Automobiles/ Trucks 1/43-1/50 scale let’s see them

Is that Mack FK, no longer avail. as kit, at all available?  One common prewar IH l found from Matchbox (need to post pictures yet) but few other prewar, at least no variety, larger model trucks , pre-1941. Matchbox or maybe by Ertl, need to look, Bulldog Mack, seems undersized, but l am using.  What else did Don Mills once offer? (Pre WW II)

Cancel above question!  Just researched Don Mills...

MELGAR posted:The chain drive is something I haven't seen since I was a very small boy... Great to have on a layout. Who makes the kit?

MELGAR

About 15 years ago this Ertl model was available in white with a blue cargo compartment. Easy to disassemble, modify, paint, etc.   John in Lansing, ILL

rattler21 posted:

MELGAR posted:The chain drive is something I haven't seen since I was a very small boy... Great to have on a layout. Who makes the kit?

MELGAR

About 15 years ago this model was available in white with a blue cargo compartment. Easy to disassemble, modify, paint, etc.   John in Lansing, ILL

John

is this the matchbox one that’s close to 1/64 scale? 

Lee,  

Fifth from the left is ours repainted dark green.

 John

Thanks John you don’t have to I can see about what size it it nice fleet. I have a couple of these they would work well with O27 

Worked on the Mack FK tonight 

That Ertl model Mack AC was made with REA lettering in green. Wonder what prewar years the FK was contemporary?  That would really look good in a logging operation.

The Mack FK was made from 1938-41 it replace the AC and the AP

I started this trailer about a year ago I shortened a old Revell Tanker used plastic stripes on the sides added rear wheels from a Tamiya kit and added a Don Mills converter dolly. Today I added the decals it’s getting closer to being done. This will be a flatcar load. 

Very cool Lee'',  Love it..

Here's another Alabama State Trooper unit.  This one is a FORD Crown Vic custom built for LIONLMAN.

Chief Bob (Retired)

lee the FK is coming along nicely.  Is a fifth wheel coming down the pike?  Is the trailer from a Revell 1:48 or one of the larger scale kits?

Brian nice crossing.  And the light shining from the Manhattan Island Observation onto the Incandescent Lamp Co. is a great photo.

          thanks COACH JOE !!

Brian.  The KWs look nice. I like the white and gray striped one

Joe. Yes the fifth wheel be on soon I think I’m hooking it to a lowboy 

Does anyone know of a pre-war bus like this in 1/43 scale? Diecast or kit would be fine...

No Lee I don’t but thanks for posting it by the looks of it it must have a Diesel in it by the air cleaner and the heavier front axle and the hood is extended. More than likely it has a 4 cylinder Detroit Diesel. Us old truckers called them 4 banger Jimmys 

Ertl Roadway tractor pulling a wood NH trailer.

Wood cargo body for Schimmelpenninck truck

Cardstock hotel and my brother in law waiting for someone to push start his Jag as again the Lucas electrical system has failed.

A better picture of Sedam trees than vehicles.  John

rattler21 posted:

Lee,  Closest I've seen are those used as tour buses in national parks in the western states.  I think they are models of White buses.  John in Lansing, ILL

What I'm looking for is a bus more like a school bus, pre-war, with a central aisle going down the middle and a roof on top. I'm very surprised it doesn't seem that anybody makes anything like that that I can find

          https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VOL...?hash=item2cdef06383

                    hi Lee,  could you modify this one to what you want...

Brian, I can't stand school buses, but that orange and white one is a beauty.

I need at least two 1940 or prior schoolbuses, one as school bus, another to bash into railbus.  Seen two: a 1920's model T once offered by real school bus builder in South, and a toy one l procrastinated on in a show...maybe Tootsietoy.   That grill was used by GM 1941-1946, so l can't use.  T is too early.

Brian, thanks for the link but that bus is very much postwar, and European. I'd have to pretty much scratchbuilt it from that, leaving almost nothing from the model out of the box.

I really need a model of a domestic pre-war school type bus...

Here's another Crown Vic I recently finished.  It is an Ohio State Highway Patrol unit.  This one will have a place on my layout sometime in the near future.

Chief Bob (Retired)

Although my first car was a beat up 1957 Plymouth and "Christine" was a 1958...the movie has always been one of my favorites and the 57 and 58 Plymouths were very similar.

I saw this one online at a sale price a few weeks ago and had to add her to my layout.

Bob. Thanks for posting I like that car but it brings back painful memories of when I used to truck through Ohio those Highway  patrol was everywhere on I 70 and you better and keep your speed right on 55 because they had little tolerance for speeding over 55 in a truck. 

Nice look in Plymouth I plan on getting one of those myself thanks for posting it great looking pics

HMorgan125 posted:

Although my first car was a beat up 1957 Plymouth and "Christine" was a 1958...the movie has always been one of my favorites and the 57 and 58 Plymouths were very similar.

I saw this one online at a sale price a few weeks ago and had to add her to my layout.

During the 1950s, some people criticized Chrysler cars because of the large tail fins. From the vantage point of 2019, it looks really nice to me. Must have been an expensive die cast model.

MELGAR

Mel 

the car these days have no style or  character they all mostly look the same. 

I added a 1959 Chevy to the layout this week I’ll have more pics later 

Lee,

I agree. There were many stylish cars in the 1950s. And all Made in USA!

MELGAR

Lee and Melgar, I'm glad that someone besides me believes that. It is rare for the auto industry to put out cars that are works of art, as some of them were before the sixties.

lee drennen posted:

Mel 

the car these days have no style or  character they all mostly look the same. 

I added a 1959 Chevy to the layout this week I’ll have more pics later 

Lee the fins (wings) on the 59 Chevy added "lift."  Made the rear end light in certain circumstances/conditions.  The family had one but a wagon where the effect was not as pronounced.

If you look closely at the 60 Chevy's the wings are different.

Ron

Vincent I agree, Mel you said it “Made in the USA” not assembled in the USA I haul containers to the GM truck plant in Wentzville mo I had a load or stabilizers for the Colorado pickup that were made in Korea. 

DaveP posted:

A few that populate my layout...

Where did you get those Harley motorcycles? That road king looks pretty cool

lee drennen posted:

Bob. Thanks for posting I like that car but it brings back painful memories of when I used to truck through Ohio those Highway  patrol was everywhere on I 70 and you better and keep your speed right on 55 because they had little tolerance for speeding over 55 in a truck. 

Nice look in Plymouth I plan on getting one of those myself thanks for posting it great looking pics

Lee,

If it's any consolation, OSP Troopers don't have much tolerance for speeding retired cops either. 

Chief Bob (Retired)

PUFFRBELLY posted:

lee drennen posted:

Bob. Thanks for posting I like that car but it brings back painful memories of when I used to truck through Ohio those Highway  patrol was everywhere on I 70 and you better and keep your speed right on 55 because they had little tolerance for speeding over 55 in a truck. 

Nice look in Plymouth I plan on getting one of those myself thanks for posting it great looking pics

Lee,

If it's any consolation, OSP Troopers don't have much tolerance for speeding retired cops either. 

Chief Bob (Retired)

Yes I know, those days of mine are long gone been driving a truck for 30yrs in September and I’ve had maybe 4 or 5 speeding tickets in my career and that was about 25yrs ago I’ve gotten smarter and slower with age 

TomlinsonRunRR posted:

Here is my favorite model of all (so far anyway).  I picked it up some weeks back when I visited a Shaw's supermarket in Maine.  It happened to be my birthday, and there was a revolving sales rack of die-cast 1:43 models calling my name. 

This 2014 Chevy Silverado has fantastic detailing and perfect proportions.  I really like how the metallic paint was down-sized for the model.  (That's not dust in the photos below, it's scale metallic paint! :-).  This 4x4 is definitely one of Kinsmart's more elegant attempts.  It cost the usual $5.99.  Doors and tailgate open.

The only customizations that I envision on this otherwise perfect model might be to add a little bit of dilute black to the running board treads to tone down the "chrome" a bit and that lovely windshield could use an inspection sticker -- assuming that I can add one without making a mess (highly doubtful).

Tomlinson Run Railroad

By any chance do you know who makes that?

Thanks Ron I like the 59 the best the rear fins and that wraparound windshield is the best 

lee drennen posted:

Thanks Ron I like the 59 the best the rear fins and that wraparound windshield is the best 

Lee, that 59 chevy wagon is what I used for my drivers license exam.  NO power steering and as I recall 7-turns lock to lock.  Fun to parallel park!  A couple of months later parents traded for a new Pontiac Grand Prix midnight-blue paint.

Ron

Ron that was a boat! I feel for you I’m going to try to find one of those in 1/43 I think I’ve seen one somewhere but I know what you mean I’m 50 but I know all about that stuff my first vehicle was a 1970 international pick 3/4 ton that’s what I took mine in no power steering with some play in it. One of my first semi trucks was a 1969 Brockway with air assist steering you might as well not even had the air hooked to it because it was like having no power steering. No wonder I’m ate up with arthritis