(07/19/17) New Nose Art Boxcar from Menards!

Woo Whoo !  

Nice! I have it on order. I just got back from Menards and spent $160 on house stuff and tools, AND it is 11% rebate week!

Glad I didn't send in my rebates yet !!   Can't beat the military rolling stock.. Keep em coming Mark !!

It never ceases to amaze me the great stuff Menards comes out with. The nose art series is a constant home run. Mark and the Menards crew must be getting blisters on their backs from all the patting of a job well done again. Of course Cabinet Bob is always in the picture too...................Paul

Geez, another offering? I'm writing stuff down otherwise I'll forget some of them! Gotta have the boxcar! Ok, truth, gotta have it all ! LOL

Some suggestions for future nose art cars:

Liberty Belle

Sheer Madness

Angel of Mercy

Kansas Kitty

D-Day Doll

Heavenly Body

Sentimental Journey

Maid in the Shade

I will order this if I have money left when I get home tonight

Garrett76 posted:

Some suggestions for future nose art cars:

Liberty Belle

Sheer Madness

Angel of Mercy

Kansas Kitty

D-Day Doll

Heavenly Body

Sentimental Journey

Maid in the Shade

Liberty Belle and D-Day Doll are in the original 6 car set.  https://www.menards.com/main/h...;bargainStoreId=3016

Let me add IMPATIENT VIRGIN to Garrett76's list! My Dad was her pilot! Menards will have to slightly modify the picture! Suffice it to say I wasn't allowed to see pictures of it until I was sixteen! LOL

play trains posted:

Let me add IMPATIENT VIRGIN to Garrett76's list! My Dad was her pilot! Menards will have to slightly modify the picture! Suffice it to say I wasn't allowed to see pictures of it until I was sixteen! LOL

Any of these from your Dad's plane?

Steve

So how many nose art cars are there now? Any of them sold out?

Steve, thanks for going to the trouble of finding those! None of them are his although the last one is closest! It was a blonde flying with her arms out and props attached to certain anatomical features! LOL Dad was a rascal!

When these car first came out I paid very little attention to them.  I'm not a fan of fantasy or themed rolling stock.  When I looked at the Diabolical Angel nose art car I realized that there weren't just another box car or just another car to add to my military train but a tribute to the bombers and crew of WW2.  After researching each of the Menards nose art cars there's nothing fantasy at all about them.  Here's Menards tribute to date.

Rosie the Riveter - B-17 Bomber.

Memphis Belle - B-17 Bomber

Liberty Bell - B-17 Bomber

Yankee Lady - B-17 Bomber

Aluminum Overcast - B-17 Bomber

D-Day Doll - B-17 Bomber

Take-Off Time - B-25 Bomber

Diabolical Angel - B-17 Bomber.

Thank you Menards for these offerings,  I'm ordering one of each to be prominently displayed and run on special occasions.          

play trains posted:

Steve, thanks for going to the trouble of finding those! None of them are his although the last one is closest! It was a blonde flying with her arms out and props attached to certain anatomical features! LOL Dad was a rascal!

What type of plane did he fly?

I think B 25s and B 29s. Flew the airlift after the war as a captain in the Army Air Corp, mustered out and mustered back in the New US AIR FORCE as a major and flew combat in Korea! 

wild mary posted:

When these car first came out I paid very little attention to them.  I'm not a fan of fantasy or themed rolling stock.  When I looked at the Diabolical Angel nose art car I realized that there weren't just another box car or just another car to add to my military train but a tribute to the bombers and crew of WW2.  After researching each of the Menards nose art cars there's nothing fantasy at all about them.  Here's Menards tribute to date.

Rosie the Riveter - B-17 Bomber.

Memphis Belle - B-17 Bomber

Liberty Bell - B-17 Bomber

Yankee Lady - B-17 Bomber

Aluminum Overcast - B-17 Bomber

D-Day Doll - B-17 Bomber

Take-Off Time - B-25 Bomber

Diabolical Angel - B-17 Bomber.

Thank you Menards for these offerings,  I'm ordering one of each to be prominently displayed and run on special occasions.          

 

Don't forget the Old Crow Express. https://www.menards.com/main/h...;bargainStoreId=3016

jini5 posted:

So how many nose art cars are there now? Any of them sold out?

jini5,

The list above is accurate (thanks wild mary and milnyc!).

These are available online in a 6-pack.
Rosie the Riveter
Memphis Belle
Liberty Bell
Yankee Lady
Aluminum Overcast
D-Day Doll

*These are also available individually in some of our stores but it's luck of the draw which stores have some (or any) of these left.

These are available online individually.
Take-Off Time
Old Crow Express
Diabolical Angel

Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy

milnyc posted:

wild mary posted:

When these car first came out I paid very little attention to them.  I'm not a fan of fantasy or themed rolling stock.  When I looked at the Diabolical Angel nose art car I realized that there weren't just another box car or just another car to add to my military train but a tribute to the bombers and crew of WW2.  After researching each of the Menards nose art cars there's nothing fantasy at all about them.  Here's Menards tribute to date.

Rosie the Riveter - B-17 Bomber.

Memphis Belle - B-17 Bomber

Liberty Bell - B-17 Bomber

Yankee Lady - B-17 Bomber

Aluminum Overcast - B-17 Bomber

D-Day Doll - B-17 Bomber

Take-Off Time - B-25 Bomber

Diabolical Angel - B-17 Bomber.

Thank you Menards for these offerings,  I'm ordering one of each to be prominently displayed and run on special occasions.          

 

Don't forget the Old Crow Express. https://www.menards.com/main/h...;bargainStoreId=3016

WOW, missed that on.  The Old Crow Express was a B-52G Stratofortress and flew 55 missions.

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Happy Friday!

I just wanted to let everyone know that our first set of 6  WWII commemorative boxcars have been very popular and supplies are becoming quite limited. We don't plan to reissue these boxcars, so order your set before we run out! 

Each 6-piece set includes one of each of the following WWII nose are boxcars:

Rosie the Riveter
Memphis Belle
Liberty Bell
Yankee Lady
Aluminum Overcast
D-Day Doll

Shop Now!

Have a great weekend!
-Mark the Menards Train Guy

They are all nice !and now, the Army train Is 38 feet long

cabinet Bob posted:

They are all nice !

On   my  Way !

This new helicopter from Menards would look great too on a flatcar 

cabinet Bob posted:

This new helicopter from Menards would look great too on a flatcar 

This model appears to be based on the H145M produced by Eurocopter, which is an updated version of the EC145.  The currently deployed US Army UH-72A Lokata is based on the EC145.    A major visual difference of the H145M from the EC145 is a fenestron shrouded tail rotor replacing a conventionally configured one.  I have not seen anything yet about the current  UH-72A Lokata being ultimately replaced by this newer version.

I agree it would make a great flatcar load.

It's time for another military caboose release... with nose art on it!

PLAY TRAINS, I happened to come across a Pinterest e-mail concerning nose art and did a bit of searching on the internet. There may be a picture of the nose art that is similar to the one that your Dad may have had on his plane. This one is called "Full-Boost" though and it was on a B24J. Here is the site since the nose art painting may be more than PG....  :-).     http://www.461st.org/Aircraft/...6th%20Nose%20Art.htm  You will have to scroll down about half way on the page to see the particular plane. You can actually check the Roster for this plane to see if this happened to be the bomber your Dad flew for any missions. 

Here is the Pinterest site for many other nose art depictions: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/...=1&utm_medium=20

Rick

I have made several custom Nose Art boxes to go with the Menards cars makes a nice train. I needed a caboose so I came up with this.