YES!!! Archer makes the markings transfer set for the DUKW surf board. The lettering is in white rather than yellow and it is probably debatable which color is the more correct.
I would favor the yellow lettering but white is better than nothing and perhaps a yellow highlighter as a filter over the white lettering might do the trick???

(Photo of transfer sheet from the Archer website.)

Deuces and DUKWs

I should have started this DUKW portion of this thread with these two photos:

It would have REALLY tied the two related topics of Deuces and DUKWs together!





(US Army Signal Corps Photos)

OK -- I have now created a separate thread entitled "DUKW - Walk Around" and am shifting the DUKW coverage over to that thread. It will encompass images from the Tech Manual plus various references found on the web as well as my personal photos taken at two MPVA shows and two LST events.

You can view this new information at:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/213719

Ok Mike, I've got one for ya. What the heck type of truck is this?!

Not sure, but it kind of looks like an American-La France..???

Autocar ?

H.P.

It kinda looks like a bigger version of the Dodge 1 1/2 ton that the Army bought in 1938. I've got more pics of these, just trying to find them now.

I vote American La-France but it still doesn't look exactly right???

An old hobby competition adage says; "He who has the best references wins!"

I can highly recommend the many Tech Manuals available from Easy 1 Productions. Great reference material at usually a much lower price than the paper Tech Manuals and in a much smaller package!


(Mike Koenig Photo)
p.s. Unsolicited endorcement; I have no business involvement in Easy 1Productions.

The pic was taken in the late 1930s and it is pulling an M3 3" antiaircraft gun, so it has to be roughly in the 4-ton class.

Just found another picture showing the same truck :

"US Armed Forces trucks driving south of Bragg 1941"



Full size

from this very interesting thread on Axishistory forum :

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=113&t=157871&start=30

No definitive answer yet but I've noticed the door window frame shape that reminds me of the one seen on Corbitt cabs (the front fenders look similar as well...) :

1937 model :



H.P.

It may be a Corbitt T4. G028 is listed as the Corbitt T4 and also the GMC T95, which is a similar layout. Both were early 30s design 8-ton anti-aircraft prime movers.

A collection of beautiful short wheelbase CCKW's for inspiration:

Talking about inspiration, did you see this one (from another thread) ? :

Another aircraft carrier variant



H.P.

That was the experimental rocket-powered variant. Trials were doscontinued after the driver of test article #1 failed to keep the vehicle on the ground.

Frau Merkel would certainly complain now, after what the NSA did to her.

Very interesting thread.

Robert Jan

At least this one exceeded 100 mph



It was fitted with JATO rockets and used for testing emergency arresting gear on airfield runways.

H.P.

A GMC belonging to the 146th Engineer Combat Bn is used as a water-spraying truck in Mortain, Normandy, August 1944 :



Full size

H.P.

Beautiful Normandy color photo of CCKW Browser pulling two fuel trailers:

SUPER clean restoration, WOW!

The Bofors AA variant of the CCKW:


Note spare barrel carried on the fenders of the two vehicles on the right in this Paris parade photo.

More on the fuel browser. You don't see photos of the inside of the pump enclosure very often. Wish this could have been more clear.

The aftermarket, resin conversion for the flightline fuel browser.
(A completed model of this kit by Chris Toops as seen at the 2010 Cincinnati model show is shown elsewhere in this thread.)

Sometimes wishes can come true Mike

This one is a 1941 model :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rlb_photography/sets/72157627671430322/

F3 or L2 ?

http://g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=190757

H.P.

Frenchy your resources never cease to amaze!