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1/87 scale combat engineers ready to deploy M2 Treadway bridging w/AAA security & Aid Station.

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  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: Dayton, Ohio USA
1/87 scale combat engineers ready to deploy M2 Treadway bridging w/AAA security & Aid Station.
Posted by minitanker on Sunday, December 22, 2019 11:17 AM

WIP Combat Engineer units on display base. I'm still looking for finished pics. PaulE

Scratch trailer.

Crane conversion & scratch trailer w/draglink, clamshell, pile driver, boom extension accys.

Jeep ambulance conversion, scratch genny/trailer.

Engineering multi purpose 2.5ton trucks & scratch assault craft.

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    May 2015
Posted by Griffin25 on Monday, December 23, 2019 3:54 PM

That's pretty cool. How big is it? How long did it take? 

 

 

Griffin

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: Dayton, Ohio USA
Posted by minitanker on Tuesday, December 24, 2019 9:09 AM

Griffin25, it's 3'6" x 4'6". The base took about a year of fits & starts. Initially I wanted to practice different methods, but it took off w/a mind of its' own. Now I use it to display small units built. The models on it here took several years. They are WIP in these photos. The Engineer units were completed last year. They no longer fit this base. PaulE

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Tuesday, December 24, 2019 2:08 PM

That's really neat! I don't see many dios in such a small scale with so many vehicles. Yes

Maybe when I retire I can try something like that but bigger with all the 1/35th stuff I've stockpiled... 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    March 2019
  • From: Post Falls, Idaho
Posted by Sigep Ziggy on Thursday, December 26, 2019 10:39 AM

Very Impressive!  I'm glad to see someone so motivated to model HO scale.  Do you also build model railroad or just military?

your shipmate,

Ziggy

 

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: Dayton, Ohio USA
Posted by minitanker on Thursday, December 26, 2019 2:05 PM

Thanks Ziggy, yes, as a matter of fact I have a build in progress right now. I had hoped to run a train by Christmas but I have an ellusive short cicuit problem in the industrial module in the left foreground. About a 20' run in this pic.

connectors for ind. module.

Control module.

Some neat details:hot box detector, dangle sensors, relay boxes. T.O. motors & battery boxes.

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