MENARDS 1:48 JEEP

I have one also, MELGAR.  They look fantastic!!  That is neat your dad repaired them!

I am trying to buy a few but the dang website booted me twice. I will try once more.

Well Mr. Melmar,  you better move it off the tracks before one of your engines Moves it. 

Will need 10 or more for the Logistics Base motor pool on my layout.

These work great on a flat car too.

Last Saturday at the Whippany RR Museum the Military Transport Society was there and loaded two on a flat car as part of the train.

To all fans of these jeeps; get thee some o d green and paint those red gas cans!

Now that's what I call Piggyback!

I finally was able to get my order in,  my mail was not sending, I rebooted and it is fine, dang Dell !  Ordered 3 halftracks, one lighted sign ( loved the cow crack.  that is funny) and four more jeeps. . I will have about ten to twelve of them, I can make one of the one pictured above. I will have to make turnbuckles to keep them in place for them also  first I need to finish about 1000 other projects  first 

Yes,

Paint that gas can olive drab green, PLEASE!

These 5 gallon gas cans, a.k.a. “ MOGAS” can were never painted red. The only 5 gallon  cans that  l saw  painted were those used for diesel fuel. These cans had a subdued yellow color painted around the top of the can.

In any case the mogas cans , shovel, pick, ax , radio equipment other than radio mounts and matching units, and never ever machine guns / weapon systems  were never shipped with the jeep. Anything that could walk off in a rail yard or siding was removed during shipping. As seen on the pictures canvas tops were also removed during shipping. The picture of the jeep in shipment with the cavas top was unusual to see.

it drives me nuts when I see military vehicle loads on flat cars all decked out for combat.

Thanks, 

Richard Gonzales

LTC US Army Retired 

Signal Corps 

Yes Richard, I see your point.  It is common sense that any piece of equipment is "broken down" for shipment, with extra articles in crates and even other shipments.  Ah well, it is easy for Menards to put the same product on a flatcar as is sold alone ready to be put on our highways.

Richard Gonzales posted:

Paint that gas can olive drab green, PLEASE!

What, you mean you don't want to make a clear, inviting target out of the most explosive item on the vehicle?  Where's your sense of adventure?

palallin posted:

Richard Gonzales posted:

Paint that gas can olive drab green, PLEASE!

What, you mean you don't want to make a clear, inviting target out of the most explosive item on the vehicle?  Where's your sense of adventure?

Richard, you hit it right on the head.  I was an Ordnance officer and we shipped a lot of vehicles and big weapons and NOTHING was shipped with all of its equipment.  We even put up separate shipments for some items and sent them on different vehicles or different shippers.

Makes me nuts when some movie or TV show has bad guys stealing guns... complete with loaded magazines, sling, even some optical sighting rigs.  I love NCIS, but really.....?

rattler21 posted:

Would someone kindly post the overall length and width of the Menards Jeep? Are the shovel and five gallon can easily removable or should they be ground off? Does the windshield fold flat or kind of flat?

My measurements of the Menards Jeep are:

length = 2-3/4 inches = 132 inches full scale = 11 feet full scale

width = 1-7/32 inches = 58.5 inches full scale = 4 feet-10.5 inches full scale

wheelbase = 1-21/32 inches = 79.5 inches = 6 feet-7.5 inches

As best I can tell, the gas can, spare wheel/tire, seats, and steering wheel are separate pieces from the main casting. The shovel appears to be cast in with very fine paint delineation. The windshield folds almost (but not fully) flat from the normal position. Everything about the model is satisfactory to me exactly as it is.

MELGAR