Michael, I would be interested in any trucks that aren't HarToy. As
good as those are with the exception of the Ford F they seem to be very
large capacity vehicles. Where I came from, a Peterbuilt or Mack was
rare. International, Ford, Chevrolet and a few Dodges were owned by
nearly every farmer and small store owner, so that 50's Chevy farm
(Erthl) vehicle was a good hit, but like anything good you want more
styles. Those M2 pickups are very nice too. So I see the middle size
thing being fairly open for new models. I also would think that you
would need the cabs in addition to the chassis--these are great for junk
yard scenes--the same goes for really old cars.
Back about a half million years ago, Don Heimberger asked me to enter a
S Gaugian contest featuring the Erthl vehicles. So for one shot I cut
off the wheels, broke out the windows, painted it with roof brown and
rust and created a burned out junker. It is far short of what could
have been done, but I still get folks commenting on that car today.
My reward for entering for placing in the contest was many similar
vehicles, several of which I also wrecked for my junkyard scene--others
went to Toys for Tots!
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
On 3/15/13 11:30 AM, Michael Eldridge wrote:
I'm curious how much interest there would be in older S Scale
automobiles. It seems like even in the "transition" era so favored by
model railroaders there is not a lot available.
I have been considering making some patterns for trucks (Mack, Ford)
built in the late teens / early twenties. I would only cast the basic
parts, and then individually build the beds, boxes, tanks, possible
even cabs, that rode on the chassis.
This is total vaporware (that's software engineer speak for it's on
the someday list), but I'm curious if I got around to this if anybody
else would want to share the setup costs in order to get some parts.
-Michael Eldridge
--- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, Bob
Werre <bob@...> wrote:
> The other view is of some vintage cars. I don't recall ever seeing
> anything like that in our favorite scale except maybe some of the
> RailMaster vehicles might be close.
