As many of you have already found, there’s pretty much doodly available in the way of farm machinery that’s anywhere near the right size to use with LS… There’s also even less in the way of pre-depression machinery from ANY major manufacture. And I’m doing a layout set in 1925, at our antique farm machinery club… What there IS - a 1918 Waterloo Boy/John Deere Overtime tractor, in 1/32 by Ertl…
Right era, wrong size. Especially since the Waterloo Boy model R only CAME in one size. Can it be remade into something else? Those wheels would be pretty small rescaled to 1/24 (ie 24" front, 42" rear) … Enter the McCormick-Deering 10-20 a very small tractor produced from 1923 to 1940
The first step was to remove everything from the Waterloo Boy that DIDN’T look like a McCormick… there wasn’t a whole lot left. (Warning: this is a LOT of cutting and grinding - especially to separate the gearbox from the left fender!)
Next I made some pieces that looked more like a 10-20 - from wood. The funny shaped piece was done with a sanding drum in the drill press.
Not a scale model, but the right size, and recognizable, I think…
I need to make a few small mods yet to get the details a little closer, then make a twin to it and mount them both on a flatcar
