Harry P.

Maybe I'm right, maybe not... But one thing we can all agree on is that John builds at a level that most of us will never even come close to.

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We know that every kit is a compromise, the bottom line for any company is always $$$. That's not bad or evil, it's good business sense. Yeah, all the things you listed would have been cool. If nothing else, the separate fuel tank caps would have been welcomed by truck builders. How much it would have raised the retail price is debatable–if adding the details you listed did raise the price to the point where this kit would have to be priced significantly higher than the competition, then the question becomes, will it sell as a "premium" kit because of all the added detail... or will modelers look at the price and choke? Tough call for sure, but Moebius made the decisions they made and that's the end of the story. Like I've said in previous posts on the Hornet and the Chrysler 300 threads, I give Moebius huge credit for taking a chance and putting brand-new kits on the market, and for listening to modelers' input and actually reacting to it. Just the fact that this kit is being manufactured at all is a testament to Moebius and the people involved in its design and execution, so congratulations and all the credit in the world to Moebius. But separate fuel tank ends would really have been a nice touch.

When you're tooling up a brand new model from the ground up, little details like that are what the manufacturers need to pay more attention to. Either they dropped the ball on that, or it was a matter of saving a few tooling bucks by simplifying the tanks into two pieces instead of four. I can't imagine the $$$ difference between two-part and four-part tanks would have been that great. Same deal with the molded-in lights along the cab bottom. Separate pieces would have been better than the builder trying to foil or paint each one without messing up the cab color, but doing them as part of the cab vs. separate pieces on the chrome tree probably saved them a few bucks. Good for them, bad for the customer.

Sounds like a familiar story...

Nice and clean!

You and your stupid logic...

And if you touch it won't the Kitchen Queen be a bit annoyed?

Right, I got it. My mistake.

Your exact words quoted verbatim. My mistake, you said most detailed, not most accurate.

Hmmm... about 3MM suspension travel... must be a rough ride...

That's why I give up! But you "experts" are putting forth contradicting information... first you say the doore were not welded shut... then you cite an episode where they make it clear the doors were welded shut...

I give up...

Wait a minute!!! So in the show the doors were (supposedly) welded shut, like I said. You just contradicted what you said earlier!

I defer to the experts. Hey, I've never seen one minute of the show or any of the movies... but I did think the gimmick was that the doors were supposedly welded shut. Guess I was wrong.

Here are the instructions: http://public.fotki.com/drasticplasticsmcc/instruction_sheetsh/instruction_sheets/airfix/airfix-1930-bentley/ It looks like maybe there is a working rear end driven by the electric motor, but I don't see where the batteries go.

I looked up several sources... whether or not the doors were actually welded shut in reality, the assumption and the inference made on the show was that they were welded shut. In fact, it was "explained" on the show that the car was set up by the Dukes for racing, and the doors had been welded shut to make the car stiffer.

So looking at the diagram Skip posted... apparently there was a small electric motor that was installed within the "engine." Ok, then what? Did the model have an actual operational driveshaft and rear end?

I also never got the whole "motorized" model thing. After spending the time and effort to build and detail a model like that, the last thing I would do is turn on the motor and let it fly across the floor!

From wikipedia: The General Lee is the modified Dodge Charger driven by the Duke cousins Bo and Luke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard. It is known for the chases and stunts, especially high jumps, in almost every episode, and for having the doors welded shut, leaving the Dukes to climb in and out through the windows.

Cliff, you're quoting someone else there. I never said that. Go back and read my posts before you falsely quote me.

And weren't the General Lee's doors welded shut? Wasn't that part of the "character" of the car... that the guys always got in and out through the windows? Yet you made a point of showing how you opened the doors on your model. Hey, it's your model, build it your way, I'm not trying to tell you what to do. But when you say you're trying to build the most accurate General Lee that you can, be prepared for people to notice when what you're doing isn't all that accurate. I'm just trying to explain why you're getting the "nit picking," as you called it.

People are pointing out the mistakes you're making, probably because you set yourself up for it when you said in your very first post: "But im a big general fan, well its my dream car .. so untill i get one im going to build the most detailed general lee as i possibly can"