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GuyM
Posted: Monday, June 09, 2025 2:41:06 AM
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Location: Le Muy - Var - France
The 2 Cometto trailers:





Miscellaneous pictures of both convoys:





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Guy
Quinella
Posted: Monday, June 09, 2025 10:23:31 AM

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Guy: I get a kick out of the loads you guys use. How about a fishing reel like a spinner, or maybe a pencil sharpener?!!!!! Keep up the good work. We enjoy your pics. CAW
GuyM
Posted: Friday, June 13, 2025 2:08:00 AM
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Meeting of 2 Berliet TPO15A (other Minitrucks kit already displayed in this topic):









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Guy
GuyM
Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 2:49:45 AM
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From 25/08 to 16/11/1944, the US Army organize a logistical operation to supply goods and armament to Allied Armies, the "Red Ball Express"' (first from St Lô to Chartres, then between St Lô and Soissons/Sommesous, following Armies move to the East):



2 Red Ball Express vehicles:





- left: General Motors Co CCKW 353 6x6/2 truck, dropside body loaded with 134 Magnatex Ltd petrol jerricans and a rolled tarpaulin (Solido/Hachette model being modified (*)),
- right: General Motors Co CCKW 353 6x6/2 truck, sheeted dropside body carrying 14 petrol barrels (Solido model being modified, modified Corgi drums (*)).

The map is issued from "les Routes de la Liberté" N. Aubin, Ed. Histoire & Collections,
Note (*); glazing was added on both trucks, axle/transmission systems to be added,
the 2nd GMC had a tarpailin added on its dropside body with a repainted tarpaulin added on its cab (originating from a Verem model), drums were glued on a support and repainted.

To be continued.
Guy


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Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 2:53:39 AM
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To be continued.
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Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 2:56:46 AM
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Guy
GuyM
Posted: Saturday, June 21, 2025 2:23:23 AM
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There are several road accidents on the Red Ball Express (narrow roads, overtime...). The US Army assign there as well their usual wreckers:





General Motors Co CCKW 353 Lot 7 6x6/2 truck fitted with a 12.7mm machine-gun and a dropside body with traveling chain hoist on wrecker beam (Solido model being modified(*)),





Note (*): the model received a glazing, a repainted cab tarpaulin and a Verem Lot7 beam.
Axles/transmission assemblies are to be built, with dropside body folders and cabinet, as the example below:



Picture from "Le GMC Cargo..." D. Andres, Ed. Histoire & Collections.

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Guy
Quinella
Posted: Saturday, June 21, 2025 1:48:49 PM

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Guy: Did you guys ever collect Britains toy military trucks, pre war or post war? I love the pre-war versions. Craig
GuyM
Posted: Saturday, June 21, 2025 4:40:46 PM
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Craig,

I don't have any Britains military truck and I don't think that any other models collectors I know have one: are they 1/50-1/48, which is common to our collections?

I hope it helps.
Guy
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Posted: Saturday, June 21, 2025 7:27:24 PM

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Guy: Britains are 1:48th or 1:43rd maybe. Great toys. Unusual varieties. Look them up on Ebay, Take a look. Craig They are 1/32 scale
GuyM
Posted: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 2:58:02 AM
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The US Army install mobile anti-aircraft weapons all along the Red Ball Express Highway:







White MGMC M16 half-track truck fitted with a front winch and a Frary & Clark M45 anti-aircraft device equipped with 4x12.7mm machine-guns (Solido model(*) being modified),



Note (*): front wheels model were changed to 1st generation Solido ones and turret guns (fragile) were consolidated. A front axle/transmission assembly is to be added to the truck.

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Guy
GuyM
Posted: Sunday, June 29, 2025 2:05:51 AM
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We are leaving the US Army for 2 German models produced in the seventies by Conrad predecessor:





- left: Liebherr A 921 4x4/4 hydraulic excavator fitted with a multi-positions beam and a retro bucket (Gescha model),
- right:Liebherr A 921B 4x4/4 hydraulic excavator with multi-positions beam and clamshell (Gescha model).

To be continued.
Guy
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Posted: Sunday, June 29, 2025 2:09:14 AM
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To be continued.
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Guy
GuyM
Posted: Thursday, July 03, 2025 2:54:41 AM
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In West Germany, towing and positioning of a concrete pump on a construction site:





Mercedes-Benz 2638LK 6x4/2 tipper fitted with a Gergen GHK 18 hydraulic hooklift equipment (modified(*) Conrad model) and equipped with a hooklift mobile Gergen tipping unit (Conrad model), loaded with 12 Sodirel Symos road dividers (Siku elements), towing a Putzmeister BSA 140000 HD concrete pump on a 1-axle trailer (Conrad model),





Note (*): the Conrad truck had a coupling device added on its rear fender.

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Guy
GuyM
Posted: Monday, July 07, 2025 3:00:08 AM
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GuyM wrote:

[...]
Note: in spite of being stamped under the chassis in a 1/50 scale and being advertised everywhere in that scale, the Gimaex/Riffaud hydraulic escape ladder Renault D16 fire truck is in fact a Bburago.. in a 1/43 scale (its width of 5.65cm indicating a width in real life of 2.425m when modeled in that scale):
[...]


There are also sometimes good news.
In spite of being stamped 1/43 under the chassis, this model is in fact.. reproduced in a 1/50 scale (1/4951 to be precise, according to my own measurements):







Cadillac Escalade II 4x4/2 cross-country car (modified(*) Del Prado model),



Note (*): the connecting device (fixed on the chassis) between the model and its presentation plate was saw-off.

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Guy
GuyM
Posted: Monday, July 07, 2025 3:28:06 AM
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Similarly, the sliding recovery flatbed produced by Siku on its Atego model in a 1/55 scale has exactly the width of a CEV recovery flatbed in a 1/50 scale. IT was therefore moved to a 1/50 Siku Atego:



- Mercedes-Benz Atego 1629 KN 4x2/2 recovery truck fitted with a CEV P 500G sliding/tipping flatbed with winch (Siku model being modified(*)),
- Cadillac Escalade II 4x4/2 cross-country car (modified(*) Del Prado model),







Notes (*): - the 1/50 Siku model had its hydraulic crane and tipping body removed. It received Corgi Toys wheels, a Mercedes-Benz air filter (part of the crane) and the ex-1/55 Atego recovery bed (minus its "toyish" winch). Are still to be modified the truck chassis (lowering and extension) with the flatbed modification (smaller winch, etc) to give the model a more realistic look.
- For the Del Prado Cadillac mods, see previous post.

Regards.
Guy


GuyM
Posted: Friday, July 11, 2025 3:39:22 AM
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Recently found on e... , an unknown producer of a motor hone on a 1/50 Solido base:





BluCamp Ocean ??? motor home on a Renault Master 2.2dCI 4x2/2 chassis (modified(*) ????/Solido model),





Note (*) the device under the chassis used to screw the model on its plinth was saw-off. The spare wheel (cast under the chassis) is still to be painted.
As far as I know (see page 144 of this topic), only German model manufacturers Gama and Siku ever produced that type of vehicle in that scale.

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Guy
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