Buy any Model Truck or Trailers lately?

[Pete68]

Thought I would start a topic for the Truck guys like me on the cool Truck/Trailer stuff you guys get. 
 

Post any related Big Rig Truck/Trailer Model stuff you have gotten lately. 
 

I got these this week in the Mail. The 1/43 Pete has the rare tinted smoke glass. The decals are from Model Truckers. All decals I got are in 1/43 scale  

Edited December 14, 2024 by Pete68

[Biggu]

I bet I know who shipped that to you ….🤔🤔such a cool kit. I would love to find the wrecker at a ‘decent’ price. 

[Bainford]

That's a cool little kit. Do many truck kits exist in 1/43 scale?

[Pete68]

17 minutes ago, Bainford said:

Do many truck kits exist in 1/43 scale?

AMT just made 4 Trucks and 2 Trailers. 
Peterbilt 359 California hauler

Peterbilt  359 Holmes Wrecker 

Kenworth K-123 Cabover 

Kenworth K-100 Areodyne 

Fruehauf Beaded side Trailer with RL Thermo King Reefer  

Freuhauf Exterior Post 

 

 

[Pete68]

1 hour ago, Biggu said:

 

I bet I know who shipped that to you

 

Not who you think it was eBay. If you think it was Bill he will not part with his I bought all of his a couple years and he regrets selling them. So he bought his Collection back again after I bought his first one and now I doubt if he would sell them. 

[Biggu]

14 minutes ago, Pete68 said:

Not who you think it was eBay. If you think it was Bill he will not part with his I bought all of his a couple years and he regrets selling them. So he bought his Collection back again after I bought his first one and now I doubt if he would sell them. 

Good thing I didn’t bet the farm on that one ! 🤣🤣

[Mark]

As I understand, Heller now owns the tooling for those kits, and has issued them in the distant past without plating on the appropriate parts.  I believe AMT (the original company, prior to Lesney or Ertl) saw 1/43 scale trucks as something of a solution to rising kit prices due to increasing plastic costs.  But the truck builders already had sizeable collections of 1/24-25 scale trucks, so those people didn’t buy into the smaller scale.

[Pete68]

23 minutes ago, Mark said:

 

As I understand, Heller now owns the tooling

 

Yes that’s correct. They added stack mounts to the Pete cab and swap the Alcoa old style front wheels for a more Tube type modern wheels instead of the original ones that look like a Split Rim. No chrome as you mentioned and the tires are the plastic glue together kind which AMT offered after about a couple years of the release of these kits. Some day I will do a info thread on these little gems and there history and their dirty little secrets they have you never catch until it’s too late and the model is built. I’ve collected and built a few of these since I was very young at one time having all of them that AMT put out and a couple AMT/ERTL and one Matchbox.