Any scale modellers here?

[cody6268]

Found the box and made an impromptu diorama.

The theme is firmly set in the middle of the 1980s in the Netherlands, when there was a predilection for US made ambulances, and before the current unified emergency services livery. I have quite a few more.

Nice diorama! I have a couple of HO scale emergency vehicles (mostly German), but they are bog-standard. I especially like that G-Wagen. Wondering how you built the ambulance body. It looks like a modified heavy rescue body.

[Dutch_Tooler]

Thanks for showing us them Dutch. The detail is amazing and love the historical element to it. What scale are they? 

Thanks!

These are HO, which is 1/87, a common railway modeling scale. In those mid-80s days as a student in Delft (the Netherlands) I still had the eyesight to be able to do this (now I need some help with magnifiers).

Nice diorama! I have a couple of HO scale emergency vehicles (mostly German), but they are bog-standard. I especially like that G-Wagen. Wondering how you built the ambulance body. It looks like a modified heavy rescue body.

Thanks!
The Merc G and C are standard models from Herpa, painted to conform to the then standard livery of the Rijkspolitie (roughly State Police) highway patrol.
The ambulance was built on the chassis and with the cab of (IIRC) a Roco model of a GMC or Chevy (?) truck, with plastic sheeting used to build up the container body. The livery roughly corresponds to ambulance liveries in frequent use in cities all across the Netherlands in those days (now ambulances are yellow, like in the UK). There were some companies that sold decals to fit, in those days, however the Star of Life on the roof is hand-painted.
Roco and Herpa used to sell extra lights you could add to vehicles to convert them into emergency vehicles - I think they still do BTW. I used lots of these in my conversions.
The fire truck is a Mercedes from way before the Actros series, a Preiser kit assembled and then painted along the lines of the then current The Hague fire department livery. Fluorescent red was otherwise relatively rare, because it placed high demands on maintenance (the colour would bleach off pretty quickly and had to be frequently renewed), so most fire departments opted for normal red tones instead. Nowadays all fire vehicles are normal red. (Pity - fluo-red was much more visible. Only used in police livery these days.)
In the background, behind the crashed car, you can see a couple of VW Transporters in Rijkspolitie livery, one of which with an open side door. The Rijkspolitie and various city police departments have since been first merged into regional units, and more recently into one national police force.

I made this diorama in 5 minutes for the pic. I can see if I can add more pics in the next days.

[Dutch_Tooler]

And the building of the railway diorama...

















Still have the model railroad upstairs, although I rarely play with it these days.

Very nice Chako! I still have some boxes filled with model trains - rarely used these days but in frequent use when the boys were smaller.

[Captain Sabretache]

I enjoy military scale models. I'm yet to do a diorama i
as my work and storage space is very limited. But here are a few of my builds.

[Whoey]

always envied those that had access to ground forces models, they were either sparce or expensive, (usually a combination of both)

[Captain Sabretache]

They are relatively cheap these days depending on what you are looking for. And the selection you have these days is excellent.

[Whoey]

yeah I know, I'm referring to pre-internet era.