Civilian Vehicles

av8rmongo · Post by **av8rmongo** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:27 am

I mentioned a company about a month or so ago that sells 1/300 scale civilian vehicles for architectural products, the minis are in and I hope to post some pictures tonight or tomorrow. Initial impressions are good but not great, more to follow.

Paul

1ComOpsCtr · Post by **1ComOpsCtr** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:26 am

I would suggest using "Z" scale vehicles, as they fit in quite well. All of the vehicles we use for our simulations, with the exception of a few, are from the Walthers "Z" scale catalogue. They aren't cheap, but they are already assembles, painted, and lettered where necessary.

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/441-8904

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/405-6932

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/405-6933

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/405-6935

Plus there are several other sets of vehicles plus containers, etc...
You will find lots of examples on our web site.
www.commandoperationscenter.com

Will
ComOpsctr

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 4:27 am

av8rmongo wrote:
I mentioned a company about a month or so ago that sells 1/300 scale civilian vehicles ... the minis are in and I hope to post some pictures tonight or tomorrow. ...

Well?

"Tonight" has come and gone.

"Tomorrow" is running out of time...

Pictures, man, pictures!
We
need
pictures!

av8rmongo · Post by **av8rmongo** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:23 am

Here are the pictures I promised. I primed the vehicles to show the detail (or lack of) a little better.

A 2 door sports sedan.

A 4 door sports sedan.

A generic sedan.

A Sport Utility Vehicle.

A Bus.

A Tractor Trailor.

1ComOpsCtr · Post by **1ComOpsCtr** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:57 am

Ok, so they will work just fine... but here's the most important question.

How do we get them, and what do they cost...?

Will
ComOpsCtr

Raikitsune · Post by **Raikitsune** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:23 pm

1ComOpsCtr wrote:Ok, so they will work just fine... but here's the most important question.

How do we get them, and what do they cost...?

Will
ComOpsCtr

also interested in this looking for lower cost civvy things and these seem pretty dang good

jb · Post by jb » Sat Jul 01, 2006 11:11 pm

I believe this is the site in question that I saved;
www.howardmodels.com

modwar64 · Post by **modwar64** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:48 am

Gentlemen:

I think this is the website that sells the civilian vehicles Av8rmongo supplied pictures of:

http://www.microformmodels.com/newcatalog.html

Thank you Av8rmongo for the pictures and also for putting a Hummer in the shot to give some perspective.

av8rmongo · Post by **av8rmongo** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:01 am

It is in fact Microform models.

Paul

chrisswim · Post by **chrisswim** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 10:09 pm

Paul (av8) & JB, nice links, helpful info. Paul, also thank you for the photos of the autos.

Also the Southeastern Regional Modern Micro Armor Challenge is Saturday, July 8 starting at 9am. It takes place just south of Jacksonville Florida. If you have any interest or need directions, please post....

Chris

modwar64 · Post by **modwar64** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 5:55 am

Choice is good.

Here is another company offering civilian vehicles in various scales.

The company is Jttmicroscale and there address is

http://www.jttmicroscale.com/viewcategory.asp?DirID=99

Tony

jpo · Post by **jpo** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:46 am

Irregular miniatures in the UK has a bunch of cars in 6mm (actually seems a bit bigger) that are pretty good.

jb · Post by jb » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:09 am

modwar64 wrote:Choice is good.

Here is another company offering civilian vehicles in various scales.

The company is Jttmicroscale and there address is

http://www.jttmicroscale.com/viewcategory.asp?DirID=99

Tony

I like those trees. Especially the snow covered pines.

Mk 1 · Post by **Mk 1** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:50 am

So which scale are the models pictured here?

1:20" (should be about 1:240), or
1:32" (should be about 1:380)

The scale they show, closest to what we might like, would be 1:25" (about 1:320?). But they don't have any of the busses and tractor-trailer rigs in that scale. Still, the ones in the pics look pretty reasonable to my eye.

1ComOpsCtr · Post by **1ComOpsCtr** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:47 pm

In the picture below you will see vehicles in four scales:

1/'285th scale GHQ military vehicles
1/220th scale Viking or Kirby cars and trucks
1/300th scale H&R truck
1/240th scale Artsupply Car

They work pretty well together...

The white vehicle next to the Hummer is a large sedan, so it may look a little large next to the Hummer, but it is also in 1/220 scale.

When you look at civilian vehicles, especially over the road trucks in Europe, scale isn't as important because some of the over the road trucks on European roads are huge in real life... so large models fit right in. The big rig is 1/220 by Viking or Kirby from Walthers RR Catalogue. The Walthers stuff in expensive, but where else can you get pre-painted vehicles and fire trucks?

Will
ComOpsCtr

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