Spring has arrived and farms across North America are turning over their soil and seeding their acres in hopes of a prosperous 2009. This month we have an action packed issue for you covering all things spring related in the farm toy hobby.Toy Tractor Times has some great videos on display farming and an impressive remote control John Deere 9630. There several great articles on a variety of new tractors on their way for 2009 including the new 1/16 Toy Tractor Times Massey Ferguson 65 and an all new tooling of a 1/64 John Deere 8850 4wd by Ertl. There are also some spring implement articles on highly collectible seeders including a 1/16 Great Plains grain drill and a very rare and detailed White corn planter.
You might notice there are even more pictures in the articles this month. We know you like pictures and our Toy Tractor Times photo gallery has grown to over 28,000 images. You can follow each and every new picture on Toy Tractor Times at www.toytractortimes.com/messageboard/images.html . Make sure to look for pdf brochures in some the articles this month where you can down load information about the real tractors like the Steiger Panther IV and New Holland T9060 Constant Power Plus.
Hopefully your real and model farms are off to a great spring season.
Until Next Times....
Jason and Stefanie Hasert
Featured Farm Toy of the Month
Versatile is a well known 4wd tractor producer. Did you know in the early 1980's Versatile produced 4wds for the Fiat. Scale Models produced one of the Fiat/Versatiles in 1/16 scale in 1982. The Scale Models Fiat 44-23 is featured in this issue of Toy Tractor Times along with other 1/16 Fiat tractors.
About the Cover
This month's cover comes from Toy Tractor Times member Robin Nikkel's display Henry Nikkel Farms Inc. The cover picture features a custom 1/64 custom John Deere 9230 and a DB90 36 row corn planter. Robin's attention to detail and outdoor photography of his display farm make them look almost real.
The Toy Tractor Times is pleased to debuted its 2009 Anniversary Tractor. The 24th model in the T.T.T series is an all new tooling of the Massey Ferguson 65 by SpecCast. The new model captures the impressive detail of the real Massey Ferguson 65 with a working 3pt hitch and removable front weights. The new 1/16 Massey Ferguson 65 is ready for spring tillage with its die-cast No. 62 plow that is detachable from the tractor. Learn more about this model and order yours at www.toytractortimes.com/shopwww.toytractortimes.com/shop
The Massey Ferguson 65 tractor and No. 62 plow are the 24th Toy Tractor Times model since 19...
The 32nd annual National Farm Toy Show tractor will be the Steiger Panther IV. This excitin...
Ertl is well known for spring surprises in its toy tractor line up and 2009 is no exception. ...
Remote Control Power: John Deere 9630
Robert Denson of West Memphis , AR won first place in the 1/16 custom model contest at the 2009 S...
Down On The Model Farm With Jim Model
This month we go down on the model farm Jim O'Dell of Pollard, AR. Jim set up his sout...
Getting Dusty
Clayton Lyon is a talented young model farm who showed his display at the 2009 St. Louis Farm Toy Sh...
Ertl’s John Deere 7800’s was one of the first releases that didn’t exclusively ...
I always enjoy it when I can put my talents and creative interests to use for the benefit of a frien...
In 1987 Great Plains celebrated...
Deters Supercast of Spring Grove, MN, produced an amazing 1/16 White 6180 corn planter. The ...
Allis-Chalmers was in the corn planter business for forty seven years. The company offered ...
One of the questions I am often asked by people who are new to customizing is "how do you ma...
Henry Nikkel Farms Inc is a farm display that is ge...
Next 'Times
The May 2009 Toy Tractor Times continues our annual review of hay and dairy farm toys. Toy Tractor Times TV will have a feature on detail tips for building a dairy farm display. Look for information on hay farm toys and other dairy related items.
Featured Website
Moore's Farm Toys is a great place to purchase all the custom models and detail kits you might need to get your model farm ready for spring. Mooresfarmtoys.com features over one thousand model implements, and a full line of parts to customize your own toys. Moore's Farm Toys models, kits, and parts are sold in their retail store in Dresden Ohio, as well as over the web and at many farm toy shows.
Visit this website: mooresfarmtoys.com/customimplements
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