Does anyone know where who carries in HO scale a mail delivery truck. Not the van in the Walthers cat the short kind. I’ve seen them in O cscale and even Walmart(yes I go there) has some from Hot wheels and such but can’t seem to find in HO.
Thanks,
Gary
We seriously need someone to develop an affordable three dimension copier that can enlarge / reduce !!! They DO exist, but are way out of our price range (not the machine, the copies !) that it’s not a viable option.
There are SO many excellent vehicles in the 1/64 to 1/43 scale range - if we could only shrink them down, we’d be set for life !!!
Mark.
Don’t know where to get them in HO, but they are called Long Life Vehicles, LLV for short. Bascially a Chevy S-10 Chassis.
Actually such a device exists – sort of – and Model Railroader once ran a couple of articles on how to build one: one of the most complex projects they ever ran, unless you count Ben King’s article on how to build your own 35mm camera!
It is called a pantograph, not the kind on top of a GG1 or other electric locomotive, but a simialr looking device with a milling tool connected to a series of arms so that when a tool touches the original part, the milling device at the other end converts the movement to a larger or smaller scale, and mills into a blank, presumably metal.
Here is the citation from the magazine index on this website:
3-D pantograph for carving size-reduced parts
Model Railroader, September 1965 page 42
Follow-on article in 11/65, page 60
( “ARNEMANN, A.W.”, CARVING, TECHNIQUE, TOOL, MR )
Dave Nelson
Aren’t they specially made by Jeep? [%-)]
Back when Jeep was part of American Motors you were correct. AMC made all the Postal Service vehicles. But AMC is history and Jeep is part of Chrysler. The current postal service trucks are made by Grumman. That’s why they cost 3.5 million a copy…[;)]
Actually, the body is made by Gruman and the chassis/moror/trans/etc by others - probably GM in the case of the postal trucks. When I was a contractor, I had a 22’ Chevy chassis/etc with a Gruman aluminum body - 180,000 miles & still had most of the orig parts - excepy 2 lightbulbs, battery, water pump, and tires!![8D]
I think what he’s talking about is the Rapid Prototyper devoloped by MIT. It scans a 3D object and then laser cuts and assembles a copy out of a wax paper-like medium. I imagine the software could enlarge/reduce the copy too.
THAT’s what I was referring to … thanks loathar !!!
I had seen them online before and fantasized over the potential uses as a model railroader many times … all the cool things that we could use if only we could shrink them. That is the answer, albeit a VERY costly solution. I’m hoping that in the future (while I’m still alive to witness it) these will be available for use at the local copy center for like $5 per copy !!!
Mark.
Mark R-Microwave ovens and VCR’s were priced out of reach of most folks when they first hit the market. Give it time. These will come down in price too. It will be interesting to see what base materials they can adapt this process to use in the future.