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

All of them look great, Nick!

@metalman, Nice collections Nick.  I believe they are all re-paints.  Excellent work.  I love the NASCAR racer on the hauler.  Is the hauler a custom build?  I've seen that ERTL '60 Chevy as a tractor but I don't recall it as a hauler.

@coach joe posted:

@metalman, Nice collections Nick.  I believe they are all re-paints.  Excellent work.  I love the NASCAR racer on the hauler.  Is the hauler a custom build?  I've seen that ERTL '60 Chevy as a tractor but I don't recall it as a hauler.

Coach Joe,

Thanks.   Yes the Mack box trucks are all Corgi models that I removed the factory lettering using a q-tip with fingernail polish remover containing acetone.   I re-lettered them with decals purchased from a seller on the Bay.

You're right-the Ertl '60 Chevy was just the cab/chassis.   The flatbed part was 3-D printed by forum member tackindy for pickup truck use.   I opened up the wheel wells and did some slicing/dicing on both the Ertl chassis and the flatbed piece until I got everything fitting reasonably well.   Painted the cab to match the Pontiac and then JB Welded everything together.   Here's a couple photos.

Hi guys I hope your all doing well!

@metalman Nice amazing job on the car hauler! All your other cars in your pictures look great I have to ask though, do you sit there while the train is running on your layout and just polish each and everyone of your cars? They all look like they just came off the showroom flooR

As for me @Capetrainman Paul should like this one, I have been giving him a bad time about his vet on the car lift, and most of it was because I didn't have one! Well Paul last week while on a road trip with the brother in law and his family the wife and I went into a Pawn shop, and I picked up a 1953 Chevrolet Corvette made by Dinky.

Specs state it is a 1/43 scale but it will fit in just fine on the layout!

@mike g. posted:

Hi guys I hope your all doing well!

@metalman Nice amazing job on the car hauler! All your other cars in your pictures look great I have to ask though, do you sit there while the train is running on your layout and just polish each and everyone of your cars? They all look like they just came off the showroom flooR

I went into a Pawn shop, and I picked up a 1953 Chevrolet Corvette made by Dinky.

Specs state it is a 1/43 scale but it will fit in just fine on the layout!

Hi Mike,

Thanks.   As a Marine,  you know that if everything isn't "up to snuff" there's a problem-LOL.    I've never seen that Dinky Corvette before.

@Mark Boyce posted:

All of them look great, Nick!

Thanks Mark!

@mike g. posted:

Hi guys I hope your all doing well!

@metalman Nice amazing job on the car hauler! All your other cars in your pictures look great I have to ask though, do you sit there while the train is running on your layout and just polish each and everyone of your cars? They all look like they just came off the showroom flooR

As for me @Capetrainman Paul should like this one, I have been giving him a bad time about his vet on the car lift, and most of it was because I didn't have one! Well Paul last week while on a road trip with the brother in law and his family the wife and I went into a Pawn shop, and I picked up a 1953 Chevrolet Corvette made by Dinky.

Specs state it is a 1/43 scale but it will fit in just fine on the layout!

Mike, that's a sharp looking Vette...maybe a '55 - '56?

Sales at the local Chevy dealer are a little slow this holiday week, but a few lookers stopped by last night to checkout the newly arrived load of 55's...

@Capetrainman posted:

Mike, that's a sharp looking Vette...maybe a '55 - '56?

Paul the box and card that it came with says 53!

Maybe it could draw some folks to the Chevy dealership!

@metalman posted:

Coach Joe,

Thanks.   Yes the Mack box trucks are all Corgi models that I removed the factory lettering using a q-tip with fingernail polish remover containing acetone.   I re-lettered them with decals purchased from a seller on the Bay.

You're right-the Ertl '60 Chevy was just the cab/chassis.   The flatbed part was 3-D printed by forum member tackindy for pickup truck use.   I opened up the wheel wells and did some slicing/dicing on both the Ertl chassis and the flatbed piece until I got everything fitting reasonably well.   Painted the cab to match the Pontiac and then JB Welded everything together.   Here's a couple photos.

Nice job!  

I have always wanted to do a similar project, but have never gotten around to it.

Jim