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These have finally started shipping. They are very nice highly detailed replicas. The winch trucks and the tractors with a wet kit even have a separate drive line that connects to a scale PTO. It looks like they all scale out to about a 172 inch wheelbase.
My only comment is that I wish the oversize load flags that are installed on some versions were removable like the previous trucks.
You can remove them easily but they will need to be glued back on from what I can tell.
Overall I'm very pleased with how they turned out.
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I like the way the R Models turned out too. The only thing I do not like about them is that it appears that the plain colored ones will have winches on them with a similar configuration as the Fire Replica Resin R Models. I wished they left the solid colored trucks plain jane, no headache racks, winches or other accessories. Just a regular non heavy spec tractor, with dayton wheels with full, half or quarter fenders. I get why they are doing it so they have more trucks that can work with the cable neck trailers but I think the winches are best suited for the RD800s, B81s and the DM800s. Will still buy one though.
-Mike, Collecting 1/50th Construction Diecast Since 2003. View My Collection Here, As of 11/13/25
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So far the closest one to a basic Mack R600 is the Rounds 1979 R Mack with spoke wheels. In reality though I believe that truck is a heavy duty RD686 with smaller wheels and tires to match the rest of his fleet.
Damigella will be close but it has a headache rack.
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The Aggregate & Cement Trucking R model is mostly plain with the exception of an accessory (believe it is related to pulling pneumatic tank trailers) on the driver side of the frame between the fuel tank and fender. I would not mind the plain color R models to be based on that truck. Would not opposed to it having an auxiliary hydraulic tank. Most of tandem R Models that were owned by construction fleets around me were configured to pull demolition, material dump trailers and flatbed trailers and they used different heavier spec'd trucks to pull lowboys.
-Mike, Collecting 1/50th Construction Diecast Since 2003. View My Collection Here, As of 11/13/25
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