What about Doll House Hinges for 40's and earlier doors?

[Skip]

The other night I was bored on evilBay and ended up searching Doll House hinges for a non-model project that I am doing. The thought struck me or rather a memory from the distant past, Autoworld used to carry miniature door hinges which looked a lot like the doll house hinges I was looking at.

My question is does anyone have any experience using Doll House hinges on exposed hinge 40's and earlier model cars. I can see that they might take a little fiddling and bending to get the hinge set to the thickness of the door, after that looks like they would be pretty straight forward epoxy the brass to the plastic. Anyone try this type set up? If this works it could be adapted to VW Bugs and Bus variations as well.

[Edsel-Dan]

If they are the 2pc type I am thinking of, I used the Auto World hinges on

my AMT Chevy Van Blue Rescue.

All 4 Hinged doors!!

[Art Anderson]

Way too large, unfortunately. Micro-Mark sells a brass strap hinge (think the door hinges on an old barn door here) that is much closer, and can be bent to make the offset type hinge that Ford and virtually every other automaker used as door hinges through the early post-war years. An even better, closer to scale hinge can be had from Phoenix Model Development, and English supplier. I've gotten some of their hinges, not cheap, but no more expensive than dollhouse hinges, and certainly a lot more scale appearing, and a lot easier to use, according to Charlie Rowley, noted Massachusetts model fire apparatus builder.

I'll take a pic or two of the hinges I've ordered from them and post them, along with a link to their website when I get home (doing this from work). I will be using Phoenix hinges on my '37 Ford pickup cab as well.

Art

[Tom Geiger]

I used doll house hinges on this Vicky, built over 20 years ago. A few observations... doll house hinges are for 1/12 scale doors so they are pretty large in the 1/25 scale world. The three part hinge was too big, so I cut these down to two part hinges. These are brass and weren't cheap. It was a lot of work for so-so results. I don't think I'd be doing this again.