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

MELGAR posted:

trumptrain posted:

Some Fruehuaf (sp? ) trailers.

I haven't seen any of these short trailers in real life for a very long time but did see them often years ago. Would like one. The size and era are perfect for my small model railroads.

MELGAR

MELGAR - These UP trailers came with a Lionel TOFC flatcar which I purchased on sale at a LHS.  Later I bought several more trailers ( only ) from a vendor a York.  I agree, they are perfect for a small layout or when modeling within a smaller area on a larger layout.  

coach joe posted:

Richie C, did that trailer come with the semi or is that a separate model?

I have since had a chance to add decals.

My first attempt at a Shapeways 3d model.

I wanted a GMC Crackerbox and the only place I could find one was Shapeways (I was warned).  Model is printed in nylon white versatile plastic.  Finishing this model was different than any other material I had ever worked, HARD - I couldn't use hand saws or Pin Vise, had to use a Dremel with power and speed.  Saws and especially drill flutes clog very easily.  I used sandpaper coarser than ever before to even attempt to smooth.

About four coats of white paint with a sand between each coat.  Wet sanding doesn't work like normal and the very porous material takes about 3 days to dry good after being wet.  Final coat of Scalecoat II whit paint with a minor final dry sand (after 3 days drying) and then 5 days for all to dry well before the color.  This for the cab.

The model comes as a single axle and I wanted a tandem, so I cut a frame from a Shapeways Dodge L1000 to get the tandems and spliced with brass channel. (the Dodge will become a single axle daycab and a later project).  I never could get the fuel tanks to clean up properly.  Some Don Mills metal tanks may be in the future.  Wheels are by Don Mills as well as Mirrors and Horn.

If you remember the 70's show Movin On with Claude Akins (Sonny Pruitt) and Frank Converse (Will Chandler), they drove a pretty green Kenworth.  The inspiration for this truck was the truck driven by Art Metrano (Moose) and Rosi Greer (Benji) called the Pig Pen.  Except the Pig Pen never looked this good (even if not up to my normal standards).  I know I need a different trailer for the real Pig Pen.

I have a Shapeways Holmes 750 printed out of a better plastic (mucho more dollars) I and am going to put on a Revell Chevy 2 ton, the better plastic is much less grainy,

Hard to tell with pictures, It's no metal finish Corgi, but better than nothing and not TOO awful bad.  As I was warned, it is possible to get a decent model (I didn't say super) but it is a lot more work and working with this material is a horse of a different color.

Others that have used 3D plastic, I'd love to know what I did wrong or could have done better to get a better finish.

Gray Lackey

Greg,

I would be interested to see photos of the 3d part as you received it and during your rework.

MELGAR

Completing the scene with trucks & cars.  Sometimes placing the right vehicle (s) into a scene will greatly boost the impact of the scene's effectiveness in telling a more convincing story.  Sometimes all we need to add is one vehicle as in photos 2, 4, 5, 7 , 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14.  At other times more vehicles for background bring greater depth and context to a scene as in photo 1.  Photos 6 & 8 with a variety of vehicles depicting a busy urban setting.  Many vehicles as in photo 15 depicts a busy state or county highway at a grade crossing.  Just some things that I take into consideration  when creating a vignette on my layout.

Since I don't have another GMC here's the Dodge printers from the same material.  You can see the striation levels in the printing.

Mel. I really like those short Fruehauf trailers they work great on my 4x8 layout 

Patrick. Love that team track fueling  pic 

Heres a few pics of my trailers 

A steep driveway leads from the parking lot behind The Chromium Process Company up to the end of Back Street on my 10'-by-5' layout. A serious-looking guard stands by the guard shack to make sure that only one vehicle at a time is on the narrow gravel driveway.

MELGAR

Here is the NYPD 1975 Plymouth Fury that recently joined my collection, presented with some interesting background materials. 

Maybe Popeye Doyle can fly a Delta DC-10 to Florida to buy one of the Mackle Brothers homes like the radio ad in the movie 

 Wow kevin, two of my all time favorites'.. the movies and the actors'.. the bus and the Plymouth an't bad either'...  Nice collection'..

Amfleet25124 posted:

Here is the NYPD 1975 Plymouth Fury that recently joined my collection, presented with some interesting background materials. 

I sure do remember when these were the NYPD cars and buses in NYC. Very nice models and photo. I walked from 41st Street and 6th Avenue to Grand Central on a hot day last week. The clean air is amazing compared to what it was in the seventies.

MELGAR

Thanks Quarter Gauger & Melgar.

Good memories of the dirty, rotting Apple at its core in the 1970's are what those movies (and others) bring back to me. If time travel were a reality,  I wouldn't go back though, I only enjoy going back mentally and through model trains.

Picked this up over the weekend at my LHS - just looked cool.

Melgar, I am impressed with the realism of this scene.

Amfleet25124 posted:

Thanks Quarter Gauger & Melgar.

Memories of the dirty, rotting Apple at its core is what those movies (and others) bring back to me. If time travel were a reality,  I wouldn't go back though, I only enjoy going back mentally and through model trains.

Kevin,

I wouldn't go back either. I think that, in most ways, NYC is a much better place today than it was in the seventies. Even though it's expensive and the traffic can be difficult.

MELGAR

MELGAR posted:

Amfleet25124 posted:

Thanks Quarter Gauger & Melgar.

Memories of the dirty, rotting Apple at its core is what those movies (and others) bring back to me. If time travel were a reality,  I wouldn't go back though, I only enjoy going back mentally and through model trains.

Kevin,

I wouldn't go back either. I think that, in most ways, NYC is a much better place today than it was in the seventies. Even though it's expensive and the traffic can be difficult.

MELGAR

 

Melgar, just to clarify, I have good memories of the 70s in NYC (I’ve since edited that sentence in my post). 

>>Another topic for another time, but I plan on having the Atlas O Elektra Theater on my layout with a rotating list of my favorite period NYC films of the time on the marquee<<

Amfleet25124 posted:

MELGAR posted:

Amfleet25124 posted:

Thanks Quarter Gauger & Melgar.

Memories of the dirty, rotting Apple at its core is what those movies (and others) bring back to me. If time travel were a reality,  I wouldn't go back though, I only enjoy going back mentally and through model trains.

Kevin,

I wouldn't go back either. I think that, in most ways, NYC is a much better place today than it was in the seventies. Even though it's expensive and the traffic can be difficult.

MELGAR

Melgar, just to clarify, I have good memories of the 70s in NYC (I’ve since edited that sentence in my post).

So do I. But in a lot of ways, I think it's better now than then... Certainly much cleaner.

MELGAR

trumptrain posted:

Completing the scene with trucks & cars.  Sometimes placing the right vehicle (s) into a scene will greatly boost the impact of the scene's effectiveness in telling a more convincing story.  Sometimes all we need to add is one vehicle as in photos 2, 4, 5, 7 , 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14.  At other times more vehicles for background bring greater depth and context to a scene as in photo 1.  Photos 6 & 8 with a variety of vehicles depicting a busy urban setting.  Many vehicles as in photo 15 depicts a busy state or county highway at a grade crossing.  Just some things that I take into consideration  when creating a vignette on my layout.

Swell & Grand'  scenes as always from you'... Where'd you get the blue & white Mack?  I've been searching for one with no luck'..  I really like that paint job'...

MELGAR posted:

A steep driveway leads from the parking lot behind The Chromium Process Company up to the end of Back Street on my 10'-by-5' layout. A serious-looking guard stands by the guard shack to make sure that only one vehicle at a time is on the narrow gravel driveway.

MELGAR

 Mel, if the last shot had a blue horizon in the background, it would be absolutely perfect and ad copy/magazine ready'... You did a swell job taking that picture'... 

Richie C. posted:

Picked this up over the weekend at my LHS - just looked cool.

 Richie, that is a very smart looking truck'..  Very cool indeed'.. Nice find'..