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Playroom
Topic Started: May 18 2011, 12:05 PM (528 Views)
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This is a room i am still trying to finish got the new floors done painted the walls .And before i got a chance to put the baseboards on Pearl started filling the room .l.o.l.

The same boring things every collector of little cars has. storage units . I mean display cases l.o.l.

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Another thing my wife collected was figures . Cant waste the Elvis one and Star wars .

Talk about organized 1:24 scale cars and 1:18 scale cars


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Volkswagons and a Ford that makes perfect sense to me l.o.l.

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Of course everyone collects Batman stuff.

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I enjoy teasing my wife I sometimes change her pictures a bit.

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Whats a playroom without kids.

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He thinks things need to be changed .


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The older guy is trying to make his own diorama. He decided to move cars from the autowreckers and put a repair shop there.



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He now uses some of the cars from the autowreckers.


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In the meantime changes are being made by his helper. All the buidings have interior detail the little guy has to take the roofs off to check it out.


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This is what is in the building he has the roof off.A furniture store.

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To be continued.







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diomakr
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very impressive collection & nice diorama layout...
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Firehawk73
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WOW! Thats amazing! Well, I have never met Pearl but it seems she my kind of Lady.....LOL Thanks for sharing that wonderful play room with us.
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
Wonderful pictures! I love your little helpers. I, uh, still do the same thing to George's diorama any time I've over at Sak's. And I'm 31.

I also must say I love the U Haul trucks! Not the tractor trailers, but the ones on the left! Can either you or Pearl shed some light on those for me? Brand, scale, etc.
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Dean-o-mite
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The U-Haul trucks are HO scale (1/87), and are two different models, made by two different manufacturers, but the bummer is that they are all plastic. I don't know which truck is represented in each case, but IHC released the U-Haul with a cab that has round fenders covering the front wheels, and a semi-like narrow nose. Con-Cor released a cab with a boxy (GM?) front end. I believe both brands offer all 50 states for the U-Haul decals.

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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
Thanks! Pity that they're 1/87 instead of 1/64 or I'd be down for getting a few of each! I like the idea of chasing all fifty states. ;)
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May 19 2011, 01:31 AM
WOW! Thats amazing! Well, I have never met Pearl but it seems she my kind of Lady.....LOL Thanks for sharing that wonderful play room with us.



She likes to play l.o.l. ....To display her Junk i would need a 100 ft by 100 ft building we stll have a 14ft by 14ft room piled to the ceiling of things she collects .
Records ,wood carvings ,dolls ,teddy bears, cars ,crytal ,and a hundred other things.
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May 19 2011, 10:33 AM
Thanks! Pity that they're 1/87 instead of 1/64 or I'd be down for getting a few of each! I like the idea of chasing all fifty states. ;)
Bear in mind....even at H.O., they are almost twice as long as a standard Matchbox. The size really doesn't bother me....it's the all-plastic construction, and higher price, that deters me. I'll collect plastic cars (Mini-Lindy, Novacar, Majorette Deluxe, etc), but those plastics are far sturdier and substantial than the ultra-thin plastic used on finely-detailed HO models, and I think that's the excuse I use to keep from including them in my collection.

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May 19 2011, 10:33 AM
Thanks! Pity that they're 1/87 instead of 1/64 or I'd be down for getting a few of each! I like the idea of chasing all fifty states. ;)


First thanks Dean O-Mite for adding your information. Here is a bit more. International Hobby Corporation was a model railroad company .The first time i bought stuff from them was around 1982 .They sold some neat cheap midway rides in the 15 to 25 dollar range . Faller sold some the same in the 100 dollar range.

We had a large model railroad back then with 22 midway rides. I bought a lot of model railroad stuff from them .

The U haul trucks were their product. Ok the negative side ..Plastic.. the wheels would stick and not turn ..expensive you could by diecast for the same price.

My wife bought them from 8 dollars up to 16.95 depends on how bad you want them .l.o.l.



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Why buy them ? In my case i have a wife who collects stuff l.o.l. Her idea was lets buy one from every state we been to .I drove a truck ,a broker, so i worked where i wanted to.We have been from one end of North America to the other . Somewhere in storage we have a box full of these U Haul trucks. l.o.l.



Now Swifty if you can still find these trucks 1/87 scale is no reason not to collect them .They have nice detail even little mirrors that kids break off l.o.l.

Pictures will convince you to get rid of your mind set .Scale is very seldom correct and the way you display something can make it look like it is correct.

Normal 1/87 buldings and trucks. You can see she had to try different wheels .Wheel swaps are another one of her pastimes l.o.l.

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The tow truck is 1:60 scale .. The U Haul tractor trailer is a cheap little Maisto the decal is a stick on thing ,trailer is plastic ,detail on tractor is so so it is diecast. ..
And the scale is very close to 1/87

You buy cars that you think are 1:64 scale .Hot wheels ,Johnny lightning . Wrong .. some are 1:60 1:72 1:100
Never let scale stop you from buying something you like . Just dont display a 1: 100 scale Johhny Lightning coke truck beside a 1: 64 scale Johnny lightning Coke van


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Now time to get out of here with the 1:87 scale people in a 1: 64 scale car. 1:64 scale people are too large to fit in a 1:64 scale car . 1:87 scale people wont fit in a 1:87 scale car . This topic about correct scale was the reason Pearl lost interest in diecast sites she uses what looks ok . Someone made a comment that ticked her off and she left. I was always a fanatic about correct scale when i had a model railroad .And then i met Pearl ,she said how come you have cars on the road and no people in them but you have them sitting on a park bench.
I said they will only fit in a car if you cut the legs off them . She bought this Mustang and brought it to my place tried the people in it and they fit looked not bad .
A month later i had 1/64 scale cars everywhere all with people in them l.o.l. No sure not correct scale but looked a lot more realistic.

I spent an hour looking for pictures she has on a C.D. then load them to photobucket then post them here just to show Swifty scale is not always correct and if your hobby is cars never let it stop you from buying what you like .

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Model railroads are for perfectionist correct scale rules . And that is why i dont have a model railroad anymore or belong to a model railroad club anymore Yes diecast clubs can be the same . A hobby is what YOU like .

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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
Thanks for the pictures. I've never tried fitting 1/64 people into my cars, but I do see what you mean about them being too big for that. And I like how they look in the Mustang. But I admit, I like my compact cars small and my full-sizers large. That to me bothers me more than the people. No two companies ever do their people the same size even if they're both the same supposed scale. I admit, with trucks it doesn't bother me quite as much as it does with cars, unless you have a Matchbox double-decker bus that's the same size as a VW Bug. 1/87 or even 1/90 trucks are a nice alternative to the very expensive true scale rigs.
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Jim
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Swifty everone collects in their own way what they like and that is the way it should be i just toss out ideas to show there are ways to change the look of things. Display cases are the only way some people keep their cars .Others the cars stay in a blisterpack or box. People get use to 1:64 scale cars and some think all the cars that a company makes are 1:64 scale and they are not. If it looks good ...you like it ....it is the right scale .
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