Hi;
I think I would go for more peaceful vehicles .Like say REVELL’s original 1/25 - 57 Ford " Country Squire " wagon .And 1/25 versions of their 56 Buick Century , 56 Mercury Monteclair and 55/56 Continental !
Shoot , I would be happy to have many of those old models back, AMT’s too ! , No matter what the scale !
Oh man! I forgot about those! I spent my entire childhood looking backward out of the rear fold-down seat in the back of Country Squires! I have a nice resin one from J. J. Peddlinghaus(?)–not the 50’s versions available today, but a late 60’s one that has the more modern lines…but I’d love a mid-70’s one like this!
http://www.picturecarsnorth.ca/dynamicLoading/pictures/1970s/1976FORDLTDWAGONLARGE.jpg
Add to my wants list a Chevette “Scooter” with the nice optional grill and trim, and/or a Pontiac T1000. Those were my garage-band days cars!
Kit of the Jeep Wagoners/full size Cherokees and the 84 and up small Cherokee. Lindberg had a 1/20 of the grand Cherokee back when. Maybe the old high boy Jeep wagons and trucks from the 50’s
Have built a couple of the AMT D-8 over the years. Not a bad one for the era it came out in.
Tamiya did a mid-90s Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Speaking of “Skooters” …
I never knew MPC issued a kit of the Chevette or that the Chevrolet Chevette was available without a rear seat…
https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/model-kits/cars/125-mpc-1979-chevette-scooter/
Gotta be honest; I never knew that either–although it would have worked for me for hauling my Marshall 4x12 cabinet, Marshall head, guitar and case of hair spray! [:D] Although, looking back on it, yeah, I would have dearly missed that back seat in those days…[;)]
Cool link, SprueOne! Now that I read that link though, I think that my first Chevette may have been a Scooter, but not the second one. This had the bumper “bumpers”, the trim, the black-out grille, and front spoiler underneath…as close to a sports car as the Chevette ever got! [:D]
Had I known Chevettes were available without rear seats, I might have purchased one just to haul stuff around.
At that time, it would have been very useful.
If you don’t mind starting off with a diecast, the Jada 1/24 scale DuraStar rollback can be used to create any number of conversions.
Here is one project I am working on.
David
Sweet !
Now for you and all the other guys .Why don’t you take a gander at LEGOS ? You can build the thing you want ,or as close as you can get THEN use that as your " Go-By " As ( woodcarvers say ) to do your scratch built or partly so model , then have a ball with the rust , grease and general guck !
Owned two Northwest -95 Drag-lines .Controls were Canadian ( backwards ) in style and the cab was on the wrong side too . . But those suckers dug a lot of the boat canals in Port Everglades in the late sixties . You ought to have to have tried to mend a broken track on them in the swampy soup !
By the way , for some things , LEGOS are very near 1/24 scale .Just don’t build it to fit their Mini-Figs ! Some stuff is even close to 1/35 ! P.S. I like that rig ! ! .
I will say that is a tempting idea.
Just happened across this website:
http://www.3000toys.com
Here’s one that I converted a couple years ago.
Looks very nice ! [:D][Y]
Looking very tempting now…[^o)]
If your OK with diecast there are several 1/25th scale construction machines available
everything in the case is 1/25th. The bottom row are all diecasts as is the swing shovel on the top row. The upper D8 is a modified AMT kit and the crusher is entirely scratch built. SpecCast produced 4 versions of the Bantam shovel. a dragline, a crane. a cable backhoe and the swing shovel.
I would sure like to see some new construction models show up though.
Thanks
Carl
Carl, great collection! Do you have a build thread or more pictures of that scratch built crusher?
Thanks for the interest . At risk of hijacking this thread here is a link to some more picks of the crusher
cs.finescale.com/…/103861.aspx
Carl
