--- In [email protected], Edward Sauers <ehsauers1@...> wrote:
>
> Jim,
> Â
> Can you supply a link? I am in need of 40s cars/trucks/buses etc!!!
> Â
> Thanks
> Â
> Ed Sauers
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Jim and Cheryl Martin <farnhamhouse@...>
> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 8:31 AM
> Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Mini Metals vehicles
>
>
> Â
>
> Take a closer look Bill. Â 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. Â Mini
> Metals also have a much wider variety of typical 40s and 50s era cars. Â Most
> 1:64 cars are the lesser seen convertibles, hardtops and customs. Â The M2s
> aren't bad, but the selection is limited and one has to choose carefully.
> Â 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
As far as I know Mini Metals vehicles are only available in HO and N. I think
Jim was using them as a comparison regarding details.
I haven't found anything in S while Googling around.
Rich G(ajnak)
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