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Hello all

I was lucky today and bought/ordered a 1/16 Kenworth W900 from Monogram. Not cheap but within sensable limits! Now, checking the parts on pictures on the web it looks like a direct clon of the 1/25 Revell kit that is on offer still, I assume this is also and older Monogram mold.

Now I also have the 1/16 Pete 359 from Monogram...but I have so far not found it's clon in 1/25. Did Monogram never mold that version in small? The available Revell, ex Monogran, snap kit is a different version, no turbo, airfiliter on the other side, coffin sleeper, etc...

The 1/16 Pete is also a short hood version, the current Revell native kit is a long hood.

Last but not least...the Kenworth W900 Aerodyne in 1/16...does this one have a 1/25 clone kit?

thanks

Uwe

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There is a similar kit to the 359 in 1/25 but I don't know if it's an exact clone.

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There hasn't been a long hood Aerodyne issued. There is the short hood snap kit or the long hood flat top. You could make a long hood Aerodyne in 1/25 if you can find the first issue of the Revell T600. It's the only issue with the Aerodyne roof. Then swap the sleeper onto the long hood flat top kit.

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On 3/11/2020 at 7:32 PM, Fat Brian said:

There is a similar kit to the 359 in 1/25 but I don't know if it's an exact clone.

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No it's not because that and also the Monogram  1/25th scale snap counterpart both have the square headlight buckets where the 1/16th scale has the rounded off oval style buckets. 

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The Revell 359 in 1/25 has not one bit in commen with the 1/16 Pete...since it is a Revell USA native mold and not an old Monogram one.

So by the looks of it the W900 is the only kit that was cloned from 1/25 to 1/16 or visa versa...where as the 1/16 Pete does not have a direct Monogram 1/25 clon.

I will post pictures of comparison once the big W900 arrives...

thanks

Uwe

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