Need information on carrier deck tractor

I was thinking of the same thing. But even if you get a drawing, how do you plan on scratch building it? What material will you use? Do you need to work your own metal?

I have the downloaded graphic image of tow tractor and fire tractor from TURBO SQUID web site. and Many photos from many site. I plan to use plastic sheet for building

Find out the Navy designation for them and do a Google search. I know we have a few carrier sailors in this forum...demono69?

Hi Kitty. Scale models international did an article on tow tractors some years ago i dont know what issue it was in but i will have a look and try to find it to see if there are any drawings that would be useful and for the issue date .. Greg

Thanks in advance Greg
KIT

Hey Kitty, I built a Vietnam era service cart for my 1/48 diorama of an F-100. I started with the basic shape of the unit, which was kinda square and went from there. I cut a small block of wood to roughly the size and shape of the unit and cemented sheet styrene to the sides, added various bits of wires and dials and wheels and,voila! If I can figure it out I'll post a picture of the finished unit so you can see it! Good luck!!

That would be great Klem, I'm waiting seeing it.Thanks

Kitty, darn you and your reasearch project! Now I'm bitten by the research bug! (Like I need any help with that). I was tooling around and just kept getting references to "carrier deck tractors", etc. until I stumbled upon a link to pao@cnap.navy.mil which is "Navalese" for Public Affairs Office for the Commander of Naval Aviation Pacific. I requested any and all information regarding the various tractor types, designations, nomenclature...(keyword for information!), etc. I'll forward anything I get to you.

MostlyJets, very kind of you. I'm waiting for contact from you.
Thanks very much
:)

Can a plan from Fujimi's modern carrier deck crew series do the job????
I can scan them for you, as the pieces....
And if you can get the scaling right, i think you can do it...
What do you think???

Now, they're at 1/72 scale, and i know that it's still around a 1/48 set....

By the way, if you have any pics for the carriers vehicles and crew, could you sent them to me???
f14_fan@hotpop.com, but please keep the e-mails below 500Kb...
or e-mail me to an alternate e-mail, O.K.???

Hi Kitty that SMI article was about the Verlinden products (sorry) it shows pictures of all three versions in 1/48th in case you are still interested its the feb 1988 issue....Greg