John Huey said:
JB,
I was thinking that since many early manufacturers ‘sort of’ just scaled up everything (at least in the 20’s and 30’s), from their regular pick-up to the bigger versions (say a 5 ton), that I could take the cab and front fenders from a 1/18th Model A truck and mate that to a frame and box of my own design. Proper tires and wheels are a sticking point. Maybe some 1/18th (or close) scale military ‘deuce and a half’ tires and wheels from an RC model shop, might fill the bill; if that sort of thing even exists, but I am not sure where to begin looking. I guess I need to see what the right size wheels were in real life and go from there.
Sadly, most truck kits are 1/24th or thereabouts, and might look pretty acceptable in the background of your layout, but up front and personal would look very odd indeed. As you say, there is a marked lack of interest in producing larger scale 30’s era stuff, mainly because little or nothing happened then to spark an interest in the era, from a vehicular point of view, anyhow.
This advertisement in GR for those beautiful die-cast trucks and cars, including fire-trucks and so on - might get your interest, but they are prolly a mite too pricey for bashing, unless, of course, you are one of those US Bank presidents we hear so much about…
www.diecastdirect.com
Loadsa luck.
tac
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