Not quite sure where to post this. This is the relatively new RPM (from Poland) Model T kit. It's really great and can be converted into all kinds of things. Rusty Rails already has a conversion kit for it. This is the 1918 Model T ambulance used in World War I that I converted into a delivery truck for my J&RG southwestern-style layout.
Jim
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This is O scale? If European often 1/43 vs. 1/48 but close enough....but a lot of this
stuff is made for LGB...and it looks funny if a T-banger is bigger than your
Challenger...I ask because the photo shows a fine detailed model..maybe not O scale.
Sorry to disappoint you, but the model IS 1/48 not 1/43 (7mm) scale as is used in the UK, some parts of Europe, and Australia, for example. The measurements pretty closely match the drawings I have of other Model-T's so I am confident of it's scale. Currently, it's the only 1/48 model that RPM makes. I guess the "fine detailed model" is compliment; to either the manufacturer or me?
Jim
Whoops...sorry. It IS a finely detailed model, with more detail than found on the
slightly larger, and probably more expensive, cast 1/43 Brooklins, etc. At first
glance I thought the photo was of a much larger model, since similar LARGE models
can be found. What I would like to find is a three rail power source for these kinds of O SCALE models, with those spoke wheels, later wires, and still later stamped steel wheels all optionally available and flanged so all kinds of these and other "critters", railbuses, etc., out of the Keilty "Doodlebug" book series, could be motorized. The Bowser streetcar chasses, cut down in several ways, including removing one axle, is/was? the easiest to find, but not fit for every application.
I do like the well done ocotillo and desert scenery, not to mention the detail on the model...in fact, that is what led me to think it was a larger model.
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