Been looking for a Union Ice Delivery truck in HO. Mini Metals has it in N. Out of production. Internet, Ebay, used toy sites hit.
Can anyone tell me how to acquire something like this?
-Ron
Maybe
someone in the MR audience has one they would like to
I wish I’d bought one of those when they were avaialble, too. Oh, well.
Train shows seem to have things like this long after they’ve gone out of production. At our local shows, there are always a couple of vendors with HO-scale cars and trucks.
I made my own using Micro Scale decals and an Athearn simi-truck. Was not that hard to do.
You are in luck if you act quickly.
Quite honestly, these turn up fairly often on eBay. I’ve seen quite a number of them come and go in recent months. You just need to be patient and watch carefully for them.
CNJ831
They were in production for a few years, so there are a lot of them out there. As Mr B said, I shouda got one when they were making them. Now we are bidding against the diecast collectables crowd.
I was surprised that the 1955 chev convertibles and the 1953 Fords disappeared so quickly, Bulk offers I suspect.
Yes, kitbashing is one way I thought to do this. Maybe could have taken one of the other refrigerated delivery trucks, like for Swift and repainted it. However, …
Thanks for the eBay tip. I went and bid on it. Probably way over paid but I was successful in acquiring the Union Ice Truck. Thanks!
While there I picked up a boxcar too, an Altas 50" Railbox.
I appreciate this forum.
Thanks for being here for us newbies.
-Ron