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APPLETON, WIS. – Here is a picture of Bob Ludolph from Minn. watching Tom and I load his 1/8th scale 747 Big Bud into his vehicle. We met Bob and his wife in Appleton to deliver it to him.
Many people think I only built one of the big 747 tractors , but I did build two of them.
The toy company put two of them out in the beginning as a set. One with the white hood and silver exhaust stacks and one with the black hood and black exhaust stacks. So actually I built one set of them. I’m sure either of these collectors would enjoy having both of them to have the complete set. They both love the Big Buds.
The reason I am posting this is because we bought the Big 747 Bud book a couple weeks ago that John Harvey published . The book had a nice article about my one of a kind 1/8th scale 747 Big Bud , and how it was the only one built that large and that it was a one of a kind model. This will let a lot of people know there are really two of them. To a serious collector (one of a kind ) means A LOT !!
I had talked to both Fred and Bob the summer I built them and they new that there would be two built and not just one.
They were very cool tractor models. I have another collector friend that REALLY wants me to build him one too, but I told him two was all I would build in 1/8th scale. Maybe someday I will build a set of them in 1/4 scale, (:>), NOW WE’RE TALKING !!!!!! LOL
I would love to make 1/8th scale models of a John Deere, IH, Allis-Chalmers , Oliver, Versatile , Ford, Case, Massey-Ferguson, Steiger, Wagner, and even a Belarus. They would all be 4 wheel drive articulating tractors. I love big tractors too.
Have a nice Sat.
