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

@Dennis Holler, one can never go wrong with beer trucks.

@Dennis Holler posted:

Did you print your own decals or find some on line?

Dennis I went the cheap route and printed my own on decal paper.

Dennis, Mike,

Those Menards trucks are indeed ideal for repaints.  Photo-proof is attached.  The decals are custom but not too expensive when you consider the number per sheet.  I gave quite a few to friends.  

G. Fox was a major Connecticut department store until bought out by Filene’s/ Macy’ in the early 2000s.  
three of the trucks are Menards repaints, one is a kitbashed Ford”C,” and the last one is a metal kit by whomever.  

As you can observe in the photos, merchandise is received by truck and train on the lower level.  Regional distribution and home delivery is via trucks on the second level.  Note the newly poured concrete…

In the late 40's, a neighbor gave me a die cast half track (?) along with his WWII USMC helmet and a web belt. IIRC, he told me it was a training aid during the war.

The helmet and belt are long gone and I played with the vehicle in the dirt as a 6-7 y/o.  Several years ago I repainted it as the original paint was mostly gone.  Here are some photos of it with a 1:48 Solido vehicle for size comparison.

Any ideas who might have made it?  Was it a toy or training device?  Is there a collector interest in such items?

@Don Sierakowski 111617 posted:

Dennis, Mike,

Those Menards trucks are indeed ideal for repaints.  Photo-proof is attached.  The decals are custom but not too expensive when you consider the number per sheet.  I gave quite a few to friends.  

G. Fox was a major Connecticut department store until bought out by Filene’s/ Macy’ in the early 2000s.  
three of the trucks are Menards repaints, one is a kitbashed Ford”C,” and the last one is a metal kit by whomever.  

As you can observe in the photos, merchandise is received by truck and train on the lower level.  Regional distribution and home delivery is via trucks on the second level.  Note the newly poured concrete…

Great looking trucks'.  GFox, was a great store, Very good memories.  Main ST, Hartford.  I thought they went out in the 90s.

@wbg pete posted:

In the late 40's, a neighbor gave me a die cast half track (?) along with his WWII USMC helmet and a web belt. IIRC, he told me it was a training aid during the war.

The helmet and belt are long gone and I played with the vehicle in the dirt as a 6-7 y/o.  Several years ago I repainted it as the original paint was mostly gone.  Here are some photos of it with a 1:48 Solido vehicle for size comparison.

Any ideas who might have made it?  Was it a toy or training device?  Is there a collector interest in such items?

Pete, Looks like it is between a  1/32 or 1/24 scale toy truck.  It is not a training device. I recall seeing very similar items back in the very early 60s. All rubber military trucks.. Take a look on ebay.  Could be some on there...

Always liked the power and road presence of a Peterbilt with a sleeper.  i hope to expand the trucking fleet on the layout this year.  A couple of the diecast vendors have a great selection of 1/43 tractors...

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Over the road long distance truckers all seem to love the Peter builts... So I was told that at a truck stop in Cheyenne, Wyoming , when driving cross country years back...

Ted, in today's market, you could easily get to 200k with a loaded up Pete...the 1/43's are much cheaper and you don't need to fill-up those deisel tanks every few hundred miles..lol

@Capetrainman posted:

Ted, in today's market, you could easity get to 200k with a loaded up Pete...the 1/43's are much cheaper and you don't need to fill-up those deisel tanks every few hundred miles..lol

Paul the truck looks great and I need some with sleepers on my layout!

Ted where I cone from Kenworth is the to go truck! IMO I think they even look better the a Pete. But then again I use to drive past the Kenworth plant everyday growing up! 😆

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Pete, Looks like it is between a  1/32 or 1/24 scale toy truck.  It is not a training device. I recall seeing very similar items back in the very early 60s. All rubber military trucks.. Take a look on ebay.  Could be some on there...

Thank you!!

@mike g. posted:

Paul the truck looks great and I need some with sleepers on my layout!

Ted where I cone from Kenworth is the to go truck! IMO I think they even look better the a Pete. But then again I use to drive past the Kenworth plant everyday growing up! 😆

Mike, there's no flies on Kenworth...right up there with Pete.  Now that you mentioned Kenworth, I' may see what's out there in 1/43 from the diecast sellers!  The orange Pete sleeper in my picture is an IXO model I believe...

Here's the "Pete" making a delivery at Grace Valley early this morning...he's got a half load of feed and fertilizer for Grace.  The kind staff always has a hot coffee waiting for him on delivery day...the driver wants to know the asking price for weathered '65 F-100 for sale...

The foreman at the Charles Street Yard checks the manifest on a load of 6' x 8' ties for the replacement project...the green "Pete" had no problem pulling the load of creosote treated ties...

I’m sure that was an easy load for the Pete, Paul!!  It looks great!

Are the Menards 1956 Ford trucks 1/48? The round-nose trailers look good. I like the Peterbilt, but 1/43 seems too big to me.

@harley rider posted:

Are the Menards 1956 Ford trucks 1/48? The round-nose trailers look good. I like the Peterbilt, but 1/43 seems too big to me.

I'd guess 1/50th comparing to other vehicles on my layout. Just my opinion, I didn't see a size on them.

IXO, NEO, and Altaya are all beaytiful models.  They are 1/43.  perfect for European O scale.

A couple 1/43 Dinky '56 T-birds in Coke "livery" on a PW 6424 auto flat:

Some closer looks:

Amazingly enough, these models fit like they were made for this flat so they "ride the rails" without shifting without obtrusive external "strapping;" what would be the prototypical undercarriage chains can be imagined.

@Bill Swatos posted:

A couple 1/43 Dinky '56 T-birds in Coke "livery" on a PW 6424 auto flat:

Some closer looks:

Amazingly enough, these models fit like they were made for this flat so they "ride the rails" without shifting without obtrusive external "strapping;" what would be the prototypical undercarriage chains can be imagined.

Bill I got one of those except its red.

@harley rider posted:

Are the Menards 1956 Ford trucks 1/48? The round-nose trailers look good. I like the Peterbilt, but 1/43 seems too big to me.

harley-rider...thanks for your comments.  I agree, in some placements on the layout, 1/43 can look "too big."  I decided some years ago to go with 1/43 because of the large assortment of vehicles available, when I've found 1/48 very limited.  I try to work around the size variances by placing the cars / trucks in a way so that the scale difference is less obvious.  When I put North Main Street together on the layout, the parking arrangement was nose to curb rather than parallel to the curb....seems to have worked visually. 

The Peterbilt in the pic above is 1/43...IXO has a great selection in that scale better than I've found in other scales or manufacturers.  The one thing I'll say about vehicle size is that having stood next to a Peterbilt, Kenworth, Mack, or whatever, those babies are pretty big, even when next to real-life box car or deisel engine...lol...