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

I used a mat for some. My car show sits on a painted green plywood sheet. I'm not to handy and I have no room to do work on the layout, no workshop, or even area large enough to do work. I had to do it on the tables my layout is on, arranging the work in sequence. What I have is a rather toy train series of layouts, one 027 gauge, one mostly "O" gauge, a trestle oval where my trolley runs, a circle with 2 sidings where my Yankee commuter trains run. I have D&H  passenger and freight trains. I also have the car show which mimics the AACA car show in Spencer,NC which is where the NC Transportation Museum and Yards are. Then I have a section with cabooses, a representation of those in the Red Caboose Motel in Lancaster, Pa. I stayed in the Reading caboose so that's there. All in all, I'm happy with the result, and while it's not as intricate as many others it serves to bring back memories for me. Oh, and I've put hoboes on my D&H freight and people on other parts of the layout.

@lee drennen posted:

If there’s a Hobby Lobby near you guys they now have the Atlantis White 3000 Sinclair tanker 

I like the truck Lee, and I have a Hobby Lobby not too far away. I don't see the scale mentioned on the box - do you know what it is?

 That is a very nice weathering application Ray'.. Looks great'..👍

@Lionelski posted:

I like the truck Lee, and I have a Hobby Lobby not too far away. I don't see the scale mentioned on the box - do you know what it is?

I have two of them and on the side of the box, it states 1/48 scale and the length is 10.25 inches.
I plan on a total repaint in red.  It's what I remember seeing.       D.

John it’s close to Scale O but more towards 1/50 will work. Here’s one I’m working on with one of those Lionel o27 piggyback thailers that actually measures to be 1/50. 

Ray. That Bulldog is awesome 

Here it is with a Mack B Corgi set of fronts 

This is the original red version at the upper left. Looks like the same two guys are still working the truck !

Hi everyone, I thought I might post for your review and enjoyment another member of my "Japanese Tinplate Trucks" club.  This one is a cement mixer and the rubber wheel friction drive actually turns the mixer tank on the back as it propels the truck along.  This one unlike the Mobile Pet Shop I showed earlier is a little closer to O-scale.  I have placed an actual 1/48 size person near the cab door to show the scale comparison.  The working end of the truck is quite realistic, the chute for the concrete swivels and moves up and down as it would on a real truck. Rear even has the registration plate.  The mixer moves at a realistic rotational speed.  The downsides are that there is  no real cab interior, not even a steering wheel and the cab doors are only hinted at and not really there.  Another acquisition from a trip to Kadena AFB on Okinawa, Japan (actually it belonged to the US when I was there).

Have a happy weekend everyone.

Don

Got my goodies from Don Mills models. Super clean and sharp. Looking forward to adding them to the Corgi Mack.

Wow, West Side Joe'... That was really fast service.  You just ordered this stuff.  What a very good outfit'....  Looking forward to seeing your results on your Corgi Macks'...👀

Joe. One thing I forgot to tell you Don ships fast. Nice goodies thanks for posting now let’s see them one a B Mack 

Hi everyone...hey I went to "Hobby Lobby" to get one of those Atlantis White Sinclair Tanker kits (winter project) and I was successful although I got the last one they had on the shelf.  What I wanted to say to everyone, as we now approach the Christmas season, Hobby Lobby is jam packed with "stuff" you can use to "Christmasize" your layout and ALL of it is offered at 40-50 % off the marked price.  I usually add some temporary Holiday decoration to my layout for the holidays and have an "around the tree" set running as well so these bargains were of interest to me.  Anyway just FYI if you need any of this Holiday stuff.

Don

I just yesterday found a car....no pictures yet... that is / was made by Tomte Lardal (?), Stamanger (?), Norway.  It is made of semi-soft canary yellow rubber-like material with a soft transparent windshield.  It is a pretty good representation of a T-bird convertible with quad headlights, a hood scoop, flat top "eyebrows" over the headlights, long low fins, and round quad tail lights with flat "eyebrows" over them.  I can't remember the year but the quad headlights weren't seen much before 1963.  The sides are a swoop and spear thing that I recall seeing, but don't know when.

This car is a bit small for 1/48, but a bunch larger than 1?64.  It has a couple of people cast into the front seats and a dog laying on the back seat.

I'd like to 1. identify the year, 2. identify the maker, 3.see if I can find more cars like this, and 4. put some skill, luck, and work into painting it to use in one of my scenes.

Any help from anyone, anywhere will be appreciated.

JFWIW the one I'm seeing my mind's eye was pink and white, common colors for Edsels and Turnpike Cruisers.

>>???? Forty Rod, where did you find this car?  There must be a photo of it on the site you found it... Maybe you can copy and paste the pix. And then post it  here.  Then I could identify the year for you....

I found it in a thrift shop for fifty cents.  Couldn't pass it up.  I'll try to get it cleaned upa bit a take a picture of it.

Ok, a bit of Dawn and some warm water and it looks much better.  No how do I get these pics from my iPhone to this site?

Tom

I found a ton of them on eBay for $4.99 to over $300.00, various sizes and all made in the 60s.  Mine is a 1962 T-Bird (it really isn't, but I still can't pin it down) in what they say is 1/43....not even close, but I can use it as a background car.  Needs a new windshield unless I can figure out how to un-warp this one.  There is a bilious green one on eBay for $5.99.

@Forty Rod posted:

Ok, a bit of Dawn and some warm water and it looks much better.  No how do I get these pics from my iPhone to this site?

 

Tom

Tom it is very simple'... Send the pix to your email.  Then open it and save it in you photo files.  Then bring up this thread.  Then left click on below right, ADD Attachments...  Then just follow the prompts....

Okay, let's assume I have no idea how to send this to my e-mail (which I don't.  I've been working with computers since 1966 and still don't know diddly-squat about them) and go from there 

BTW, I found a book with pages of paper and it appears that this is a model of a '58 or more likely a '59 car.

I'd still like to send pics of things and stuff when I can, though.

Tom

Laughed at these postings, since l have used computers, as tools, since my employer sprang for Zenith!! desktops.  I am not enamored with electronics.  Directions for posting pictures remind me of asking directions on a 1920's dirt road: "go past Uncle Elbert's farm, turn left at the third white house, then two miles past the end of the fence line, and you are almost there".  I have seen that White truck, but like railroad models, l want the year that White was first offered printed on the box.   An Alco PA nosed up to a E-8 at Promontory Point is not an accurate historical model.