K8 Guy Warrior Transporter, is it a Major Pack or King Size?
Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 4:38 pm
its both...it has the major pack cab and the king size car trailer...its a little dirty with some wear but its in very nice shape
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I have one also, I wonder if this is one of those overlooked models.Idris wrote:I believe this is the third one known. Jason found the first one, and I found a second.
I would nuance that by instead saying "...whilst Major Packs were being superseded..." since it is not inconceivable that the tooling was altered and a run of King Size castings was produced prior to all the Major Pack boxes being exhausted. However, we are now too remote in time from the event in question to be able to prove it one way or the other.SMS88 wrote:If either part says KING SIZE then it was made AFTER Major packs were superceded!
It seems a very plausible theory non the less!!Idris wrote:I would nuance that by instead saying "...whilst Major Packs were being superseded..." since it is not inconceivable that the tooling was altered and a run of King Size castings was produced prior to all the Major Pack boxes being exhausted. However, we are now too remote in time from the event in question to be able to prove it one way or the other.SMS88 wrote:If either part says KING SIZE then it was made AFTER Major packs were superceded!
It certainly looks that way. (It would have been remarkable had they had exactly the same number of major Pack cab baseplates as Major Pack trailer baseplates.)Brad Pittiful wrote:so they had extra major pack cabs and mated them with king size trailers
I think I may need to backtrack on that statement since I've just found one the other way round, i.e. a King Size cab baseplate with a Major Pack trailer baseplate.Idris wrote:It certainly looks that way. (It would have been remarkable had they had exactly the same number of major Pack cab baseplates as Major Pack trailer baseplates.)Brad Pittiful wrote:so they had extra major pack cabs and mated them with king size trailers
That's typical, happens to me all the time, spend Ten years collecting 21 versions of the Y-10 'Yesteryear' Silver Ghost, research them to put them in their proper production 'Time-Line', get them all catalogued and listed and another one turns up at the local boot sale!!!Idris wrote:
I think I may need to backtrack on that statement since I've just found one the other way round, i.e. a King Size cab baseplate with a Major Pack trailer baseplate.