New "Studebaker" WW2 2 1/2 ton truck in 1:43...

Lee

I understand the "looks" thing but how does it measure out to the real truck?  How tall are the figures?  

Gene 

I haven't measured the Tamayia one, just saw one built in a hobby shop display case last fall. A pal of mine was with me and he was as familiar with the GMC trucks as I am. First words out of his mouth on seeing it, "Man, did the people who made this kit know how big one of these really is? That's tiny for that scale!"

I wonder how many of these made it back as surplus into civilian service?  I vaguely remember  a few in use on farms. and in quarries, and logging.  Think I remember one with an auto wrecker installed for a garage.  I assume many were left to rust on atolls in the Pacific, and others pressed into service on French farms after the war?  Seems I remember some in road construction, including a tank truck.  This is later than my or the model era discussed here.

http://www.ktr.nl/foto2016.html

here you can find some pictures from the netherlands

it,s a club from poeple who are keeping the WW2 stuf on the road

http://www.gaf92.nl/

some pictures from a dutch club

Cor

With reference to the U.S. vehicles of WW II, I read that a former German officer said that we overwhelmed them with quantity, not quality.   I am not sure that applied to armored vehicles, tanks and halftracks, but I remember him as addressing light transportation such as the Jeep.  I have read German pilots referred to the P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft as the "fork-tailed devil" and to be feared, so quality was in the equation.  A lot of German WWII armor seems massive, such as railway guns, and some armored vehicles.  Were vehicles like those above successful because of numbers vs. individual durability?

I have built many of those Tamiya trucks and made many modifications

with them it's a hobby in itself the figure in the photo is six feet tall I reckon they are true to scale.

I was also in the military as a combat soldier and have seen many military trucks in my lifetime.

The photo appears to show the cabs different sizes but they are not............ all the one scale 1/48 scale.

I should have put the figure next to the truck door for a better idea and I haven't decalled them yet or added glass.

The above photo shows a Tamiya truck with a die cast tank on the back before they made one.

Roo

We did overwhelm the germans with quantity.     We did not have a "heavy" tank with a big gun.    The Sherman (M4 I think) was a medium tank and the original gun was a low velocity 75mm.    The Germans had the big Tigers and Panthers that were 15-20 tons heavier at least and started using the high velocity 88mm gun.     On the plus side the shermans were faster It think and could traverse the turrents faster.    The german tanks traversed the turrent slower so a sherman could circle one and stay ahead of the gun if one on one, I have read.    

On the other hand, we built shermans to a standard design on an assembly line at a much higher pace than the germans.   I think I read in a recent article that we produced about 10 times as many.   

Another big diffeence in quantity that was even more obvious and effective was in trucks and other transport.    We had trucks of all sizes (the jeep was classed as a 1/4 ton truck), in huge quantities and we had people to driThey ve them.

I recently read a book that the German Army relied mostly on horse transport.    The mobile divisions had to send soldiers to driving school to train them.    Apparently in prewar germany, most people did not have cars.    But the book described how artilliary and supplies was mostly horse drawn.      They could not move nearly as fast and they had to carry supplies for the animals.

So yes we did overwhelm them with quantity and maybe one on one was not as powerful or as effective, but we kept the stuff running, recovered dmaged stuff and did it.

Military trucks, new Ray toys has a truck tractor, low boy with a tank on it in 1/43 scale. It is od green, if you change from square to round headlights , you could argue all you want, but it will fit right in with a military  scene. IT might not be for the nit pickers, but it is military. I am just old school U S Army, Korea 56-57