I am taking my layout to an even more tin plate/toy train look by using old Tootsie Toy and Midgetoy vehicles and such instead of the usual 1/43 scale cars and trucks.
To fill in while I build my collection of old toy cars I have been building stand in vehicles from sheet styrene. Thought maybe someone might like to see.
Here's a shot of a truck I was building, a blue hardtop I made and a couple of vintage Midgetoy items in the back ground. I can't get the window cutouts right so I do solid windows like on some of the old Auburn rubber toy cars.
I try to build to replicate the way the old die cast cars were made from a simple mold.
Here's the truck under construction above after painting and "aging" parked with real old die cast toy trucks.
Here's the blue hardtop and another homemade truck with a vintage Tootsie Toy Merc. The trailers are going away.
