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Other military vehicle reproduced by Solido, the Renault VAB, here in its 4x4 VTT version (" Vehicule de Transport de Troupes", which means "Personnel Carrier Vehicle"):    Link to the Wikipedia page describing the VAB (" Vehicule de l' Avant Blinde", which could be translated as "Armored Vanguard Vehicle"), the standard French Army Armored Personnel Carrier for many years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A9hicule_de_l%27Avant_Blind%C3%A9 Regards. Guy
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A "millepiedi" road combination, then authorized on Italian roads at 44 tonnes:    FIAT/Perlini 690 N3-B 8x2/6 truck fitted with a Perlini tilting dropside body (GMTS model) loaded with 15 unknown brand wooden boxes and 20 wood pallets of 0.5 tonnes (Corgi loads), towing an Adige 1+3-axle dropside trailer (GMTS model) carrying 94 cotton bales of 1.36 tonnes (modified Corgi load),  To be continued. Guy
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Closer shots of the FIAT/Perlini truck with its Viberti tipping body Please note that, at that time, most of Italian trucks had a right-side driving seat -in spite of driving on the right side of the road - to be located, for a better view, on the dangerous side in mountainous and winding roads:    The Italian road combination, beautifully restored, which was probably modeled in a 1/50 scale:  Regards. Guy
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GuyM wrote:FIAT/Perlini 690 N3-B 8x2/6 truck fitted with a Viberti Perlini tilting dropside body (GMTS model) loaded with 15 unknown brand wooden boxes and 20 wood pallets of 0.5 tonnes (Corgi loads), towing an Adige 1+3-axle dropside trailer (GMTS model) carrying 94 cotton bales of 1.36 tonnes (modified Corgi load) [...] As indicated in the post above, the tilting body was from Viberti origin, Perlini being the company which modified the FIAT vehicle in a 8x2. Sorry for the mistake. Guy
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That Fiat/Perlini is a lovely looking model.
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Guy: I'm surprised that you are just now revealing this model. It's superb looking. Really heavy duty. Thanks, Craig
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Craig, The model was only recently offered in various colors by GMTS: https://lkwmodelle.de/GMTS-GOLDEN-OLDIES-LINIE-50:::3296.html As most of their resin 1/50 production, it is built by their Romanian sub-contractor, resulting in long delays between announcement and availability. I hope it helps. Guy
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In a Belgian harbor, hook-up of a semi-trailer recently disembarked from a British ferry-boat:    Mercedes-Benz Actros 1840 LS 4x2/2 tractor (modified Joal model) and Schmitz Cargobull SCS 24/L-13.62 EB 3-axle curtainsider semi-trailer (Cararama model),  Regards. Guy
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GuyM wrote:Jean-Jacques is currently building a Renault G230 tractor (MiniCams cab on a Conrad chassis), an Unic V8 tractor and an Unic Sancy tipper (Minitrucks cabs and chassis) [...] The completed Unic V8 tractor, together with other units of the "Sertiru" fleet:     Regards. Guy
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The Unic V8 tractor and its coil transport semi-trailer, built by Jean-Jacques from Minitrucks bits and pieces:     Regards. Guy
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In their "Models of Yesteryear" range, Matchbox produced 2 Leyland fire engines, which were manufactured in UK a few years before WW2 broke-out:   - left: Leyland Cub FK6 4x2/2 fire truck with open-cab, tank, pump and triple-extension ladder (Matchbox model), - right: Leyland Cub FK7 4x2/2 pumper, carrying a Merryweather EL50 fire escape ladder (Matchbox model). To be continued. Guy
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The Leyland Cub FK6 fire truck model:    The real unit, displayed in UK in a vintage fire engines exhibition:  To be continued. Guy
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The Leyland Cub FK7 and a nicely restored similar unit:     Regards. Guy
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 Scania R 620 6x2/4 tractor (modified Cararama model) and SDC 3-axle flatbed semi-trailer (modified Corgi model), loaded with 2 counterweight slabs -of 12.5 tonnes each - for Liebherr LR 1750 SDBW lattice boom crawler crane rotating unit (Conrad elements) and a Kobelco CKE 2500-2 lattice boom insert of 2.54 tonnes (Tonkin Replicas element),    Regards. Guy
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  - left: Acmar hot tar spreading unit on a Magirus-Deutz Saturn 145 A 4x4/2 truck (Conrad model), - right: Magirus-Deutz 126 D 15 4x4/2 truck fitted with a Meiller tipping body (Conrad model). To be continued. Guy
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The tar spreader:    To be continued. Guy
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The vintage 4x4 tipper:    Regards. Guy
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We all know commercial links between model producers and plant equipment or vehicles manufacturers, limited series produced for third parties are less known. Below, a combination produced by Conrad - in a Rheinland-Pfalz German town Technical Services livery, exclusively produced for MSW, a model retailer well-known within European collectors:    MAN TGS 35-440 BL 8x4/4 truck with a front tool holder plate and a Meiller RK30 hydraulic drop-off tipper loading device, carrying a Meiller RS26 large-volume drop-off tipping body and towing a Schwarzmüller Tü 40/100 2+2-axle low bed drawbar trailer (Conrad/MSW models). The combination is delivering a Liebherr LR 636 tracked loader with ripper of 23.61 tonnes (Conrad model). To be continued. Guy
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Pretty rare in Jean-Jacques' collection - mainly concentrating on 50s-70s French vehicles or plant equipment and South-East of France companies (Monaco included) -, a Toyota 4x4 double-cabbed van turned into a Japanese light intervention pumper by Nikki:     In the background, a 1/57 US Forest Fire all-wheel drive GMC. Regards. Guy
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