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

@Capetrainman posted:

I'll second Artie's comment, Lee...it continues to be a great thread, and it's become my favorite thread on the site...it goes without saying that I like cars, but my $$$ is in the trains...lol

Yes I like trucks just Crazy about them but my big bucks are invested in my trains. I’m glad my Collection of Power and Rolling stock is about done. Now I have to concentrate on Buildings and landscaping. 🙃

Checking the exhaust on the '56 Vette...

Lee, let's take it to 100!!

The tanker is built, just waiting for a dry day to primer. The cab will take a little longer.

Hey, Mike g . There are no panties in that sign.

@Artie-DL&W posted:

The tanker is built, just waiting for a dry day to primer. The cab will take a little longer.

Thanks for the update Artie. Looking really good. Big rain here Monday in the forecast

Paul, great scenes! I love the vetts and some day I will get one for my layout!

Artie, looks great! I hope you get some dry weather soon! Its going to rain cats and dogs here tomorrow!

Let's cruise around town'... Girls, and see what's new'...

" Hey look, Pattie, there goes Sheila and her brats'.. Let's see what their up to'..

Slow down' pat, there's a cop hiding behind that tree next to the Savoy'...

Ted, great scenes. Maybe they’re heading to the Malt Shop to meet Marty McFly!

Ted, great scene and not to sound sexist, but isn't that alot of power for the ladies to be cruising around town with! LOL

@mike g. posted:

Ted, great scene and not to sound sexist, but isn't that alot of power for the ladies to be cruising around town with! LOL

Hey Mike, the women's POWER movement started in the mid 50s.. And it  started with fast powerful cars'... My mother bought a 1956 Buick Roadmaster rag top'.. big V-8 under the hood.  She had a heavy foot , and got stopped plenty for speeding... She told my  Dad, women should have the same type of cars as men.  Not VW bugs'... as many women had in those days'...   😍

Great modeling, Ted. Everything, the streets, cars, pedestrians all look realistic.

🤩We're  trying to get to 100 pages and more'.. We need a few more posts.  Let's see some cars and trucks you haven't posted before'..

When I was a kid visiting my maternal grandmother in Worcester, Massachusetts, we would see "old style" GM buses in a green and ecru (off-white) color on June Street, just yards from her house.  Every so often, Grandma Leamy would take the Trailways bus from Worcester to New York City where we would meet her at the Port Authority Bus Terminal for the trip to our NJ home.  When I saw the Trailways bus from MTH and the Worcester Bus Company bus from Corgi, I just had to get them to create a scene on my last layout.  My mom got a kick out of seeing her hometown's bus!

Here are my two "cheapest finds" -- two "low rider" pick up trucks I found for sale in Dollar General a few years ago.  When I was assigned to Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, CA in the early 1980s, you would see these sorts of pick-up trucks doing the hydraulic-driven "jumps" on weekend nights on some major streets.

Don’t think I’ve posted this photo before of this end of the layout. We have a red pickup at freight dock of the trolley station, and a red tanker at the oil depot.

@Artie-DL&W posted:

Great modeling, Ted. Everything, the streets, cars, pedestrians all look realistic.

Thanks very much Artie'.. The first model train forum I joined, made fun of us O Gaugers.  It was an all HO group.  There layouts were near perfect in most cases. I was the only O Gauger.  I was determined to make my O Gauge theme look just as good as the HO competitors.  I must admit I learned quite a bit from those guys, and applied it to detailing my scenes and structures to that level of prototypical realism.  All most all my figures are retouched, or completely hand painted.  I have yet to see any HO figures that compare to O as far as details go.  They're just to small... If you look at the work Santiago, on this forum, does with his O scale Golden Gate cars, O scale and O Gauge, can be just as realistic and then some as any highly detailed HO system....

@Artie-DL&W posted:

Don’t think I’ve posted this photo before of this end of the layout. We have a red pickup at freight dock of the trolley station, and a red tanker at the oil depot.

Nice scene Artie'. Is that Gargraves track'...?

No, Ted, it’s actually Lionel 0-42 radius O-27 track, with 3-R rubber ties spaced between the Lionel ties. However, it’s inspired me to go with Gargraves on my future expansion.

Artie here is a complete shot of the strip with the city in the back ground'...

Thanks, Ted, nicely modeled small town with nice urban detail.