Scratchbuilding Flight Deck Vehicles

Fujima, Hasagawa, Italeri and a few others make 172 and 1/48 USN deck vehicles that come in some of their pilots sets. They are about $10-15 per set. Would be much easier than scratch-building them yourself.

Thanks for the advice heavy arty ; I have purchased in the past Hasegawa's weapons loading and aerospace ground equipment and more recently Italeri's combat aircraft support group . But I've never seen any flight deck vehicles in the hobby stores here in Sydney . So I was thinking along the lines of using the wheels and base's from the other set's I've mentioned and modifying them as flight deck vehicle's , but as I said I'm unsure of the dimensions of the tow vehicles. I appreciate your thoughts and comments.

Have you considered paper? Works up nicely.
Lepercan

That's a good idea 'Lepercan' , I would certainly like to try this , but I still need to know the dimensions of either the Tow Tractor or Fire Truck . I've also been doing a search on the internet on-line hobby stores for Fujimi's Flight Deck Crew+ Fire Engine , but everyone seems to be out of stock . I'm still keen to try and scratchbuild one though .

I'll look about for some info on the net and if nothing comes up I'll ask a friend I'll be seeing later for ideas. (She just got out of the Navy, I'm figuring you want modern)
http://www.digimation.com/models/UI/Product/ShowProductFullInfo.aspx?ProductID=40548
This seems like some good info not size though.
for scratchbuilding check this out no sizes thought
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/navy/nrtc/14014_chp9.pdf#search='tow%20tractor%20navy'
interesting idea
http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=15135
HERE-http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/navy/ntsp/Towtractor.pdf#search='tow%20tractor%20navy%20dimensions'
check out page 10 or so
Hope this helps if not let me know I'll look again

Thank's cassibill ; I checked those web sites and printed out a couple of nice line drawing diagrams . this should help me get started, I'll keep looking on the internet as well , the more info I can find the better . Thanks again..

I hoped that would help. If I would happen across something I'll send it your way.