ShaunBD Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 (edited) Do anyone know were to find 1/72nd Modern Military airfield vehicles?. The Diorama I have in mind is of a transport aircraft (C-160 or C-130) unloading while parked on the apron. Trucks or forklifts would do fine but must be 1980's or later to fit the time peroid to be modeled. Shaun. Edited December 5, 2006 by ShaunBD Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Richard E Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Shaun Not sure if this will help: Flightpath have the old PP Aeroparts Eager Beaver Fork Lift Linky Here - as expected very good but eye wateringly expensive and CMSC have a range of modern British vehicles, all of which are available from PDI Models Second Linky Here Richard Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ShaunBD Posted December 5, 2006 Author Share Posted December 5, 2006 Thanks Richard. Some of these sets cost more than the transport aircraft planned to go with them! Maybe I'll just load some pallets up the back? Shaun. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kingoalie Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 I remember that AMT put some ground vehicles in a few of their kits. I've got their F-15 w/ground equipment. I know there was a tractor and some bomb carts and a bomb lift. I don't think there was a forklift though...HTH John Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roym Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Some possible useful items here.... http://www.jbmodels.co.uk/kits.html Also some in the Hasegawa equipment sets (but no trucks) scroll down, sets 5 and 6 http://www.hlj.com/hljlist2/?Scale=72&...p;GenreCode=All Also, maybe consider soe of the new chinese made diecast cars, Newray or Cararama brands, I think they do trucks as well, they are listed as 1/72 and the detail is amazing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Andre Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 Also, depending on where you are, the recently repopped Revell shelter diorama / Typhoon combo has a nice selection of reasonably recent German ground vehicles, especially if you want to do the Transall. This is now for general sale in the Netherlands for a measly 20 euro. HTH, Andre Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kitnut617 Posted December 6, 2006 Share Posted December 6, 2006 There's Matador Models too, which is always advertized in SAMI. www.matadormodels.co.uk Robert Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart Porteous Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 Got this off the UK Mobile Air Movements Squadron site (I think, it was a while ago). Probably not much help but it gives you an idea of what they use. Most loading and unloading of Hercules seems to use Condec or Atlas transfer loaders, basically a flat bed with wheels underneath. If you fancy scratchbuilding one of these let me know and I'll post some more pics. As for available vehicles, Cararama for Land-Rovers, JB models for Bedford lorries and CMSC or BW Models for other stuff. Cheers, Stuart. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eng Posted December 9, 2006 Share Posted December 9, 2006 (edited) Hi Shaun, Try a search for ROCO MINITANKS, they are 1/76 (not much in it) and I'm sure they have a huge catalogue of modern and older military equipment, IIRC they do a beautiful huge airfield bowser, alot of the stuff is German but I'm sure could be mod'd easily. http://www.roco.com/grid.aspx?grid=Military%20HO Just looked here, it's 1/87 scale for HO railway modellers! I had a couple of there vehicles a few years ago, they come built but with alot of tools and other details on a couple of small sprues. HTH Eng Try also Matador Models - they advertise in alot of the UK modelling mag's Edited December 9, 2006 by eng Quote Link to post Share on other sites
nimrod77 Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Got this off the UK Mobile Air Movements Squadron site (I think, it was a while ago). Probably not much help but it gives you an idea of what they use. Most loading and unloading of Hercules seems to use Condec or Atlas transfer loaders, basically a flat bed with wheels underneath. If you fancy scratchbuilding one of these let me know and I'll post some more pics. As for available vehicles, Cararama for Land-Rovers, JB models for Bedford lorries and CMSC or BW Models for other stuff. Cheers, Stuart. I'm thinking of giving building a "Flat top" (Talue?), or a fork lift a go. Might be beyond my meager skills but if you have any reference pics, I would love too see them too. Seems like a hard kind of thing to find any 1/72 scale forklifts or loading equipment. Cheers all, Nimrod..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
frankycee Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 (edited) If you were to do a U.N. C-130, you might use some ICM 1/72 russian trucks/bowser/command posts and make it a multinational diorame. Also check out www.hobbyterra.com 's website for their selection of 1/72 scale vehicules...some Canadian and other armored vehicules available... Edited December 19, 2006 by frankycee Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart Porteous Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 These are for starters, grainy photos of Condecs. I've got better than this but my scanner and I are about 40 miles away from my references during the week, I'll sort some more out over the holidays. Cheers, Stuart. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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