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Oil field trucks during ODS 1991?
wolfik
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Posted: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 07:12 AM UTC
hi all
knows anyone a good source on the net about these oil field trasporters used as tank trasporters during this conflict?
I have some small pictures of mercedes,mack and others but not really helpfull to build such a beast

thanks in advance for any help!

regards
Frenchy
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Posted: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 - 07:49 AM UTC
Hi
I've just done a quick Google search and I've came across a book that may be useful for such a project : it presents some of the trucks that are used in Saudi Arabia by oil companies and Saudi Arabia army as well...
http://www.truckbook.de/saudi.htm
including impressive trucks like the Kenworth 953 (IIRC it's the one that is often seen on Desert Storm pictures...)

Other books on similar trucks in the Middle East by the same editor seem to be worth a look too...
http://www.truckbook.de/order.htm

HTH
Frenchy
Frenchy
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Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 04:35 AM UTC
Info update :
You can even find some resin kits of these trucks .....in 1/87 scale
http://www.dk-models.de/overview.htm
http://www.dk-models.de/kits.htm
Maybe such kits could be used as starting point for bigger replicas...
The D&K website appears to be closely related to the site I mentionned in my previous post.

Frenchy
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