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Revell Marmon Conventional `Stars and Stripes`; 1/25 Scale
Topic Started: Mar 1 2015, 09:35 AM (76 Views)
tc2324
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LCDR Tony `Banana's` Clay
Revell Marmon Conventional `Stars and Stripes`

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The Marmon Motor Company is based in Denton, Texas. It has been in existence since 1963 and has acquired an excellent reputation amongst American truck manufacturers with its exquisite range of vehicles. Since their trucks were handmade, production numbers where correspondingly low, but they stood out amongst others due to their extraordinary and exquisite quality. Its customers were recruited from truckers who owned and drove their own trucks and looked after their vehicles with associated pride. The last Marmon was constructed in 1997. Marmon were amongst the most popular trucks in America at that period in time. Even today these rare Kings of the Road are highly sought after vehicles.
The trademark Peterbilt was also amongst the custom built trucks that Marmon built and fitted out according to customer requirements. This model kit is based on the Peterbilt 359 that Marmon fitted with a new bonnet and other individual accessories. The Conventional is powered by a Cummins NTC 290 engine that with its 6-cylinders and 14 litre capacity achieves 290 bhp at 2000 rev / min. The power is transmitted via a Fuller RTO 9513 gearbox to the Rockwell double axes. The cabin of the original was made partly from aluminium and partly out of fibre-glass.




The Kit

- Separate opening engine hood
- Multi-part cabin
- Fully detailed Cummins diesel engine with twin turbochargers
- Steerable front wheels
- Opening doors
- Multi-part sleeping compartment
- The kit contains chains and hoses
- 10 tyres
- Various chrome parts including grill, bumper, fuel tanks, wheel rims, mirrors and exhaust pipes
- Large format decal set with large decorative elements and typical US number plates
- Number of Parts 317
- 1/25 Scale


The Instuctions Booklet

This Revell paper instruction sheet is new with nice clear cut instructions inside. Looks busy as always with 103 sections to complete, but well laid out.

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The Sprues

You get three sets in grey, white and chrome and very nice they look too, especially the shiny bits.... :grin:

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The Decals

It`s a very large sheet with very large decals. Very impressive and very well made.

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In Conclusion

This kit is perfect for the petrol head modeller.

It is also a great beginners kit as you could complete this kit without the need for painting/spraying it.

The large decals sheets would be ideal to hide any indiscretions for the first timer.

A very nice `big rig` kit to have, either in this scheme or perhaps another, depending on the skill level and confidence.




Revell model kits are available from all good toy and model retailers. For details visit www.revell.de/en, @RevellGermany or facebook.com/Revell
a new-look Revell website has now gone live at www.revell.de/en.

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DH764
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Totally Tonkas Bonkas !!
That looks very smart :cool

Andy
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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
I could really fancy this, thanks for the review.
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Hawk T1
i like these 'somthing different' kits
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