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That looks really good, like all the "junk in the trunk". I got several of this kit myself and I got to thinking now seeing yours. As it is an F250, should it not have had 8-lug wheels?

I'm not an expert on this generation F-series but I see that other 3/4ton trucks usually have 8-lug wheels and this kit comes with 5-lug wheel, could it be that Monogram has misslabled/missrepresented it as an F250. It does have the F250 badges and as I say, I'm no expert so maybe the chassiscomponents are F250 bits but take a look at this picture:
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A 1990 F150 extracab (short bed) with wheels that make it look very similar to the Monogram kit.

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On 2019-06-16 at 12:29 PM, Atmobil said:

That looks really good, like all the "junk in the trunk". I got several of this kit myself and I got to thinking now seeing yours. As it is an F250, should it not have had 8-lug wheels?

I'm not an expert on this generation F-series but I see that other 3/4ton trucks usually have 8-lug wheels and this kit comes with 5-lug wheel, could it be that Monogram has misslabled/missrepresented it as an F250. It does have the F250 badges and as I say, I'm no expert so maybe the chassiscomponents are F250 bits but take a look at this picture:

A 1990 F150 extracab (short bed) with wheels that make it look very similar to the Monogram kit.

A similar mistake to the AMT Chevy Van then, 5 lug wheels even though the badges says that it is a Chevyvan 30, that should have 8 lugs....

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On 16.6.2019 at 9:59 PM, Jordan White said:

It is an F250 kit since the 460 wasn’t available on the F150, but they dropped the ball and gave it the half ton wheels for some reason.

Ahh, I learned something new to day aswell then. Thank you:)
But if one dropped in a smallblock (maybe from the Monogram Bronco?) could it then be passed of as a F150?

2 hours ago, Cpt Tuttle said:

A similar mistake to the AMT Chevy Van then, 5 lug wheels even though the badges says that it is a Chevyvan 30, that should have 8 lugs....

Yes, we need more 8-lug wheels in 1:24/25 scale. I personally do know have several sets of 1:1 8-lug wheels. Bot 17" and 16" and with different offsets.

AMT gave us the wrong number of lugnuts in the Chevy can and Monogram has given us the wrong number of lugnuts on the F250 but AMT really laid down the line with the 73-79 dentside F350 that has no lugnuts at all:lol:

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47 minutes ago, Atmobil said:

Ahh, I learned something new to day aswell then. Thank you:)
But if one dropped in a smallblock (maybe from the Monogram Bronco?) could it then be passed of as a F150?

Yup! Though you would need to update it from a carb to fuel injection.

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