O Scale Motor Chronicle Volume II Jan. 18, 2013

I don't know why you started a new thread, but I'm not going to bother continuing the maufacturer history postings, only to have them "lost". I think it would have been better to have a 1:43 topic in the "scenic" section.

I agree with Joe Hohmann's suggestion. I usually don't read this section so I wouldn't have known about the O Scale Vehicle list. It's a good idea, however the people who only read the O Scale 2 Rail and 3 rail O Scale might find it easier if it were in Scenery. Just my $.02 Keep Smilin'

Some days my layout is almost nothing more than an excuse to play with cars.  The car on the right, below, is another by that same company that Richard E started this thread with.  I got it off Amazon for around $20.  Like the Gaz, this is model of a Soviet car that was a knock off of an American one for the WWII era.  Nice, detailed model . . . in front on it is a Schuco (I think) '48 Chrysler.

 

Like many others, I love to weather cars and locos and like some I often get, if not carried away, then realy into it.  Here is a delivery truck that has seen better days . . 

ugly and worn now, but I like this old workhorse

I have a few models opening doors, and most look bad with the doors closed (seams too prominent) so I pose them open, this couple about to get in the car and the husband waiting while his wife checks her purse . . . my superstreets city buses clear this guy's open door by only a scale foot, close enough to cause panic in the real world, but he and his wife are cool about it.

Here is one of my favorite little scenes involving cars.  It's at a sport car shop with a lot of mid 50s sport cars around it -I particulalry like this guy talking to a pretty girl on a Corvette (another with opening doors and trunk).

 

Below is my favorite scene: two sports car enthusiaists pulled over on the street while they talk about cars, each wearing his jaunty drivers cap and both very proud of their British mounts.

Joe:
You make a good point, I considered just continuing the thread, but most threads just die after a few days. I also considered posting on the “scenic” section, but there is more traffic in the “classic three-rail” section.
I am considering placing any new posts on the original and let this thread fade away. Maybe I’ll start a thread on the “scenic” section” with a description and a link to the original on the “classic three-rail” section.
I am open to suggestions and welcome critique.
Please continue the manufacturer history postings, that is exactly the kind of discussions I want to start.

Anyone wishing to set-up a seperate thread on vehicles in the Scenery Forum, please email me dgauss@comcast.net. Since many of the Forumites no longer put their email addresses in their Member Profiles this is the only way of coordinating such a project.

 

Also, please use the full web address when referring to a website you would like referred to in the Scenery

sourcelist as www.****.com

 

 Thanks in advance, Dave Gauss

I visit the Scenery forums sometimes and really like the resources listed there, etc., but I prefer threads like this here.    This forum is both by far the broadest forum on this website, and it gets more traffic than all the other forums added together (at least if you discount the buy and sell forum postings).  I think when it is general interest type discussions of cars, etc., its fine here, and I like the fact that a lot of people not into scenery or cars that much comment - part of the fun.

 

 

Lee You are correct, I ran a hobby shop for 10 years. The one thin I learned is many 3-railers have little interest in anything more than the most basic scenery.  Although that is changing with the convertion of new O-scalers from HO & N. The introduction of highly detailed scale models brought an increase in the quality of scenery. You don’t need to look any farther than the current issue of OGR for an example.

My wife often says that my layout is just an excuse for me to do scenery and such.  I love everything about it.  I have become addicted to 1:43 cars, however. Yes, I put gobs of them on my layout, but I just love to collect them.

Here is something to keep this wonderful thread going.  I love to "severely weather" things - its fun to play "Mr. Rust," etc.  At the edge of my layout's little town is Fast Eddies, a sports car dealership of dubious business reputation, but if you are into European cars in my little town, you really have no other choice.  Parked to the side and long neglected are a completely trashed Morgan Plus 4 with weeds growing up through it and an Alfa that is doing what 50s and 60s Alfas did best - rusting. 

 

I'd love to see other examples of weather/damaged cars and trucks.

 

I have often said, " I have a 5x8 diorama of the 1950s with trains added." My 1:43 car hobby started as a result of joining a modular group. I needed a place to store the 100 cars I used among my 4 modules. I bought display cases to display them between shows. Then I needed more cases...and more...