Monthly Features of Toy Farmer Magazine

Collector Fills Shelves with 1/8 Scale

11/17/2025

By Fred Hendricks
Note: This feature is in the December TF 2025 issue.

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Farm toy hobbyists often focus their collection on
models that replicate tractors and equipment used
on their farm. Terry Warren is an Illinois farmer
who started collecting replicas of his real equipment.
However, the scope of the family farm over three
generations represents a large number of tractors.

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Itch to Scratch Build

10/16/2025

By Larry LeMasters
Note: This feature is in the November TF 2025 issue.

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Stanley Klutts, Okemah, Okla., still lives on the farm his father, Phillip, started 58 years ago. And his foray into scratch building began with the restoration of two childhood toys recused from that farm's junk pile.

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Youth puts Creativity into displays

9/16/2025

By Diana West
Note: This feature is in the October TF 2025 issue.

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Earlier this year, Sawyer Woods, then 11 years old, from Wadesville, Ind., entered a farm scene in the model and display contest at the Gateway Mid-America Toy Show in St. Louis, Mo. He won first place in the youth category and the People's Choice Award.

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Craftsman Builds in small scale

8/14/2025

By Larry LeMasters
Note: This feature is in the September TF 2025 issue.

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Warren Ehrisman, Beemer, Neb., has become a master builder of big iron in small scale, specializing in 1/64 scale four-wheel-drive tractors not being mass-produced.

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Building Farms in miniature

7/21/2025

By Larry LeMasters
Note: This feature is in the August TF 2025 issue.

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Scott Galloway, Terra Alta, W.V., fell in love with farm toy displays at an early age, and continues that interest with the recent creation of a winning display of an imaginary Galloway Farms.

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Whittington Pedal Combine has new life

6/16/2025

By Larry LeMasters
Note: This feature is in the July TF 2025 issue.

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Drew Whittington is a third-generation farmer from Fleming, Cole., who put his talents to work to restore a Case pedal combine.

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Irish Talent Shares Displays

5/19/2025

By Jacco van den Broek
Note: This feature is in the June TF 2025 issue.

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A well-known Irish farm toy collector, Harry Bell lives in the small town of Newtownards, County Down, near Belfast in Northern Ireland.
Born in 1950 in a country-sided small village named Ballycullen, a suburb of Dublin, Ireland, Bell grew up with agriculture all around.

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Custom & Scratch-Built: Chris Buchanan, Maryland

4/15/2025

Note: This feature is in the May TF 2025 issue.

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Chris Buchanan built a 1/64 scale John Deere X9 1100 combine with highly detailed parts and LED lights.

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National Farm Toy Show® Tractor: International 7788

3/18/2025

By Kenneth Updike
Note: This feature is in the April TF 2025 issue.

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With the dark clouds of the 1980s farm economy still forming overhead, IH continued forward with tractor development. The large articulating four-wheel-drive tractors IH dealers sold were built by Steiger Tractor of Fargo, N.D. IH had contracted with Steiger to build large-frame, four-wheel-drive tractors using IH-supplied engines and drivetrains fitted into modified Steiger-built frames and cabs, starting in 1973 with the IH 4366 tractor.

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Lockwood Angus puts Details in the Displays

2/14/2025

By Luann Dart
Note: This feature is in the March TF 2025 issue.

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Shawn Lockwood's miniature creations are probably among the details on farm toy displays across the country, from corral panels penning the cattle to truck beds loaded with lay, even tiny vinyl ear tags marking the herd.

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Collector Fills Shelves with 1/8 Scale

Itch to Scratch Build

Youth puts Creativity into displays

Craftsman Builds in small scale

Building Farms in miniature

Whittington Pedal Combine has new life

Irish Talent Shares Displays

Custom & Scratch-Built: Chris Buchanan, Maryland

National Farm Toy Show® Tractor: International 7788

Lockwood Angus puts Details in the Displays

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