Hello.
I found some German firm who make a resin NVA trucks kits in 1/35.
http://www.modellschmiede-struppen.de/bausaetze.php
I'm interested for IFA W50 LA/A. Yes this is not Soviet but was in Soviet usage. So, may be somebody from this forum build it or other models of that firm? How are they? I see the not perfect quality on the photos, but how bad is it?

Hi Taras,

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Andreas

O HO HO!

Thanks Andreas for detailed photos.


I remember the DAS WERK miniatures has announced 1/35 IFA W50L resin kit. But the firm was disappeared.

As far as I know, W-50 LA/A was never in soviet usage!? The soviets had their own trucks (more than enough, just to mention their GAZ, ZIL, KRAZ, URAL...) and hadn't gotten any eastern german trucks officially...

Anyway, its a nice model to have I guess... and a rare one

Here's an interesting 1HP (Horsepower ) variant :



Frenchy

Thanks Frenhy for the beautiful pictures
But I think this is 1 BP (bull power), this is very rare to see in Vietnam now !

OOOOPS ! You're right. I should have paid more attention to the "engine"

Frenchy

Read this
Hope this helps.

Well... its Wikipedia... I don't really trust ALL of what they say to be honest

No seriously, only a picture of a W-50 with a red star printed on the doors and soviet troops riding it would convince me, but so far I am quite sure: the W-50 was not in structural military use with the soviet troops... Civilian usage is another story... wouldn't bet against that...

Neither would I
http://sovautoimport.narod.ru/ifa/ifaw50.html

Here's one in Kiev :

and another one in St Petersburg :


Frenchy

Nice Pics, thank you! It's just a shame to see 'em beaten up like that...

You're welcome ! You'll find more pics on Flickr, many of them showing trucks in much better shape

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1376147@N21/pool/

Frenchy

They were selling their trucks to both side of the Iran-Iraq war and that’s why you see their profit dropped once that war finished (1987).

Where and how to buy it?
Because e-mail address is.
Can someone help me?
IFA truck, ambulance Robur cares!
Gábor.
What we got was a set of GDR, on which I worked here, Szolnok, 89 mixed air transport brigade.