Lindberg Models

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Thanks David, I guess I was not familiar with that abbreviation and did not look hard enough. I also learned CMW is also referred to as Mini-Metals and sometimes abbreviated “MM”

CMW is producing some nice models. The thought came to mind of old/new module scenes. The idea is to do the same place in different time periods. A 1940s, scene with 1936 Fords, a 50s scene with White CW.22, and International Md.190s and a 60’s scene with White “Freightliners”. CMW has produced taxi cabs and police cars for all three periods. CMW made 50s truck and trailers for Safeway, Santa Fe, REA and Roadway and Athearn, Herpa, Con-Cur do the 60s tractors and trailer. The 40s scene would have steam facilities, they could still be there in the 50s but only the foundations would be there in the 60s. Buildings would also go thru the evolution, an old wood REA warehouse with a Jordon Model AA into the Walthers brick REA warehouse with either CMW 50’s REA vehicles or an Athearn REA “Freightliner”. It would be neat to try.

Richard

[Cor_DutchArt]

Hey Richard,
Also look at www.isp.ca/sylvan/default.htm for great models.

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Also look at www.isp.ca/sylvan/default.htm for great models.

Great models, I could live on Slyvan’s site forever, A? I like that he identified the years and model numbers as that information is not always easy to find. My problem is I can remember when most of the late 40s and early 50s stuff was new. My father owned a 36 Ford, a 49 Ford, a 55 Hudson Rambler, and a 59 AMC Rambler (you’ll never see the last two modeled). He retired on a farm in southern Maine where he had an old Farmall four wheeler, a 39 International pick-up and a 50s International Step-Van he used to deliver milk and that old 59 AMC Rambler.
When I came home on leave from the Air Force in about 1965, I pulled the spark plugs on the Rambler. They were the originals and the electrodes were just nubs but it still ran.
My friend owned a 49 Studebaker. It was “check the gas and fill the oil” but it ran forever. Another owned a 50 Chevrolet.
I owned a 50 Ford convertible, a 53 Ford Victoria, than regressed to a 49 Ford two door (my girl friend/wife wrecked the Victoria). Newly married we steamed the 49 from Boston to my duty station in Tucson, Arizona. The block cracked in Arizona (the Ford flathead V8 was notorious for it) and after walking for a month bought a 56 Plymouth without air conditioning for $400. We bought new a 63 VW bus but later, in the Nebraska wind, that was like driving an oil drum in bowl of Jell-o. Then we bought a real car, a 65 Ford Mustang V8. She wrecked it but it was repaired. It became rather impractical with three kids but I kept it until we went overseas in 1976. So for me, many of these old cars are not just models but memories.
Richard