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Hello All,<br /><br />I'm totally new in this cool world of model railroading and I am about to embark on a few miniature dioramas using HO scale accessories. I need to populate a parking lot in one of my dioramas but when I went to the local hobby store to scope out the vehicles I noticed that many of the different manufacturer's vehicles don't match up with one another in scale. They all say 1:87 but if you hold an Atlas car next to a Model Power mini car or any other company's line (I forgot the names of the others) there tends to be enough differences to step back and say, "what do I use?".<br /><br />I'm looking for vehicles that are more modern, 70's- current, standard stuff you'd find on the streets today. I did pick up a Model Power Mini 2004 MB ML SUV mainly because the size looked right and they had several other standard vehicles in their line (not to mention they are half the price of all the others and look just as good. I'm not sure whether they will have everything I'll need in the end though so I must ask, what do you guys do? Do you mix and match? Do you stick with one manufacturer? Is this even a problem with you guys?<br /><br />Some of the cool trucks within each line look too big also.<br /><br />Thanks for any help!
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