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What color are you using for the Weenie blue Marshall? It looks like a perfect match, and if I can get the resin required to build my old Pete 386, I've been thinking of building my old Weenie ride. By the way, are you going to make an MCP200 for in it? If so, let me know and I'll take my camera to work and try and get a clearer pic of the home screen than this one from my new pumpkin ride!

No kidding, I'd like a couple more, too. I'd like to try and convert one to a low mount version like a normal fleet truck and make the racks completely operational. The only movable part of the decking in the kit is the rear top deck, all the other decks are solid mounted.

That is just the reason whenever I would get my old Ford dually back on the road, I would love to put a "sneaker" repo lift underneath it!! Park in my parking space, find your car whereever I choose to move it to!!!

This is a rough estimate Mike, but I would say somewhere in the range of 2005 to 2008. This pic of my in progress one is dated as being taken on 1/22/2010 in my computer hard drive, but that is when I started being active on forums and it was already started by then and had a layer of dust on it. A friend of mine also has the Prestige truck and trailer version, and if my memory serves me correctly, he bought it sometime in the late 90s, and I know around the same time I bought my trailer, I had also bought a Revell of Germany Pete 359 that is the reissue of the tractor in the Prestige, and has similar red markings like the trailer only version. I more or less bought the same set as the Prestige, just having to buy it in two pieces instead of one. I would say if the schedule holds true to form by what I can remember from those issues, I would guess it may be due for another reissue within a couple of years. Also, just for a side note whenever you do finally get one, these trailers are surprising strong for the simpleness of just having basically the main frame rails and the racks themselves for support. Of the six cars on mine in the pic, four of those cars (all three on the bottom and the middle car on top) are diecasts!

Honestly, to agree with Chucky (did I just say that!?!?! ), if you found the trailer alone for $100, I would have jumped on it at that price for an out of production kit. I bought the trailer in the release that is shown in your second pic, and at the time it was a current production kit, it was in the $50-$75 price range then, so $100 is not that outrageous. Of course, the way Revell is reissuing older kits, maybe in the next year or two it will be released again and it may be more in your price range.

I would suggest using some bare metal foil or even the shiny side of regular household aluminum foil for the mirror faces. I used regular aluminum foil and a spray craft glue on this trailer to replicate a stainless steel trailer.

I'm not sure, but since the trucks were painted like the trucks they hauled, I'd guess the frame and running gear on the Hideout Truck would be light blue like the frame of the Bandag Bandit. Sorry, but that is the best pic of the bottom colors of the Bandit I have, it was on display at the 2012 Walcott Trucker's Jamboree and is on display at the Iowa 80 truck stop's trucking museum.

O gauge is 1/48 scale. This one: I plan on using this as a load for a lowboy tractor trailer.

Dave, if you haven't already, maybe try posting a wanted thread and see if someone might have a set they would be willing to donate to help you out. I'll do some digging in my parts box during my time off today and tomorrow (I drive truck, so I'm driving most of the week ) and maybe see if I have an extra set to help you out.

I don't think that was what Dave was looking for Chuck, but thanks for posting them!! Do they also offer them in red??

Dave, an easy solution, if you may have any in the parts box, for the side mirrors are to use mirrors from a 1/32 scale truck. Another idea, if the dually is the Monogram Ford F350, is to use an extra mirror from a 1/24 or 1/25 scale kit and the top mount, since the kit already supplies a suitable bottom mount. As for taillights, I'm guessing you mean the Grote taillight like this: You can find these in almost any Italeri American truck kit, and also on the red sprues of many of the older AMT truck kits. The only downfall of the Italeri versions are that they are found on the black colored sprue, so to look right, you would have to use some Bare Metal Foil and some Tamiya Clear Red on the lens area to make them look good. If you don't have anything in the parts box, maybe ask in the wanted and trade section and see if anyone has any extras.

Did you ever think that Mr. Duff would like to have a product that is worth spending his money on?? I know I fit into that category as well, I'm not spending the money on the kit knowing it needs either a corrected resin body or for me to correct Revell's incompetence. I guess that's the problem with most people nowadays, those who actually speak their minds are cast as bullies and those who don't have the stones to speak their minds are the sheep corporations like Revell know will buy their second rate products regardless of obvious flaws because Revell bigwigs are saying "Why should we worry about fixing it, the sheep will buy it anyway."

I'm sorry, but from my point of view, it is NEVER too late to rework a problem they knew about. I guess Revell/Monogram didn't learn their lesson after the whole 69 Charger fiasco!

Obviously, that TON of information lost a POUND of the Prostar (or a stock Lonestar for that matter) does NOT have those stupid angled stacks that both kits include. Yeah, at least in the Lonestar's case, the stacks (if you like those hideous stacks, which I do not) would be a custom touch, but not to a fleet based truck such as the Prostar. Moebius changed the rear taillight panel and a few other things to make the Prostar a more utilitarian fleet truck like it is mostly used, but left those hideous custom stacks. Now assuming I buy a Prostar to go along with my Lonestar (which I more than likely will), not only do I have one set of stacks to correct, I'll have two sets to correct!! Oh, and this is coming from a professional trucker, so I see more Prostars in a day than most all of the other members of this forum will probably ever see in their lifetimes, and I have yet to see the style of stacks on the Prostar and Lonestar (which we truckers call bullhauler stacks because trucks pulling livestock trailers are typically the ones crazy enough to have those gaudy looking stacks on them) on a real Prostar.

Any pics?? EDIT: Didn't realize you were talking about the Coronado from another thread.

At one time, this was my bench, but that was a little over two years, two ex girlfriends, and other life issues ago. Thankfully, life has finally started getting back to normal and life issues are not much of an issue anymore, and in November me and my new girlfriend moved into our own house, and it even came fully stocked with a built in model room! I have some work to to do to modify or totally rebuild the workbench, but that will eventually become my new centerpiece of my model room. My girlfriend already said I get the whole basement (minus her space for the washer and dryer ) and I hope to get the whole collection moved out of storage soon and get building during my time of of my new job driving truck delivering grocery items to local Wallyworlds.

Well, what do you know, my CRS didn't kick in this time!!! http://www.kitformservices.com/photoetch.html I'm not sure if what they look like, since they have only a set for Peterbilt pictured, but hopefully they are what you are looking for.

Don't hold me to it Doug, but I think KFS may have something like that. I'm saying this without checking first, just going from my CRS memory, so it may not be 100% accurate.

Aaron, I agree with what everyone else has said, make sure you check the front mount location and height first and leave that until you have test fitted the engine first. Also, from experience, if you can possibly use the mount for the Cat out of the frame of the Pete, I would suggest you use it. I found out WAY too late the front mount in the Ford kit really only likes to have the Cummapart mounted to it, and when I was going to put mean green Detroit power in mine, I already had the frame painted. I got it to work with the Cummins mount, but it will require some careful gluing to hold it. I really wish I would have thought about using the Detroit before I built and painted the frame because I would have used the Detroit mount out of the Pete 377 A/E I stole the engine out of.

Well, since we are measuring here, I paid $0 for my Lonestar!! I win thanks to Santa Claus!!!

That's like comparing apples to oranges, a big rig and a pickup, albeit a heavy duty pickup, are two completely different pieces of equipment. If you would be comparing the parts counts in kits like Revell/Monogram's Ford F250 and F350s, AMT's Ford 90s era F150, Revell's late 90s Chevy 1500 or Dodge VTS, or even Fujimi's US spec Toyota Longbed maybe you'd have an argument and would actually be comparing apples to apples.

Thanks to health problems, the biggest one being a compression fracture to my L1 vertebrae in Dec 2012, I might only be 38, but there are some mornings I wake up and feel 83!

It depends on the kit, Nick. There are some reissues of kits today that I don't think were worth $3 when kits were $3!!

Almost any reissue of old "motorized toy" import kits. A fine example is this Fujimi 79 Trans Am, and boy was I mad when I opened the box after spending $25 on what I thought was finally a nice non MPC/AMT 79 T/A. I hadn't known it was an old reissue til after the disappointment!