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

Mikey. Thanks for posting Willig is one of my favorite Western LTL carriers. 

Here a few pics I took this week

Just received ….. really like the Roadway.

lee drennen posted:

Lee, I love the Fruehauf name, number, and NYC detail in the right-hand corner of your first photo.  And, your growing milk car collection is making me jealous.

Yesterday a package arrived from forum sponsor Diecast Direct that looks at lot like your blue metallic painted model pictured immediately above.  It was back ordered and, honestly, I never thought I'd see it.  The car claims to be a 1949 Cadillac Coup de Ville (pink of course), but Wikipedia documents no such animal.  It looks more like a 1949 Cadillac 60-something series.

My floor layout and trains remain boxed up but I think the car looks great with my dining room placemats :-).

Someone with a very steady hand may be able to detach the interior and disassemble the seat back to add interior detailing (radio, pedals, handles).  I may try to add a tiny reddish Caddy logo to the center of the hubcaps.  Most of the 1:1 web photos show it and that's more my speed .

Tomlinson Run Railroad

Richie C. posted:

Just received ….. really like the Roadway.

Richie

 Thanks for posting I like the looks of your layout and all your vehicles on there specially the old I think 50 or 49 Ford custom coupe car 

trumptrain posted:

 Patrick 

Thanks for posting always enjoyed looking at your pics I still like in those B&O piggyback Trailers you have

 Thanks Tom 

 I’m going to try to get to 10 Milk cars and quit if we’re off  The logo on the back of the trailer came off of an  old Revell  mobile trailer decal and that pink Cadillac looks awesome 

Have been enjoying the many great photos that are being posted. Have been picking up some of the new 1/43 IXO trucks they are a good price and very well detailed. Also some new trucks from Neo a bit more in price. Check them out on the DieCast Direct website one of the main forum sponsors for diecast.

I am currently hunting down some more 1/43 scale trailers to use with them. I have a few of the old AMT 1/43 model kits trucks and trailers. But find closest for size are the New Ray 1/43 truck and trailers.  Will post some photos when I get some more of the trailer kits built up to match the trucks.

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TomlinsonRunRR posted:

lee drennen posted:

Lee, I love the Fruehauf name, number, and NYC detail in the right-hand corner of your first photo.  And, your growing milk car collection is making me jealous.

Yesterday a package arrived from forum sponsor Diecast Direct that looks at lot like your blue metallic painted model pictured immediately above.  It was back ordered and, honestly, I never thought I'd see it.  The car claims to be a 1949 Cadillac Coup de Ville (pink of course), but Wikipedia documents no such animal.  It looks more like a 1949 Cadillac 60-something series.

My floor layout and trains remain boxed up but I think the car looks great with my dining room placemats :-).

Someone with a very steady hand may be able to detach the interior and disassemble the seat back to add interior detailing (radio, pedals, handles).  I may try to add a tiny reddish Caddy logo to the center of the hubcaps.  Most of the 1:1 web photos show it and that's more my speed .

Tomlinson Run Railroad

My friend, that is undoubtedly a 1949 Caddy. no question'.. It was a series 62.

The coupe deville was introduced in 1959. production started in 58.  wikipedia is wrong on their dates and models, of many, many vehicles'... not just this one'.. 

Here are my entries into this wonderful thread. 

I don’t currently have a layout (everything is packed away) just a table by the dining room that I display items on and look at plans of plastic airplane model kits that I plan on building (eventually). 

Modeling trains is sometimes about memories and that will be the case with me.  My next foray is to have a New York City section in the 1970’s and the 1980’s (from my youth) and South Florida section from the 1990’s to the present (my adulthood) so I’m purchasing and stocking up of items as I come across them. 

Misplaced my O Gauge roads so the vehicles resting on cork will have to do, utilizing an MTH Tri-Rail Control Cab Car as a wonderful backdrop.

Just purchased three South Florida law enforcement vehicles. Next one to get is the Florida Highway Patrol Crown Vic with operating lights.  Also plan on purchasing some NYPD squad cars, especially the one’s from the 1970’s colors if possible, like the Plymouth Fury shown in the attached photo from the Pelham One Two Three movie. 

I aim to get all vehicles in 1:43 to keep things to the same scale.  Unfortunately, some items only come in other scales, but those will have to do like the 1:50 Greyhound Bus.

There will of course be some vehicles that the manufacturer says are 1:43 but are anything but such as the Orange Ford Focus that I’ve had for a few years.  It is way too large compared to the other vehicles.  The Beetle Bailey 1/32 Willys Jeep is there because… it’s Beetle Bailey!  

My favorites in my inventory are the 1:43 GM Fishbowl buses with the New York Transit Authority colors from the late 1960’s through the 1970’s with the "Bat Wing" advertising roof panels.  I’m glad that Iconic Replicas offered these models so that I don’t have to wait for the rare (and thus ridiculously overpriced) Corgi 1:50 ones produced a decade ago to show up on auction sites.

*** YouTube image of NYPD Plymouth Fury deleted by Amfleet25124*** 

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Amfleet25124 posted:

 

Here are my entries into this wonderful thread. 

I don’t currently have a layout, just a table by the dining room that I display items on and look at plans of plastic airplane model kits that I plan on building (eventually). 

Modeling trains is sometimes about memories and that will be the case with me.  My next foray is to have a New York City section in the 1970’s and the 1980’s (from my youth) and South Florida section from the 1990’s to the present (my adulthood) so I’m purchasing and stocking up of items as I come across them. 

Misplaced my O Gauge roadways so the vehicles resting on cork will have to do, utilizing an MTH Tri-Rail Control Cab Car as a wonderful backdrop.

Just purchased three South Florida law enforcement vehicles. Next one to get is the Florida Highway Patrol Crown Vic with operating lights.  Also plan on purchasing some NYPD squad cars, especially the one’s from the 1970’s colors if possible, like the Plymouth Fury shown in the attached photo from the Pelham One Two Three movie. 

I aim to get all vehicles in 1:43 to keep things to the same scale.  Unfortunately, some items only come in other scales, but those will have to do like the 1:50 Greyhound Bus.

There will of course be some vehicles that the manufacturer says are 1:43 but are anything but such as the Orange Ford Focus that I’ve had for a few years.  It is way too large compared to the other vehicles.  The Beetle Bailey 1/32 Willys Jeep is there because… it’s Beetle Bailey!  

My favorites in my inventory are the 1:43 GM Fishbowl buses with the New York Transit Authority colors from the late 1960’s through the 1970’s.  I’m glad that Iconic Replicas offered these models so that I don’t have to wait for the rare (and thus ridiculously overpriced) Corgi 1:50 ones produced a decade ago to show up on auction sites.

 

 

Kevin, you are going to need at least one subway station to go with the MTA buses, on the NYC side.  Don't forget the precinct too'... 

Amfleet25124 posted:

 

Kevin,

Beautiful NYC buses. The Mayor's car must be right behind that NYPD patrol car and motorcycle.

MELGAR

Kevin, I remember the NYC buses in both green and blue very well. Love the Sarge and Beetle jeep.

Patrick, is that Clyde Barrow or Sonny Corleone?

QUARTER GAUGER 48:  "Kevin, you are going to need at least one subway station to go with the MTA buses, on the NYC side.  Don't forget the precinct too'... "

MELGAR: "Kevin, Beautiful NYC buses. The Mayor's car must be right behind that NYPD patrol car and motorcycle."

COACH JOE: "Kevin, I remember the NYC buses in both green and blue very well. Love the Sarge and Beetle jeep."

Thanks gentlemen. The plan is to have a subway station. Haven't determined if it will be underground or elevated (that will be based on my skill level ).  The rear advertising panel on the green bus speaks to me directly as I used to go to the A&S department store in Downtown Brooklyn with my mother and grandmother all the time.  We went by both bus and subway.

coach joe posted:

Kevin, I remember the NYC buses in both green and blue very well. Love the Sarge and Beetle jeep.

Patrick, is that Clyde Barrow or Sonny Corleone?

Coach Joe - Its' definitely Sonny C.

Kevin, we used to go to Gimbels, and the big Woolworths, for a "Shallawruce'. Do you remember those. 10 Cents in in 1962'....LOL

Kevin. Thanks for posting love your   Vehicles specially the buses 

Patrick. Poor Sonny he still can’t catch a break well at least  this time it looks like he wasn’t set up at the tollbooth.   My favorite saying is the cattle car in the old model AA Ford truck 

QT  I never been the gimbles  I bet it was cool back then. 

Hey lee, Gimbel's was a combination between Macy's, E.J. Corvette's, and Klein's Department stores.  If Macy's didn't have it, Gimbel's or the others would. These were upper middle class stores.  When I lived with my Grand Folks, in Brooklyn, NY, we shopped in Woolworths, and "Bargain Johns' .  A step up from today's Dollar stores.  But that is where poor folks went for school clothes, and essentials. It was a great store.  I continued to buy things in Bargain John's into my mid twenties, until they finally went under.  The reason many discounts stores have gone under over the years is they couldn't earn enough profitto cover the federal, state, and local taxes.......

Here are some long promised bashed 1938 Internationals.  I think these were only available in H-D, but l rebodied. Normally, l shoot old school 35mm, but these are phone cam, and not good.  The first done was the coal truck, others are lengthened chasses milk truck with unwashed John Willie from my childhood only allowed to ride on tailgate, a bigger box truck, and a logging truck.  Wish there were more pre-1941 mid to large truck models.

 Nice selection of good looking trucks'... I like the paint jobs'...

QG. I bet living there you’ve seen a lot of old Mack’s, Autocars and Brockways you lucky dog. 

Those cornbinders look great thanks for posting them I like those colors too 

More vehicles in their natural habitat. 

Patrick 

my favorite is the Christmas tree pic very real I can just smell those trees

lee drennen posted:

Richie C. posted:

Just received ….. really like the Roadway.

Richie

 Thanks for posting I like the looks of your layout and all your vehicles on there specially the old I think 50 or 49 Ford custom coupe car 

Thanks, Lee - like just about everyone else, layouts are always a work in progress.

Now that I picked up the blue '51 Kenworth in the top pic, I see what you mean about 1/43 scale TT's looking large on the layout. I am able to place it so it's not real close to any other vehicles, so there's no perspective to view it against that would make it look too big for the layout. 

I'd like to letter the trailer, but it has a lot of ridges and rivets in the body and I'm not sure it would come out looking right, even using setting solutions. Would you recommend water slide or dry transfer decals ?

Couple of pic's of the CS truck attached - at 1/32 scale it's too big for the layout but looks good on a shelf and has working lights.

Adding in photos of another bus in my collection. 

It is a 1:50 NABI Low Floor Model Bus in Miami-Dade Transit Colors that is one of the decorations on my desk at work.  I took some photos of it this afternoon to post here on OGR. I had it custom painted by Collect-Corner.net in 2018 and had the route signage designated with the route 95X for the Interstate 95 Express Bus that I commute to/from work on along with Tri-Rail commuter trains from Fort Lauderdale to Miami.  I need to get another NABI bus with Broward County Transit (BCT) livery.

From the last layout...working on a new one right now!  I believe one of my favorite parts of the former layout was the 1/43 and 1/48 cars and people figures, as the picture depicts  The "Vettes" are Franklin Mint, and the two station wagons are Brooklin...all bought on eBay for reasonable prices a decade ago.

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Trumptrain, your railcars, vehicles, buildings, people, etc, are interesting enough. But your ability to combine them into interesting scenes is very impressive.

Vincent Massi posted:

Trumptrain, your railcars, vehicles, buildings, people, etc, are interesting enough. But your ability to combine them into interesting scenes is very impressive.

Why thank you so much Vince!  I'm humbled by your words. 

Patrick

I agree with Vincent very great looking team track  scenes  and thanks for posting here.  

Kevin. Thanks for posting your bus looks great

Paul. Thanks for posting I love those wagons nice pic

Guys I’ve got to get some stuff off the bench and on the layout seems I’m always cutting grass or yard work these days bare with me I’ll get some stuff out and always thanks for posting 

Hey Patrick'  Some great scenes you've put up'..this one is my favorite.  Nice depth of field'... 

Kevin, I like that bus'.. Be safe commuting'.  Not easy to do every day'..

Lee, I've been in the same boat as you'... Too many jobs, and no bench time' as of late.   So many projects on hold'...

Thanks, Lee...the wagons are great.  I like the '50's and 60's the best.  The big three offered some great wagons in that era. 

I got a response....from Brooklin!  Across the pond.  As a vintage car nut as well as train nut, there are a number of vanished pre-1941 makes of cars and trucks l would like to see on my roads.  I sent a short list of some of the distinctive ones to Brooklin, and got a note saying it was passed on to management.  

Colorado, you may have checked online already, but there's currently quite an assortment of Brooklin 1/43 for sale on eBay.  Sounds like you're very familiar with the B line, and you've suggested they add your favorites to the line?  I'm just getting back into the hobby after a few years off.  In checking B prices online, I'm amazed how the prices on some B cars have skyrocketed.  They make a nice unit:, but a little pricey these days

Beer Wagon and REA trailer.

trumptrain posted:

Beer Wagon and REA trailer.

Wow Pat, I'll take a case of that Bud, if you please'...  That is a great wagon'.. very cool'...

Paul:. Brooklin makes a lot of open cars, rarely seen on my childhood roads, and post 1940 cars, beyond my modeled era, so a lot are unusable to me.  I try to pick up used or discounted.  I only suggested a few more unusual cars of that period, and even one more modern one for which  l was lucky enough to own the prototype.  I could generate a very long list of cars from Allen and Auburn to Whippet and Windsor (several 1/43rd Zephyrs are available), but most of the population never heard of many, so l would not expect them to be offered.   Auburn, well known, l would expect but has not, but l did not suggest it.

Patrick I too like that wagon I go by the Budweiser Brewery every day very interesting thanks for posting I’ve never seen you post it before thanks