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Wider Wargaming => Painting & Modelling => Topic started by: Wulf on 08 May 2014, 10:10:00 PM

Title: 1930s tractor?
Post by: Wulf on 08 May 2014, 10:10:00 PM
Anyone know where I could get a 1930s style tractor in 10mm/N gauge? I have all sorts of farm-type stuff that'll get used for WWII Skirmish level games, but it would look better with a tractor sitting there...
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: Fenton on 08 May 2014, 11:22:47 PM
I would think N gauge railway modelling sites would be your best bet
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: GrumpyOldMan on 09 May 2014, 12:14:12 AM
Hello Wulf

There's not much around, most of the older tractors are 40s/50s not 30s.

The closest probably is the Langley A27 listed as 40s with the metal rear wheels rather than the large rubber ones.

(http://www.langleymodels.co.uk/acatalog/LM-A27.JPG)

http://www.langleymodels.co.uk/shop/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww.langley-models.co.uk%2facatalog%2fOnline_Catalogue_Accessories_A66_Onwards_New_Items_61.html&WD=tractor&PN=Online_Catalogue_Accessories_A1__A65__incl_canal_boats__59.html%23aA27#aA27 (http://www.langleymodels.co.uk/shop/sh000001.pl?REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww.langley-models.co.uk%2facatalog%2fOnline_Catalogue_Accessories_A66_Onwards_New_Items_61.html&WD=tractor&PN=Online_Catalogue_Accessories_A1__A65__incl_canal_boats__59.html%23aA27#aA27)

I did have a link to a nice N scale (1/160) kit but the site seems to have disappeared altogether and I can't find any mention of them anywhere.

The Oxford diecast stuff is all 40s/50s http://www.ehattons.com/stocklist/1000488/1000589/1000725/0/Oxford_Diecast_N_Gauge_Farming_Construction/prodlist.aspx (http://www.ehattons.com/stocklist/1000488/1000589/1000725/0/Oxford_Diecast_N_Gauge_Farming_Construction/prodlist.aspx) as are Gem and P & D Marsh

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: WeeWars on 09 May 2014, 12:39:40 AM
For £1,250 you can get yourself a 1:1 scale 1930s tractor:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1930s-Fordson-Tractor-/131166983672?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1e8a2955f8 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1930s-Fordson-Tractor-/131166983672?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1e8a2955f8)

Langley do an N-scale 1940 tractor.

(http://www.langley-models.co.uk/acatalog/LM-A27.JPG)

For WW2 I'd be tempted by what would have been an old fashioned steam engine "used for haulage and a power source for threshing drums and bailers". As seen in Dad's army?

(http://www.langley-models.co.uk/acatalog/LM-e39.jpg)
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: GrumpyOldMan on 09 May 2014, 01:29:08 AM
Quote from: WeeWars on 09 May 2014, 12:39:40 AM
For £1,250 you can get yourself a 1:1 scale 1930s tractor:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1930s-Fordson-Tractor-/131166983672?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1e8a2955f8 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1930s-Fordson-Tractor-/131166983672?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1e8a2955f8)

Langley do an N-scale 1940 tractor.

(http://www.langley-models.co.uk/acatalog/LM-A27.JPG)

For WW2 I'd be tempted by what would have been an old fashioned steam engine "used for haulage and a power source for threshing drums and bailers". As seen in Dad's army?

(http://www.langley-models.co.uk/acatalog/LM-e39.jpg)

Or you could use the one Pendraken sells  :D :D :D :-

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5540/9674036761_47115edfc1_n.jpg)

http://www.pendraken.co.uk/BP58-p6977/ (http://www.pendraken.co.uk/BP58-p6977/)

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan

Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: WeeWars on 09 May 2014, 01:51:32 AM
Sorted!

Nice to see a pic of BP58!
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: FierceKitty on 09 May 2014, 02:03:46 AM
I use one to pull my big Boer gun (yes, the Afrikaners did have a few).
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: Wulf on 09 May 2014, 06:20:13 AM
I'd love to use a traction engine (I may well just get one anyway), but I want something in character but inconspicuous...

The Langley tractor looks good, as long as the landgirl can be prised loose. I see Langley also do a War Memorial - anyone know if there were memorials to WWI in 1940? That might be a good alternative to the town square fountain I've been looking for.
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: Steve J on 09 May 2014, 07:53:39 AM
Oxford Diecast do a nice little tractor, but not sure if it's 1930s. I've got one for use with my AVBCW forces, as it looks close enough to me.
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: Ithoriel on 09 May 2014, 10:12:15 AM
Quote from: Wulf on 09 May 2014, 06:20:13 AM
I see Langley also do a War Memorial - anyone know if there were memorials to WWI in 1940? That might be a good alternative to the town square fountain I've been looking for.

A large number of war memorials were built in the '20s and '30s though many seem to have been overshadowed by the WW2 ones until fairly recently.
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: Fenton on 09 May 2014, 10:19:35 AM
Do you mean memorials in Britain or Europe?...The memorials round my way honour both WW1 and WW2 and in some case the Boer War as well

Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: Hertsblue on 09 May 2014, 11:00:32 AM
Yes, our local ones were built for WW1 but have had WW2 names added post war.
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 09 May 2014, 12:34:27 PM
That's very common, although in Birkenhead they have added sloped plaques for various regiments and services.

IanS
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: Wulf on 09 May 2014, 06:08:33 PM
Sorry, I was thinking of memorials in France/Belgium and all the bits where the BEF fought in WWII. Seems a decent chance, and it wouldn't look out of place anyway. My battlefields will undoubtedly look more British than French anyway. I want all the bits necessary to create a countryside battlefield, with large farm complex, and a small town battlefield, with a town square with something in the middle. I can now get a fountain, but a war memorial would seem apt too...

I'd like to have the option of some industrial scenery too, but for whatever reason the image of a 1940 industrial area in France, 1940 seems harder to imagine...

However, I also see that Langley do a Threshing machine, also like the one in Dad's Army, so a Traction Engine (of which they do a few...) seems even more attractive now...
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: Steve J on 09 May 2014, 06:59:23 PM
Here's a link to their N guage offering:

http://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/shop/showcat.asp?cat=304&Tractor
Title: Re: 1930s tractor?
Post by: Wulf on 09 May 2014, 07:14:25 PM
That's nice too. Both look 1940s, which looks good enough to me.