Diecast Direct has available some nifty step vans in 1:48 scale....REA, Charles Chips, unlettered, etc.....reasonably priced.
Also shown by the same mfr are some nice cement trucks in 1:50.....in the scale ballpark.
Also listed is a nifty aerial platform truck in 1:48....which would, perhaps, make a dandy vignette centerpiece....
FWIW...
KD
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Got that e-mail......some 1/48 some 1/50 and some 1/64.......sounds like 'box scale' and the step vans happened to end up 1/48. They looked decent but not for a 50's era city.
They look pretty nice for the price. A bit less than what I paid for the Wiseman kit I got last year. I’ll add the Charles Chips van to my shopping list for the next time I put in a Diecast Direct order.
I wonder if I can chop the enclosed van to make a Conrail mow truck?
Aerial lift truck and cement mixer look like the ones Menard's are selling also.
For many years I have waited for someone to come out with 1/48 scale sized vehicles at a reasonable price. I actually gave up on 1/48 scale cars ever being produced years ago. In my opinion if a 1/43 car can cost less than ten dollars then so should a 1/48 scale car. Yesterday I got a an email from Die Cast Direct and there is a company called Denver Die Cast that has a small selection of 1/48 scale vehicles for reasonable prices. They are 7.95 or 8.95 or 11.95 each or 44.95/49.95 for a set of 6 cars depending on which set or single car you want. (my number 4 key on my keyboard doesn't work so no dollar sign) My only question is I hope these vehicles are actually 1/48 and not 1/43 vehicles labeled as 1/48? I wonder if the Ford Panel Van is the same tooling that Menards used? If they are 1/48 sized I will definitely buy some.
They have a:
Here are some screen shots:
@dkdkrd : you sure have a lot of '4's in your post considering your 4 key doesn't work
. Sorry, but I enjoy finding these kinds of things. No criticism implied at all.
walt
Several of Menard's 1:48 vehicles are indeed made by Denver Diecast.
Thanks for the info. I just placed an order on the die cast direct site for the military power wagon and the troop carrier made by Denver die cast. I have some repro pyro vehicles I’d like to replace.
@walt rapp posted:@dkdkrd : you sure have a lot of '4's in your post considering your 4 key doesn't work
walt
Walt there is a second set of numbers to the right on my keyboard that includes the number 4. Most modern keyboards have these keys. It is the number 4 key above the letters that doesn't work. The other number 4 key does work. Thank God I have the other number keys or I would have had to run out and get a new keyboard.
Thanks for the information Bob. That makes sense.
i never thought of the separate number keys because I never use them. Sort of like out of sight out of mind. Either way I did not in any way want to express a criticism. Only intent was to shed some humor on a topic, but since I was forgetting about the number keypad, my small attempt failed.
sorry - walt
@jgtrh62 posted:I picked up a Denver Diecast 1:48 Dodge Ram to check out, pretty decent, especially for 7.95.
John
Really nice, but I don't see it on their website when I search "Dodge Ram".
John
@walt rapp posted:@dkdkrd : you sure have a lot of '4's in your post considering your 4 key doesn't work
walt
Wow...
My original post is about 6 years passé.
Unfortunately, the links in the OP are also 6 years passé.
IOW, my OP is rather irrelevant to the moment re Die Cast Direct releases.
I'm amazed to see it resurrected. (Scary, actually; those 6 years surely went FAST!
)
Regardless, I have no idea what you're referring to re the "4's" issue????
One of the other posters was putting price info on vehicles into a post without a dollar sign. He then parenthetically apologized for the lack of a dollar sign by stating that his keyboard "4" key (where the dollar sign is above the "4") was no longer working. Despite that info, he still displayed some number "4s" in his explanation, but again had to explain that they came from his numeric keypad, not from his keyboard "4". Clear as mud, right?
Chuck
And yeah, it is kind of amazing that threads dormant for many moons are suddenly resurrected, often for no real good reason! And here I am, sustaining that resurrection.
Walt, no worries. I totally get where you are coming from.
I am sorry I resurrected this thread. I thought it was better to resurrect this thread than to start a new one. I guess I was wrong.
I have a cart filled at DieCast Direct, but apparently the cost of shipping is a secret unless you first give them your credit card and actually place and order.
John
EDIT: Never mind. It spells it out on this page:
@jgtrh62 That truck looks great! Pretty darn good for the price. I plan to order some of the other trucks and the '58 Plymouth.
@Hudson J1e posted:Walt, no worries. I totally get where you are coming from.
I am sorry I resurrected this thread. I thought it was better to resurrect this thread than to start a new one. I guess I was wrong.
No,
Happy you did.
John
@dkdkrd posted:Wow...
My original post is about 6 years passé.
I'm amazed to see it resurrected. (Scary, actually; those 6 years surely went FAST!
dkdkrd, thanks for posting this thread even though it was some time ago. I never saw it back then, and actually stumbled across the thread a couple months ago or so, when searching for 1:48 scale vehicles. I was unaware Denver Diecast offered a modern era pickup truck until then either so I was pleasantly surprised to find this, particularly in 1:48, and especially in the ever shrinking number of O scale manufacturers. Anything that positively promotes O scale is a good thing imho.
John
I was unaware of die cast direct until I saw this old thread. I'll always search for posts on a current problem I'm having, and if it's close I'll resurrect it no matter how old it is, hoping that the additional discussion on it will help the next person. The die cast direct site has some nice O gauge stuff on it from multiple sources. I bookmarked it in my 'Trains' folder for future use. Thanks.
For those whose layouts include military bases, the 1:48 Delivery Step Van could, with some repainting and decals, be a dead ringer for the "bread trucks" the US Air Force used for years in aircraft maintenance, civil engineering and inter-office mail delivery.
1:48 American Heritage Models Delivery Step Van
The 1:43 Grumman Olson Delivery Step Van would also be, with repainting and decals, a dead ringer for those same types of Air Force "break trucks".
I only look at 1/48 or 1/50 cars and trucks, so thinks for the info.
Hi guys. Thanks for bringing this site back from the dead. A whole heap of good stuff, but 1/48 had a short list, and I ordered a couple of trucks. When time permits, I'll ask how to dig deeper in their website, My best regards. Tommy
@Bob posted:Several of Menard's 1:48 vehicles are indeed made by Denver Diecast.
And Menards has an aisle bin of Denver Diecast cars year-round in my local store. So the relationship seems pretty close.
Got two Dodge Ram trucks two days ago. Really nice.
Thanks for posting this.
John
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