Howdy All,

Don't pay any attention to the name I gave this pending Campaign, I just put that name there until somebody pee's on that tree too......

Anyway, here's a pretty cool suggestion for those thinking about joining the Red Cross Campaign but don't want to spend alot of money, nor take alot of time.


What I mean by that is; the Tamiya M151 kit is fairly inexpensive, and the kit itself is almost a 'drop in a tube of glue/shake box vigorously/ open box/kit built' kinda kit. With just a teenie bit of scratching, you could have a real showstopper!

Anybody else have any suggestions?..........hmnnnn?

Tread.

Or using the Tamiya Chev LRDG kit as a base do these...

Indian pattern ambulance


blood supply truck



plus there are surgical suppl trucks, dentists, bacteriology(spell) trucks as well

Interesting vehicles.....
I wonder how the got the little red jeep on the stretcher????? :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

sorry no pic's but how about naming the campaign
SCAB MECHANIC :-) :-)

Howdy fellas,

Thx for piping in.

to my pal 'Roo:
I just love the first one....got the rear section figured out, but still thinking on the forward portion of the rear section.........I can always fall back to my usual position of shaved Basswood I guess

to our resident 'Geriatric' Grumpy:
"little red jeep"?.....you mean the red toyota you can see thru the side window of the 'Mutt', or the guy pickin' his nose just to the right of it?........? (++)

to mikeli:
"Scab Mechanic" huh?.......interesting choice Oh ' man from the great industrial north' (of England). That's of course a 'peacetime' moniker no doubt........

What!......no other suggestions?????..........now I just KNOW I heard from a decent handful of you medics/corpsmen/doc's/band-aid bandits/ C.O.'s/ and all around Angel's in O.D.'s, soooooooooooo.......................
Where's all the suggestions fellow's???????

If the cat's got yer tongue, just give me a sec with your cat......

Tread.

Post Script: Hey 'Roo, where would one get a set of tyre's like depicted in your second photo submission?..............Mickey Thompson?............ :-)

hehehehehe I know of an Aussie marsupial who has some resin ones and a mold to do more (LOL) :-)

PS> Tread the 'roof' over the cab was canvas on a wooden frame. Do a Roo special effects trick and make a frame and cover it with a piece of cloth with the right weave. fit and trim and then soak super glue into it. Paint as normal and you have a canvas roof.

Oh and BTW the whole rear portion of the body on these was canvas covered and 'Doped' like WW1 airplanes were.

regards
Cliff

now I wonder who that could be

Howdy 'Roo-ski,

Many thx for the 'hand-holding', it's always good to be treated gently.......

How does the cab interface? Is the vehicle pictured a hardtop, or a soft?

Tread.

BTW, where the Walkabout did you get the masters for the second vehicles tyre set?.......Time Machine? ...

Nope made them up myself from some old rubber tyres cut done to size and a modified LRDG chev rim.

I have made a set for the other one as well as these are the same as on the Ford Prime mover I am doing for the Heavy hauler campaign. They are away getting cast now.

with the Chev Indian pattern ambulance there is a wall behind the seats with a window opening in it similar to my CMP ambulance but without the cover. The roof of the cab was a fixed, Doped piece of canvas. These were built on a chassis and Cowl / windscreen unit by both the aussies and the Indian army to an Indian design.

hope this helps
Cliff

PS> I have one or two original pics of a new one of these being assembled and it shows the cab back. I also think I have some interior pics as well of the ambulance body.I will see if I can find them as I do not think I have updated the archives with them.

If you need more spark in ideas, you can get a jeep and 'shake and stir' a conversion of a small rack on the hood and back, a'la korean war MASH wounded mover.

Oh.... My..... God....... I missed the guy picking his nose....... :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Maybe nosepicker is a modellor who has discovered that ca glue on your finger sticks........... and he is heading for the stretcher to be taken to hospital so the medical staff can have a chuckle. :-)

I know we always referred to the meat wagons as blood buckets...... but then again grunts can be an uncouth mob at times.

Brian

LOL..... try a few modellers,, a case of beer, and a 1/5 of Jack, and see how couth they are.............. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

Howdy fellas,

Here's a couple more photographic suggestions for the Campaign.....

This is a VAB ambulance....

And this is a rather cool field expedient Australian Jeep/stretcher unit......


This third one is a vehicle I'd love to build. An Austin K2 Ambulance.....

...cool huh?

Tread.

Hey Tread the Aussie jeep ambulance is nice and one of two models of that type. We had quite a few especially in New Guinea.

Accurate Armor now does a nice kit of the Austin K2 'Katy'.

Hmmm prob is I need the bank managers help to get one at the moment :-)

of course we can always go a bit further back and do this 'field Surgical unit'



Roo