Surf Woody

1932 Ford Woody.

This is 1/64th scale and is a Wal-Mart exclusive.

The are about 25 cents cheaper than Hot Wheels or Matchbox and are similar to those brands before they increased the price about a year ago.

Back then the cars lacked an interior and the wheels were getting cheap.  Since the price increase they are much better.

Still, for $1 this is a perfectly usable car, in 1/64th scale.

It will work well for my Beach Blanket surfers.

So the size problem does not bother me.

I suspect I will get a few of these and the will have surfboards mounted on the roof, or out the rear window.

And I will likely repaint them so they are not all red, and perhaps change up the wheels.
 

Just Put Some Gears On It

On the old Batman TV show the Dynamic Duo was often captured by the villains and tied to a conveyor belt.  Sometimes the devices had gears on them. 

So I looked in the jewelry and scrapbook department of Hobby Lobby and found these.

The big ones are about 2 inches in diameter.  They are all metal.

These should make good gears for that purposes, but steampunk and simply industrial setting would benefit from these also, I think.
 

Roco Truck Painting

Over the years I have picked up a number of Roco Minitanks that are painted in roughly this color scheme. 

Someone used and airbrush to paint rust, desert yellow, and olive drab in blotches over different vehicles.

The odd thing is they also left large parts in the original Roco black-green plastic, unpainted.

I have these vehicles in USA, Soviet Union, and Nazi German markings, but the same camouflage scheme.

They all use the Roco 2 1/2 ton truck, as well as other vehicles.

Details like the rubber on the tires are not painted except with the camouflage colors.

Back in the 1960s we did not have a large truck selection so the US truck got used for everyone.  Since then these vehicles get touch up paint, I paint in all the unpainted plastic using Testors Olive Drab paint.  I also paint the wheels.  I remove any decals that are not US and the vehicles return to US Army service, and like in this example the rubber wheels get painted too.  They also often have a blotch of paint on the bottom, this one was gray, which I assume was a unit color.  I painted over that with tire black paint.
 

On My Workbench

I am working on a bunch of vehicles that are in my collection.  These are Filament Fighters from Fidelis Models.

This is from some company called Railroad Connections, and it's 3D printed.

The 6x6 truck is a Roco and the others are Filament Fighters.

Sherman tank Aunt Jemima mine rollers, Roco and Heiser models, the M18 Hellcat is Filament Fighters.

Roco 2 1/2 ton truck, I got it with partial paintjob and I touched it up.  All the others were unassembled and unpainted.  I have been working on these and a few others for the last couple weeks.