Now who has some 1/35 scale plans that are accurate so this can be settled .

Michael, your dogged persuit of this is noble, however, I think you are beating the proverbial dead horse here. The average modeler could care less if the door is 1mm too short and the fenders 1mm too long. Their general guide is, "Does it look like a WWII GMC 2 1/2 ton truck?" The answer is yes, it does. Is it perfect? No. (What model really is?) Is it close enough? Yes, it is for most.

The handful of modelers upset by this at both sites are not the average buyer/builder. HB will/has sold a bunch of these and will continue to do so.

The best way to fix the HOBBY BOSS kits is to chuck their Steel Cabs, and buy a ridiculously expensive resin after-market cab, or you can spend a FRACTION of the money and buy an ITALERI Deuce-and-a-half, and with a little bit of finagling, you can fit the ITALERI Steel Cabs onto the HOBBY BOSS OR the TAMIYA, or even the HELLER kits... Need a Soft Cab Jimmy? Use your left-over TAMIYA Soft Cabs with whichever Hard Cab kit that you like. I NEVER throw ANYTHING away, personally...

As I said earlier, I'll just keep on buying the old ITAERI Jimmies, and dress them up with the ABER PE sets, which are THE BEST PE sets that money can buy for the 1/35 Jimmies... These PE sets are easily adaptable to ANY 1/35 Jimmy, even though they are specifically designed to be used with the ITALERI kits. Both Hard Cab and Soft Cab PE sets are offered by ABER...

For a Cargo Box Tarp, I use the HELLER kit's Tarp. The downside of that is that the HELLER Tarp is molded with TOO TIGHT a fit to properly position it on the TAMIYA or ITALERI Cargo Boxes. A LOT of filing and sanding is required to make the Tarp fit properly, and at the right level vis-a-vis the Cargo Box... Some hobby dealers sell an after-market resin Tarp to fit the TAMIYA Jimmy, but at an average of $40 bucks apiece, I think I'll just use some elbow grease, and use the HELLER Tarps, instead...

For a Cargo Box Tarp, I use the HELLER kit's Tarp. The downside of that is that the HELLER Tarp is molded with TOO TIGHT a fit to properly position it on the TAMIYA or ITALERI Cargo Boxes. A LOT of filing and sanding is required to make the Tarp fit properly, and at the right level vis-a-vis the Cargo Box... Some hobby dealers sell an after-market resin Tarp to fit the TAMIYA Jimmy, but at an average of $40 bucks apiece, I think I'll just use some elbow grease, and use the HELLER Tarps, instead...

Dan; I agree comparing one model manufacture's product to another is less than ideal. However in this case I would think we are on a bit more solid ground in that both the Tamiya and Italeri model measurements agree.

Then on page one of this thread there is an image that photographically super-imposes the HB door over a photograph of the real thing and again on page two there are the actual measurements taken from a Deuce on display at the World War II Museum in New Orleans that we can all just simply scale the HB door off of.

Consider the Dragon M103 debacle with all its' assorted detailing and measurement problems - doesn't it seem to you like many of the top manufactures are getting sloppy these days?

Not across the board with every model but now and again? But it seems to happen all too often these days.

On the plus side of the ledger; I could also say that the White 666 truck from HobbyBoss seems to be a tour de force of model engineering perfection! Proof that they are well capable of doing very excellent work.


OK - I'll be quiet for awhile. Have a good one. Cheers!

Mike you're right in keeping this thread alive .
First you invest your money to buy a H B kit then you have to invest more money in a Italeri kit or a very expensive resin cab to fix H B mistake.
They should correct the error's on the cab, fender's and hood. Then with proof of purchase send replacement parts to the purchaser.
To keep releasing more kit's in this series with these error's is a shame and a disservice to the customer.

Michael, your dogged persuit of this is noble, however, I think you are beating the proverbial dead horse here. The average modeler could care less if the door is 1mm too short and the fenders 1mm too long. Their general guide is, "Does it look like a WWII GMC 2 1/2 ton truck?" The answer is yes, it does. Is it perfect? No. (What model really is?) Is it close enough? Yes, it is for most.

The handful of modelers upset by this at both sites are not the average buyer/builder. HB will/has sold a bunch of these and will continue to do so.