engine would have been MUCH better in the Volvo, but I actually kinda liked the one piece frame. It's the first frame I haven't had to worry about slipping out of adjustment after I got it together!

I've noticed this many times, and usually it is an idea my crazy mind comes up with and I think "No one would ever think of doing this!" just to open a magazine and see show coverage and someone has already done it!

I'm not for sure on that Anthony, but I think that is what it does scale to, at least what my (bad ) memory recalls from other discussions on the trailer. I do know NYC was one of the common areas for the shorter trailers that I seen on the road thanks to all those low bridges!

You should feel lucky Charlie! I ended up going to work Monday night feeling fine and my stomach flu came back Tuesday morning with a vengeance! I couldn't even get back home til last night I felt so bad in the truck, and I was only an hour away! This has been going on for almost a week and I'm getting tired of it!

You don't need to "folder" them, just delete the shortcut icon by either dragging it to your recycle bin or right clicking the icon and going down to delete. You won't delete the program it is attached to, just the shortcut for it. The program will only be deleted if you go into the "Add/Remove Programs" section and you choose to delete the whole program.

Yeah, but the last time I checked, Phoenix is a little closer to China than San Antonio is!!

Yeah, the piece together sides, floor, and roof are a pain too, but from my experience with their 40' container (ironically in this pic hooked to my Volvo 780 ), they actually hide the seems fairly well. I never bought the reefer, even though a friend of mine has one and I do have an unstarted dry van version, and it seemed as if the seams were not as easily hidden as the container, just due to the fact the container has ribbing that they could hide the seams where the beaded sides of the reefer and van they just can't as easily. As for air ride, not every trailer has it, and suspension really doesn't matter in my case. The reefers I pull for Walmart (I drive for Schneider National pulling Walmart trailers) at work are a mix of Great Dane and Utility trailers and the dry vans are mostly all Great Dane or Pines (a Great Dane trailer too) and all have spring suspensions. I even have plans for a Moebius Dane to build one of the trailers with markings for the distribution center I work out of, just got to figure out how to modify the back for the roll up door and the two extra reefer units inside for the back two zones not cooled by the main reefer unit when the inner bulkheads are down and the trailer is in three zone mode. One plus with the incorrect height, JT, it does make it possible to build a city truck that may not actually be 13'6"! I know through my time on the road, there are some local delivery companies that may only use a 12'6" (which if I remember correctly from other discussions about the Italeri reefer and box is what it actually scales out to height wise) for their deliveries just because of low clearance issues around cities. I've planned on using my dry van as a mail trailer, since there are some I've seen around that are only 12'6". As for the Volvo, I'm very happy to see it return, maybe I won't get 20 requests wanting to know if I want to trade mine when I post pics of mine like the one above! I'll be getting more too! I just hope maybe someone will give us a hood conversion to make one of the long hood VT 880: I've never had one of the 378s, but I think that if Italeri would offer it with the sleeper from the 377A/E, it would look much better as a long hauler. I know there are quite a few companies (TMC is one in particular) that used the 378 with the sleeper like the 377 kit for their road trucks.

Don't even fool with 8, Marshall. When I had my computers upgraded by a friend of mine, he took XP off all of them and put 7 on them, and all of them are working great. I had to relearn some things, but I'm actually wishing I would have let him make the switch long before he had to.

Marshall, it sounds like we both have "friends" like that! I've been off since Friday with a stomach flu that "friends" of mine gave to me and my better half at the same time! Mine is finally letting up, so back to work this afternoon. Hope you get better soon!

And compared to the Moebius Great Dane, the reefer would be a waste of money unless they corrected the height issue and made it taller!