Building Nice Scenes in S Scale

[texasdon]

As I contemplate building my new layout in S Scale, I am interested in learning more about the availability of the items needed to make the scenery part of the layout look good and seem complete. Could folks direct me to websites or other resources where I could look at scenic items available in S Scale? Also, could you comment on your experiences finding items or using HO or O items for S scale and approximate cost of items relative to HO and O scales? I intend to model a period somewhere between 1960 and the early 1980’s. S scale is about 36% larger than HO scale and about 25% smaller than O scale. I gather from some previous postings that one can make things from the other scales fit, especially if you are not an obsessive rivet counter. I want a good overall appearance rather than exactness, so this should be fine for me.

I am specifically interested in the following items:

Figures (people and animals)
Vehicles (cars, trucks, farm equipment, construction equipment, etc)
Buildings and structures kits
Building and structures parts such as windows, doors, etc (I will scratch build buildings)
Miscellaneous scenic details such as tools, ladders, drums, pallets (the stuff that completes a scene)

Thanks for any assistance you can provide.

[BoxcabE50]

Don-

Speaking of scenes. I began wondering, if one were to model a more rural, mountainous view, with logging- What is available? Trucks, skidders, yarders, dozers, etc.

But another question came into mind. I could be overwhelmed by the size of the scene. It might require a fair amount of layout space to make decent appearing timbered area. How tall would an 80-100 foot fir or pine tree be in S?

:D

Boxcab E50

[texasdon]

Boxcab,

Ertl and Norscott, to name a couple, make a lot of 1/64 farm and construction equipment models which are pretty nice, although most of them are based on modern prototypes. I collect some of them from time to time, and I have bought stuff from the following websites with no problems:

http://www.construction-toys.com/

https://store.bossenimp.com/store/

http://www.thecollectablesstore.com/

You might visit these websites and look around. Another option is to look under die cast miniatures or models in a web search engine.

Let me know if you find any interesting 60's-80's era things while you are looking.