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Heavy Equipment, Excavators, and Farm Tractors Oh My!!!

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  • Member since
    February 2013
Heavy Equipment, Excavators, and Farm Tractors Oh My!!!
Posted by BigHoss on Saturday, January 13, 2018 10:57 AM

I'm returning to the hobby after a few decades of military and life interferecne. I'm still disheartened that,in my opinion, the primary focus is on military scale models. I've seen the semi-trucks, trailers, fire trucks, automobiles, etc. But what I can't figure out is why manufacturers do not make Caterpillar Tractors, Bulldoozers, Road Graters, Farm Combines, Case Tractors, farm implements, etc. This bewliderment was enhanced while watching a series of European YouTube videos of large scale R/C equipment. Those Euorpean modelers are incredible. Now granted, these are R/C controlled vehicles, but their general fascination with heavy equipment and R/C scale working towns, is incredible.

Do we have these clubs and scale models/scale R/C kits in the "States" and I am just not finding them? Is there a group of modelers with the same passion for these other scale model formats as me?

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Fort Knox
Posted by Rob Gronovius on Saturday, January 13, 2018 2:01 PM

1/35 scale has started to delve into bulldozers and some small engineer equipment used during WW2 and more recent US conflicts. 

  • Member since
    May 2011
  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted by Real G on Saturday, January 13, 2018 3:52 PM

Hasegawa, Aoshima, and Fujimi have also started producing forklifts and excavators in 1/32 & 1/35.  Hasegawa has a crazy twin armed excavator, and just released a steam roller!  Noboby has yet kitted really large equipment, save for those old ERTL kits, but never say never.  A big Cat excavator or one of those gargantuan mining dump trucks would be cool.  I'd also like to have a Road Tech "asphalt eater" thing that looks like a robotic dinosaur.

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

  • Member since
    September 2005
  • From: North Pole, Alaska
Posted by richs26 on Saturday, January 13, 2018 5:51 PM

Miniart has 3 1/35 D-7 dozers and two WW2 time Case tractors, and Heller has a 1/35 Ferguson TE-20 tractor which is the same as the Ford-Ferguson 9N/2N.

WIP:  Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 73rd BS B-26, 40-1408, torpedo bomber attempt on Ryujo

Monogram 1/72 B-26 (Snaptite) as 22nd BG B-26, 7-Mile Drome, New Guinea

Minicraft 1/72 B-24D as LB-30, AL-613, "Tough Boy", 28th Composite Group

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Sunday, January 14, 2018 11:39 AM

They don't sell well- they don't have enough guns nor carry enough bombs.

 

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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