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Good evening, all. Well, the weather she is a changing. A front blew in this afternoon lowing our temps quite fast. We were 68 now 50.
Thank you for the likes on the photo.

Willie - Wish the wife happy birthday. If your weather is anything like ours, hold on to your hat.

When Patrick mentioned Fuddruckers had closed by him, I got to thinking that our usual place had also closed. (Sigh of relief) There are still 3 others locally though not quite as close.

I placed Sonny's to see if I liked the location. The plan is to leave it there awhile and see how it feels.
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IronBeltKen said:
Did someone say "vehicles"?

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I'm curious what McDonalds kit this might be. It's definitely not the vintage Life Like kit, and it's not the modern retro look kit from Faller. I thought it might be the 3D printed kit by The Railroad Connection, but on closer inspection, it's not that one either.
www.therailroadconnection.com

1-87TH HO SCALE 3D PRINTED KIT FIRST MC D'S DES PLAINES, IL 1955

Order you custom scale model of HO SCALE 3D PRINTED KIT FIRST MC DONALDS DES PLAINES, IL 1955 today. Its a BUILDINGS type scale model. Price of this model is 65.00 USD.
www.therailroadconnection.com www.therailroadconnection.com
 
PNKFLOYD said:
Alan- I will see your dozen '55 Chevys and raise you with 28.
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As I gathered the '55s, I totaled up 11 of these '49 Mercury hot rods.
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And here is the sum total of my '53 Ford station wagon collection.
I think I have more vehicles than rolling stock.....cause they are so small.
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You win on the Bel-Airs! When I put the ones I took pictures of away, I counted them. 16. I have the yellows, the reds, the gold one with the trailer. I have a red with blue top and the black ones. The bright green & white I don't have, but I have three of the green & ivory two tone, which is my favorite of that model. I did find about four more 53 wagons, plus a couple of the panel version like yours. A plain one and a Rexall delivery wagon. I don't care for the Hot wheels, but I did pick up some stuff that is out of my era. A Dodge convertible from the 60's, a Charger, a couple of Shelby Cobras, and one or two other sports cars & muscle cars as well as two Hudson Hornets. I also found a ton of those Athearn Checker cabs in several schemes, four or five Union Ice Company trucks and a ton of other stuff I won't go into right now. I was thinking of populating a fairly large layout that didn't get built after I joined NAPM. There was no point! I should probably join the 1/87 vehicle club. I also found a bunch of stuff I don't remember buying (sad, ain't it?), as well as the rest of my stash of metal Mini Metals. They are the only ones who did a white COE cab which is my second favorite after the Mack B-60. Vehicles are fun!
 
PRR Modeler said:
Actually, it was MOH that got me back into MRR"ing. She usually makes suggestions which if it makes sense to do I try to do, but there are a lot that just wouldn't work.
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Curt- For the first three years I belonged to the Wrecking Crew, my wife went to some of the meetings and made several scene suggestions that are still on the club layout. She still looks over most of my projects and makes practical color and detail suggestions.
 


Espeefan said:
You win on the Bel-Airs! When I put the ones I took pictures of away, I counted them. 16. I have the yellows, the reds, the gold one with the trailer. I have a red with blue top and the black ones. The bright green & white I don't have, but I have three of the green & ivory two tone, which is my favorite of that model. I did find about four more 53 wagons, plus a couple of the panel version like yours. A plain one and a Rexall delivery wagon. I don't care for the Hot wheels, but I did pick up some stuff that is out of my era. A Dodge convertible from the 60's, a Charger, a couple of Shelby Cobras, and one or two other sports cars & muscle cars as well as two Hudson Hornets. I also found a ton of those Athearn Checker cabs in several schemes, four or five Union Ice Company trucks and a ton of other stuff I won't go into right now. I was thinking of populating a fairly large layout that didn't get built after I joined NAPM. There was no point! I should probably join the 1/87 vehicle club. I also found a bunch of stuff I don't remember buying (sad, ain't it?), as well as the rest of my stash of metal Mini Metals. They are the only ones who did a white COE cab which is my second favorite after the Mack B-60. Vehicles are fun!
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Alan-I have everything from polyester models to Williams plastic kits to metal Jordan kits to ready made Classic Metal and Oxford Models.
I owned a '81 Corvette, so I have several Corvette models in various sizes and styles as well as other modern vehicles I like.
You are 100% correct that vehicles are fun!
 
Jim 68cuda said:
I'm curious what McDonalds kit this might be. It's definitely not the vintage Life Like kit, and it's not the modern retro look kit from Faller. I thought it might be the 3D printed kit by The Railroad Connection, but on closer inspection, it's not that one either.
www.therailroadconnection.com

1-87TH HO SCALE 3D PRINTED KIT FIRST MC D'S DES PLAINES, IL 1955

Order you custom scale model of HO SCALE 3D PRINTED KIT FIRST MC DONALDS DES PLAINES, IL 1955 today. Its a BUILDINGS type scale model. Price of this model is 65.00 USD.
www.therailroadconnection.com www.therailroadconnection.com
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That structure is actually ~90% scratchbuilt from Evergreen styrene, the only 'kit' parts are the roof and the forward part of the arches from Vollmer's European McDonalds kit: https://www.ebay.com/itm/3339491686...BWOLILG4hvqVy6adDFbZVOhq3URtMhIAaAv2QEALw_wcB
The signs and stripes are from home-printed decals, the "aluminum" window panes are Microscale silver stripe decals on clear plastic. I used a photograph of an "M" arch billboard to trace and carve-out the billboard on 1/8" thick styrene.
Unfortunately I did not photo-document the construction, because I was kind of muddling my way thru it and didn't know if it would end successfully...
 
Good morning Everybody!

Sherrel, Willie, Patrick and others, I hope you are all feeling better.

Thanks to Everyone that posted pictures of vehicles, I enjoyed them all!

Hopefully Chet will post pictures of some of his.

Time to make the doughnuts. I'm getting an early start to have time for a nap before the Super Bowl. I hope it is as good as the other playoff games have been.

Have a great day Everybody!
 
TrucTrain55 said:
Well since we’re posting cars I might as well post mine on the O scale layout View attachment 140814View attachment 140817View attachment 140819View attachment 140820View attachment 140821View attachment 140823View attachment 140825View attachment 140826View attachment 140827
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I love the detail at your gauge, I have accidentally bought a larger one unfortunately it was a gaudy mini, still it might do as a weathering job,except it is a tv car so may have value in the future decisions decisions.
 


Good morning. It's cloudy and 40.
In this state, gas stations may or may not put a sign on the pump about putting a hold on a card. Some do, some don't, none list a dollar amount.
It may be a state regulation, or our state's gas stations may think their customers don't need to be told about it. At any rate, I've never seen anybody here have a meltdown over it.
 
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