Brian Austin

Rolls-Royce ice cream trucks https://www.automotiverhythms.com/phantom-ii-rolls-royce-ice-cream-beauty/ https://jalopnik.com/this-rolls-royce-ice-cream-truck-is-the-most-british-th-1851493456 https://mccreathfamily.scot/italian-connections/the-italian-cafe-heritage/other-italian-businesses-listed-by-shire/east-lothian/s-luca-olympia-cafe-musselburgh/ Here's a 1:43 diecast https://www.tacot.com/listings/rolls-royce-20hp-ice-cream-van-1923-s-luca-purple-metal-glm-86435-0

More R-R pickups

1920 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost service car, body by Brewster.

Sets like these come in the variety of scales motorcycle kits are offered in. I'm not sure what scale would be close to size to 1:25-24 truck drive chains. Tamiya: https://www.tamiya.com/english/products/12633/index.html Model Factory Hiro: https://boostgear.shop/en-us/products/4571102329413

Coupe-bashed.

1929 Packard welding rig, 1936. Trinidad, CO. (According to my notes, though I forget where I found the pic).

Compare the Hudson shown above with this one listed as a 1946. Factory built. The cab back in the one above seems to be lacking a little finesse, but it would be easier to model. ?

That Duesenberg stakebed has a relatively short bed for such a long vehicle. ?

Now to circle this thread back around to the beginning, here's the website for the artisan profiled in the videos. https://inamimodel.jimdofree.com/ Not much in the way of pictures, unfortunately.

Some more etched brass kits (1:80 scale on HO track) by World Kogei. Steeplecab electric https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10697567 Much smaller steeplecab https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10814717

I was unaware of the potential problems with Resourced Rails. Thanks for the heads up. Ordering from brasstrains looks tempting, but so far I haven't found anything in my budget range. ?

You can still get etched brass kits made in Japan. https://universe777.thebase.in/items/77829924

And another seller https://resourcedrails.com/collections/brass-models

Fun site to browse through painted and unpainted brass. https://www.brasstrains.com/Classic/Trains/Scales/O-Scale?showsold=True

How about waiting for more facts? All I find is this one video and maybe a thread or two discussing it.

I posted a similar video in the spring but it's slightly different. The artisan speaks (with subtitles) about his craft. The one posted above is longer, and you get to see the equalizing links in action. Pretty neat.

Part One is a lovely walk-through of the layout, though I figured you guys would like to see the trains run instead of the guys talking for almost an hour. ? If you have a rainy weekend, I'd recommend poking around the YouTube channel the video is from. HO Scale, O Scale, various eras. Lots of neat buildings as well. Admittedly I've only skimmed the surface myself. Lots of talent for sure.

You can find plenty of random rolling stock used. For 1:25 scale, you don't need premium products. I think in the size range we're talking about models are reasonably priced compared to, say, 1:20 scale 3ft gauge stuff which is indeed pricey. You'd need to re-detail the rolling stock and make your own trucks. Track gauge for the historic GENERAL was 5 ft, so G Gauge track would be out. You might want to use O Scale rail. Some time after the war the track was re-gauged to Standard.

Brass model production moved to Korea, which I don't believe has a model railroad hobby market of its own.

For those wondering what to do with your AMT 1:25 scale GENERAL loco kit, here's what trains typically looked like in the Civil War days. Note the loco in the thumbnail below. GENERAL looked very similar before being rebuilt after the war. The lovely brass model locos are hard to come by today.

Their video channel https://www.youtube.com/@britainsbiggestmodelrailwa1428/vid

This huge model railway is centered around coal train operations. Lots and lots of coal cars. I love the "pacing" action of this video, as the scenery blurs by.

Banthrico's near-1:25 scale diecast banks offered some four-door sedans, but mostly '40s-'50s models.

There always has been push/pull between modelers wanting sedans for light commercial and municipal cars and kit manufacturers tending to lean toward the flashier hardtops coupes and convertibles. Relatedly, many US export models were only available as four-door sedans (or four-door hardtops) so replicating these in scale can be a challenge converting a two-door hardtop or coupe. Unless there was some kind of tie-in to NASCAR or drag racing or a TV show license, I don't see many newly tooled four door sedan kits in the future. TWO-door sedans, maybe.

Note the recess in the back panel, and the stepwells. (Images found online).