Fire Trucks

I know Revell-Germany has/had more than one Fire-engine kit out.

I think the target audience for kits like is too limited to support large or wide releases of many Kits.
Also take into account that the Fire-engines vary between countries and even towns, thus their appeal is most likely limited to the locality where they are used.

Thus the european Fire-engines released by Revell-Germany might not appeal to US audiences. Even though it was fun adding the lights and supplied sound-system in.

http://www.ehobbies.com/mo-rvl-07504.html
http://www.ehobbies.com/mo-rvl-07531.html

I think there were more than the 2 listed above, the Unimog Kit was also supplied with the light/sound kit, build that kit MANY MANY years ago. At that time Revell re-issued a LOT of Kits with lights and sounds Police Cars, F-15, etc.

I feel your pain as do several others I know. AMT has 3 kits of some older style Mack and American Lafrance style trucks. Other than that it's just resin or scratchbuilding for an American looking truck. I have a couple of sites that offer those if want to look into that route. Since I am a firefighter I would love to build some trucks, but since my scratchbuilding abilities are not that great yet it's been a no go. The AMT kits are usually on ebay but I have seen them in shops for about $35 apiece.

I'm a retired fire fighter and i know where your coming from,any way i found a guy that makes resin parts--(axes,hoses,smoke ejectors,stoke baskets ,boots,nozzles and the list goes on ) also makes cabs but you would need a sacrifice kit to make it happen his web site is www.10-8 hobbies.com check him and hope this helps you out in your quest
Bryan
ps-i built a minnie pumper with some of his products for my g-gauge train and it turned out petty slick

Been tot hat site many times, and really want to do something with one of those cabs.Just don't want to get that over my head with useing resin and heavy kitbashing for a first run.

at least i'm not alone in this world. i have built every kit fire truck out there,from there on i just started to scratchbuild my stuff, i'm only doing light rescue trucks for now, until my skills improve, (hopefully) check out the links in my sig block. sorry for not being around much anymore, i got hooked on the scale auto forums when that went on line, but i'll try to come back over here more often.

hey guy's, check out the newest build in my collection. it's the boyd's hauler from testors. i scratchbuilt the rear half of the truck around the pick up bed. it's in my firemodelman fotki link. hope you all like.

Firemodelman

Those looks absolutely real, especially the top police car on page 3. It looks just like the ones at the local donut shop.