Jim, Can you supply a link? I am in need of 40s cars/trucks/buses etc!!! Thanks Ed Sauers
________________________________ From: Jim and Cheryl Martin <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 8:31 AM Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Mini Metals vehicles Take a closer look Bill. The Mini Metals are expressly built for the model RR market , are better detailed...more uniform in scale...don't have the awful opening doors and hoods so common to the toy-driven 1:64 market. Mini Metals also have a much wider variety of typical 40s and 50s era cars. Most 1:64 cars are the lesser seen convertibles, hardtops and customs. The M2s aren't bad, but the selection is limited and one has to choose carefully. Only about one in a hundred 1:64 vehicles is suitable for model railroads...the rest are too untypical or too toy like. I also really wish we had an S scale equivalent of Clare Gilbert's line of Sylvan HO vehicles. Re your quest for a S scale Dashund (did I spell that right?), have you checked out modifying an O scale ferret? Jim Martin ________________________________ From: Bill Lane <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 7:23:11 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Mini Metals vehicles Fred, I had never heard of Mini Metals so I went surfing around. I don’t see Mini Metals having a big advantage over the M2 Authentics in 1950s era cars. I have Hot Wheels cases full of them – probably more than I will ever need. What I do see is a nice selection of trucks of all kinds and the round front trailers. Maybe a 1940s-50s bus as well. Those items WOULD be nice to have…. But for cars – no – I am good. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Custom Train Parts Design http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! http://www.prrths.com http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL
