Reply to "Early Piggyback project (1940-1957) late steam early diesel & some of the very first 85-89' cars in 1957-1959!"

Erik C LindgrenOGR Forum Member

Originally Posted by up148:

Nice Erik! Whose the Mfg. on the undecorated trailers. They don't look like plastic.

Butch

Thanks butch!

Some of the vans are ancient 1/48 Revell Bekins kits from 1955. These are beautiful vans. Fruehauf stainless steel that were common from 1952-through the 1960's. The others I had custom built from a pro builder on the east coast. Both are resin and plastic and if painted correctly do NOT look like plastic. I can't stress enough medium has very little to do with a models quality. Brass, resin, ABS, plastic, in so many ways plastics are far better at recreating detail. Brass has limits. To date nobody has produced a brass model of a early 1940's or 1950's tractor trailer in any of the sort of O scales 1/43-1/50. These Revell vans are in my opinion the best and built with modern methods and improvements are second to none.

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