New Model King Announcements

[Aaronw]

What ever happen to Model King? did Dave give up on this! I like the kits he bought out.

He has issued special versions of some Moebius and Revell kits. Some special versions of the Hudson Hornet, Chrysler 300, and '57 Ford Police car come to mind, along with the upcoming 1969 / 71 Ford truck.

[Nova-ss]

Horsepower...thank you for the info.

[Longbox55]

What's been so heavily-butchered with the D / W 100-200 Dodge Truck that makes its tooling so unworkable ?

I remember that its hood was butchered ; however , was its bed "fiddled-with" too ?

Can't the Little Red Express be employed for its parts , even if its only contributions are its hood and chassis ?

If you go back through the thread it says it was dropped because the tooling for the pickup was going to take to much work to restore it to the stock status after being altered for the monster truck kit.

I have a hard time buying that. The body of the truck, other than the removal of the trim and the header holes in the hood that was done for the Thunderstruck pulling truck issue, was not altered. The chassis is still stock, as is the interior and engine/transmission. The only thing not stock about the drivetrain is the monster truck suspension, which is on separate trees from the rest of the kit. All of the stock parts are in the LRE, but I'll admit to not knowing if the LRE used the same mold dies as the rest of the Dodge trucks for that. But even then, the parts do exist in a currently used tool. Plus, what about the short bed trucks? The Warlock, Pumpin' Iron, and Fire Fighter all used the same drivetrain. Surely that tooling could be adapted.

[hpiguy]

Where does one go to buy Model King kits online? I hear of them often, yet no one that I frequent online carries Model King kits.

[matthijsgrit]

Check ModelRoundup!

[hpiguy]

I'll do that, thank you.