The "NEW Scale Vehicles " Thread

[eightyeightfan1]

Sweet find Catt!
I wanted one also when they first came out, but I probably had better luck finding an "upsidedown Jenny" postal stamp.

[Catt]

There are times when I feel the need to get away from train things.One of the non train things I do is collect Hot Wheels and other 1:64th scale autos and trucks.Hot Wheels has a rather nice selection of 40 Fords.In fact the only ones they don't do are the fordor sedan and fordor converible .The pick up is a race vehicvle but I still have plans for it.

Anywho,here is my current project the tudor sedan,now understand these are longtime projects that may not get touched for months at a time (I started this one last summer).There is much to do yet like redoing the chrome trim and I think this one needs new windows.





Since these pics were taken the interior and stock windows have be installed.The interior is fine but the windows suck.

My intentions are to eventually have a set of custon rods like this one and a set of stock cars to compliment the custome.

[Catt]

Here is another of my incrediblly awesome model trucks .I have about a half hour of almost work spread out over a 4 month period of time to reach this extremely high level of purrfection. :mrgreen:







The truck is a LifeLike 79 Ford Camper Special cab on a custom frame with a box off a Athearn 55 Ford F-100 pick up.

There is no gun rack in the back window because I can't get in there to install it.The truck may be a canadate for a full restoration or it may just get some bald tires in the box along with some beer cans .

[jbaakko]

'Nother Matchbox truck...

[KevinKrey]

'Nother Matchbox truck...

Matchbox makes that?!

[Trucklover]

Matchbox makes that?!

LOL yeah, they have them at Target, Wal-Mart, and Toys R' Us that i have seen them

[eightyeightfan1]

1/64th or HO scale?

[jbaakko]

1/64th or HO scale?

"Box scale" though they're pretty much HO, this truck seems a tad tall (will get re-tread with some good wheels). They have 8 different trucks!

[eightyeightfan1]

By "Box Scale", you must be thinking the scale that "Matchbox" cars come in. That would be 1/64th.
I posted a picture to show the comparison between HO(1/87th) and Matchbox or "peg warmers"(1/64th) scale.
The one on the left is 1/64th, the right is HO scale.

Nothing wrong with them. They are passable for HO scale and it is a nice looking dump truck, which I was hoping to get one, until you told me what scale it was.

[jbaakko]

By "Box Scale", you must be thinking the scale that "Matchbox" cars come in. That would be 1/64th.
I posted a picture to show the comparison between HO(1/87th) and Matchbox or "peg warmers"(1/64th) scale.
The one on the left is 1/64th, the right is HO scale.

Nothing wrong with them. They are passable for HO scale and it is a nice looking dump truck, which I was hoping to get one, until you told me what scale it was.

I've always heard "box scale" used as a term to describe something with no specific scale, just made to fit in the packaging. But yeah, they're all sized well fro HO, the only problem truck is the flat bed tow truck, the scale is nice, but the bed is scaled for a matchbox car (1/72), so its way to wide...

[KevinKrey]

At Target the other night I picked up a matchbox Western Star wrecker. With a few parts its got some potential.

[bdw9535]

Here are a couple pics of an Ottawa yard tractor that Athearn is supposed to produce

Bruce        

[Catt]

Here is a pair of Ford projects I have been puttering with.



The '56 Ford stake truck is a combo Athearn/Hot Wheels and the '79 Ford shortbox is a modified LifeLike that I have been puttering with so long I don't remember when I started it.

Stats are-56 Ford,Athearn Model C flatbed with the flatbed shortened 4' and a Hot Wheels Collectable cab from a racecar hauler substituted for the Model C cab.

Stats are-79 Ford half ton shortbox pick up. cab has interiour and pick up box shortened 18" to make truck a short box.Inside of box altered to look more like a shortbox.

Have a lot more planned for both vehicles but also have a N scale and a Z scale layout that are getting a lot more of my time right now.

Ed,those Matchbox trucks are very close to HO they really do fit right in.