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catt
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Hobby Lobby if you have one close by stock the Norscots tractors and lowboy trailers.
1/87th Vehicles
- Thread starter Larry
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Hi relic, welcome aboard. I haven't seen any of the Ford 1/2 tons for some time now. I have a few of them as I buy them whenever I find one.
Was going to buy a Norscott road grader, I believe it was around $8 but next to it was the same grader on a lowboy with a tractor for $11 which I thought was a better deal. I had five or six tractors but no lowboys, maybe I'll get another one with an excavator this time.
Cheers
Willis
eTraxx
Member
Got these items at Walmart today. The Tank & Boom truck is Matchbox @$4.97 ea. & the Roll-Up truck is Hotwheels @.97.
I should pick up one of the Abrams. I lived in the M1/M1A1 off and on for 12 years. That model has both the hatches shut. We only did that when the tank was locked up or it was raining .. well .. or gas attack.
okiecrip621
Member
1/87 scale
you could shoot your eye out. kmart did have some to
you could shoot your eye out. kmart did have some to
Trucklover
BNSF SD70MAC's
I'm up to about 5 of these so far. I'm going to build a terminal for these Step vans.
Nice Larry!! These would look even better with new wheels!! Who makes them?
Larry
Long Winded Old Fart
Larry
Long Winded Old Fart
Ron, that's a nice looking articulated dump truck. Lot better than the ones you get at Walmart. The one's at WM are on a 1/64th scale lowboy T&T, but the trucks are 1/87th scale.
Larry
Long Winded Old Fart
That's a good price for that. I'll have to check my hobby store next time I go there.
Hi Larry, we are newbees to this website and model railroading too. We were trying to find out where to find less expensive vehicles for our railroad town and found your thread with some very good info! We had looked at Matchbox/Hotwheels cars too but weren't sure what scale they are. If you have any insight on that please let us know.
Thanks again
Thanks again
Larry
Long Winded Old Fart
Hotwheels & Matchbox cars are tooo big for HO. Some of the trucks are the right size. Toys-R-Us is selling 1/87th cars right now for $3.97+/-.
It's a shame you can't find some of the WM vehicles(1/87th) that we all were buying when they were selling them.
What size is your layout? I might be able to fix you up w/some of mine.
At the train shows you can usually find the cheap all plastic cars(older models) at a good cheap price. Like 10 or 15 for a buck.
Found a GREAT website for vehicles!
Hi Larry, we went to WM this afternoon and didn't find anything. However, last night we did go to WM's website where we found a link to www.3000toys.com and we hit the jackpot! Since we have a Bachman HO layout and are looking for more 80's, 90's, 2000 things we were happy to see this 3000toys had a lot more of the newer vehicles as well as some of the Woodland Scenics sets with people and such for much less than our local hobby stores in some cases! Long story short, a year ago I surprised my boyfriend, Rich a Bachman train set. Since then we have been working slowly to get it going. Built a table, added foam, painted it, added a roll of grass and I am in the process of building companies, a bank, and a restaurant. We are having so much fun with this. So any places you can suggest us to go we are open to hearing from experienced railroaders.
Hi Larry, we went to WM this afternoon and didn't find anything. However, last night we did go to WM's website where we found a link to www.3000toys.com and we hit the jackpot! Since we have a Bachman HO layout and are looking for more 80's, 90's, 2000 things we were happy to see this 3000toys had a lot more of the newer vehicles as well as some of the Woodland Scenics sets with people and such for much less than our local hobby stores in some cases! Long story short, a year ago I surprised my boyfriend, Rich a Bachman train set. Since then we have been working slowly to get it going. Built a table, added foam, painted it, added a roll of grass and I am in the process of building companies, a bank, and a restaurant. We are having so much fun with this. So any places you can suggest us to go we are open to hearing from experienced railroaders.
Cjcrescent
Master Mechanic
RichKay;
I'm not Larry, but might I suggest that you go to;
http://www.NMRA.org
This is the website of the National Model Railroader Association, and it has great information for beginners like yourselves. Also be sure that you click on the Regions and Divisions tab. This will show you the regions and divisions nearest to you, which would be the MidWest Region, MWR, http://www.mwr-nmra.org/ along with contact names. You could contact the officers listed and find out when there will be meetings in your area that you could attend and meet model railroaders in your area.
I hope this helps!
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I visited a model shop I,d not been in for ages last week,and found these two vehicles.Both made by Cararama in HO scale.Mainly diecast, well made, and about $14 each.The articulated truck behind, is the one I bought recently.All three are models of Volvo,s. The wheeled excavator is small enough to fit into a gondola, so it could be used as a piece of MOW equipment.
Ron
Ron
If you want a great website to find vehicles go to www.3000toys.com. We found much more than we were looking for.
Larry
Long Winded Old Fart
Price range is way to high for me. I have paid about 1/3rd the price they are asking for their vehicles. Some nice equipment for references.
I've picked up a lot of my equipment at Train Shows & on EBay before the prices went way up.
