NZT School Bus and Caterpillar kits en route to dealers

[wazzou]

What about letting the kids out into the middle of traffic?   

[PAL_Houston]

What about letting the kids out into the middle of traffic?   

I am fairly certain that is "politically incorrect".  Consequently, both West Carroll and Oregon school districts will continue to use doors on the right side of the bus to off-load  their N-scale students.

[peteski]

That bus ,being 1:150 scale, is also a bit oversized. Not to mention the left-side door.  I don't thing it would be up to DKS modeling standards.

[jimmo]

That bus ,being 1:150 scale, is also a bit oversized. Not to mention the left-side door.  I don't thing it would be up to DKS modeling standards.

I agree with Peteski,I've actually tried to convert that very bus. After cutting it up to narrow the body and rearrange the door placement, grafting on a old '50s Busch Chevy truck nose, I realized that it would have been easier to build one from scratch. At least it would have been based on an actual prototype instead of ending up with a pseudo domestic school bus.

[Bob Bufkin]

Just received 2 crawlers.  David, the photos don't come close to doing them justice.  Great littloe model.

[towl1996]

Crawlers received......way cool! 

[PAL_Houston]

Looks like Galena High has a game in Savanna this afternoon.

[DKS]

Most excellent, Paul! The first NZT school bus caught "in the wild."

Just received this, by the way--Daniel's take on the D2, which will be NZT's official marketing image for it:

[chicken45]

Awesome!

[rogergperkins]

https://www.google.com/search?q=caterpillar+d2&hl=en&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=mnIBUdioGsLbqwH2qoHoCA&sqi=2&ved=0CC4QsAQ&biw=1514&bih=735
Some online photos of the real D2, i.e. the one introduced in 1938.

[Bob Bufkin]

Got a question.  Some of those photos show the tracls as yellow and others as bare metal.  Were they painted when new and the paint wore off over time?

[DKS]

Were they painted when new and the paint wore off over time?

Yes. See the images in Roger's post, above.

[tom mann]

Ordered mine from Chuck just moments ago.

[Ian MacMillan]

Most excellent, Paul! The first NZT school bus caught "in the wild."

I was wondering when we were going to see the first one.

I am redoing mine. The signal decals did not turn out the way I wanted so I am going to mostly go with a high gloss paint pen or even drill and do jewels.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Got a question.  Some of those photos show the tracls as yellow and others as bare metal.  Were they painted when new and the paint wore off over time?

I tried to paint mine to show its age. These would have been 30-60 years old by the late 1990's, and I wanted a well worn tractor in its twilight years.

The tractors with the painted treads are strictly show models and restoration projects. I knew about John Deere finatics, but Cat fans put them to shame. Restoring a tractor is a fun garage project. Restoring a full sized D8 is a project you build the garage around.