New Showcase Trailers

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Showcase has a new lowboy, 6x10 and 8x16 landscaping trailers. The lowboy is pewter and laser cut wood while the landscape trailers are etched.

While GHQ has done similar models in the past, they are hard to find, and frankly don't look as nice as these me models.

This is great news, but it also means that they are working on stuff to put on the trailers, as they always produce complimentary products. Will this mean a wheel loader? Backhoe? I can only hope.

I wouldn't mind some lawn mowers, snow blowers, and etched yard tools to go with those landscape trailers either.

Showcaseminiatures.com

activated the link -gfh

[Scottl]

An ATV for the trailers? 

[sirenwerks]

Grrr... hoping SCM will do another 60s era release, or two, or three.  The Internationals are gorgeous, but we need variety same as the contemporary era guys.  Funnily, I dropped modeling now for the 60s, one of my rationale was that vehicles for both were scarce, and now SCM goes all wild with the modern stuff...

[nscaler711]

You do realize that while we modern era modelers have alot train wise, we have just about nothing to show for vehicle or building wise right? The early 60's is pretty well covered in its variety for vehicles and structures... The transition era is probably the best in coverage of structures, vehicles and trains. But even if you model the Late 60's you'd still have more options then I would, cause from what I've seen the cars that are 30years old are almost non existent.... So I can't populate my layout with multitudes of 80's cars and expect it or people to expect it to look right....

Just food for thought while you complain about not having era appropriate stuff....

[peteski]

In general buildings aren't very period specific. What fits in the 30s or 50s will still look correct in today's world.  Just look around you.  Of course if you are looking for modern skyscrapers then things get tougher.

[Scottl]

Grrr... hoping SCM will do another 60s era release, or two, or three.  The Internationals are gorgeous, but we need variety same as the contemporary era guys.  Funnily, I dropped modeling now for the 60s, one of my rationale was that vehicles for both were scarce, and now SCM goes all wild with the modern stuff...

Never too late to switch 

[sirenwerks]

Modern industrial architecture fits in the "my five year old could make that" category.  It's mostly squares of slab walls made of one or two materials, with right angles and other quares attached to the main carcass, with few windows.  It's not that hard to make, the materials are all there, it just takes effort.  Same for other periods.  Architecture's the least of my concerns since the majority of kits out there hardly qualify as sizable industries and all need considerable work to either look realistically large enough to warrant rail service or bring them to a level so they don't look like everyone else's structures. 

It is only in recent months that we 60s and 70s era modelers have gotten an infusion of vehicles (thanks Rasputen) but they're not SCM quality (sorry Rasputen).  I don't model the early 60s so I don't count 50s vehicles in my extreme needs category, so I'm not sure, aside from a single CMW auto and the SCM International, what 'pretty well covered' means.  Unless you count Trainworx trailers (which are beautiful); but trailers are useless without tractors on the roads.  Now if Sylvan would start doing its newer HO releases in N, I might hush up some, but Sylvan has basically said no when asked so...

[sirenwerks]

Never too late to switch 

That would be switch back and, since I recently got married, I'm too deep into the 60s already to revert.

[Scottl]

Excuses, excuses... 

[Blazeman]

Hope this works

https://blu182.mail.live.com/?tid=cmGebA3JL25BGQkAAhWtc_AA2&fid=flinbox

edit - link requires a password, but the topic was already started, so I merged the threads. -gfh

[cfritschle]

It is only in recent months that we 60s and 70s era modelers have gotten an infusion of vehicles (thanks Rasputen) but they're not SCM quality (sorry Rasputen).  I don't model the early 60s so I don't count 50s vehicles in my extreme needs category, so I'm not sure, aside from a single CMW auto and the SCM International, what 'pretty well covered' means.  Unless you count Trainworx trailers (which are beautiful); but trailers are useless without tractors on the roads.  Now if Sylvan would start doing its newer HO releases in N, I might hush up some, but Sylvan has basically said no when asked so...

Bryan,

Athearn Macks (both the Model B and the Model R) are perfect for a late 1960s era layout.  The changeover between the Model B and Model R was 1965-66.

The Athearn Ford C has all of the molded in features of the 1968 model.  While many of the paint schemes were only appropriate for the later years of production, a lot of the paint schemes were also appropriate for the 1960s.

The prototype for CMW IH R-190 was produced well into the 1960s, I know 1963 for sure and possibly 1964.

The GHQ Peterbuilt 359 represents trucks built from 1967 though 1972.  And while GHQ called their cab-over Freightliner a 1975 model, it can be easily back dated to look like the 1960s version.

While I would like to see more vehicles suitable for every era modeled, I don't think any era can be considered "totally lacking" in usable vehicle models.

Carter

[sirenwerks]

I appreciate the help, Carter.  You're great at promoting the models that do exist.  Yet the Athearn models are hard to find and expensive when you do (not to mention not being popular in the region modeled), the GHQ models are not the daycab/medium duty style I need (though I'm curious how to backdate the COE since it could theoretically be day-cabbed), and you can only have so many CMW cabs before you realize you have too many (I do), same with the B cab since they look so similar.   Variety.  The Athearn Ford F850 or new CMW F600 would fit the bill I have.  I'd even be happy to find a quantity of the Bachmann (tow truck) cabs.  I'd be pleased as punch to see a 1960s GMC 4000 and 860 and White 4000.  A GMC Cannonball would make me do a jig and if we one day got a GMC Crackerbox, Int'l Emeryville, or Mack H67 I might actually smile. 

But it's not my intent to hijack the thread.  SCM has som great new products and contemporary modelers should rejoice.